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Adult education holidays lessons
THE HANDMAID'S TALE UNIT PLAN: COMMON CORE APPROVED
***I added the viewable google slide companion as a bonus and to show how I used this unit during remote learning. This 84-page unit has expository text and activities meant to elevate classroom discussion. The goal of this unit is to make connections to the present and find ways to relate and engage with this dystopian tale. Students focus on: the social commentary about gender roles, feminism, and real-world examples. With the current political climate of the world, this is a great unit
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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A Charlie Brown Christmas Lesson Plan
"Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"
Is there any better way to start a discussion of a holiday than by watching the Charlie Brown special about it? I use this in my ESL and EFL classroom every year to teach international students about the holiday and to get my students thinking about Christmas and the meaning of the holiday. Plus it's just fun to watch!
This comprehension and discussion lesson plan (with complete Teacher Notes, Answer Keys, and differentiated questions) involves a critical watc
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1st - 10th, Adult Education
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Monster Mash:A Study of Mystical Monsters of The World (Geography Halloween)
Need a fun and engaging Halloween lesson and activity for 6th grade through high school? Why not take a look at monsters or cryptids throughout the world? Students will love this Halloween activity as they are already in the holiday mood and will learn about the beliefs, practices, values, and customs of other cultures around the world when looking at monsters and cryptids. Cryptids are animals/creatures that have been suggested to exist now and throughout history, but have or have not been pro
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: BUNDLE FOR ALICE
Thanksgiving Activities Nonfiction Lesson on Hot Topics: Black Friday
This informational text lesson for Thanksgiving is ready-to-go to engage your high school students this November. With leveled texts, standards-based questions, creative activity, and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate! Student Experience: The encroachment of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Thursday has been a trend years in the making. This mini unit is designed to get students not only thinking and questioning this topic, but also analyzi
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
Oil Pastel Christmas Bow Drawing, Middle/High School Art, Winter Crafts
Teach your students to draw stunning realistic Christmas bows using oil pastels in this step-by-step tutorial presentation. This works great for high school grades 9-12. Great for public, private and homeschool and adult education students as well. The perfect art project during winter season!This product comes with:PDF/PPT versions of project tutorial steps/instructionsPDF handout of image steps for studentsBow grid drawing practice handoutPDF of color bow reference imagesOil pastels techniques
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ultimate Drawing BUNDLE, 10 Art Projects, Middle/High School Grades
Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper
In this Paired Texts Bundle — You will receive a literary analysis for each individual story: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In addition, you will receive an essay prompt and rubric for a text-dependent analysis essay and graphic organizer to compare and contrast both pieces of literature. The paired texts analysis focuses on many literary elements (similarities and differences) including: point of view, text structure, theme, characters
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Slideshow | Easter in Spanish-Speaking Countries | La Semana Santa Las Pascuas
ENGLISH VERSION - From dancing skeletons to colorful carpet-adorned streets, Easter brings a wealth of different traditions throughout the Spanish-speaking world. With this slideshow*, your students will learn more about how the Holy Week is celebrated by Spanish-speakers in 15 different countries. This slideshow in English has 16 slides with pictures and maps to teach not only culture but also some geography! It also comes with questions to share thoughts and ideas as a class.Overview:Easter in
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Gift of the Magi-- Readers' Theater Adaptation with Activities
Included in Gift of the Magi-teacher and student pages-vocabulary -pre-reading activities-questions -projects-quiz-answer key -synopsis -suggestions for teacher useThis readers’ theater adaptation of “Gift of the Magi” adheres wholly to the plot, setting, characterization, and themes of the original story from which it is adapted. It can be used with both large and small groups in language arts classes. Students in regular, remedial, gifted, and special education classrooms, in both middle and h
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Women's History Month | Reading Comprehension | Special Education
This Women’s History Month resource gives your students a chance to read about famous and influential women across history, all while practicing reading comprehension.We’ve included 10 different short biographies on a diverse group of 10 women / female-identifying leaders.Research around literacy supports students getting repetition and multiple opportunities to access the text. We’ve also included images for students to engage with the text in multiple ways.WHAT'S INSIDEResource GuideResource W
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
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Black History Month- Black Poetry
This unit comprises of poems and speeches by famous Black poets. I suggest you use this for grades 8-12. Students should be familiar with figurative language to answer some of the PARCC questions.
The excerpts analyzed includes:
*Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
*Ain't I A Woman by Sojourner Truth
*Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
*On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
This Black History Month Unit includes:
*An answer sheet for the multiple choice questions.
*An extende
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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House Plant Guided Drawings
The only thing more relaxing than surrounding yourself in a room of house plants, is learning how to draw said beautiful plants! Let your love of greenery spill onto the pages of your sketchbook or into your classroom with this how to draw different house plants guide. In this guided drawing document you and your students will learn how to draw a plant as simple as a cactus, to a more complicated Monstera Deliciosa. Even though this is just a beginner guide to just show you how to draw, you can
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories — BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities
This Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Short Stories Bundle includes a literary analysis for the following 5 short stories:The Tell-Tale HeartThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Black CatThe Masque of the Red DeathEach product includes an in-depth look at each piece of literature with corresponding activities and reading comprehension questions. All stories form a perfect gothic literature unit, Edgar Allan Poe unit, or short story unit during Halloween season!This BUNDLE also includes
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reconstruction DBQ Stations: Black Codes, Sharecropping, Lost Cause, Jim Crow
Why do so many American students mistakenly believe the Civil War was about states rights? Why do so many Americans fly the Confederate flag as a symbol of southern pride when the Confederacy broke from the Union and started a Civil War? Were formerly enslaved African Americans really free after the Civil War? These are difficult questions that will be answered in this student centered Reconstruction stations activity. Teach the horrors of Reconstruction using primary source documents so student
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Winter Holiday Songs For Guitar! 15 Songs For Music Staff & Tab (Grades 3-12)
Winter Holiday Songs For Guitar! 15 Songs For Music Staff & Tab (Grades 3-12)This WINTER HOLIDAY SONGS FOR GUITAR resource includes public domain Winter Holiday-Themed songs arranged by me for beginning guitar. Each song is arranged with simple, beginner-friendly chords, as well as tablature to help students learn the songs quickly. The TAB has stick notation to help students learn and play rhythms accurately. Also included are two pages of guitar chord diagrams, organized by song so that st
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
The Monkey's Paw: Preview, Notes, Questions (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
"The Monkey's Paw" brought to you in Google Slides OR PowerPoint! This is the perfect way to introduce this powerful story to your students!! Filled with a ton of information related to state standards, as well as images to spark the imagination! Included in this lesson are the following: background information, literary focus, an overview of the plot, and questions for guided reading or pre-reading. Great for short story units, summer school, review and any variety of activities! The perfect to
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Martin Luther King Jr. Digital Lesson: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
30 Slides! Newly updated and revised! Now includes Google link! Can be used as a part of any unit involving rhetoric, speech and persuasion, or can be used as a stand alone activity to go through MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. Students will look at elements of persuasion, including ethos, pathos, and logos; students will annotate; students will analyze portions of the speech; finally, students will write an extended response on the speech. Video link of the speech included.For even MORE on
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Martin Luther King Jr. and The American Dream Digital Bundle
Lectura y Actividad: Día de los Muertos Reading Questions in English & Spanish
Lectura auténtica de México (español), preguntas (español e inglés), actividad creativa de dibujar una ofrenda con instrucciones (español e inglés).La lectura se trata sobre el origen del Día de Muertos, explicación de lo que significa y cómo se ha globalizado gracias a Coco y la película de James Bond. También explica las ofrendas y qué significa cada nivel y objeto.Ejemplos de las preguntas en español: 1ª. ¿Qué se celebra el 1 de noviembre?1b. ¿Qué se celebra el 2 de noviembre?2. ¿Qué impacto
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Black History Month Histogram | Instagram
Instagram and Black History Month have collided! Students are challenged to create Instagram profiles and posts for famous black leaders. Digital and print formats included! Students can pick from the following leaders:Amanda GormanMichelle Obama Martin Luther King Jr. Jackie RobinsonHarriet TubmanRosa ParksClaudette ColvinMary McLeod BethuneBarack Obama Thurgood Marshall (coming soon) After choosing a leader, students will follow along with a read aloud/informational video. Next, they complete
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a great introduction to Thanksgiving, particularly for EFL or ESL students who don't know a lot about the holiday. It covers the Thanksgiving football game, the turkey dinner, the theme of gratitude and friendship, even a name-drop of the Mayflower and Miles Standish! Students are led to discuss Thanksgiving traditions, the meaning of Thanksgiving, and key holiday vocabulary. The movie also lends itself to discussing hospitality and being a good guest as Peppermin
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Black History Civil Rights Reading Comprehension with Warriors Don't Cry Excerpt
Use this nonfiction reading response lesson for Black History Month or any time of year to teach students about the Civil Rights Movement, the Little Rock Nine, School Desegregation, Brown vs. Board of Education and ELA skills with excerpts from the nonfiction book, Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patilla Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine (Printable & Digital) - Product includes lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google slides, Google Doc and grading rubric for a no prep ELA or
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb Poem Analysis — MLK I've Been to the Mountaintop
In this lesson, students will analyze Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop."On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman touched the American people when she delivered her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the presidential inauguration. Let your students be a part of her powerful message. Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history. Students will also read an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Black History Month ELA Activities
Celebrating Diversity Activity | Social Justice | Classroom Community
This diversity activity guides students to acknowledge and celebrate their differences and what makes them unique. The activity is based on the game, "Step Forward If," and 2 formats are included to accommodate both virtual and in-person learning.Here is the layout of the VIRTUAL lesson:1. Listen to a read aloud of the book, "The Day You Begin" by Jacqueline Woodson **this is optional2. Discuss the meaning of diversity (as a class or in a breakout room)3. Create a class definition for the word "
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Navidad en español: Bundle Activities: Complete Lesson: Readings, Projects, More
Everything you need to teach about Christmas celebrations in Spain, Latin America and Latino/Spanish Speaking Communities in the United States! Topics discussed in this bundle are: Black Friday, Christmas, Winter, Three Kings Day and more.______Estas actividades se relacionan a los siguientes temas de AP Spanish Language and Culture:These activities align with the AP Spanish Language and Culture themes of:Las familias y las comunidadescontexto 1 Las comunidades educativascontexto 2 Las redes soc
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Watercolor Bleeding Heart Tutorial | Step by Step | Valentine's Day Art
Want a fun and engaging art project to do with your kids around Valentines Day? This mixed media "bleeding heart" project is engaging, quick and easily approachable for students on all skill levels. In this project, students will trace a heart stencil on watercolor paper and use a straw to move around watercolor paint for their background. Using black sharpies they fill in their heart with doodles of whatever they wish.This is a great watercolor beginner project and also gives students lots of c
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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