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Middle school informational text resources for Microsoft PowerPoint and for GATE
Lesson Plan & PPT Package Explaining Hero vs Villain Protagonist vs Antagonist
This is a two-part package -- a Power Point presentation and a lesson plan. The PPT is available separately by the same name.
This 14-slide Power Point presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.
The fourteen slides include 1
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ancient China: The Silk Road- it's origin and impact
How did the Silk Road originate? How did people travel from East to West during the ancient times? What products and ideas were exchanged as a result of trade at the Silk Road?
This presentation includes anticipation guide to grab your students' attention and lots of images to keep them engaged throughout the lesson. As you teach the lesson and explain the main ideas about the Silk Road students take notes on a differentiated graphic organizer that goes with the presentation. You may design a
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5th - 8th
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Adjectives PowerPoint - Describing Nature Photos
Students describe wildlife photos by inserting ADJECTIVES into compound and complex sentences: wading mallards, dangling butterflies, soaking frogs, gorgeous flowers, silhouetted birds, pollinating bees, submerged rocks, floating feathers, chewed leaves, dangling seed pods, ants herding aphids, katydids standing motionless, hiding spiders, web-encrusted fruit, blue-eyed birds, pink spiders, and so much more... This PowerPoint slideshow can be used for whole-class interactive participation (for
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2nd - 6th
Also included in:Â Science and Nature PowerPoint BUNDLE
Most Used AP English Literary Terms PowerPoint Presentation
This 103-slide PPT presentation covers more than 130 of the most-often-used literary terms found on the Advanced Placement / AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition exams.The presentation is also useful for 8-12 grade non- AP / Advanced Placement courses including honors, gifted and talented, and on-level.Terms range from allegory and alliteration to understatement and verse.Each slide provides the term, definition, examples, and an image to help students re
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8th - 12th
Island of the Blue Dolphins Summative Project Choice Boards
This is a summative project based learning choice board. With 9 different student choice options, students are able to create a project that showcases their reading comprehension, creativity, and interests. Projects include writing, filming, presenting, creating diorama and 3d models. Each project has a google slide page that describes the expectations. My 3rd and 4th GATE students love this project, and it is wonderful to provide them authentic opportunities to showcase their unique talents as
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3rd - 6th
Explaining Hero vs. Villain Protagonist vs. Antagonist PowerPoint
This 14-slide presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.The fourteen slides include 15 images, dynamic and active presentation methods, and colorful representations.THIS ITEM is also available in a package that includes a lesso
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Primary and Secondary Source Activity Cards
An activity to teach how to identify a primary source or a secondary source and the difference between them. Includes 24 source cards such as journal entry, pottery, marriage license, and movies. Suggested ways to sort cards - written, audio, video, artifact or object or "more than one". Suggested topics for discussions, two vocabulary cards and a handout with guiding questions.
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4th - 7th
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Main Idea, Details, Summary with GATE Icons
A PowerPoint presentation reviewing main idea, supporting details, extra details and summarizing using Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons (GATE Icons). Articles can be changed out according to topic and grade level. Current articles for independent practice in this presentation are about Colonial America.
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3rd - 6th
Earthquakes: Disaster Relief Project
This project takes your average earthquake research project to the next level! Your students will research an assigned earthquake, discussing the area's seismic activity and geography, in addition to the details of the specified earthquake. They will also report about the disaster relief aid available and create their own organization to help! Rubric, common core standards, and entrepreneurial standards are included!
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6th - 10th
Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," powerpoint notes supplement
This PowerPoint supplement makes for a nice companion to teaching The Pedistrian by Ray BradburySlides address style, settings, main characters, irony, symbolism, and themes.
Grades:
4th - 12th
The Modern Freytag Pyramid and Other Plot Diagrams
This 48-slide Power Point Presentation briefly reviews the Classic Freytag Pyramid that includes introduction / exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, revelation, resolution / conclusion. However, since the Victorian period when Freytag developed the pyramid plots have changed in dramatic ways.The presentation explains three more recent diagrams including the Modern Freytag Pyramid, the Post Modern Plot Diagram, and the Post Post Modern Plot Diagram. The presenta
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Creating a Social Studies Museum in the Classroom
My students worked for one semester creating projects to display in our classroom museum. We designated a day in May for our museum to be open to the public. Displays included triangular Venn-Diagrams to compare/contrast topics such as Native American tribes, sports, Civil War leaders and battles, a kiosk of festivals in Mississippi, Native American villages, God's eyes, acrostics, bio-bottle buddies of famous Mississippians, Mississippi multi-media maps, twisted raffia rope, a handmade quilt to
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3rd - 6th
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*EDITABLE PPT* Citing Images in MLA Format for Students
Does citing images in MLA format confuse your middle schoolers?Use this PPT to teach them the basic format for most instances. Then, watch them become faster and more confident.
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5th - 8th
Richest Man in the World lesson
Here's a lesson layout for the story Richest Man In the World. It's a full layout of an entire hour long lesson using the story about Andrew Carnegie. With it are activities, including a project on the story using propaganda.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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