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8th grade short stories research
Utopian - Utopia vs Dystopia Activity - Dystopian Literature Unit Activities
Introduce utopia, utopia vs. dystopia settings and themes, along with the concept of a perfect utopian world! This unique utopian resource includes opportunities for students to read, write, and conduct research! A slides presentation on the utopian world concept is included with 3 activities exploring dystopian versus utopian settings. Pair this resource with Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia," or any utopian/dystopian literature!The Quest for Ut
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8th - 11th
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Summer School Activities Curriculum - Short Story Project - 6th 7th 8th grade
Teaching Summer School has never been easier with this all-in-one reading and writing project-based activities curriculum for middle school! All the work is done - including PowerPoints, notes, and 4 weeks of Lesson Plans for important skills such as plot diagrams, summarizing, researching, and group work!Your students will:1. Take a multiple intelligences assessment.2. Be grouped by strength.3. Choose a short story to study.4. Learn about plot diagrams, summarizing, research, and group wor
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6th - 8th
Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt
This resource features a comprehensive list of questions to introduce the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe. Students will be shocked to learn some of the gruesome details of his life. This resource works great as homework prior to beginning your Poe unit or can be done in the classroom with computer access.Resource includes:15 questions about Edgar Allan PoeFull answer keyList of credible websites for students to explore when looking for answers__________________________________________________
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle
The Tell-Tale Heart — Guilty or Not Guilty Trial Activity using Textual Evidence
Guilty or not guilty?! Let your students decide the fate of the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart!This activity requires research, critical thinking, close reading, literary analysis, and finding textual evidence to justify responses. Students will research the different degrees of murder in the United States. Then they will take on the role of the judge for the trial against the narrator in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Students will use both critical thinking skills and e
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7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â The Tell-Tale Heart Reading Comprehension Activities BUNDLE
John Updike A&P Short Story Quiz
John Updike's Short Story A&P Quiz - Includes 20 questions and answers to assess student comprehension and understanding. Also great to be used as a Research Paper Idea (See my Short Story Research Assignment)
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8th - 12th
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Urban Legend Webquest
An 18 question mini research assignment on urban legends.
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7th - 10th
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Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
Everything you need for Back to School! Spend more time teaching and less time planning with 9 different resources designed to take work off your plate at the start of the year. Bell ringers, writing, reading, and research activities. Just plug and play!Plus, editable lesson plans that you can customize.What you'll get:(2 resources) August & September digital warm ups / bell ringer journal with quirky celebrations, historical events, holidays, and quotes. "The Fun They Had" short story analy
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6th - 8th
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A Creative Research Project for Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" {CCSS}
This activity is the perfect way to blend research and creativity! It is CCSS aligned and best used after students have spent time reading and comprehending Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day." It easily complements any science-fiction, dystopian, or short story unit!
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-Provides students with clear guidelines and four web links to reliable sources.
-Includes graphic organizer with columns for tracking sources, recording information, and evaluating recorded information (cr
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6th - 9th
"The Miracle Worker"- BUNDLE
This bundle includes:*Anticipation Guide*Guided questions while reading Act 1*Act 1 questions with researchDepending on the pace your class moves, these resources will last you up to two weeks in class! And everything is done!
Grades:
6th - 12th
My First Travel Book 1 with Questionnaire - Geography
- These children's books will help teachers read and discuss these world destinations with the children in the class and to answer the questions in the books after each page/chapter and go on and discuss the countries, culture, foods, traditions and the geographical locations of these countries in the world and more."Are you ready to take to the skies? Welcome Aboard Children! Come join the adventures of Captain Frankie as they travel across the world to some of the most popular, entertaining, a
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2nd - 9th, Staff
Sea-Level Rising by 2025: A Research Project
~Sea-Level Rising by 2025: A Research Project~ Copyright, Betty J. White, 2024This is a research activity concerning the transformation of global shorelines due to global warming, but before the research begins, students enjoy a fictional short story that introduces them to some background information about global warming.Includes:· A short story and poem, fantasy fiction with a delightful story to learn about global warming. The story takes place in the Arctic and Reykjavik
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5th - 8th
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4-ESS3-2
Animal Book Report- Non-Fiction Animal Study
I used this book report after introducing informational texts to my students. I had them split into groups and use non-fiction books to study each of the animals. They had to first learn about it themselves, and then introduce the animal to a peer. It was a great way to encourage presentations as well.
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2nd - 9th
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3-LS2-1
Author Introduction: Ray Bradbury Biography, Bio, All Summer in a Day, CCSS
This Ray Bradbury intro lesson bundle includes two great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Ray Bradbury and helping them analyze his famous short story, "All Summer in a Day." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Ray Bradbury biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story analysis activity (a digital or printable gallery walk) helps students collaboratively discuss im
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8th - 11th
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May Lesson Planning Bundle for Reading, Writing, Research Activities
Everything you need for May! Spend more time teaching and less time planning with 8 resources designed to take work off your plate this month. Bell ringers, writing, reading, and research activities. Just plug and play!Plus, editable lesson plans that you can customize.What you'll get:May digital warm ups / bell ringer journal with quirky celebrations, historical events, holidays, and quotes."All Summer in a Day" short story analysis Memorial Day mini research projectReading "legacy project" tha
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6th - 8th
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Life in a Shtejtl, from a Holocaust survivor perspective.
This lesson is an annotated story of the Jewish experience of life in a shtejtl. Following the two page story, there are two open ended questions for students to answer as well as 8 more multiple choice questions. This assignment is useful for students to build prior knowledge for the Jewish experience, particularly if students are learning about the Holocaust. The questions created were designed to increase reading skills in inference,main idea, comparing differences, and comprehension. The que
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5th - 8th
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Edgar Allan Poe Digital Scavenger Hunt for Distance Learning
This digital resource features a comprehensive list of questions to introduce the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe. Students will be shocked to learn some of the gruesome details of his life. This resource works great as homework prior to beginning your Poe unit or can be done in the classroom with computer access. As a Google Apps document, this resource is made with distance learning in mind and is therefore completely paperless.Resource includes:15 questions about Edgar Allan Poe on Google s
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8th - 11th
Folklore Research Project
This project is designed to allow students to do research on different kinds of folklore and turn their work into a poster project to share with the class. Students will read and share the story, as well as look into the history and culture where it came from, characterize the protagonists, as well as determine the type of folklore (myth, legend, tall tale, urban legend, or fable).Included in this resource are the directions, rubric, lists of folktales for students to choose from, and an answer
Martian Colony Project
This is a fun and creative project for students to complete after reading "Dark They Were & Golden Eyed" by Ray Bradbury and/or any other type of science fiction stories. It allows students to be creative in a small group setting, while also using critical thinking skills both independently and in their group. Students create their own colonies on Mars by submitting a proposal, creating a flag, writing a pledge and much more!
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4th - 9th
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Veterans Day Activity; The Wall Comprehension
Looking for a fun way to teach Veterans Day? This is an interactive presentation made on Canva. The Canva link is on the slides if you would like to make a template on Canva to share; You can use this as Google Slides also. The presentation includes a story (The Wall by Eve Bunting) and Comprehension questions. This also has a virtual field trip the The Wall Memorial. The students will explore the virtual field trip and write a short 5 sentence essay about their experience.
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4th - 9th
Sports-History Analogies: 1992 NBA Dream Team and the Founding Fathers
**The link below is for all 20 sports-history analogy readings and activities, being sold now for a special discounted price!
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Engage students with these sports and history analogies!
This analogy comes from a series of sports-history comparisons in Nick's store, comparing American sports figures to American historical figures.
This product compares the greatest teams in political
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cask of Amontillado - Catacombs of Paris
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe always freaks the students out a bit. If you want to freak them out even more, use this download that introduces the Catacombs of Paris.
10 questions, one after each paragraph of the Wikipedia article (linked and legal to use), followed by open source photos of the catacombs. Yes, you could easily create this on your own, but you don't want to spend another prep period or night at home creating this assignment when it's right here for you.
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8th - 12th
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The Science of Sports: Curling Article
This informative article gives information on an odd Olympic sport: Curling. It explains the scientific involvement that makes this sport possible and which forces are at work. Great for a lesson on forces and motion.
In my lesson plan, a video is also shown before the students read the article. The video can be downloaded from the following youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTVqtGTfIc8
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5th - 8th
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Literature Lessons: Edgar Allan Poe, Biography, Bio, Tell Tale Heart Lesson CCSS
This Edgar Allan Poe lesson bundle includes three great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Edgar Allan Poe and helping them analyze his famous short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Edgar Allan Poe biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story worksheet helps students analyze basic literary elements of Poe's story as well as his use o
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8th - 11th
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The Monkey's Paw pre-reading questions
This is a list of at least 6 questions for the students to research and provide for class before reading the short story, The Monkey's Paw. The questions are ways for students to visualize the topic of the short story as well as parallel the vocabulary list.
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6th - 12th
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