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Common Core RI.11-12.1 interactive notebooks
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
Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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Interactive Reading Notebook Nonfiction Activities Common Core Aligned
105 Common Core-aligned interactive nonfiction reading notebook foldable activities for secondary students (grades 6-12). These can be used with ANY nonfiction text (passages not included). This IS included in my Interactive Reading Notebook Mega Bundle. Students will practice numerous skills, including: making inferences (inferring); summarizing the text; determining the central ideas; analyzing primary and secondary sources; analyzing the development of ideas; analyzing the relationship betwee
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights American History Unit
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights Social Studies Unit, which works for both print and Google Drive™, investigates and helps gain an understanding of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This will work fro grades fifth-high school.This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format and includes:Cover sheet in both color and black and white.Links to helpful online resources.Informational Slideshow Presentation to use for instruction.G
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8th - 11th
Reading Response Handouts for High School | Reading Logs | Reading Journals
Do you want you students to learn how to read, analyze, and write about literature independently?Do your students have a tough time when they are faced with a blank page or have to write without being told what to write about? This guide to reading response journals based on quote analysis and close reading will get your students reading, analyzing, and writing about literature on their own. I have been teaching with reading responses for eleven years, and this guide includes what you need to
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9th - 12th
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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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Trail of Tears Unit | Native American Literature | Indian Removal Unit
Looking for a resource on the Trail of Tears that will help your students understand why that tragedy is still relevant today?This innovative unit will take your students beyond a general understanding of the events of the 1830s to a more comprehensive understanding of why history matters. Students will start out by exploring two engaging videos: one on the history of the Trail of Tears and one on why treaties still matter today. Then, they’ll move on to a creative exploration of some first-hand
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9th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Mini Flip Book (a sticky note book for rhetoric)
Make rhetorical analysis more engaging, hands-on, and fun with this sticky note mini flip book. This project is ideal to complete as you read and after you read nonfiction texts such as speeches and persuasive letters. Students work on pages within the workbook to identify, quote, and explain various rhetorical elements, appeals, and devices from the text. This mini flip book includes 7 tabs to help students rhetorically analyze text: SOAPStone, ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical device #1, rhetor
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Mini Flip Book Growing Bundle: Grammar, Parts of Speech, Growth Mindset
Citing Evidence Embedding Quotes Digital Mini-Lesson BUNDLE | Teacher & Student
Purchase BOTH the teacher's and student edition for a discount! This product serves as a mini-lesson/crash course on citing evidence, embedding quotes, and paraphrasing. Once completed, this digital binder should be used throughout the school year for student reference to help them avoid plagiarism and write effectively.
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6th - 12th
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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset Activities: High School Research Project, TED Talk, Lit
Frustrated with students who refuse to accept feedback or take on any new challenges? When students have a fixed mindset about your class, they can be almost impossible to teach. Some feel hopeless, convinced that they are simply “bad" at English, and sure that there is nothing that they can do to improve the situation. Others define themselves as “good” at English, but never want to push themselves or try anything new—they’re so terrified of failure, that they want to play it safe at all times
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9th - 12th
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English | Back to School ELA Activities | High School | Growth Mindset, Writing
Worried that you’ll lose your chance to start the school year right this time? The first few weeks of school are crucial for your classes’ success throughout the year, and there is so much pressure to do it all: set the tone for your classroom; inspire students to work harder; establish rigor and expectations; teach students to think independently; get some solid assessments into your grade book. And of course, nothing is as important as establishing a strong connection with your students as so
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9th - 12th
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Native American History & Literature: Indian Boarding Schools | Louise Erdrich
Looking for a resource on the Indian Boarding Schools that will help your students understand how victims of mistreatment and abuse resist oppression in their own ways? In an effort to “kill the Indian to save the man,” the assimilation policies of the United States caused a great deal of pain to the tens of thousands of young people who were displaced from their homelands and taken to horrific institutions. While the Native American children who were forced to cut their hair and forget their c
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Romeo & Juliet Unit Plan: Prologue & Act 1 Activities to Final Project, Analysis
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “Shakespeare”? Reading a Shakespeare play is challenging for students—but flashy handouts and cute classroom decor will not teach your students the skills they need to read and understand a Shakespeare play independently.When students misbehave, put their heads on their desks, or just stare vacantly into the distance, it’s not because they aren’t capable of understanding the Bard—it’s because they are aren’t given the
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9th - 12th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning and Science Literacy Doodle Notes Lesson
Claim Evidence and Reasoning is a method of formulating a written response that includes: A claim that answers the question. Evidence from students' data. Reasoning involves a rule or scientific principle that describes why the evidence supports the claim.Research from numerous reputable sources suggests that C.E.R can significantly improve students' science literacy and writing across courses.In this resource, students will learn about what C.E.R. is, the difference between Quantitative and Qua
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Physics Doodle Notes Growing Bundle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Kubla Khan" Romanticism Lesson | Poetry Activity
Looking for a powerful poetry lesson to get your students thinking about inspiration and artistic creation?Coleridge claims to have written “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium dream. Whether or not that story is true makes for an interesting discussion. The influence of drugs on creation is definitely a theme about which teenagers have an opinion, and so students are engaged in this lesson right from the start. While Coleridge claims that this poem was a result of his drug use, after a
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9th - 12th
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Growth Mindset Activity High School: Literary Nonfiction Text Malcolm Gladwell
Want to push your students to read more challenging non-fiction, learn why a fixed mindset is detrimental, and engage in metacognitive questions on their reading habits and expectations? Explore the importance of growth mindset with this lesson on a challenging non-fiction article.In the article featured in this lesson, Malcolm Gladwell explores the relationship between a fixed mindset and the Enron scandal. Gladwell is a great choice for teaching literary non-fiction in your class. A staff wr
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9th - 12th
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Visual Literacy and the Persuasive Language of Static Images Unit
VISUAL LITERACY is key in our fast-paced digital culture crammed with advertising, social media and graphic information and the study of static images is the ONLY place to begin. Static images provide a fun and engaging way to give students a sound understanding of the language and structural elements in advertising, persuasive language and film.⭐ Flip through this resource here! ⭐In this NO PREP interactive textbook and workbook in one students:Learn about and identify visual language features.
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10th - 12th
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Persuasive Language Techniques and Media Literacy in Advertising
Study persuasive language through the engaging genre of advertising - including visual and written language techniques and worrying trends such as neuromarketing and the powers of influencers - in this massive NO PREP senior unit comprising of five editable documents. Happy days!*** Flip through this student reference/workbook here! ***With this resource you get:A student reference/workbook (the mothership)A flatpacked version of the reference/workbook that students cannot destroy the format of
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10th - 12th
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Native American Literature: Storytelling Thematic Unit | Indigenous Film, Poetry
Ready to integrate more Native voices into your curriculum this year? While trickster tales, creation myths, and other traditional stories definitely have their place in an American literature curriculum, it’s important that your students don’t get the message that Indigenous literature is only something from the past or something to read about in their history books. In fact, if you’re not intentionally integrating current writers in your plans, you might be inadvertently giving your classes t
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9th - 12th
Native American History & Literature | Alcatraz Occupation 1969 | Irony & Satire
Want to teach a powerful lesson on the act of resistance that sparked a movement? The Occupation of Alcatraz was a powerful 19-month long protest in which the Indians of All Tribes lived on Alcatraz Island and created a small society; the occupation sparked the Indian Activist movements of the late 20th century including the Occupation of Wounded Knee, The Trail of Broken Treaties and the more recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock among many other actions.Besides being an exam
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Slang- Supported Reading Comprehension Middle & High School Special Education
Supported Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School StudentsTopic: The Impact of SlangThis unit was created for students needing EXPLICIT SKILL INSTRUCTION and SCAFFOLDING while reading. This unit allows you to work on one topic while DIFFERENTIATING FOR STUDENT NEEDS. The topic is INTERESTING and ENGAGING to get them reading and keep them reading! This reading is focused on the impact slang has had on our culture.WHAT ARE YOU RECEIVING?This is a NO PREP UNIT provided at 3 DIFFERENTIATED
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6th - 12th
Music- Supported Reading Comprehension Middle & High School Special Education
*Supported Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students*Topic- Changing Tunes: The Evolution of Digital MusicThis unit was created for students needing EXPLICIT SKILL INSTRUCTION and SCAFFOLDING while reading. This unit allows you to work on one topic while DIFFERENTIATING FOR STUDENT NEEDS. The topic is INTERESTING and ENGAGING to get them reading and keep them reading! This reading focuses on the evolution of music from records and record stores to today's digital music. WHAT ARE
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6th - 12th
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