New Year Activities, English Lessons BUNDLE, Setting Goals & Exploring Success

If you are looking for quick and easy activities that you can use for The New Year to keep your middle and high school students on task and engaged, then look no more! Every classroom-tested lesson, designed to add rigor and meaning to the new year, in this bundle is standards-based, classroom-tested, rigorous, and grade level appropriate for high school level ELA students. This pack includes up to 2 weeks of materials depending on your class periods and how you use what's included.

Surviving New Years Success-Themed Pack Includes:

-- a pack of nonfiction texts for analyzing the concept of the Keys to Success that pairs an excerpt of Ben Franklin's Autobiography with a modern blog post (Levels 9-12)

-- a poetry lesson "T is for Time" with goal setting (Levels 8-11)

-- a text-based personal narrative writing prompt with modern text-based connection (Levels 8-12)

--BONUS: Five success quotes with writing prompts, which are excellent for starters.

If you are looking for quick and easy ideas that you can use in January to keep your kids on task and engaged then look no more! Every lesson is standards-based, classroom-tested, rigorous, and grade level appropriate for high school level English students. Use them all or use pieces to provide differentiation to your different groups. Having the bundle saves money and provides you with tons of options and flexibility. This pack will help you SURVIVE the holiday season while your students THRIVE!

Classroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource:

♥ "Yes! What a life saver this has been! This has been helping us get back into the swing of things after the long holiday break. Thank you!"

♥ "I LOVE THE QUOTATIONS AS WRITING PROMPTS. WELL DONE!"

♥ "I loved the sub directions you included. Bless you for that."

♥ "Super way to lift some of the winter doldrums."

♥ "I used parts of these units as part of a "what can you do to be successful" unit. Products were very helpful."

Yes! I do have more bundles like this one! Check out my full catalog!:

Back to School

Halloween

Thanksgiving

Christmas

Valentine's Day

Women's History

End of Year Sun Themed

End of Year Beach Themed

End of Year Senioritis

Warm up with a few more festive New Year and Winter Activities!

New Year and Winter Grammar Worksheets

New Year and Winter Grammar Coloring

New Year's Escape Game

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For more ideas and inspiration:

Faulkner's Fast Five Blog

Julie's Classroom Stories on Instagram

Julie's Classroom Stories on Facebook

Teaching Middle and High School English Facebook Group

Yearbook and Journalism Facebook Group

Pinterest

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