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Common Core RI.9-10.2 cultural activities
Cinco de Mayo Readings and activities for Spanish Class El Cinco de Mayo
Ready to teach the REAL history of Cinco de Mayo to your students? These Cinco de Mayo lesson plans for Spanish classes combine authentic resources with Spanish language texts written for language learners, providing you with everything that you need to tackle this misunderstood holiday with your Spanish students.OR: GET THE DISTANCE LEARNING VERSION HERE!This 80-page/slide, Spanish-language cultural unit is designed for Spanish 1 students and beyond to learn about the history and traditions of
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6th - 12th
Día de los Reyes Magos Spanish Reading Comprehension 3 Reyes Magos el invierno
This is a short authentic reading in Spanish about "Los Tres Reyes Magos" and the celebration of 3 Kings Day. It is an editable Google Doc that includes vocabulary and discussion questions in Spanish. It would be best with Spanish 2 or Spanish 3 for a one-day interpretive reading, cultural activity. ⭐ Get this Winter Holidays Bundle for the best deal on all of my Winter resourcesThis Spanish Class 3 Reyes Magos Reading Activity Includes✅ Editable Google Docs that can be assigned on Google Classr
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9th - 11th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Rhetorical Device Annotation Activity
Whether you are using this speech to analyze rhetoric, tone, or diction, this annotating and highlighting activity will engage all learners. Print and digital options with optional rhetorical precis included. I recommend using paper and highlighters the "old-fashioned" way because it is far more kinesthetic, but the Google Slides file also allows for digital/paperless learning.This activity requires 5 different color highlighters. I recommend (1) blue (2) green (3) yellow (4) orange (5) pink to
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9th - 12th
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Irish Culture Activities Mini-Unit | St. Patrick's Day
Fun and cross-curricular learning about Irish culture and history is not just for St. Patrick's Day - it's interesting and CCSS-based year round! Ireland activities include informational reading, map analysis, color-coding, summarizing, categorizing, design, and more! Enough lesson material for two-three class periods, depending on how you wish to time each activity. Contents Include:Learning TargetsTeacher’s DirectionsHow Much Do You Know? (Anticipatory Engagement Pretest)Quick Poetry Analysis:
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6th - 9th
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WWII Dilemmas
World War II activity.Great for World War II that forces students to think critically!Students are given five scenarios that involve World War II, the Holocaust, and its aftermath. Then they are asked to answer a series of thought provoking moral questions. Each story is based on a true event and the real stories are also provided. Extension suggestions and a lesson plan are included. Scenarios based on the real life stories of:Adolf EichmannDora BruderMarthe CohnFrancois MitterrandCharles de
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9th - 12th
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Friday the 13th WebQuest and Analysis
This no prep, inquiry-driven activity may be used in class face-to-face or virtually with distance learning to celebrate Friday the 13th. Students will use the provided links to nonfiction articles about the origins of and superstitions around the day today to answer the questions which follow. Additionally, there are opinion questions asked at the end of each section to ensure understanding and to foster critical thinking. To this end, they are asked to put the answers into their own words to
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9th - 12th
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CNN Student News Daily Worksheet - Google Class Ready
*** This product INCLUDES BOTH the printable version as well as the Google Class/Distance Learning version ***CNN Student News is a valuable resource and here is a way to make it even more valuable. This pack includes three PDF worksheets that can be used as standalone or in any combination you like. They are not episode specific allowing teachers to have them ready for any episode of CNN Student News. All three work sheets are Common Core aligned and have the standards printed directly on them
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6th - 12th
Apartheid + South Africa: Interactive Google Slides Lesson
Use this interactive google slides lesson to teach and reflect on South Africa's apartheid history. Each of the 25 slides is filled with carefully chosen resources to learn about apartheid. Students will watch a series of videos, analyze photos and other primary sources. Through interactive timelines, students will contextualize the atrocities of apartheid, as well reflect on discriminatory racial practices in United States history. Through interesting, concise and engaging resources, clas
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9th - 12th
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Bundle: Norse Mythology Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
This bundle includes the Norse Mythology Unit as well as the Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit.NORSE MYTHOLOGY UNIT In this epic Norse Mythology unit, you and your students will explore the realms (Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, etc.) and characters (Odin, Thor, Loki, etc.) of Norse Mythology and study Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey (monomyth). You will apply the Hero’s Journey to the Norse myths as well as Marvel’s Thor and connect the past with the present by comparing Norse myths to T
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8th - 12th
"Body Ritual of the Nacirema": Learning about Cultures and Making Inferences
“Body Ritual among the Nacirema” is a satirical scholarly article written by Horace Miner and published in a 1956 issue of American Archaeologist. In the article, Miner describes the odd habits of the Nacirema culture, specifically their body rituals. While many professionals (and students) who read this were/are fooled into thinking this is a real culture Miner had discovered, close reading and inferences reveal the Nacirema are actually Americans (Nacirema spelled backwards) and he’s descri
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetorical Appeals in Modern Speeches | Malala Yousafazai Analysis
In this rhetorical analysis over Malala Yousafzai's speech to the United Nations, your students will apply concepts of rhetoric to a famous speech given by a modern figure. Rhetorical/Literary Devices Covered (8 questions): ✔️ Ethos ✔️ Pathos ✔️ Logos ✔️ Allusion ✔️ Anaphora ✔️ Parallel Structure Critical Thinking Topics (4 questions): the value of education as a force against oppression the pen > the sword This activity can be used during a unit study of the book I Am Malala or as an iso
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9th - 12th
LORE Podcast Analysis, Presentation, and Writing
LORE Podcast is so mesmerizing! Students will be immediately hooked on learning about different cultures and their bizarre histories. This podcast has something for everyone while maintaining a completely appropriate listening experience for 9-12th graders (or beyond!)This bundle can be done in 8 classes, or last much longer or much shorter depending on what you want to do!You will find a breakdown of the project with a lesson planner which includes daily objectives, assessments, and materials.
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9th - 12th
Benjamin Franklin: Aphorisms from "Poor Richard's Almanac"
From Electric English...
This is a simple but effective assignment that gets the students thinking about the life of Benjamin Franklin in a new way. Why? Because it asks them to connect his life and ideas to their own lives and ideas. The kids always enjoy it, and they do not even realize they are engaging in deeper levels of thinking and learning.
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10th - 12th
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Current Events Reading Comprehension_News Articles_Middle & High School_2024-Jan
Current events news PDF lesson plans for students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Reading comprehension practice and literacy strategies for standardized testing preparation. Great for enrichment of gifted learners, substitute teachers, and differentiated instruction. For middle and high school students. (Politics). First Execution in USA by Nitrogen Gas (Business). Economic Growth (Culture) Madonna Sued for Late Concerts. (Science) Hearing Loss Breakthrough. (World) 245,000 Holocaust Survivor
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6th - 12th
Song of Roland: Presentation of Select Portions of the Epic
This unit covers basic information about the early Middle Ages. Activities include research assignments and creative writing. Students present groups of Laisses as sportscasters calling a football game, a 60 Minutes newscast, a comic book, and a funeral eulogy. A student emcee provides pertinent details that tie the story together. This is a fun way to get students to think critically, be creative, and present their productions. My class of high-risk English II students loved this challenge. COM
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7th - 12th
Mini Unit on Thanksgiving
*This lesson is for high school and mature middle school classes. I've rounded up great materials and resources to get your students talking about what really happened with the Pilgrims and the Natives, and how we have celebrated them for the past 100 years. Day 1: Gallery Walk of Photos and ArtworkI've compiled a set of 8 photos from the 1921 300th anniversary celebration of the Pilgrims' arrival and their first Thanksgiving with the Natives. Students will complete a KWL and then a gallery walk
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9th - 12th
Middle Eastern Literature Unit
This comprehensive unit of study offers a wide variety of selections of Middle Eastern literature and cultural elements encompassing folk lore, spiritual writings, informational text, audiovisual offerings, autobiographical text, and public speech to engage students in an in depth, extended discovery of both the historical and modern literature and culture of this dynamic and often troubled region of the world.
Designed to span a four to six week segment of the semester, the Middle Eastern Lite
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10th
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HMH Collections MyPerspectives "Quilt of a Country" Analysis and Vocab Questions
This fully editable set of activities push students to analyze Anna Quindlen's argument and evidence in the essay "Quilt of a Country" AND work with her advanced vocabulary.This text is PERFECT for election season as it prompts students to think about what it means to be an American and a productive citizen.
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8th - 10th
"Rituals of Memory" Qs, Teacher Slides w Annotation Guide & Examples + Art
Included in this product is much of what is needed to help students process the essay "Rituals of Memory" by Kimberly M. Blaeser which appears in StudySync, MyPerspectives, and HMH Collections textbooks. Provided here is a user-friendly Google Doc (fully editable!) with text-dependent questions, an analysis of the connotation and denotation in the essay. Also included are teacher slides that provide directions on what students should annotate as they read in order to best answer these questions.
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8th - 12th
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The Medieval Lives Project (Life in the Middle Ages Simulation Activity)
In this class-wide simulation project, students will learn about the realities of daily life in high medieval European society. By focusing on a “type” of medieval person, building a character based on that type, researching cultural details of life for their character, determining their character’s relationship to other characters, and presenting their character both formally and creatively, students will work together to build a medieval town—as its inhabitants! Project designed for grades 7-1
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Life in Ancient Greece in English and Spanish for ELLs / ESOLs
Life in Ancient Greece in English and Spanish for ELLs / ESOLsWelcome :) This is my comprehensive worksheet on the fascinating topic of daily life in Ancient Greece with a focus on mythology and what it reveals about the Greeks. This engaging resource is designed to enhance your students' understanding while fostering their reading skills and inspiring a deeper interest in history!The centerpiece of this worksheet is a meticulously crafted, three-page reading that offers an accurate and comprehe
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: History Readings for ELL Resources Bundle for World and U.S. History
Updated! Jigsaw Groups, Ted Talk Discussions, Cultural Perspectives: Refugees
UPDATE! Since posting this resource, I have received such positive feedback from educators. However, the plight of those who have found themselves displaced is ever changing. Therefore, I have felt an urgency to UPDATE this resource by adding a Socratic Seminar component. This will allow students to research much more current events and topics. I have not changed the original PowerPoint that walks you through the Jigsaw activity, so that can still be used as is! I have ADDED an editable document
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9th - 12th
Of Mice and Men Pre-Reading Stations
This product includes 6 stations for Pre-Reading John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.The Stations Include:1. Agree/Disagree2. Author Study3. The Great Depression4. Migrant Workers of California5. The American Dream6. Friendship and Companionship
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7th - 12th
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