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High school close reading simulations for GATE
Abandoned Places - Creative Writing Activity from Nonfiction (print + digital)
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world abandoned places! Students choose one as a setting for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten abandoned places (in
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7th - 10th
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Assertion Journal Bundle #1: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains ten topical collections of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and bac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Demystifying Fear - Nonfiction Passage and Vocabulary - Reading Comprehension
Looking for gripping nonfiction activities for your classroom? This nonfiction reading passage comes with close reading questions that promote learning vocabulary in context. Students will explore the contradictory nature of fear and the techniques filmmakers use to manipulate our emotions. Includes suggested lesson plan and answer key. (grades 7-10)What You Get in your Nonfiction Activities resource:1. Nonfiction reading about fear2. Word Work - vocabulary in context with accompanying close rea
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7th - 10th
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The Great Gatsby: Chapter 8 & 9 - Gatsby's Funeral & Close Reading {EDITABLE}
If you're teaching The Great Gatsby, you might need a few extra ideas to get you through chapters 8 and 9. How about some small group close reading and throwing a funeral for Gatsby? This product includes a wide variety of lessons to help students through close reading and literary analysis, including a writing project where students compose either an elegy or eulogy for Gatsby. These lessons and activities are COMPLETELY EDITABLE on Google Drive and can be used to supplement your current plan
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
Food Truck Festival - Engaging Independent Reading Project - PBL - STEM
Elevate the joy of independent reading in your classroom with a twist that's sure to ignite enthusiasm – host your very own Food Truck Festival! Building upon the success of my beloved Literary Feast project, I've taken it up a notch to bring you an EXTRAORDINARY Food Truck Festival project that combines literary exploration with the excitement of culinary creativity. This is not just an activity; it's an immersive experience designed to captivate your students' imaginations and showcase their i
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6th - 9th
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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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Assertion Journal ULTIMATE Bundle: Rhetorical Analysis and Argumentation
This ever-growing bundle of Assertion Journals includes every quotation set from The Rhetor's Toolbox. Challenge your students to blend close reading, rhetorical analysis, and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the
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9th - 12th
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room: Escape from Bob Ewell (Breakout EDU)
Can you break the locks and make it safely back to Atticus Finch before Bob Ewell tracks you down to extract his revenge? Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, setting, and events of To Kill a Mockingbird -- arguably one of the most beloved novels in all of American literature!
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird in
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to a New Unit with QR Codes!
Imagine a class Escape Room in REVERSE. Where student teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study, teaching themselves by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
Interested?
I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my HS classes, but for as AMAZING as class escape rooms and tools like Breakout EDU can be (for real, they're fantastic!) -- I've found the traditional escape room to be somewhat limited when it comes to its
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9th - 12th
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Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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The Crucible Introductory Activity: Salem Cold Case Mystery Activity
Perfect for introducing The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, this three-day activity is the Salem Witch Hunt edition to the popular Cold Case File game. It encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and inference skills. This introduction activity puts your students in the shoes of Arthur Miller when creating the drama The Crucible based on this mark on America's History. This innovative lesson puts students in the driver's seat of their learning. They will analyze 14 pieces of historically accurat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Off-Limits Places - High School Reading Comprehension + Analyzing Text Features
Cool places you can’t actually visit? Tell me more! This travel blog article is perfect for high school reading comprehension and practicing analyzing text features. Students will be HOOKED and you’ll get awesome writing samples you actually want to read.Your high school reading comprehension resource includes:✅ “Cool Places You Can’t Actually Visit” travel blog article✅ Analyzing Text Features practice or test-prep✅ Travel Blog Project materialsAfter reading the nonfiction passage, students ans
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7th - 10th
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Crime Scene Investigation Reports Bundle Worksheets - True Crime - For Any Text
Unlock the door to real-world learning experiences with this Crime Scene Reports Bundle! It's the secret ingredient you've been missing for immersive learning that brings text and characters to life. This resource is perfect for inferencing skills, mock trials, pretend investigations, or any scenario where your students can put their critical thinking and creativity to the test.Included are three versatile templates in PRINT and DIGITAL:✅ Police/Incident Report: Dive deep into the world of law e
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7th - 10th
Nonfiction Mysteries and Creative Writing Activities + Vocabulary in Context
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world maritime mysteries! Students choose one as inspiration for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten maritime mysteri
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7th - 10th
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Americanah: Complete Unit Bundle [Distance Learning]
Americanah is one of my favorite novels, both to read and to teach; however when I first started teaching it four years ago, there were not many resources available, so I had to make pretty much everything I needed from scratch, and the result is this bundle. This unit bundle will take you completely from the beginning to the end of of the novel. It includes: Introductory unit notesTopic discussion guide and resourcesIndividual chapter close readsIndividual chapter quizzesA comprehensive charact
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9th - 12th
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Escape Room: Poetry of Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson (Breakout EDU)
Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock (and your classmates!) as students use knowledge of the poetry, biography, and literary impact of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to change the face of literature! Can you break the locks before the executors of Dickinson's Last Will and Testament see to it that her life's work is destroyed in the fire?For a sneak peek of the sort of adrenaline rush your classes can expect from t
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9th - 12th
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Assertion Journal BUNDLE #2: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains a second collection of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and backgro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Escape The Room Where it Happens: Hamilton Escape Room (Breakout EDU)
Can you rewind time and save Alexander Hamilton from his fateful Weekhawken duel? Do not throw away your shot! Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, poetic techniques, and events of Broadway's hip hop juggernaut, Hamilton: An American Musical.
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of Hamilton in a high-energy end-of-unit collaborative activity
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9th - 12th
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El Ecoturismo | Pre and AP | Not just for Earth Day | Día de la Tierra
El Ecoturismo is a content rich and engaging lesson created for mid and intermediate students preparing for the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam.Click HERE to see a Video Preview.El Ecoturismo has been formatted as Google Slides™, is appropriate for Homeschool, Activity Centers and Classrooms and includes the following:30 visually appealing slides to guide the teacher as facilitator in delivering this practice.the National Standards for Foreign Language Teaching for this particular resource.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.
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8th - 11th
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Halloween Collection of Stories and Poems with Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This collection includes the the poems "Annabel Lee" and "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" and the short stories "Ruthless" and "Death by Scrabble." The poems and stories all have higher-level rather than content based questions, and there is a graphic organizer.
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8th - 11th
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Depth and Complexity Literature Discussion Prompts
Are you tired of flimsy book talks and group discussions? Bring focus, energy, and insight to your students' literature discussions with these prompts. Use them with any fiction text to facilitate thinking about characters, plot, theme, writing style, and real-world connections.What's IncludedYou’ll find a separate page for each element of the Depth & Complexity framework, filled with questions that students can address in discussion and/or writing. Print these out on colored paper or card s
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8th - 12th
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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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