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7th grade oral communication short stories simulations
Fairy Tale Court - a mock trial mini unit
Fairy Tale Court is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that's highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. They will learn all about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesFairy Tale Court InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteSix Classic Fairy TalesExhib
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5th - 8th
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Mock Trial Scenarios 1 - court simulation for middle school
Mock Trial Scenarios 1 is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteCasesTemplate for the Prosecutio
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6th - 9th
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The Tell-tale Heart Mock Trial - Edgar Allan Poe - Real life and Speaking Skills
Ignite your students' passion for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with this immersive Mock Trial! Turn your classroom into a thrilling courtroom drama where the lines between fiction and reality blur. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave your students spellbound and craving more!Watch as your students step into the shoes of the characters, ready to take on the roles of the narrator, police officers, mental health psychiatrist, and more in a riveting courtroom showdown.
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7th - 10th
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" Mock Trial Directions
My students read "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl every fall and this mock trial is always a lesson they remember and ask to do over and over. Unfortunately it doesn't fit with every piece of literature. The lesson requires close reading, critical thinking, argument writing, oral communication, as well as comprehension of the story.
This product includes a one-page directions sheet for the teacher, as well as directions to be printed and handed to each of the following: prosecution, defe
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6th - 10th
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The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Holes Mock Trials - a court simulation activity
This resource is included in Holes available at our store. Holes Mock Trials is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. They will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Proced
Grades:
5th - 8th
Mock Trial Scenarios 2 - a court simulation
Mock Trial Scenarios 2 is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCasesCourt InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteExhibitsJudge InstructionsJ
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6th - 9th
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Impromptu Interviews - perfecting the art of conversation
Impromptu Interviews is a mini unit about the art of interviewing where students analyze what happens in a good interview. In the culminating activity, students will participate in impromptu interviews. They will prepare for these as interviewers without knowing beforehand who they will interview. This will help to preserve the true nature of interviews, which are not rehearsed in advance. Interviewees, chosen at random, will play the role of the person being interviewed. A wide range of scenari
Grades:
5th - 8th
Persuasive speaking activity/game - The Mafia Game
This persuasive speaking game will engage your students and get them debating to try and capture the mafia members.
Students are given a random card and then take on the role of a mafia member, police, nurse, vigilante, or citizen. The class must then work together to try and capture the mafia, through class debates and votes before the mafia have killed everyone.
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7th - 10th
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The Odyssey Mock Trial - Unit Study - Greek Mythology - Real World Skills Script
Get your students into the characters and events of "The Odyssey" by Homer with this comprehensive Mock Trial resource! Your students will love playing their roles when you transform your classroom into a courtroom!Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Detailed teacher guide, complete with daily lesson plans✅ Introduction Google slideshow✅ Student directions✅ Roles guide✅ Expectations and rubrics for all roles✅ Worksheets for all roles✅ General script✅ Webquest jury duty assignment✅ Links to relevant videos✅
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7th - 10th
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REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS TIME MANAGEMENT GROUP ACTIVITY
Students will become familiar with using their time wisely as they experience this exciting and fun activity about time management. This is a story and 4 rubrics to set the expectation. Students will be placed in groups of 3 to work together and accomplish the tasks that are asked of them for this project. This lesson is one of my students favorite and they obtain a tremendous amount of group social skills and overall time management knowledge. This is a sure WIN, WIN for the class.Overview Stud
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS Time Management
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson BUNDLE | Writing, Vocabulary, Simulation, & Quiz
This BUNDLE of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson resources is sure to make an impression on your students. It hooks them from the beginning with the memorable introduction. It's followed by "The Lottery" simulation. Having students use strong word choice and voice from the simulation, students will write a reaction to "The Lottery". They will create "toppers" to look like one strong word. Student examples are included within the resource. Students will also receive a vocabulary digital note
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7th - 12th
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Tell Tale Heart - Argument Stations, Mock Trial
A set of eight (8) stations where students find the best evidence to support their given role of prosecution or defense. Includes:Lesson plans8 stations with portions of the textstudent pages for both the defense and prosecution, including a page for students to write one, cohesive argumentative stance to present at the podiumslideshow with a timer (can be changed out for another time that better fits your class set-up) and rules/expectations for stations
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6th - 8th
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The 12 Labors of Hercules - Google Earth tour + worksheets
Students learn and locate the 12 labors of Hercules, as well as the moral / symbolic significance of each labor.
Instruction sets (teacher/student), short answer worksheet, & matching worksheet included.
Required: DSL or faster Internet connection; Google Earth.
Suitable for Latin / Greek / Mythology / Humanities classes.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
CCSS (Common Core) Murder Mystery
Who killed Bertha? Her fiancé, cousin, or brother and business partner? Students will devour the short murder mystery story as they attempt to solve the crime by collecting textual evidence to infer, summarize, characterize, and sequence the events. They will also work on their writing and listening/speaking during their investigation. Teams of collaborative groups work together on the clues (pieces of the story and CCSS-aligned activities) and don't get the next set of clues until the Chief of
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6th - 12th
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French Dialogue: Customizable Conversation & Pronunciation Practice: Family
Your students will love this simple, authentic & customizable French family dialogue script! With a partner they will discuss their family members, hair & eye colour, hair styles, clothing & color, personal adjectives, hobbies and future jobs.They will use included word banks to fill in the blanks (a range of family member choices are available) to ensure that their dialogue is realistic and relevant. The dialogue script comes in multiple versions: with English & without. Also, t
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6th - 10th
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Shark Tank Certificate
This Shark Tank Certificate is great to give to the students after they strike a deal with the sharks in your classroom Shark Tank simulation. My students saw it as a "contract" and LOVED it!
This is also included as a part of my product "Shark Tank Project".
A special thanks to:
KG Fonts
&
Paula Kim Studio
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5th - 9th
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De Espera en el Aeropuerto | A Collaborative Speaking Novice Assessment Project
DE ESPERA EN EL AEROPUERTO is a no-prep summative assessment that lends itself as a verbal language production final for novice learners. It also works well with second year students, as a review or refresher. It lends itself as a lesson plan in your SUB TUB - have students work on this while you are out, then when you return give a few minutes to prep, then present. Easy landing! (pun intended!)Click HERE to see a Video Preview!THE PERSPECTIVE: We wanted our novice learners to leap into a c
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: ¡PAKETÓN! enero | Heritage Speakers | Daily Vocabulary | Culture y más
Spontaneous Conversation Placemats - Collection # 1
Buy some wiggly-eyed ring puppets, throw them in a basket with these laminated conversation placemats and let the kids communicate with playful confidence through hands that magically come alive with these cheap party favours. These conversation placemats are simple, limited in choice and encourage authentic and spontaneous conversation. For some of these cards, you’ll see I’ve made a note for the kids to refer to another page (for example, when students are describing what they are wearing). I
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4th - 9th
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Classroom Debate - a guide to elementary school classroom debate
This is a guide on how to stage a structured debate in an intermediate elementary school classroom. After researching many different formats, I created this template and plan and have since run many successful debates following this format. In this guide I include the planning sheet for the teacher to note down the topic statement, to divide his/her class into two teams, and to assign two or three judges who will sit out from the debate but help judge and evaluate students during the preparatio
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4th - 9th
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Emotion Recognition (The Office Theme) (PDF, Canva template link)
The practice slides filled with GIFs allow for students to read body language and facial expressions to recognize the emotions of others! This The Office themed unit is great for students in middle school and high school that enjoy the show or just love GIFs! It also makes it fun for teachers and therapists that love The Office!#social #thought #think #pragmatic #know #emotions #characters #bodylanguage #facialexpression #feelings
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6th - 12th
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French Dialogue: Customizable Conversation & Pronunciation: Recess Games
DO YOUR STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITH PRONUNCIATION AND THE MEANINGS OF CONVERSATIONS? Your students will love this simple, authentic & customizable French recess dialogue script! With a partner they will discuss their plans for what games they will play at recess. Students will use the provided word bank to fill in the blanks in the script for each category (sports and expressions with JOUER À + THE SPORT) to ensure that their dialogue is realistic and relevant. The dialogue script comes in multip
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4th - 10th
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French Dialogue: Customizable Conversation & Pronunciation: On Santa's Lap
DO YOUR STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITH PRONUNCIATION AND THE MEANINGS OF CONVERSATIONS? Your students will love this simple, authentic & customizable French Christmas dialogue script! With a partner they will discuss their Christmas wishes for gifts and sweet treats. They will use included word banks to fill in the blanks to ensure that their dialogue is realistic and relevant. The dialogue script comes in multiple versions: with English & without. Also, the PDF has click-and-fill textboxes for
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4th - 10th
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Square Peg in a Round Hole Activity Resources
This activity was presented at the 2020 Space Exploration Educators' Conference!The name is based on the Apollo 13 situation trying to develop a solution to filter the carbon dioxide. The activity simulates the communication between astronauts and Mission Controllers. My students used Flipgrid. Students work in small groups (2-4 people) and switch between the roles. Mission Controllers give directions to astronauts. Astronauts follow the directions, ask for clarifications and update Mission Cont
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4th - 10th
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