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Balanced literacy Common Core SL.9-10.1b resources
Mythology in Business Project
Help your students connect Greek mythology to modern businesses! In this 4-5 day project, students will research an assigned Greek God and a given modern business. In their research, they will need to learn about each in order to understand what the allusion is between them. These findings will be presented in a Google Slides which students can present to their peers.I did this project as a preface to Homer's Odyssey, but it will work great for any Greek Myth! The goal of this project is to help
Grades:
9th - 10th
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Analyzing Pixar Shorts
Students learn to notice and note rhetorical devices and intended arguments through screen grabs from popular Pixar shorts, Presto (2008) and Day and Night (2010). Students work in groups to identify techniques and make arguments.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Learn & Assess Active Listening Skills/Terms | Google Form Auto-Graded Quiz /10
Purpose: This quiz assesses students' understanding of active listening and related terms. Instructions:Read each question carefully, and answer all questionsThere are a total of 10 questions for 10 points Review your score and feedback (Note: incorrect responses are explained)Timeline: varies; approximately 10 minutesWhy purchase this resource?rich variety in questions, including direct (matching, m/c, t/f), inference, evidence-based, and application (analysis, logical predictive)auto-grades (n
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Common Core Political Cartoon Analysis
This complete and easy-to-follow lesson plan allows us to teach our students something new but necessary, according to the CCSS and standardized tests: political cartoons.
Common Core-aligned, this lesson plan prepares students to analyze funny, controversial, and newsworthy cartoons and teaches them to use the standards they are used to working with in a new medium.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Podcast Graphic Organizers/Planner (activities for all podcasts)
Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF format for easy printing and sharing. See the Google Doc version if you would like the ability to customize it.You will find ideas and extensions that can work with any podcast!This guide is designed for educators and/or parents to use as a compan
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Avengers Pop Culture Socratic Discussion Activity - Middle & High School
Looking to include Socratic dialogue into your classroom with your middle and high school aged students? Socratic discussions are a great strategy to get students to engage deeply with a topic or a text! And using a piece of pop culture makes it even more fun and worthwhile with those finicky teens!What's Included: Primary source which includes two opposing opinions on topic Opposing opinions Discussion Leader nameplate Discussion Leader sentence stems and discussion guide Socratic Dialogue Gro
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Coronavirus Pandemic Socratic Discussion Activity - Middle High School Debate
Covid 19 Debate: Many governors across the United States issued stay-at-home orders during the early days of the pandemic. Were these orders necessary to stifle the spread of the coronavirus or did the governors overstep their bounds in issuing these orders?This activity is distance learning compatible!Looking to include Socratic dialogue into your classroom with your middle and high school aged students? Socratic discussions are a great strategy to get students to engage deeply with a topic or
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Discussion Tokens
Operating as a discussion scaffold, these tokens are laminated and given to students in small groups to guide their conversation. They can be used in any subject to increase the speaking and listening capabilities of your students. The roles each have sentence stems to build students confidence, and include Predict, Question, State, Follow On, Lead and Connect.
Grades:
4th - 11th
Podcast Graphic Organizers (podcast activities) - CUSTOMIZABLE
This is a CUSTOMIZABLE version of the Podcast Listening Guide (for Google Presentations).Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This customizable guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF & Google Presentation format for easy printing/sharing & customizing. The link is included with the PDF with directions. There is also a
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Book Club Role Cards
These mini task cards have specific roles for students to participate in abook club. These cards help ensure that everyone participates. Book Club Role Cards can be easily copied for multiple groups. Each card includes directions and sentence starters to help kids enact these roles.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: Book Club Resources
Independent Reading Assignment Sheet
This assignment sheet has two different independent reading activities; students are meant to pick their book and then complete the tasks included Part 1: Investigating Informational TextsTask & RubricPart 2: Interview with the ReaderTask & RubricThere is also a rubric for each activity; tasks are created to accommodate different types of learners and apply their understanding to their reading.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Valentine's Day English
We use Valentine’s Day as a stimulus for improving our speaking skills and our writing to argue skills. Includes differentiated activities to help students improve their arguing techniques, organization, planning, tone and more. A fantastically detailed and differentiated lesson that can be adapted for other texts and age groups. Useful particularly for Grade 6, 7 and 8 English classes but a lot of fun for Grade 9 and Grade 10 classes preparing for English assessments too!
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Socratic Seminar Powerpoint
This is a Power point that can be used to teach and guide students through a Socratic Seminar discussion
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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