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Social studies Common Core RL.9-10.3 resources for ESL-EFL-ELL
The Book Thief Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Markus Zusaks's award-winning WW2 novel, The Book Thief effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Eve
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5th - 9th
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The Book Thief Novel Study: Reading Guide and Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning WW2 novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 20 sections, with each section focusing on 25-30 pages of reading. (My novel studies are typically divided up into chapters, but due to the unique nature of Zusak's storytelling, this novel study is divided into sections that correspond with the book).This Common
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Book Thief and The Boy in Striped Pajamas Novel Studies - Bundle
Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle (Grades 5-12) A YEAR'S WORTH of activities: over 220 Common-Core aligned interactive reading foldable activities for secondary students. You do not have to use the Common Core State Standards to utilize this bundle! This download includes the following products:Interactive Notebook Reading Literature Bundle for ANY Novel or StoryInteractive Reading Notebook for Nonfiction Informational TextsInteractive Notebook Mini Books: Bundle of
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6th - 12th
Unbroken Complete Study Unit
Captivate your students with the incredible story of Louie Zamperini in Unbroken. This complete unit will engage your class right from the start with interactive activities, thought-provoking discussions, and even fun creative assignments! You and your students will LOVE this deep dive into the world of Louie and World War II!With this teacher time-saving unit, students will go beyond basic comprehension questions and learn and practice ELA content and skills! This Unbroken Unit is divided into
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8th - 10th
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use John Boyne's award winning WWII novel, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distan
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5th - 9th
Also included in:Â World War II Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete WWII Literature Units!
Freedom Writers Film Unit: Common Core-Aligned Assignments & Activities
This 46-page movie guide for "Freedom Writers" allows you to share this inspirational film with your students while also incorporating meaningful writing and literature learning activities aligned to Common Core Standards.
Student Resources (19 pages) include:
Coming Attractions (Pre-Viewing Activity):
•"The Line" Activity & Student Reflection (Try it for FREE HERE!)
Feature Film (During-Viewing Assignments):
•Character Growth Graphic Organizer
•Character Growth Analysis
•Journal Entries
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7th - 12th
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Children of Blood and Bone Novel Study
This product is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. With over 140+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel. Plus, the literary analysis resources, critical consciousness activities and discussions, fiction close readings, West Africa and Yoruba historical and cultural readings and activities, extension projects, vocabulary, assessments, and essays all provid
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8th - 12th
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English Reading Lit & NonFiction Graphic Organizers Bundle {Grades 6-12}
This is a bundle of my Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers for ELA Reading Literature and Informational Texts BUNDLE for Grades 6-12 *UPDATED Aug. 2014: Now contains over 175 organizers! Perfect for Reader's Notebooks.*Do you need to implement the Common Core Standards into your curriculum? These graphic organizers are written for each individual anchor standard for Reading Literature and Reading Informational (for non-fiction), and will work for any piece of literature or non-fiction: shor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Teaching the Hero's Journey Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need for giving your students a thorough introduction to Joseph Campbell's storytelling pattern the Hero's Journey: A Stages of the Hero's Journey presentation, creative Hero's Journey classroom game, Design-a-Quest create your own Hero's Journey activity, example Hero's Journeys from popular films presentations, and more.
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6th - 12th
Hamilton: An American Musical - Complete Unit & Plan
Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story? One on the big themes of Hamilton is that history isn’t written before it happens. The goal of this English class unit is to bring to life many of the themes and people of the American Founding period. The musical Hamilton is a unique opportunity to explore these interdisciplinary themes with History class while also looking at poetic form through rap. I hope you will use this unit to bring this compelling musical to your students. I have found my ki
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8th - 12th
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Unbroken YRE Hillenbrand / Giant Unit Bundle ONLINE READY! / Bonus items!
Unbroken (YRE) by Laura Hillenbrand tells the amazing story of the American war hero and Olympian, Louis Zamperini. I love teaching this novel! Louis' story of endurance and forgiveness is inspiring and my students love learning more about WWII, Pearl Harbor, and WWII aircraft. I hope your students love Unbroken as much as mine do.I adapted this unit for online-learning, and I'm thrilled to finally share it with you. Each piece of this unit is for sale individually, but you can save $$ and g
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7th - 12th
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Sentence Frames for Literary Analysis Essay Writing High School ELA, ELL & ESL
Use sentence frames (also called sentence starters) for literary analysis in your ELA or ESL classroom to support all students! Research shows that sentence frames are an effective scaffolding technique. Use sentence frames for differentiated instruction and to support ELL and newcomer students. This is appropriate for 7th-12 grade.This resource is a 5-page handout that includes 12 types of sentence frames for writing about literature: Diction/connotation/denotation, hyperbole, setting, irony, j
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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The Boy in Striped Pajamas Novel Study - Reading Guide + Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, The Boy in Striped Pajamas by Paulo John Boyne, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 7 sections, with each section focusing on 1-3 chapters of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Book Thief and The Boy in Striped Pajamas Novel Studies - Bundle
Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis Graphic Organizers
Engage your students with these standards-aligned character analysis Fahrenheit 451 graphic organizers! There are two character analysis graphic organizers for almost every character in this Fahrenheit 451 resource.The first Fahrenheit 451 character analysis graphic organizer asks students to identify if the character in Ray Bradbury's novel is round or flat, static or dynamic, an antagonist or a protagonist, and the character's central conflict. After identifying these qualities, students must
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Fahrenheit 451 Teaching Unit and Novel Study
Facebook Character Sketch Lesson Any Novel Full Version 1
Facebook activity templates for any novel or nonfiction text - aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Includes Microsoft Word templates to share with students in a 1:1, BYOD, or paperless classroom.
This IS included in my Literature Activities for ANY Novel or Nonfiction Text, Volume 1.
This is the full version of the Facebook Character sketch lesson in Microsoft Word. *Updated to include NEW Facebook Layout Pages with the new "Timeline" format, separate student copies, a short status-upd
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Character Study Activities | Any Text or Novel | Tattoo, Playlist, Selfie & more
12 differentiated activities for studying a character from any novel, short story or text. Great for class readers, but also perfect when your students have chosen their own books to study!This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Includes...Write an informal letter to a characterDesign a tattoo for a characterPack a bag of ten items for a characterImagine a character selfieFill a character's heartMap a character's past and predict their futur
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7th - 10th
Instagram Templates for ANY Novel Study! Grades 5-12, CCSS Character Analysis
Use these TWO different styled Instagram templates to add depth to any novel or historical study! This is the perfect real-world way to analyze characters or a historical figure. This activity is an easy print-and-go for grades 5-12!
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5th - 12th
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Outsiders Character Analysis Graphic Organizers
The Outsiders Character Analysis Graphic Organizers: these graphic organizers for S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders include two different character analysis/character sketch graphic organizers. There are two organizers for all of the main characters in the novel.The first organizer asks students to identify if the character is round or flat, static or dynamic, an antagonist or a protagonist, and the character's main conflict. After students identify these qualities, they must provide textual ev
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â The Outsiders Novel Study and Activity Unit - Comprehension, Quizzes, More
Tell Tale Heart. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. Full Unit for ELA ESL Sp. Ed.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. See preview for details.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instruction.Unit includes:An illustrated adapted text of The Tell-Tale Heart by Po
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Cole's Transformation Poster Project (Touching Spirit Bear)
This project requires students to demonstrate in what ways Cole has transformed over the course of the novel, Touching Spirit Bear.
First students justify in what ways Cole has changed using evidence from the text. Then they must decide how to best SHOW his transformation by creating a visual poster. On the poster students must justify why they have included certain symbolic elements and list what these elements say about Cole.
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A pre-work evidence worksheet
An assignment descrip
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Textual Evidence-Based Novel Study for Touching Spirit Bear (BUNDLED!)
Night by Elie Wiesel Reading Journal & Task Card Activity Set WWII Holocaust WW2
Night by Elie Wiesel Reading Journal and Task Card Activity Set -- Examine Night by Elie Wiesel with this interactive unit set. Read for content, respond to writing prompts for student engagement, and review key features with various task card sets and the student journal.Includes:9 Page Reading Journal 16 Reading Response Prompt Task Cards20 Vocabulary Cards w/Definitions12 Theme Task Cards8 Image Analysis Task Cards3 Essay Writing Prompts35 Total full pages to print.Addresses the following:Key
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Don Quixote (Reader's Theater Script-Story + Teacher Guide)
Is he a noble champion of knightly values or a demented old man? The aged knight Don Quixote is both hilarious and heartbreaking, and his refusal to see the world as it really is can be both inspiring and frightening. His misadventures have become immortal. Ultimately, the story grapples with the question: Which is better: illusion or reality? Fascinating readers for generations, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote has been called the first novel.This Reader's Theater script-story dramatizes some
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7th - 12th
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Murder Mystery Activity w/out the Murder Who Poisoned Willy Wonka
Who Poisoned Willy Wonka is an interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Odyssey Differentiated Reading Guide and Study Questions
This download is only compatible with the Prentice Hall textbook version of Homer's "The Odyssey."This is a 14 page reading guide designed to help ESL students, students with special needs, and struggling readers comprehend, enjoy, and read deeper into Homer's "The Odyssey."This guide includes line-by-line analysis and 74 chronologically ordered study guide questions for the following episodes:- The Adventure of Odysseus- Sailing from Troy- The Lotus Eaters- The Cyclops- "Twenty years gone, and
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8th - 11th
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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