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High school informational text unit plans under $5
Podcast Worksheets: Print & Digital Resources for ANY Pod: Mars Patel, Limetown
These podcast worksheets can be used with ANY podcast such as the Six Minutes Podcast, Limetown, Mars Patel, informational podcasts and so many more! Use fun podcasts to practice ELA skills, check for understanding, and reach listening goals!There are 32 completely editable podcast templates to choose from which makes this podcast resource perfect for:❤️Podcast Units❤️Podcast Listening Circles❤️Free choice podcast listening❤️Whole group podcast listeningThese podcast worksheets are designed with
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6th - 10th
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Nonfiction Reading Unit (Common Core Aligned)
This complete package walks the students through how to read nonfiction with purpose and clarity. It includes a robust (80 Slides!) guiding power point and 5 separate formative assessments. Both the power point and the assessments are aligned to fulfill the Common Core Standards. Don't have Powerpoint? No worries, convenient .pdf versions of all slides included as well.The powerpoint guides instruction on the following teaching points:- Identifying Author's Point of View- Recognizing Author's Pu
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
Syntax: Sentence by Sentence
This syntax bundle not only teaches students about syntax and why it is an important component for writers and readers alike, but also teaches students how to use syntax to strengthen their own writing.
This product is included in my AP Language and Composition Bundle for a reduced price. Please don’t buy this item in addition to the bundle as it is already included.
This bundle includes:
* a two-page syntax 101 handout with tips for analyzing syntax
* two syntax analysis practice with teache
Grades:
10th - 12th
Halloween Argument Analysis Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This mini-unit discussing the interesting topic of "Would a Zombie Apocalypse be a Serious Threat", is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques. The mini-unit includes a complete formal debate including Opening Arguments, Rebuttals, and Closing Arguments.
This activi
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Argument Analysis Propaganda and Logical Fallacies
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This lesson is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques. This lesson focuses on identifying and analyzing the use of propaganda and logical fallacies including: Bandwagon, Circular Reasoning, Name Callilng, Ad Hominem, Glittering Generality, Transfer, Testimonial, Pla
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8th - 12th
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Research Paper: Investigating a College Major and Career
This is a thorough, 24-page research unit that requires students to investigate a college major, its differing pathways and coursework expectations at various universities, and the prospective careers available in this field. This open-ended research project contains the following materials: a 3-page overview of the research project, including the writing prompt, current college majors to consider investigating, and a thorough checklist of student deadlines within the writing process; a 1-page h
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11th - 12th
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Argument Analysis Activity "Do Aliens Exist?"
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This mini-unit discussing the interesting topic of "Do Aliens Exist?", is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques.
This activity is part of a larger bundle. Save 50% on the comprehensive "Evaluating Arguments and Persuasion" bundle by visiting the link below:
Eval
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8th - 12th
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Credible or "Fake News"? Cultivating News Literacy in a "Post-Truth" Era
These lessons cover the basics of discerning between credible and false journalism (and the gradient between the two), using contemporary (but non-controversial) examples. There is also a slideshow (in PDF format) with links to examples of terms, as well as examples of credible journalism.
Arguably the most tangibly helpful aspect of this three-day unit is the "News Analysis Checklist" which students can apply to any form of journalism to asses its credibility. The checklist is available in PDF
Grades:
9th - 12th
Christmas Activity Argument Analysis "Is Santa Real?"
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This mini-unit has a hilarious analysis of the question "Is Santa Clause Real". The lessons are designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques.
If you are interested in a more detailed bundle for evaluating arguments, save 50% on the comprehensive "Evaluating Arguments a
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8th - 12th
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Argument Analysis Activity "Legalization of Marijuana"
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This mini-unit discussing the interesting topic of "The Leagalization of Marijuana", is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques.
This activity is part of a larger bundle. Save 50% on the comprehensive "Evaluating Arguments and Persuasion" bundle by visiting the lin
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8th - 12th
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Argument Analysis Activity "Should College Athletes Be Paid?"
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This mini-unit discussing the interesting topic of "Should College Athletes Be Paid?", is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques.
This activity is part of a larger bundle. Save 50% on the comprehensive "Evaluating Arguments and Persuasion" bundle by visiting the l
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8th - 12th
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UNWIND: Paired Passages & Activities
As part of your UNWIND unit, I encourage you to incorporate these paired passages and activities to help your students understand the world around them, the controversy of this novel, and important concepts such as organ donation, Roe v. Wade, Safe Haven, and Xenotransplantation. These activities will stimulate high level thinking, independent research and reflection, as well as an ability to openly discuss and share an understanding of these topics through lively discussion.
This is a "must ha
Grades:
6th - 9th
SantaLand Diaries Non-Fiction Narrative Unit Sedaris Holiday Christmas Humor
Students will love this Narrative Non-Fiction Mini Holiday Unit for David Sedaris's classic, "SantaLand Diaries" I designed this unit to go along with the transcript and audio version of the humorous essay David Sedaris did for the This American Life radio show and podcast on NPR. Sedaris details his time working as a Macy's Elf in SantaLand. This version is readily available for free online: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/47/christmas-and-commerce?act=1 (audio) https:/
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" Mini Unit!
#Longfellow #Romanticism #Poetry #AmericanLiterature
Looking for supplies to fill in your American Romanticism Unit? Need items to fulfill your poetry unit? This mini-unit takes Longfellow's "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" and puts it in your students' hands! This COMMON CORE lesson pack helps students understand the author, poems, and literary devices.
INCLUDED:
Biography with study questions!
*TWO* Study Question worksheets that help with poem analysis!
*FIVE* worksheets that deal wi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Poor Richard's Almanack by Ben Franklin - Mini Unit - Aphorisms Analysis, CCSS
This is a 3-day mini unit in which students analyze Benjamin Franklin's classic aphorisms and proverbs from several editions of Poor Richard's Almanack (or almanac). Students will collaborate in pairs or groups for making interpretations, engaging the vocabulary, and answering discussion questions. The unit culminates in students writing their own mini almanack as though they are a guest contributor to one of Franklin's editions. This will include coming up with their own pseudonym, writing a se
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Argument Analysis Appeals Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Common Core Aligned. Critical analysis of texts is a strong focus of the CCSS. This lesson is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques. This lesson focuses on identifying and analyzing the use of rhetorical appeals: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
This lesson is part of a larger bundle. Save 50% on the comprehensive "Evaluating Arguments and Persuas
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8th - 12th
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Rhetoric in FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech
This packet contains:
1) Questions on freedom. Get the students thinking about what it means to them and start a conversation
2) A blank sheet for the back of page one. I use it for them to draw a few things that come to mind when they think of freedom
3) An excerpt from Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” that contains his examples of freedom (2 pages or 1 front/back)
4) Content questions from the excerpt (1 page)
5) Rhetoric questions from the excerpt, including audience, appeal to emotion, authority,
Grades:
9th - 11th
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CCSS:
Argument Analysis Viewpoint, Bias, Mood, Tone
Common Core Aligned. Students to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. This lesson is designed with PPT lectures, student notes, and engaging activities to help you instruct your students to better understand and evaluate the fundamentals of arguments and persuasive techniques. This lesson focuses on understanding speaker's viewpoint, bi
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8th - 12th
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Fraudsters: A High-interest Topical Unit for Teens in ELA
For this unit, students will learn about fraud and complete close readings about three infamous fraudsters: Bernie Madoff, Anna Delvey, and Frank Abagnale, Jr. Then, students will select a fraudster to research as part of a bigger project that focuses on how to prevent fraud from happening. This topical unit was inspired by my personal interest in fraudsters— especially by an interesting class discussion we had over Jay Gatsby being a fraudster and how we weirdly feel sympathy for someone who i
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7th - 12th
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Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson Novel Unit Background Stations Activity Lesson
Preface your historical novel unit or study for Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson with this comprehensive background building stations activity and lesson. This station activity for Fever 1793 contains two stations with links and two text-based stations that will build student knowledge on Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, the popular medical treatments of the day, as well as prominent people and events of the time. This background stations activity for Fever 1793 includes: -KWL graphic organizer to
Grades:
7th - 10th
All About Ireland Reader/Activity/Lap Book
Teach about Ireland with this complete pack. You will start with having your class read the Reader and move on to answering comprehension questions. How much do they really know about Ireland?
But, that is not all. Once your kids have finished you can have them get together in a group and put together a lap book about Ireland.
They will summarize and explain each topic in their own words.
This is also great to do group presentations during St Patrick's Day.
Details you will find in the reader
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
Complete Unit Lesson Plan for Rhetorical Analysis, 9th and 10th Grade Focus
This is a complete four-week unit for Rhetorical Analysis, with bell ringers, quizzes, practices, formative assessments, and three versions of a summative assessment (with a Common Core-aligned rubric). This is indeed a complete unit that I've been teaching and refining for years. (I'll have some of my Animal Farm materials up at some point.)This lesson is bundled with my "Rhetorical Analysis Complete Unit -- Slide Show" and also my "Build Your Own Nation! Learning Rhetorical Devices and Propaga
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9th - 11th
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Serial Season 1 Podcast Bundle: Unit Resource Pack Aligned to State Assessments
If you've never listened to the Serial podcast with Sarah Koenig, you are missing out! Your students will be instantly hooked as they listen to season 1 of this gripping true crime podcast. This growing bundle of resources (recommended for high school students, grades 11-12) is designed to help you prepare your students with the skills needed to succeed on typical state assessments while treating them to contemporary, engaging media. What's in this unit resource pack?Materials to help get you st
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Paying at Restaurants LESSON | Functional Life skills Curriculum |
Teach High School SPED students independent living skills with this lesson covering how to pay the bill after eating out at a restaurant! This Community Based instruction 40 page lesson was created for High School Special Ed teens and young adults, so they are ready for a trip out to eat! Teaching functional academics can be fun when made relevant to a student's real life out in the community. Students will learn all the skills related to paying restaurants, so they are well-versed in understand
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Consumer Life Skills MEGA GROWING BUNDLE | SPED High School Community
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