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Writing-essays cultural activities $5-10
Synthesis and Argument Writing: Is it ever okay to fail?
Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical analysis. The essay can be scaffolded up or down, from highly difficult and challenging to ELL and SpEd friendly. In a nutshell: The essay question asks students to develop an argument about the question: is it ever okay to fail? Their job is to read t
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8th - 12th
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Who Was? Themed Famous Person Biography Research Project BUNDLE
Use this BUNDLE as a starter for Social Studies Standard 2.5: Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). 95 Famous Faces included! Students can use these items to help them navigate through their own rese
Grades:
2nd
The Big Orange Splot Diversity ELA Art and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Grow your students' understanding of diversity with these academic, FUN activities inspired by "The Big Orange Splot." Immerse your students in the tale of Mr. Plumbean, whose house becomes a symbol of breaking free from conformity after an unexpected seagull accident.This Lesson Features:Poster for Display: A poster designed to spark discussion and debate.Comprehension Questions: To deepen students' comprehension and encourage meaningful conversations.Creative Coloring and Transformation Activi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Classroom Community Bundle for Grades 3-6 Print and Digital
Disney's Moana (2016) Movie Guide + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among five other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote empathy, goal setting, kindness, and debate among students. This resource, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A modified black-and-white printer ink-saving vers
Grades:
7th - 12th
Red Dog - Film Study
Booklet for the film study 'Red Dog'. The booklet includes a range of questions, camera angles and research and assessment tasks.
Grades:
7th
Students for Movie Day's featured film of the week: Remember the Titans
Resilient Cafe' presents Students for Movie Day with this featured film of the week: Remember the Titans. This includes alignment of NGNYSS, questions, and answers, discussion activities with links on how to implement them and perform them, essays, KWL Chart, T-Chart, and a movie test with answers. This movie is based on the Civil Rights Movement history and generates many discussions along with embedding ELA skills in writing, speaking, and listening.
Grades:
8th - 12th
End of Year Scrapbook Project on Culture and Identity | Essay Writing
This fun and hands-on essay writing scrapbook project for middle school and high school English and writing classes includes 24 essay topics on culture and identity, a sample student essay, essay analysis, graphic organizers, essay writing outline templates, three self-review activities, a peer review activity, scrapbook design templates, and two bonus activities. This project works on personal essays with or without research. It includes topical essays, compare/contrast essays, sequential ess
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7th - 10th
Themes of Collaboration and Mental Health in “The Professor and the Madman"
Students will analyze themes of collaboration, mental health, and societal perceptions of mental illness in “The Professor and the Madman” by Simon Winchester, and connect these themes to contemporary events and discussions surrounding mental health awareness and stigma.Includes assessment questions
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Holidays Around the World Writing Project, Leveled, Differentiated!
Students will pick a country they are interested in studying and answer questions about the holiday traditions in that country, then write an essay in paragraph form, using the questions as a graphic organizer. This product includes geography, writing, and social studies components. There are 2 levels for the writing portion, the first level contains a fill in the blanks essay. Level 2 is for intermediate learners who are able to free write their answers in essay form.
Grades:
K - 12th
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Math Logic Puzzles Worksheets - 60 critical thinking [Digital & Printable PDF]
Engage your students in a world of mathematical exploration and critical thinking with our Math Logic Puzzles Worksheets - Enrichment Activities with 60 critical thinking. These captivating resources are meticulously designed to provide both digital and printable options, catering to diverse learning preferences and environments.With a plethora of brain-teasing puzzles, this collection offers an ideal solution for early finishers seeking stimulating challenges or as enrichment activities to deep
Grades:
1st - 5th
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS3-2
, K-ESS3-3
Exploring Social Commentary in “Great Gatsby” by Rod Wave/The novel Great Gatsby
Students will analyze social commentary in the lyrics and “The Great Gatsby,” exploring themes such as the American Dream, societal expectations, romantic relationships and the impact of wealth on individuals.Includes Lyrics with explanation and assessment questions
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Loch Ness monster Reading & Persuasive Writing Lesson
This is the perfect SS/ELA cross-curriculum lesson! These lessons can be used together or separately. I highly recommend using the introduction to Scotland lesson to introduce this writing activity. Between the Scotland lesson, the guided reading, and writing assignment, this bundle can last a week. The reading comprehension questions help your students closely read the Kids Britannica article about the Loch Ness monster. This will support their understanding when they go to write a persuasive e
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Grades:
4th - 6th
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Curriculum (Chapter 6-10)
Based on the popular YA novel, the following curriculum helps provide students a comprehensive review of the text. The curriculum includes the following: Anticipation GuideComprehensive Chapter Check Character Analysis Vocabulary Language ReviewGrammar Review - AdjectivesFigurative Language ReviewThink-Through QuestionsOpen-Ended Prompt/Short Answer Response PracticeExtension Activities - Quotable Quotes
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8th - 12th
Back to the Present: Research-Predictions & Outcomes of What the Future Might Be
As part of a dedicated elective on Science Fiction/Fantasy, students are tasked with engaging with past and current predictions of changes to our society and technology, and how well (or poorly) those predictions turned out.Students have a wide range of options from which to choose, and then can tailor them further to their own specific areas of interest (with teacher review). They will develop an annotated bibliography with a minimum of six sources and then further create an oral presentation
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Frank Herbert's DUNE-Individualized Research Projects
Frank Herbert's novel Dune explores rich themes across a broad range of disciplines including environmental change, religious zealotry, the benefits and dangers of technology, man's relationship to and with nature, and far more.These individualized research options allow the students to choose one and personalize it to investigate an area of greatest interest to themselves, engages them in meaningful and extended academic research and synthesis of ideas, and culminates in a final major research
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Personal Essay Inspired by The Little Prince Book and Most Recent Film
The novella The Little Prince is far from a "children's book." It has within it a great deal of philosophy and wisdom as related to how we perceive the world, others around us, and what we find most valuable in our lives. This culminating final essay for twelfth graders-- with multiple prompt options-- follows a close reading of the book and a viewing of the recent "spin-off" animated film so that the students can consider how they themselves have grown, been impacted by others, what they find
Grades:
12th
Hispanic American Heritage Month Digital Activity+ Biography Writing Unit Bundle
Combine these two resources to teach your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students about Hispanic American Heritage Month and Biography (Informative) Writing. This is an easy beginning of the year informative writing unit that will guide your students through the entire writing process.Students will research Hispanic American Trailblazers and Heroes using the digital resource for Google Slides™.The Hispanic American Heritage Month digital activity for Google Slides™ includes the following:Brief Descripti
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3rd - 5th
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State Research Bundle - Ready for Google Slides™
This bundle includes EVERYTHING you need to teach a state research informative writing unit. Students will use the Google Slideshow to safely and effectively research a state of their choice and then go through the writing process using the informative writing unit.Digital State Research Slideshow:This digital State Research slideshow is exactly what you need to help guide your students as they research U.S. States. It is easy to access and guarantees that your students only view kid-friendly, s
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
"A Long Walk to Water" Final Assessment with outline; PRINTABLE
"A Long Walk to Water" - 17 page pdf file to use while reading and for the final assessment. Updated 2016
Although my seventh graders and I enjoyed reading and participating in the NYS ELA7 Module One; Unit One, I felt the final assessment was a little too broad for a seventh grader to organize and answer in the way the state was asking.
What I did is I took the essential question from the unit, “How do culture, time, and place influence Salva/Nya’s identity?” and created a detailed outline
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7th
Oklahoma History- Essays, Projects, and Map Activities
This bundle includes:2 maps (political and physical)1 short documentary worksheet over the Dust Bowl2 "Major Event" research papers with grading rubrics3 different Prezi/slide projects with grading rubrics: Native American History, State Timeline, and Famous Figure Profile. Total bundle is 7 pages with 8 total activities.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Interview with an Elder Essay Project
Would you like your students to learn the skill of interviewing while also learning about a past generation's culture? This project informs students on how to interview another person, practices that skills, and then allows the students to interview an elder in order to learn about that elder's life. The culminating assessment is an expository/narrative essay that helps the students connect to both the past and the present through their elder.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Informational Expository Writing Ancient Egypt Activity
This passage is great for learning all about Ancient Egypt and the Mummification process! This text allows students to learn all about mummification, and why mummification was an important part of Egyptian history. This high-interest passage is made to stretch your 4rd through 6th graders reading comprehension, and to help students use information to guide their writing. The passage in this set is differentiated. Two levels are provided.There is a printable 4 square, along with an example of the
Grades:
4th - 7th
Veterans Day Unit - Nonfiction Texts, Reading Logs, Research Essay
This .zip file includes resources for an entire unit focusing on tone, mood, diction, and syntax in a number of nonfiction texts written by different veterans from six major wars. Included in this file are six separate folders containing between 4 and 6 texts of different genres from six of our country's major wars. These texts come from the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Iraq/Afghanistan War. They consist of letters, songs, poems, journal entries, personal narratives, an
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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