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Middle school literature thematic unit plan microsofts
Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
Seedfolks Novel Unit (30 pages) - Chapter Notes, Essays, Quiz, Themes
This is a creative unit/student project (30 pages attached) to teach with the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, which emphasizes character analysis and response to literature. (See the preview for the overview of the student project.) It includes chapter-by-chapter notes (or you may buy just these notes separately on my profile), a One-Pager activity, a character report card, a Response to Seedfolks Quiz, Reflection questions, a student Seedfolks story (students write their own chapter), a c
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4th - 9th
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Fences lesson plans, Unit Plan, August Wilson, 54 pages.
Completely rewritten & expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured Drama unit. There is no strict schedule or pacing guide here, though the activities, the concluding essay, the Socratic seminar, and the chapter quizzes and study guides would logically dictate the order of lesson delivery. You may find that you skip some activities, alter some activities and documents, and change the order of delivery year by year,based on your scheduling, teaching style, and type of students.
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8th - 12th
Lucy Calkins Readers Workshop-Literary Essay Graphic Organizer Theme & Character
This graphic organizer can be used for a literary argumentative writing unit. The graphic organizer shows students how to plan and organize an argumentative essay with a thesis statement, reasons, evidence and analysis to support the claim.
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4th - 9th
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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7th - 9th
Genre Detective Unit BUNDLE - Teaching Genre - Fiction and Non Fiction included
Stumped by how to teach genre? Look no further than this fun and engaging Genre Detective unit. Save yourself time and trouble while also having your students will enjoy these lessons.The unit covers the following genres of Fiction and Non-fiction:Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fables, Mystery, Science Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Informational Texts.This purchase includes a compressed (zip) file complete with everything you will need to teach genre to your students!!PowerPoi
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1st - 6th
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street PowerPoint
Teaching The Twilight Zone play, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street? Introduce this gripping play of suspense and conformity with an engaging, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on The Twilight Zone, pre-reading vocabulary, teleplay terms, anticipation questions, themes, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.Click HERE for more amazing The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street products!Need more terrific teacher
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6th - 12th
Also included in: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Bundle
Daniel's Story: Pictures of the Holocaust
Use this Powerpoint to accompany Daniel's Story by Carol Matas. I usually do this story as a read aloud during our studies of the Holocaust and the students enjoy viewing the images I've collected that illustrate various aspects of the novel. The novel is broken into parts and so is the slideshow, so you and your class and follow along. Photos collected include the Hilter Youth, appropriate images from concentration camps (no nudity or extreme violence), passports, badges, and transports to hel
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5th - 12th
The Joy Luck Club Unit Plan. 89 pages of activities and handouts
Completely rewritten and expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured novel unit, with 89 pages of handouts and activities. There are no strict schedules or pacing guides here-though the quizzes, study guides, the concluding essay, the Socratic seminar, and the chapter quizzes and study guides would logically dictate the order of lesson delivery. You may find that you skip some activities, alter some activities and documents, and change the order of delivery year by year-based on y
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8th - 12th
Tall Tale Lesson: John Henry +10 Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice Questions
In this mini-lesson students read a selection to see why a folk song was written about the tall tale hero, John Henry. Then they answer ten multiple choice questions by putting a circle around each correct answer. Along with two colorful drawings of John Henry being a steel driving man, you get two pages of informational text and three stanzas of the John Henry folk song. Multiple choice questions make up two pages and then the fifth page is the answer key. The reading skills the ten questions
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5th - 7th
4th Grade Integrated Social Studies and Language Arts Curriculum Map
This resource provides you with a comprehensive outline, month by month, of how I have set up my integrated social studies and language arts 4th grade curriculum! It includes the topics pulled from Ohio’s new standards in 4th grade Social Studies, the new learning standards for 4th grade Language Arts, and provides lists of rich literature, mentor texts, reader’s theaters, and novels used to drive instruction in a connected, meaningful manner for each integrated unit. In addition, suggested re
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: 4th Grade Ohio Social Studies ESSENTIAL RESOURCE bundle!
The House on Mango Street - Creative Writing Book Project
This is a great "Back to School" introductory creative writing project intended to help you, as the teacher, get to know your students, and introduce them to the elements of plot in literature and instill a passion for creative writing in them!
Students enjoy reading selected stories from Sandra Cisneros's novel, The House on Mango Street, and creating their very own book called, "The House on (Student's Street)", which includes stories and poetry about their lives and neighborhoods.
Throughou
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6th - 10th
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FAIRY TALE UNIT
A unit that includes a teacher guide with relevant Common Core standards; a Power Point with information about identifying fairy tales & an accompanying notes-guide for students; a checklist for students to use in identifying which stories are fairy tales; a language chart that features 5 different fairy tales; a group project; a writing project for individual students; a Power Point about the different types of stories (myths, legends, fables, fairy tales, folk tales, tall tales, allegories
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5th - 8th
Amplify 5th Grade Unit 4 Don Quixote
In this google slide, you will find everything you need to be successful for the 5th Grade Amplify Unit 4: Don Quixote book study. Here are just a few things that you will have access to in this 14 lesson, 192 page presentation:Daily vocabularyDaily word workChapter questionsInteractive graphic organizersPractice with root words and suffixesDigital componants from AmplifyPictures from the Amplify ReadersAnchor charts...and so much more!
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4th - 6th
La Casa en Mango Street Chapter Guide- SPANISH
This is a student journal for the first vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, called La Casa en Mango St. This is ALL IN SPANISH. Has a focus strategy of visualizing, comprehension questions, and then a text dependent open response!
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6th - 12th
Chains Novel Test ( Laurie Halse Anderson) - Digital Plus Print
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of 13-year old Isabel. As the Revolutionary War begins, Isabel is fighting a battle for her own freedom and that of her sister Ruth. After being sold to the cruel Lockton family, and then being approached to spy for the Patriots, Isabel must decide what freedom really is, and what kind of freedom is worth fighting for. To check reading before a class discussion or composition, use this 20-question multiple choice test that covers the whole book.
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Chains Bundle - Test, Mid-point Quiz, Vocabulary List & Quiz, Enrichment
A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES
Novel Study: A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES (Literature, Novel, ELA, Linda Sue Park, Digital, Interactive)This BUNDLE is an excellent & engaging compliment to the novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. This bundle includes over 30 days of activities (9 Chapter Reviews and readings) PLUS a 5 day literature circle mini-unit (5 stories)This Month’s Features:A Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue ParkLiterature Circle Mini-Unit, Guidin
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6th - 8th
Map Your Life: Introduction Project to The Odyssey
Students will map out successes and trials through this project in preparation for reading Homer's The Odyssey. I use this as a pre-reading activity with both standard and honors level students. I have found that the students make a great connection with the understanding of "Journey" as they take a look at their own experiences.
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6th - 12th
Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel
I use this interactive journal as the backbone of my thematic unit of Experiencing War and Genocide where we read and analyze the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. This item is a foldable, printable booklet, and part of a 2-PIECE BUNDLE that includes the completed answer key in 8.5x11 sized paper (KEY Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel found here)Students engage with this journal each class for the entire unit. I launch the unit by transforming my classroom into a Holocaust Museum and Memo
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8th - 11th
9th Grade English Full Year Curriculum Map
This yearlong Common-Core aligned curriculum map for 9th grade English was curated using the Understanding by Design curriculum planning model. It provides a road map for 6 comprehensive units that all contribute to the overarching theme of identity - a valuable exploration for students at the beginning of their high school experience. Please note that individual lesson material and unit content are not included in the map, but can be purchased at the links below. ➢ Unit 1: How Identity is Const
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8th - 10th
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Creative Writing - The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Planning and Powerpoints
A great collection for teaching this interesting topic.You get powerpoints and planning.Sample :Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophes.Use commas to mark clauses.Group and classify words according to their type and meaning.Read a variety of texts, commenting on the author’s choice of vocabulary.Construct sentences which are punctuated correctly; including the use of commas, speech marks and apostrophes.Use a range of connectives to join sentences.Experiment
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4th - 7th
8th Grade English ELA Lessons in PowerPoint Slides for FULL YEAR (42 Weeks)
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of detailed 8th Grade ELA lessons in PowerPoint addressing the following core texts: Homecoming, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, A Single Shard, and The Princess Bride. These lessons for an entire year in PowerPoint are designed to be paired with my resource "8th Grade English ELA Lesson Plan Bundle (Entire Year - 42 Weeks)." These lessons likewise address all of the Grade 8 ELA Common Core standards in ways that promote critical thinking, text-to-world
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6th - 9th
Complete 6 Week Unit Plan for Tuesdays with Morrie
Are you wanting to teach Tuesdays with Morrie but are unsure what to do? Do you need ideas for lessons, activities, teaching strategies, and classroom discussions/work that are completely aligned with the English/Language Arts standards?
Look no further! This unit plan organizes and gives you ideas for EVERYTHING you need. Plus, all activities, assignments, projects, and papers mentioned directly correspond with my other TPT resources!
I have used this plan with tenth grade English, but it ca
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6th - 12th
Literacy BUNDLE(May)/Novel Study:A Long Walk To Water(1 month; 9 activities)
May BUNDLE/Novel Study: A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES (Literature, Novel, ELA, Linda Sue Park, Digital, Interactive)This BUNDLE is an excellent & engaging compliment to the novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. This bundle includes over 28 days of activities (9 Chapter Reviews and readings) PLUS a 5 day literature circle mini-unit (5 stories)This Month’s Features:A Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue ParkLiterature Circle Mini-U
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6th - 8th
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