Thanksgiving Activities Nonfiction Lesson on Hot Topics: Black Friday
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If you are looking for quick and easy activities that you can use in November to keep your middle and high school students on task and engaged, then look no more! Every lesson, designed to add rigor and meaning to Thanksgiving, is standards-based, classroom-tested, rigorous, and grade level approprPrice $9.90Original Price $11.00Save $1.10
Engage and motivate students with these informational, expository text close reading assignments. These easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a fuPrice $18.90Original Price $21.00Save $2.10
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This informational text lesson for Thanksgiving is ready-to-go to engage your high school students this November. With leveled texts, standards-based questions, creative activity, and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!
Student Experience: The encroachment of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Thursday has been a trend years in the making. This mini unit is designed to get students not only thinking and questioning this topic, but also analyzing informational texts. Students will discuss and debate, close read and analyze an article, and eventually take a stand on one side of the issue of dinner or deals for Thanksgiving.
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- Teacher's Guide with complete lesson plan
- Super simple sub sheet
- Two choices for the article (for leveling, multiple classes, or do them both), PDF and Google format for digital use
- Creative Advertising task, PDF and Google format for digital use
- Extension ideas
- Constructed Response prompt, PDF and Google format for digital use
- Answers
Other suggestions: This mini-unit would work well for an ELA classroom, personal finance, social studies, or even a sociology classroom!
Classroom success stories from teachers who have tried this resource:
♥ "This was an amazing lesson! It was perfect for those 2 days (Monday & Tuesday) before the Thanksgiving holiday. it was relevant, informative and spawned a terrific classroom discussion. will definitely be a tool I use yearly; thank you!"
♥ "Perfect for the 2 days before Thanksgiving. I will be using this lesson each year. Excellent resource!"
♥ "My middle school students became very passionate about this topic. Great way to keep kids engaged before Thanksgiving Break."
♥ "My high school students enjoyed it. It was great to be able to do something of substance right before the holiday!"
♥ "A great activity right before Thanksgiving Break. Gave my high school students a chance to consider their culture as it relates to tradition, value, etc."
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Updated 2020
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