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Common Core W.7.5 cultural activities
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Full Novel Unit (Digital & In Person Learning)
Engage your students with this full unit novel study of The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Enjoy little prep with this digital or print full unit. This six week unit offers your students chances to increase reading comprehension, learn about the African American culture, practice with figurative language, practice citing evidence, working with poetry and doing creative writing!This unit plan can be used digital or print and it offers activities for the poetry, learning stations to learn about po
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Crossover Unit Bundle with ESCAPE ROOM & FREEBIE BINGO REVIEW
AROUND THE WORLD THEME MEGA BUNDLE Multiculture Camp Earth Day End of the Year
***BUNDLE & SAVE 25%!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this low-prep, 152-page/slide Around the World End of the Year Theme Day Activities MEGA BUNDLE! It includes everything you need to have a thematic day to celebrate diversity, culture, and the world and have a Middle-Grades (4-8) Fun Day in ELA with your students! What is Around the World Day? Enjoy the day (or week!) while still learning with this fun, themed resource! Students will l
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3rd - 12th
End of Year Scrapbook Project on Culture and Identity | Essay Writing
This fun and hands-on essay writing scrapbook project for middle school and high school English and writing classes includes 24 essay topics on culture and identity, a sample student essay, essay analysis, graphic organizers, essay writing outline templates, three self-review activities, a peer review activity, scrapbook design templates, and two bonus activities. This project works on personal essays with or without research. It includes topical essays, compare/contrast essays, sequential ess
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7th - 10th
COUNTRY WRITING BUNDLE Around the World Narrative Informative Opinion Prompts
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 15-page Countries Around the World Writing Bundle Prompts & Papers! Students will watch videos (links provided) and/or research a country of their choice to answer one (or more!) of the writing prompts. SIX prompts (2 narrative, 2 informative, and 2 opinion), video links, suggested research websites, list of countries, revising and editing checklists, and 5 world-themed writing papers are include
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4th - 12th
My Cultural Journey Narrative Writing Story and New Superhero Comic Book Project
Hello Again Teacher Peeps!!Thank you for your interest in the “My Cultural Journey” Project. This project will take your students through a journey of realization, acceptance, creativity, and empowerment. It’s unfortunate that many of our students are unaware of their own ethnicity and culture. Some are even ashamed of their own ethnicity and culture, just as I once was. However, through this 5-6 week journey, your students will learn a lot about themselves and their culture. What better way to
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5th - 9th
Standing Rock: The Dakota Access Pipeline. A Close Read & Argumentative Essay
Want to introduce the topic of The Dakota Access Pipeline to your students? This is for you.
TWO DIFFERENT READING LEVELS
In this product your students will read about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, The Dakota Access Pipeline, the protests in North Dakota, and the outcome of the protest. Then, students will answer text dependent questions about the text. Last, students will form an opinion about the pipeline and write a three paragraph essay supporting the pipeline or calling for an end of th
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5th - 12th
Apology Assignment
Empathy and sincerely asking for forgiveness are important lessons that middle or high school teachers don't always have time to explicitly teach. This assignment is great for reinforcing these principles in addition to having the student practice their writing skills.
To successfully assign this task the teacher needs to write the student's name and the date at the top of the letter then a brief description of what the student did wrong. (Examples: disrespected a substitute teacher, stole sup
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6th - 9th
Unit: Legends & Tall Tales/Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing/ELA7-12|EDITABLE
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 15Steps: 16Original Products: 9Links to Resources: 10Rubrics: 2Brainstorm about heroes with MY ORIGINAL HONORS WKSH: Heroes (CCSS.ELA.W.9)Research with LINK R4S: Module 2- Finding Information about a hero (CCSS.ELA.W.7)Read LINK: Tale of Sir Launcelot.pdf (CCSS.ELA.R.10)Practice standardized testing vocabulary with MY ORIGINAL WKSH Vocabulary Usage: Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake (CCSS.ELA.L.4-6)Read LINK: The Sword in the Stone.pdf (CCSS.
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7th - 12th
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CLASS: Mythology and Folklore- ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)
Unit: Norse Stories- Mythology and Folklore- ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: All 32 CCSS Anchor StandardsSteps: 115+Original Products: 75+Links to Resources: 100+Rubrics: 5+11 Unit Bundles Include: Introduction, African, Sports, Pirates, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Arabian, Celtic, Italian, Norse, Greek
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7th - 12th
Unit: Fables for Mythology and Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 8Steps: 10Original Products: 7Links to Resources: 15Rubrics: 1Complete MY ORIGINAL WKSH: Theme (CCSS.ELA.R.2)with textbook fable of choice (CCSS.ELA.R.10)STORY: “Right Mind and Wrong Mind” Page 172 STORY: “Princess and Tin Box” Page 332Complete MY ORIGINAL WKSH: Narrative Analysis (CCSS.ELA.W.3)With Folder: Fables- Not by Aesop (CCSS.ELA.R.1)Complete MY ORIGINAL DIRECTIONS: Literary Analysis (CCSS.ELA.W.2) With LINK: List of Aesop's
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7th - 12th
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Personal Narrative Writing: A Treasured Family Folktale and Oral History
Make Personal Narrative writing assignments meaningful to students and their families. Use this interview form to capture or discover a memory or event to be saved for generations. Parents have written me letters of thanks for this assignment. Students have learned family stories that had never been shared with them before. Often students videotape these interviews to create a lasting oral history of a loved one. The final writing products have been amazing because students are highly invest
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5th - 8th
Washington DC Field Trip Journal Notebook Differentiated
This Washington D.C. Notebook is perfect for children and students of all ages who would like to document, scrapbook, draw, write and create memories of their field trip or vacation. Writing is perfect for synthesizing the learning which takes place through field trips and hands on learning experiences. By having peers edit each other's entries you can integrate language arts, grammar and mechanics. Writing based on educational museums and experiences with and without prompted essay topics furth
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K - 12th, Higher Education
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, 1-ESS1-1
, MS-ETS1-2
, 5-ESS3-1
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Unit: Ballads for Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 6Steps: 7Original Products: 5Links to Resources: 4Rubrics: 1Read LINK Text: The Ballad of Mulan (CCSS.ELA.R.1)With MY ORIGINAL WKSH: Discover Ballad Elements [CCSS.ELA.W.9]Read LINK Textbook Ballads (CCSS.ELA.SL.2) With MY ORIGINAL Literary Speed Dating with Ballads, have students line up in 2 lines (like speed dating) with one side having 1 ballad each and 1 side having any number of the ballad elements based on size. Have students discu
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7th - 12th
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Unit: Historical Fiction/Mythology & Folklore/Creative Writing/ELA 7-12|EDITABLE
Unit: Historical FictionClass: Creative WritingGrade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 5Steps: 11Original Products: 10Links to Resources: 10Rubrics: 2With MY ORIGINAL WKSH: KWL+ Chart (CCSS.ELA.W.9) Read Story: American History (CCSS.ELA.R.10)With MY ORIGINAL WKSH: My SMELLER (CCSS.ELA.W.9) Read STORY: Beware of the Dog (CCSS.ELA.R.10)With MY ORIGINAL WKSH: My SOAPSTone (CCSS.ELA.W.9) Read STORY: Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy? (CCSS.ELA.R.10)LINK: R4S: Module 1- Asking Go
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7th - 12th
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ELL Make a Food Book
"Make a Food Book" allows ELL students to create their own food book using graphic organizers and a variety of learning modalities: describing, sequencing, writing, drawing, etc. Teachers and students alike will be thrilled with the final product: a beautiful, differentiated, culturally relevant book that accesses higher order thinking skills and ensures learning success. Need more E.L.L. products? Check out my E.L.L. Literary BundleTerrific Teacher Tip: Use acrostic poetry. Check for underst
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PreK - 7th
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Also included in: ELL Literary Bundle
Country Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
This blended resource is great for distance learning and in person learning. It contains materials for your students to complete a Country Research Report. Combine resources to easily BLEND your classroom! This resource contains both a printable and digital - Google Slides Country research report.Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Country Research Report resource. It helps has make report writing easy! It contains questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students
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4th - 7th
Castles of IRELAND Research Project and Castle Tournament
Castles of Ireland Research Project, Castle Tournament, History, Geography, ELASave money by purchasing my Ireland Growing Bundle!Includes research note-taking papers for 27 of Ireland’s most famous castles. Each one comes in color and black and white. Use these as a starting point for a number of fun activities that you can do as a class.Castles Included in this study:Bunratty CastleKilkenny CastleAshford CastleMalahide CastleBlarney CastleDonegal CastleCarrickfergus CastleRoss CastleDublin Cas
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6th - 8th
Also included in: IRELAND Bundle St. Patrick's Day, ELA, Social Studies
Unit: Letters for Mythology and Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 11Steps: 17Original Products: 8Links to Resources: 11Rubrics: 1Read a selection of choice from FOLDER: Textbook Letters (CCSS.ELA.R.10) With the MY ORIGINAL WKSH Text Parts- Form [CCSS.ELA.R.3]Write MY ORIGINAL DIRECTIONS: Write a Thank You Letter and Deliver It [CCSS.ELA.W.10]Read a selection of choice from FOLDER: CommonLit Letters (CCSS.ELA.R.10)With the MY ORIGINAL WKSH: Perspective (CCSS.ELA.R.6)Watch the music video LINK: Brad Paisl
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7th - 12th
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Hispanic Heritage Profiles: Worksheets & Display
Celebrate Hispanic heritage with these 30 printable profile worksheets of famous and influential Latinos. This makes a great research project for students to do independently or in pairs and can be completed as a class or homeroom activity. It is perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month, but can be a great learning opportunity at any time of year.Included in the download you will find:suggestions for how to use the profiles and instruct studentsa sample/exemplar completed profile30 blank profiles in
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7th - 10th
Famous People in Black History Research Project
This choice board research project guides students through the writing process as they learn more about famous people from Black History. Students will research about Black History leaders, Black History inventors, and more to learn about this important part of history.There is a mini-lesson about reliable and unreliable resources. Students will also discuss what they already know about Black History and their historical figure. They will pick a topic to research and use the graphic organizer
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Informational Writing Bundle
Compare and Contrast Essay Packet: Compare 2 countries
Use this guided outline to brainstorm and layout a compare and contrasting research paper. Utilizes the "NewsELA" text sets (free online resource) on countries to allow for students to have a closed library of research to pull from. Students not only are able to practice researching and writing but open up their view points to learn about other countries as well! Additional teaching note- with my struggling writers, I color coordinate the graphic organizer with each paragraph (Making location/ n
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4th - 9th
Our Community Issues, Their Global Implications, and Our Proposed Solutions
This packet serves as an investigatory lesson of the question "is the pen mightier than the sword?" In other words, This lesson walks students through a three part assignment: identifying a concern in their immediate community, thinking about the global implications of their chosen issue, and ultimately proposing solutions. This packet walks your learners through a multiple draft process (including self, peer, and teacher editing) of writing a cohesive three part essay.
Note on Pre-Activit
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6th - 9th
Unit: Journals & Diaries/Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing/ELA7-12|EDITABLE
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 9Steps: 15Original Products: 7Links to Resources: 28Rubrics: 1Assign MY ORIGINAL Directions: Social Emotional Learning and A Journal/Diary (CCSS.ELA.W.10)Watch VIDEO: Black Death (CCSS.ELA.SL.2)Visit LINK: Plague | CDC (CCSS.ELA.SL.2)Read TEXT: Journal of a Plague Year (excerpt) (CCSS.ELA.R.1) Choose 1 additional excerpt from LINK: The Journal of the Plague Year (full) (CCSS.ELA.R.10)Watch VIDEO: Bucket List Trailer (CCSS.ELA.SL.2)Assign
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7th - 12th
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Unit: Manifestoes for Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Grade Levels: 7-12 Creator: Erica Villilo Anchor Standards: 7 Steps: 8 Original Products: 5 Links to Resources: 7 Rubrics: 1Create Class Manifesto w/ “found” technique (pull words or phrases you like and add them to your own) and LINK: PDF of Graphic Manifestoes Examples (CCSS.ELA.SL.5)MY ORIGINAL SLIDES: Rhetorical Reading of Manifesto Essay of Choice with LINK: https://thisibelieve.org/themes/ [CCSS.ELA.R.6]WKSH: Evaluate a Speaker with a Photo, Video Manifesto LINK: Paul Farmer: I believe in
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7th - 12th
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