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Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Waste and our World Project Based Learning - Upcycling and Recycling Project
Want to make your Waste and Our World Science unit more fun? This Project Based Learning activity will allow your students to explore the concepts of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. This Science PBL is perfect as a unit review activity, as a fun activity before winter break, or even as an Earth Day celebration. Through inquiry, students will create individualized treasures out of trash and other recycled materials. They will also create presentations to teach their peers about a consumer product tha
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4th - 6th
French subjunctive writing project/Projet d'Ă©criture au subjonctif
This French advice columnist writing project using the subjunctive is an activity that I created so my AP students could practice writing structures using the subjunctive. There are 4 letters, all written to Amélie, who works for the advice column. Using the French subjunctive, the students choose a letter and write a response to that person. This resource includes:2 versions of instructions in French (if you choose to have students respond to 1 or 2 letters)2 styles of writing rubrics 4 let
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â French subjunctive bundle -speaking and writing / le subjonctif
Gingerbread House Drawing Art Lesson - 2 Point Perspective Christmas Art Lesson
This Christmas/ holiday themed art drawing lesson will keep your middle school boys and girls ENGAGED during this very exciting time of year. Students will learn how to create a 3D house using 2 point perspective technique. In addition, students will use value and colored pencil techniques to create a 3D form. The PowerPoint and PDF slides include: vocabulary (2 point perspective, vanishing point, value scale, tint, shade and value), objectives, standards, step by step instructions, student refe
Grades:
6th - 12th
National Hispanic American Heritage Month — One Pager Creative Research Project
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this creative, artistic, unique one-pager project that requires students to research important people throughout history. Completed projects make colorful, beautiful classroom displays... they're also great for bulletin boards that highlight Hispanic Heritage Month!Included in this purchase is:Student directions for the one pager projectRubric for the one pager projectExample one pager (Featuring Roberto Clemente)10 BLANK TEMPLATES (printable & optional
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Cultural Diversity One Pagers Bundle | Heritage & History One-Pager Projects
St. Patrick's Day Writing: Persuasive Letter to a Leprechaun
This St. Patrick's Day Writing requires students to write a persuasive letter to a leprechaun to try and convince the leprechaun to share his gold. It is said that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold that he will never share with humans. Use this fun, holiday myth as a writing springboard for your students.
The following items are included in this download:
1. Directions for the assignment- write a letter to a leprechaun to persuade him to share his gold with you. Explain two different rea
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Also included in:Â St. Patrick's Day Activity Bundle: Games, Math and Writing Activities
Christmas Debates for Middle School ELA - Public Speaking Activity
If Christmas is a crazy time of the school year for your students, make that Christmas frenzy work for you with these fun holiday debate topics for middle school!Because public speaking already carries a great deal of stress for many students, these debates feature both light-hearted and thoughtful holiday debate topics to engage your students and foster a festive atmosphere. These assignment sheets and rubrics keep middle-school kids laughing, thinking, and learning the art of public debate.Th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Public Speaking Bundle
Christmas Writing (Compare and Contrast)
Christmas Writing! Compare and contrast Santa's Reindeer and wild Caribou. The product contains a Christmas reading passage about Santa’s Reindeer and a reading passage about wild caribou. It also contains two different graphic compare and contrast organizers, two sample templates for writing a comparative essay, reindeer themed paper, student checklist to use during peer editing and a grading rubric for you to use. I have also included a list of children’s books about caribou and books that fe
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2nd - 6th
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"Please Don't Eat Me!" Turkey Persuasive Writing Unit & Craftivity
Do you need a fun Thanksgiving-themed writing activity to use with your students? Look no further!
Students can write a persuasive essay from the turkey's point-of-view to persuade families not to eat them for Thanksgiving. Then, students can use their imaginations to disguise their turkeys to make sure they are not eaten for Thanksgiving!
This product includes:
*Persuasive writing anchor chart
*Student instruction sheet
*”Help Me!” poem
*Persuasive writing graphic organizer
*Persuasive writi
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3rd - 5th
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Sweet Candy Opinion and Persuasive Writing Unit
This is a complete writing unit aligned with Common Core writing standards for 3rd through 6th grades (3.W.1, 4.W.1, 5.W.1, and 6.W.1)
This unit includes:
My Favorite Candy graphic organizer
Sensory Details graphic organizer
Figurative Language graphic organizer
Candy Persuasive Advertising graphic organizer
My Favorite Candy advertisement poster instructions & rubric
My Favorite Candy opinion graphic organizer, editing checklist, & weighted grading rubric
My Favorite Candy persuasive
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl Horror Story Study | Printable & Digital
Analyze foreshadowing and the horror genre with "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl! This creepy and fun story is an excellent deep dive into foreshadowing and other essential horror genre techniques. Roald Dahl's short stories are delightful and students will be immediately intrigued by "The Landlady" because it comes from the creator of many of their favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Unlike much of the horror genre, "The Landlady" by Roald Dahlis creepy without resorting to gore or PG-13+ language
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Horror Genre Study Unit: 3 Stories, Elements of Horror, and More
A Christmas Carol One Pager Project
Have your students share their understanding of the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens by imaginatively blending their written ideas with colorful images based on information from the text. With this one-pager reading comprehension project, students will analyze the literature by determining theme, symbolism, characterization, and more. Students' artwork make for unique and creative analyses of the literature and also make great bulletin boards!Included in this purchase is:Student direct
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Thankful Project--A Thanksgiving Middle School Writing Project
I developed the Thankful project as a way to utilize the step up writing process. I used a printable turkey found off of Google for a portion. The students pick three aspects of their lives that they are thankful for. This project culminates with a 5 paragraph essay consisting of introduction, three paragraph body, and conclusion. I have done this project with students in grades 6, 7, & 8. This project is not just about teaching writing skills, it is also to help students develop grat
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Grades:
5th - 8th
A Turkey's Troubles: A Persuasive Thanksgiving Writing Activity
Have you ever thought about what a turkey might say to prospective grocery shoppers right before Thanksgiving? With this Thanksgiving writing activity, that's exactly what students will do. They'll have to write from the perspective of a fictitious turkey who is trying to convince a grocery shopper to choose a different turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
Depending on the planner and rubric you choose (two of each are included), students will have to think of two or three convincing reasons to
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in:Â Thanksgiving BUNDLE
Black History Month: Digital Biography Report---Google Slides (TEMPLATE)
Google Slides Template for students to create a presentation on a Famous African American.Just Make a COPY of this document and share it in your google classroom. Be sure to click *Make a copy for each student Includes: Student directionsTeacher Scoring RubricPre-made template slides: Slide 1Â COVER SLIDESlide 2Â Title SlideSlide 3Â Background: ChildhoodSlide 4Â Background: Becoming FamousSlide 5Â ImpactSlide 6Â What Can We LearnSlide 7Â Other InformationSlide 8Â Source
Grades:
4th - 10th
Christmas Trees For Sale!- Holiday Opinion Writing
This is a fun, holiday writing activity that is festive, but still teaches Common Core Standards. I have loved doing this with my students at Christmastime!First, each student decorates a tree, using the printable trees and stickers, glitter, markers, pipe cleaners etc. Then, they write a persuasive opinion piece trying to convince others to “buy” their tree! This allows for a lot of creativity and development of opinion writing skills. Everything you need is in this packet (minus the glitter an
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1st - 3rd
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Determining Main Idea & Key Supporting Details in an Informational Text (BUNDLE)
WEBSITE: Click here to read more about this bundle on my website.Great ways to use this product - Teacher Appraisal System, Sub Plans, Lesson Plan*Nonfiction Reading passages (articles) that celebrate Black History Month icons such as Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Bessie Coleman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, etc.I do EVERYTHING for your Main Idea lesson in this Power Point. I include your printables and answer keys that I used in class.I crea
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3rd
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Thanksgiving on Mars 5-E Holiday Lesson | Primary & Secondary Source | Microsoft
This lesson explores Thanksgiving customs and connects the holiday with your Science & Social Studies curriculum standards. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a “Say Something…” warm-up, then review the differences between primary and secondary sources of information. Next, students imagine it is the year 2038 and they live in the first American colony on Mars. Challenge them to identify primary and secondary sources for M
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4th - 10th
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Letter Writing Mini Unit (Christmas Themed)
Spread the holiday cheer in your classroom, and excite your students about letter writing that is fun and engaging Christmas themed mini unit! This letter writing unit is common core aligned and includes a friendly letter power point, 10 day lesson plans, list of books that will pair nicely with this unit, editing rubric, grading rubric, many paper choices, and more. The unit ends with writing a letter to Santa! Make this month fun for the kids in your classroom, and hit some common core standa
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream & the Power of Rhetoric
Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech continues to inspire, half a century after he first delivered it. Not only did he have an important message, but he had a powerful method of delivery. His understanding of the art of rhetoric helped him create a speech that moved those who heard it, as well as the generations that continue to listen to his words.
Use this lesson to help your students learn about and harness the power of persuasive speaking.
The lesson includes:
-A handout on rh
Grades:
9th - 12th
Personal Horror Narrative Writing Activity | Printable & Digital
Assess students on their understanding of suspense, mood, and the horror genre with this personal narrative writing activity. Students will write a short story about a scary memory while trying to incorporate crucial elements of the horror genre. This writing activity is a great assessment, enrichment opportunity, or just a fun activity to do around Halloween!Students will first brainstorm times in their lives when they felt fear. Then, they'll map out ideas for creating a creepy setting and pac
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Horror Genre Study Unit: 3 Stories, Elements of Horror, and More
Halloween Persuasive Writing Project - Halloween Costume Contest
Can't get your students to stop talking about their Halloween costumes? Harness the excitement by developing their persuasive writing skills with a fictional costume contest! This resource includes:2-day lesson plans for the Halloween Costume Contest writing projectSmall group warm-up activity to engage students and review persuasive/opinion writing skills (Halloween costume cards)Project assignment page (explaining the project to students)Student planning and project pagesGrading rubricExample
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Halloween Haiku: A Poetry Writing Activity
Are you looking for a fun way to incorporate poetry writing into your classroom? Do you need a fun autumn bulletin board idea?
Haiku poems are a fun and creative way to reinforce poetry writing within your classroom. They are also a great way to review syllable count in words.
A haiku is often written about nature but can easily connect to Halloween and can depict any element of this fun holiday. Use the templates provided or have your students create their own creative final draft and you ha
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Missing Monster Activity | Descriptive Writing Assignment | Includes Rubric
I am always looking for a fun and engaging way to get my students to write. This Halloween favourite will have your kids ASKING for more! Students will use their descriptive writing knowledge to describe their Monster that just went MISSING!! HELP!!This Spooktacular resource includes...- assignment instructions & success criteria- descriptive writing graphic organizer- student writing template- assignment rubricTIP: have students design their Monster in art class to use as an art mark!This r
Grades:
1st - 6th
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