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Common Core L.11-12.3 lessons
High School English Bell Ringers Vol. 1, Vocabulary, Grammar & Literary Terms
Use this bundle of my popular bell ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned grammar, literary term, and vocabulary skills your high school students need. This package of materials includes everything you’ll need to keep your students actively engaged at the start of each period. Here’s how it works:With M.U.G. Shot Mondays, students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 38 weekly grammar editing sessions add
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9th - 12th
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The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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High School English Bell-Ringers Vol. 2 – Vocabulary, Grammar & Brain Teasers
Use this bundle of my popular bell ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking/problem-solving skills your high school students need. This bundle of materials (Vol. #2) includes everything you’ll need to keep your students actively engaged at the start of each period. (All of this content is completely new and separate from the content offered in the Volume 1 Bell-Ringers Bundle – no repeats!)Here’s how it works:With M.U.G. Shot Monda
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9th - 12th
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Activity: Primary Source Analysis and Questions
The Declaration of Independence can be a daunting document for teachers to explain to students, but this primary source lesson will help students understand the major themes and concepts within the document itself. Though Thomas Jefferson's Declaration was written in the 18th century, this worksheet has proven to be a fantastic, big-picture way for today's students to study such an important writing without becoming overwhelmed. The Declaration is really just a big "break-up letter" from the co
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7th - 12th
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Vocabulary Bell-Ringers Vol. 1 for High School Students, Test Prep, CCSS
Welcome to Words on Wednesday, a weekly bell-ringer/mini-lesson to build higher-level vocabulary with your high school students. These weekly lessons feature words commonly used on the SAT and ACT that educated adults also use in their everyday lives. Even if your students aren’t bound for a university, they’ll still benefit from adding these words to their vocabulary before they enter the work force.Each lesson, which takes about 15 minutes, goes deep into understanding denotation and connotati
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9th - 12th
Legislative Branch Activity: Classroom Simulation on How a Bill Becomes a Law
Make civics practical and exciting for students using this Social Studies simulation that allows students to experience the Legislative Branch! Students will participate in writing bills for their school, community, or state while learning the various stages within the lawmaking process. All voices are heard as students become members of Congress, participate in committees, debate on the floor, and watch their President sign the bills that survive the entire process. Not only do students love
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6th - 12th
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WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Bell Ringers Bundle, One Semester of Vocabulary, Grammar & Literary Terms
Smoothly launch your high school English class each day with this bundle of my popular bell-ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned skills your students need. (NOTE: This product is the first semester's worth of material included in my FULL YEAR VOL. 1 BELL RINGERS. If you've already purchased that massive budget-priced bundle, do NOT purchase this item – you already own all of the same content.)With M.U.G. Shot Mondays, students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by wor
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9th - 12th
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Roles of the President | A Day in the Life of the Executive Branch | White House
What does the President of the United States do anyway? Throughout the day, the President wears many hats and is responsible for many different roles within the Executive Branch. This engaging mini-lesson is an excellent way for students to comprehend all roles played by the President. "Roles of the President" is an engaging resource for any unit that studies the President or the Executive Branch. The 7 roles studied include: Chief Executive, Chief Diplomat, Commander in Chief, Party Chief, Ec
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6th - 9th
Also included in: PRESIDENTS BUNDLE: Civics, Executive & Presidential Resources
Horror Mini Lessons | ELA Reading & Creative Writing
Halloween friendly! Ready to have students in the palm of your hand and give them plenty of reasons to want to be working in your class - all year long? If your students like scary stories and other things frightful - read on!This product is also available in my Bundle of Fear (200+ Pages and growing). Don't miss out on a great bargain!Get students hooked and keep them engaged using the theme of horror. With these highly engaging lessons, they will practice their reading analysis and narrative w
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Language Arts Lessons Horror Bundle | Middle School and High School
CURRENT EVENTS: News Article Summary, Main Idea, Reading Comprehension | NEWSELA
This Current Events Summary is an excellent tool for students to get involved with the news and the current events of the week. A simple writing format helps students find, summarize, and write opinions about current news stories and events. I find this activity to be a practical filler for various social studies courses. What's Included:Teacher directions with ideas for implementation and useSimple student directions: Find, Highlight, Summarize, Importance, OpinionGuided student writing temp
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Not Grade Specific
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Mentor Sentences from YA Lit - Types of Sentences and Narrative Leads
Do your students struggle with identifying sentence types? Can they use what they know about grammatical sentence structures to develop strong narrative leads? These engaging and analytical mentor sentence questions can help with both! The sentences are designed so that you can teach grammar more meaningfully and in combination with reading and writing. Teach students to observe strong grammatical and figurative language elements, identify the elements authors use, and analyze the effect on read
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
Anti Bullying Activities Bundle - High and Middle School Bullying Prevention
This anti-bullying bundle provides an opportunity to address bullying with your students. It is perfect for high school and middle students to learn how to empathize with others, realize how quickly gossip can spread and become distorted, and how words can hurt. This bundle includes:• 4 Step-by-step activity directions• 4 Interactive activities• 4 sets of guided discussion questions and answers• 2 Activity cards• 1 Story key• 4 printable activity reflectionsAs always, you can save 20% when you p
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Stress and Anxiety Bundle for Identifying Stress Management and Coping Skills
These engaging stress management activities for Advisory, Social-Emotional Learning, and push-in programs will help teens to learn to identify and understand what causes stress. It's important for our students to learn anxiety coping skills in order to cope with life's every day challenges.Interactive puzzles, Stress Cards, and Healthy and Unhealthy Ways of Coping With Stress Cards are fantastic ways to help high school and middle school students to alleviate feeling overwhelmed by the pressures
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MLA Format - Reading & Writing MLA Citations - Worksheets, Activities, Examples
Teach students how to write in-text citations and references for their works cited page using this MLA format bundle! Scaffold MLA citations step-by-step using the worksheets, games, anchor charts, and activities in this unit. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!⚡️ Save over 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡️Included with these MLA Format Activities for Reading and Writing MLA Citations:✏️ Works Cited Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®
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7th - 12th
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Sex Ed for High School | Sex Education, Human Development, and Sexual Health
Introducing our transformative Sexual Health and Sex Education unit—a comprehensive, medically-accurate, and skill-based health education program designed to empower students with the knowledge and tools to make informed and sexually healthy decisions. Throughout this skills-based Sex Ed, Human Development, and Sexual Health, students will explore the significance of holistic sexual health, its impact on overall well-being, and embrace the DECIDE Model, a powerful framework for navigating respon
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7th - 12th
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The Handmaid's Tale Unit Plan, Hulu Series Connections and Current Events
Use the hit Hulu series and hot topic modern events to teach The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. This unit includes every single thing you need to teach this terrifying, captivating, and mind-blowing book. I’ve loved this book for 25 years, taught it for 10 and now I’ve adapted the whole unit to be used with the TV series and modern events. This unit includes:Daily lessons for each chapterCurrent event connections ripped from the headlines!A link to the full text onlineDaily “Do Now” person
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: FULL YEAR of Literature Bundle | 4 NOVEL UNIT PLANS, Complete Curriculum
25 Essential Handouts for Writing Workshop in Secondary ELA
This bundle contains 25 handouts to supplement writing workshop mini-lessons or to use as part of a writing reference center/ writer's toolbox in the classroom. Students can also keep these handouts in their writing folders or notebooks to reference throughout the year as they work on new writing tasks and as you target new writing skills.This bundle includes the following handouts: 1. Edit OUT These Words! 2. Commentary Do’s and Don’ts 3. Topic vs. Theme 4. Transitional Devices 5. Paragraph Fo
Vocabulary Bell-Ringers Vol. 2 for High School Students, Test Prep, CCSS
Welcome to Words on Wednesday, a weekly bell-ringer/mini-lesson to build higher-level vocabulary with your high school students. These weekly lessons feature words commonly used on the SAT and ACT that educated adults also use in their everyday lives. Even if your students aren’t bound for a university, they’ll still benefit from adding these words to their vocabulary before they enter the work force.Each lesson, which takes about 15 minutes, goes deep into understanding denotation and connotati
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9th - 12th
News Writing - Studying the Newspaper & Writing a News Article: A Unit Plan
This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur
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6th - 12th
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Loaded Language & Diction in Rhetorical Analysis {AP and Advanced ELA}
Teaching about diction can sometimes feel like a futile effort, but when contextualized within the idea of “loaded language” students can start to see that diction is more than just picking out words to create a mood.This lesson is an introduction to analyzing diction and loaded language in rhetorical analysis. In the context of my classroom, we began with a text that made heavy use of this strategy (we used “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”) and read that first. Then, I shared the slide
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: AP® Language & Composition: Sampler Bundle
Animal Farm Ultimate Unit Bundle
This Animal Farm Unit has everything needed to teach George Orwell's fairy story. You will have activities, assessments, and presentations for weeks of reading and teaching this story.Included are over 150 pages of activities, assessments, and explanations. Specifically in this Animal Farm unit:→ A pre-reading websearch (students will define 'euphemism,' types of government, etc.) → A propaganda Powerpoint and accompanying student note sheets. The first half of the power point covers 11 types of
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8th - 12th
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Six-Week Summer School Curriculum & Materials for English Credit (Grades 11-12)
Save planning time without sacrificing academic rigor by referencing this comprehensive, standards-based, six-week curriculum map for high school English credit recovery and/or enrichment credit (grades 11 and 12). A day-by-day breakdown of key learning events and instruction contributes to the low-prep nature of this resource. Included are all materials with which students will engage, as well as answer keys and Common Core-aligned rubrics for scoring written work. Materials are delivered in
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9th - 12th
Vocabulary Bell-Ringers Vol. 3 for High School Students, Test Prep, CCSS
Welcome to Words on Wednesday, a weekly bell-ringer/mini-lesson to build higher-level vocabulary with your high school students. These weekly lessons feature words commonly used on the SAT and ACT that educated adults also use in their everyday lives. Even if your students aren’t bound for a university, they’ll still benefit from adding these words to their vocabulary before they enter the work force.Each lesson, which takes about 15 minutes, goes deep into understanding denotation and connotati
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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