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High school informational text study guides for Google Apps
Farewell to Manzanar, Japanese Internment, Chapter Questions, PDF & Google Drive
Use this package of chapter-by-chapter questions as you take your class through Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s compelling true story, Farewell to Manzanar. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in a Japanese internment camp during WWII is an important title to include. The worksheet questions (both printable PDF & interactive Google Drive versions included) were designed to pull your students into the Wakatsuk
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8th - 11th
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Night Study Guide - Elie Wiesel - Chapter-by-Chapter Questions
This resource provides chapter-by-chapter questions for Elie Wiesel’s haunting memoir, Night, that will help connect your students to the story, ensure they comprehend key plot developments, and are able to analyze events, characters and themes at a deeper level. Questions range in complexity level--from comprehension to analysis and evaluation—so that students can practice a variety of standards and skills while getting the most out of this critical work.If you are teaching classes online, this
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7th - 11th
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No Prep AP Spanish Language and Culture SOS! 4 Formats for Free Response Section
Are you looking to provide your AP Spanish students a go-to resource to practice and prepare for the Free Response section of the Spanish Language and Culture Exam?¡Para Aquí!THE PERSPECTIVE: Upon reflection, we noticed we were bombarding our own students with too many different tools to practice formatting the Free Response Section of the AP Spanish Language and Culture. We decided to create a “best of” what we had accumulated throughout our years of experience, workshops, training, collaborat
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: ¡PAKETÓN! AP Spanish Free Response Writing Practice Bundle
Author's Purpose and Point of View - Informational Text Analysis Activities
This resource provides materials on how to identify the author’s purpose in writing and will help your students learn how to analyze different types of texts. Not only can this be used to introduce or to review these topics, the activities will reinforce student learning through application. This purchase will provide materials you can use year after year, as well as serve as a review and summation for ELA test prep.Students will be engaged while you present the Identifying and Analyzing Author’
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6th - 9th, Not Grade Specific
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Academic Research & Writing Resource Packet for Essays
7 page resource packet for use with any type of academic writing!Includes/Covers:*Locating strong text evidence (using rhetoric!)*Embedding text evidence & paraphrases (lead-ins)*How to: paraphrase & analyze/reason*Helpful vocabulary: transitions & academic verbage*QR codes: helpful videos for more explanation!Pairs great with Research Questions & Thesis Statements Persuasive Essay Writing
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Student Government NO PREP Unit
Fearing for the future if your students never learn to articulate their needs and expectations? Wishing adults had better decorum when they, themselves, speak aloud? Needing a cross-curricular start to finish unit prepped for the next few weeks? Look no further! Students will experience scaffolded instruction while simultaneously expressing their own political ethics. They will be challenged with deciding on the validity of source material. Also, they will be shown examples of congressional de
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8th - 12th
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Media Literacy and Biases Unit | Gr 8+ | Critical Thinking | PBL | Digital
This unit covers media literacy and biases to equip students with the analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate news and information effectively. With a focus on building these crucial skills, the unit delves into topics like misinformation, sensationalism, bias in the media, and confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to believe only information that confirms our opinions, while ignoring contradictory information. Confirmation bias explains why people often clin
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8th - 11th
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Of Mice and Men Unit - BUNDLE (Google) with guide, lessons, test... all w/KEYs
The bundle includes:Pre-reading lesson on historical social issues during the novel's setting w/KEYPre-reading lesson and paragraph on migrant workers w/KEYSlang lesson - using the slang from the novelStudy Guide including reading questions as well as vocabulary and literary terms w/KEYLesson on understanding the lonely charactersThe poem "To a Mouse" lesson with EASEL option - the poem from which the title came w/KEYTest with KEYFor other lessons and tools for teaching Of Mice and Men, please c
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8th - 12th
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Outliers Final Test & Study Guide | Google Drive
This Google Forms final test for Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, contains the SAME 60 questions as my Outliers set of five quizzes, but in final test format. This multiple-choice test features five answer choices, automatic grading, and customizability.I have included a Google Doc study guide for the final test, which contains just the question stems, minus the answer choices. I have used this format many times for study guides and found it successful. The study guide questions could be used as
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Outliers BUNDLE: Quizzes #1-5, Final Test & Study Guide | Google Drive
Glossary of Common Shakespearean Terms
In the many years I have taught Shakespeare, I have found that a good resource for referencing his language was hard to come by. No Fear Shakespeare is simply a translation, while Folger editions often will not offer a definition, or only offer it once, which leaves many students struggling if that word shows up later in the okay they're reading. This glossary presents a middle ground, an easy place to look up words Shakespeare commonly uses.
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7th - 12th
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Informational Text Unit Test
This is an informational text unit test requiring short answer and multiple choice answers. I use the article, "Leonard Pitts: A requiem for Willy Brown" at this link: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2010/08/09/leonard-pitts-a-requiem-for-willy-brown/. Students must annotate this article as part of the test grade, but feel free to change that in your class. The test includes the following topics: - Craft- Structure- Author's Purpose - Identifying bias- VisualizingI have highlighted
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6th - 11th
Worksheet Characteristics of Minerals Notes & Data Table
Characteristics of Minerals Notes & Data Table is a worksheet with Teacher Answer Key for students to read to find information and practice what makes something a mineral. Teachers need only to print the pages purchased from TPT and then make student copies of the first two pages of the five page resource. This worksheet contains the science content needed for students to read, find information, and practice applying the information to complete the activity. It would be a great activity f
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6th - 9th
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-isms of the 1930s: Notes Slides and Guided Notes Handout
This product is designed to empower teachers in guiding students through a thorough exploration of the social, cultural, and historical context of the 1930s (especially as these things relate to the novel Of Mice and Men!)NOTE: HOWEVER, feel free to use it as a history resource alone. (You would just need to edit out the one or two locations where I talk about Of Mice and Men!)This digital product offers notes slides and a guided notes handout (attached through a link within the slides), providi
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10th - 12th
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March Book 1: Interactive Slides
This is a compilation of interactive google slides that challenges students to connect history and modern-day issues while reading MARCH book 1 by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis. This slide deck includes warm-ups, videos to connect to, signposts, discussion points, and extension slides.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: March Book 1: Bundle
Philosophy, critical thinking, reading comprehension in Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Philosophy, critical thinking, and reading comprehension in Nietzsche's Zarathustra Nietzsche is everywhere – especially in popular culture and he is an incredibly engaging thinker! Still, most teachers don't have the time to prepare lessons beyond the core texts they are supposed to study. For this reason, I have created this Textual Analysis product on one of Nietzsche's most famous works: Thus Spake Zarathustra This product covers part of the Prologue - please see the preview!Thus Spake Zara
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hiroshima by John Hersey: Pre-Reading, Author Study, Activity
*Now part of my Hiroshima Bundle!*Great for pre-reading of the famous John Hersey's book Hiroshima. Assist students in understanding the context of the historical event, author's background and legacy and effects of nuclear weaponry.Product Includes:*Google Slide presentation*Fun trivia questions to introduce topics/themes*Video clip covering the bombing*Writing and discussion questions*Nonfiction article: "The Legacy of John Hersey's Hiroshima"*Questions for the article (includes key)*Bonus: b
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RANGE by David Epstein: Chapter 5 "Thinking Outside Experience" (ps. 99-119)
I have created 6 Guided Reading questions for Chapter 5 of David Epstein's RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph In a Specialized World. These questions may be flexibly used to check for understanding, as group work, discussion prompts, ticket-in, or exit tickets, or graded written responses.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Outliers BUNDLE: Quizzes #1-5, Final Test & Study Guide | Google Drive
This BUNDLE contains the following products:Outliers Quizzes #1-5Each Google Form quiz features twelve multiple-choice questions with five answer choices each, automatic grading, and customizability.They are organized in the following manner:Quiz #1: Introduction-Chapter OneQuiz #2: Chapters Two-ThreeQuiz #3: Chapters Four-FiveQuiz #4: Chapters Six-SevenQuiz #5: Chapters Eight-EpilogueThe quizzes were originally designed for my AP Language and Composition classes, where my students read two chap
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9th - 12th
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We Are Displaced Discussion Questions
Discussion Question for Malala Yousafzai's We Are Displaced
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Discussion Questions for The Social Dilemma
Engage your students in meaningful conversations about the influence of technology on our lives with this comprehensive discussion guide focusing on key concepts from "The Social Dilemma." This resource fosters critical thinking, awareness, and ethical considerations surrounding algorithmic manipulation, surveillance capitalism, echo chambers, and persuasive technology.
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9th - 12th
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Rhetoric Terminology: Comprehensive Handout for Students & Teachers
Vocabulary instruction is a key first step when teaching rhetoric. Use this thorough resource to refresh your memory and support student learning while teaching the vocabulary of rhetoric! This google doc contains the following: Page 1: The key, foundational terms to know, including: academic argument, rhetoric, rhetorical position statement, rhetorical situation, SOAPStone, rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos. Page 2: Rhetorical appeals and their strategies (AKA devices). Contains a ta
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9th - 12th
Also included in: UNIT BUNDLE: Teach Argument with The Social Dilemma
create a Budget Project Vocabulary
This product is 25 budget vocabulary terms, along with the definitions for an answer key. There is also a bonus section so the students have the ability to earn some extra points!These words go great with a lesson on money, college, life skills, budgeting, etc.!
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7th - 12th
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9 University of California Colleges of the Week Activities
Do you want to get your students interested in college? Then this google document is for you and your students!UPDATED (7/15/22): Each college activity has the link to the school's website now. Also, each school now has a Virtual and or self-guided tour for students to explore the campus from the comfort of their seat.The 9 Different UC campuses for students to explore and conduct research on!!I created this document for students in middle school and high school alike.What the College of the Wee
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6th - 11th
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READING COMPREHENSION | THUCYDIDES HISTORY | INFORMATIONAL TEXT
READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES AND QUESTIONS THUCYDIDES HISTORY | INFORMATIONAL TEXTThe History of the Peloponnesian War (First 10 Chapters)Google Slides Interactive (and PDF version)PERFECT FOR A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER – EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS HERE!INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:➢ 20 Slides of teacher notes (PDF - 22 pages).➢ 2 extra editable Slides.➢ Information on how I use this unit when I teach the book.➢ 26 Google Slides where students read a chapter of the book and then are asked
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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