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Adult education reading resources for Easel Assessments
Figurative Language Worksheets - Similes, Metaphors, Idioms and Easel
This figurative language pack includes a types of figurative language handout that defines different figures of speech like similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, and hyperbole and gives an example of each. On the first worksheet students have to identify ten sentences that use metaphors or similes. There are nine additional practice worksheets with practice with similes, idioms, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. No prep. Print and go. Keys included. Ten worksheets in all. Great ac
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4th - 7th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY -- Matt Haig
Which regret stands out? Which decision would you like to Undo? Which life would you like to try on? ~Matt HaigGreetings,Is this the novel and resource for you and your students? Let me ask several questions to help you arrive at an answer. Everyone has regrets. Agreed? Everyone would like an Undo on some life choice. Agreed? Everyone has at least one, ‘What would have happened if I had taken the other fork in the road moment.’ Agreed? Nora Seed, the protagonist, in Matt Haig’s, The Midnight L
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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FIVE LITTLE INDIANS -- Michelle Good
If we abandon hope then where will our energies be fired from? ~Michelle GoodMany fine novels have been written in recent years about residential schools and the harm inflicted upon generations of aboriginal people in Canada and the United States. Michelle Good’s, Five Little Indians, is one of the best. She is well-qualified (Cree lawyer and writer) to write such a story. And the novel has received many awards and much praise. Five Little Indians is a great story -- a story full of substance
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS STUDIES READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- FIVE NOVELS, FIVE AUTHORS
KEEPER 'N ME -- Richard Wagamese
Boy’s got some stories he wants to tell. ~KeeperGreetings,Welcome to Richard Wagamese’s Keeper ‘N Me. I love the book and this 193-page resource gives you and your students a number of tested options that you can use in and adapt to your situation. It puts students in the centre of the action and learning. It enables you to do what teachers do best -- spend time and energy with the students to inform, inspire, ignite. The 56-page Student Workbook on Book One and Book Two of the novel, and the
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- RICHARD WAGAMESE
FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER -- Angeline Boulley
Greetings,If you like a page-turner mystery that explores questions of “identity, loss, and injustice, and also love, joy, connection, friendship, hope, and laughter,” then Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter is here for you and your students. The characters and questions raised, insights and inspirations received will stay with you long after you close the novel. This 232-page resource covers all four strands: reading, writing, oral, and media. It develops your students’ critical thinking,
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass -- Drew Hayden Taylor
Greetings,Drew Hayden Taylor’s novel, Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, is a delightful story featuring a famous Indigenous Trickster character -- Nanabush. The story revolves around thirteen-year old Virgil Second, his grandmother, mother, uncle and others on the Otter Lake Reserve. Humour, suspense, mystery, mischief and misdirection abound, along with empathy, grace, wonder and wisdom.This 216-page resource covers all four strands: reading, writing, oral, and media. It develops your students’ cri
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Animal Farm Test Matching Characters with Easel Digital and Print
Animal Farm Test. Match the characters. When reading Animal Farm by George Orwell, students need to identify the characters. A short test or quiz (with answer key) that has 15 matching questions about characters and places in the novel. There are sixteen characters and fifteen descriptions, so one is a ringer. Designed to be a quick assessment of comprehension. There are two copies per letter-size page, to save paper when making copies. Print or go digital with Easel Activity (includes a fill-i
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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THE SUNFLOWER -- Simon Wiesenthal (Non-Fiction)
Greetings,The Sunflower is the most important book I teach, and it is more relevant than ever with rampant anti-Semitism. far-right extremists, racism, and intolerance.https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/03/02/anti-semitic-graffiti-toronto-schools/ The Sunflower poses an existential question to the reader: You are a Jewish prisoner in a German concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? Simon Wiesenthal tells the story of his WWII concentration camp exp
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Night Wanderer -- Drew Hayden Taylor
Greetings,Drew Hayden Taylor’s novel, The Night Wanderer, explores rich themes (redemption, identity, family) and relevant issues (racism, bullying, suicide) as it combines a bumpy coming-of-age story with a Native Gothic tale. The story revolves around sixteen-year old Tiffany Hunter, her father and grandmother, and the mysterious Pierre L’Errant. Something is odd and dangerous about their nocturnal lodger, and don’t get a paper cut flipping the pages.This 155-page resource covers all four stra
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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THE MARROW THIEVES -- Cherie Dimaline Everything You Need to Survive and Thrive
Greetings,Welcome to The Marrow Thieves. Cherie Dimaline’s novel is an award-winning, fast paced escape story, coming-of-age tale, and dystopian warning all rolled into one. Students easily engage with the cast of relatable characters, plot twists, and timely topics/themes. They’ll be turning the pages so quickly reading that you’ll need Band-Aids on hand for the paper cuts. This 166-page resource covers all four strands: reading, writing, oral, and media. It builds your students’ foundational
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS STUDIES READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- FIVE NOVELS, FIVE AUTHORS
MEDICINE WALK -- Richard Wagamese
There are a thousand ways to say no — but I can’t, it’s impossible, it’s too late — but there’s only one way to say yes: with your whole being. When you do that, you chose that word, it becomes the most spiritual word in the universe and your world can change. ~Richard WagameseGreetings,What kind of medicine do you take for your well being? Running was my medicine for years, but when the knees started to seize up, I switched to walking. Indeed, my wife and I have walked across England twice, an
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- RICHARD WAGAMESE
SMALL GREAT THINGS -- Jodi Picoult
Not everything that is faced can be changed.But nothing can be changed until it is faced.~James BaldwinFeel awkward talking about racism, or looking for ways to increase your awareness and that of your students? Wanting to become an ally for change?Good news. Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things is insightful and inspiring, honest and hopeful. An engaging novel with plot twists, nasty turns, and memorable characters confronted with one of the biggest issues of our time, and perhaps the root of so m
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HUNTING BY STARS -- Cherie Dimaline
They never stopped dreaming. ~Cherie DimalineGreetings,Once again, Cherie Dimaline has written a winner. Hunting By Stars, while connected with The Marrow Thieves, is independent and stands on its own as an engaging read and exciting study, full of action, colourful characters, challenging issues, and enduring lessons. And I love the 2021 edition for the welcoming layout and text font size. A pleasure to hold and behold.The 93-page Student Workbook and the Multiple Intelligences Presentations a
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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CHASING PAINTED HORSES -- Drew Hayden Taylor
Greetings,I love sports: playing, coaching, watching. A baseball highlight is relevant here. One season playing shortstop, the second baseman and I turned a phenomenal number of double plays to the delight of fans and teammates. We were poetry in motion. Drew Hayden Taylor’s novel, Chasing Painted Horses, provides you and your students with the opportunity to turn an even better double or even triple play. Why? Because of its heritage. It began as a short story, morphed into a one-act pla
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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THE AGONY OF BUN O'KEEFE -- Heather Smith
Greetings,I lived and worked in Newfoundland and Labrador for almost a decade, and a finer place and nicer people would be hard to find. So, ‘stay where you’re to, and I’ll come where you’re at’ with a delightful novel -- The Agony of Bun O’Keefe. It will introduce you and your students to a captivating story of a young girl leaving her house and finding a home, in a community of courageous characters you will never forget. You’ll laugh and cry and celebrate.While the novel is an easy read, it
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9th - 10th, Adult Education
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INDIAN HORSE -- Richard Wagamese
Every encounter has within it the power of enchantment, if we're willing to look for it.~Richard WagameseI love many things in life. Two of them are hockey and stories. I played and coached hockey for years and have always taken delight in hearing or telling a good story. Imagine my delight when I found Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse. He is a well-known Indigenous writer of numerous books for which he has received praise and awards. His novels tackle tough issues and always introduce readers t
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- RICHARD WAGAMESE
Discussion Guide for the book: "This Other Eden" by Paul Harding
Discussion Guide for: Novel, “This Other Eden” by Paul HardingGuide copyright 2024, Betty J. White, aka Compass RosePublisher: W.W. Norton & Company, January 24, 2023. 224 pages. ISBN-10 132403629X ISBN-13 978-1324036296 Available as an e-bookA fictional story inspired by true events, about the (true) forcible eviction in the early 1900’s of the residents of Malaga Island (the story in the book called this “Apple Island”) by the state of Maine. Most of the residents in the story are of mixe
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
FIFTEEN DOGS -- Andre Alexis
If you asked a human to choose between a wonderful life with a terrible death, or a miserable life with a wonderful death, which do you think it would choose? (155) Greetings, You would not be reading this page if a dog had not awakened my mother’s family to a fire. The dog, a mutt appropriately named, Guard, detected smoke early and alerted the family to danger and near-certain death. Hence, this resource is dedicated to Guard. Other dog rescue stories circulate in our family and perhaps yours
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Rapture by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Novel Test
Novel Test-characterization-vocabulary-multiple choice-cause/effect-essay
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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CROW WINTER -- Karen McBride
Kindness is the truest form of strength. ~Audrey McBride (Author's mother)Greetings,Can Hazel, a young Algonquin woman, and an old, Trickster crow named Nanabush prevent a cataclysmic disaster that will sever Earth and the Spirit World? Karen McBride’s novel, Winter Crow, has been well-received and reviewed with its story exploration of a variety of relatable topics and themes: family, identity, community, friendship, courage, loss, grief, healing,. It’s a mystery within the mystery of Indigen
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS STUDIES READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- FIVE NOVELS, FIVE AUTHORS
Hansel and Gretel: Fairy Tales Series for English and Reading (Gr. 4-12)
Engage English Language Arts and Reading Students with the Original Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tale of "Hansel and Gretel". Duration of Lesson: The lesson calendar is adaptable to a three-day or longer study of the classic tale, unexpurgated from the public domain text, with reference to Engelbert Humperdinck's timeless opera (that is still performed today). Kids will enjoy revisiting the fairy tale and analyzing it with a literary lens. Common Core Standards:This resource aligns well with the Readin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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DAUGHTERS OF THE DEER -- Danielle Daniel
It’s not how long we live…, but how well we served our brothers and sisters. ~SachemWelcome to Daniel Danielle’s Daughters of the Deer. It's an engaging story set in the early period of Indigenous-French contact and follows a Weskarini-French family seeking to navigate the prejudices and perils of their time and place. Students will not only learn some history soaked in the Doctrine of Discovery, but more importantly have the opportunity to learn valuable life lessons for their own life storie
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW -- Waubgeshig Rice
It's a dystopia that's already here, I could draw the personal experience of growing up in a community like this. ~Waubgeshig RiceGreetings,I first came across Waubgeshig Rice when he began reporting news on the CBC. He did an excellent job and has since moved on to writing fulltime. His latest work, Moon of the Crusted Snow is a dystopian tale set in the future and on an isolated northern Indigenous rez. Eden Robinson called it “chilling in the best way possible.” I agree – engaging, instruc
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS STUDIES READING CIRCLE BUNDLE -- FIVE NOVELS, FIVE AUTHORS
EVERY DAY -- David Levithan
Greetings,How would you like to wake up in a different body every day? That's the challenge 'A' faces daily, and he is resigned to it until one day, he meets and falls in love with Rhiannon, and then life becomes a lot more complicated. Will true love find a way? Every Day tells that intriguing, challenging, page-turner tale, and it will stretch your mind and heart.Someday continues the tale and poses an even bigger question. Can 'A' have a life without abusing his superpower? There's an antago
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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