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Middle school critical thinking literature elective course proposals
Creative Writing Semester
This provides enough material for a full semester of a Creative Writing class. This course is designed for 10-12 grade students, but could easily be adapted for 6-9 grade students. Additionally, if more time is spent in class on writing assignments than is spent as homework, this curriculum would be enough for a whole year.This course curriculum includes a course overview with a suggested timeline. It also includes multiple units focusing on different skills used in creative writing. Each unit
Grades:
8th - 12th
Film Appreciation Course Curriculum Guide
This is a course outline and curriculum guide for film appreciation. It includes a course description, rationale, detailed syllabus by unit, bibliography of resources with links to online open source teaching and assessment resources, learning objectives correlated with Common Core and Texas TEKS, assessment evidence chart. There are samples of major assessments and rubrics for three student projects- a student created film blog, a collaborative mise-en-scene and cinematography digital photograp
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8th - 12th
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Design Thinking Projects: Candy Kids Club- Drawing, sketchbook tablet, CTE.
Overview:Lesson #3 in our Brand Me Level 2 Series is Candy Kids Club.In this hands-on project, students will design and hand-draw a character with interchangeable body parts, similar to the toy Mr. Potatohead. Images can be digitally shared as .jpg, printed, laminated or vinyl-cut as stickers.
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Whirligig Novel: Project
Used with the novel, Whirligig by Paul FleischmanStudents will make a whirligig [technically a pinwheel], but they can also do a digital one.They will choose a person to immortalize.They will also do a small writing prompt.
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7th - 10th
Design Thinking Projects: Generative AI Prototyping for Business, STEM and CTE
Lesson #5 in our Industrial Design series is Generative Artificial Intelligence Prototyping.Do you know what Generative AI means? Did you know that you can use Artificial Intelligence in your classroom? Now is your chance to share a unique and creative lesson with your class that will harness their vocabulary skills and creates some mind-blowing designs and artwork. Use this lesson and the top AI source to develop a class set of AI designs in seconds. Every designer in the world is anticipating
Grades:
7th - 12th
Reading Class Syllabus, Procedures, Presentations, and more Bundle
Reading Class, Reading For Fun, Reading Elective, Literacy Support? Includes:- Syllabus- Procedures- Rules/Responsibilities- Welcome Presentation- How to Calculate GPA presentation- Evaluating Web Sources presentation- What Makes a Sentence? presentationfrom The Patriot
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7th - 11th
Life is Not Complicated You Are- A novel Guide
Note to the Teacher, The author of Life is Not Complicated, You Are, Mr. Carlos Wallace teaches life lessons through his autobiographical narrative. The intent of this novel study is to provide lessons and suggestions for Secondary English educators as an opportunity to discuss the difficult coming of age topics with our students. As educators, we are aware that there are many ways to approach a novel study. This novel study guide approaches the content through a social justice lens. The le
Grades:
8th - 12th
Digital Literature Circles
A literature circle is a student-led discussion group focused on a particular piece of literature. Students in the group take on different roles, such as discussion leader, summarizer, or connector, and prepare for the discussion by reading and annotating the text based on their role. During the discussion, each student shares their insights and analysis of the text, building on one another's ideas and observations. The goal of the literature circle is to engage students in critical thinking, an
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6th - 9th
Creative Journal Project Timeline
A graphic organizer to support independent research, inquiry projects and creative projects in the classroom.
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Build a literary character
Building a literary character can be a lot of fun. It is giving form and essence to a being that will exist in the story you want to write. However, you should not take it lightly. Each of the characteristics of that character must serve the development of the story, otherwise, it will look like an extra in the plot.The next exercises are for you to create a strong character, either main or secondary, but one that supports the general concept of the story you are going to write.
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4th - 12th
Build a literary character (Spanish version)
Construir un personaje literario puede ser muy divertido. Es darle forma y escencia a un ser que existirán en la historia que quieres escribir. Sin embargo, no debes tomarlo a la ligera. Cada una de las características de ese personaje deben servir para el desarrollo de la historia, de lo contrario se verá como un extra dentro de la trama.Los próximos ejercicios son para que puedas crear un personaje fuerte, ya sea principal o secundario, pero que apoye el concepto general de la historia que va
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Grades:
4th - 12th
15 creative writing exercises
This exercise is a set of fun activities for students to develop creative writing.Very useful once a week to motivate them to do creative work.
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6th - 12th
WHEN BAD NEWS HITS HOME -1- CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
This is the first lesson plan from the series, "When Bad News Hits Home." I wrote this resource in two separate lesson plans. One distinct lesson plan is based on the secular teaching for the Public Schools. The other one is based on the Christian perspective for private schools, faith based schools and homeschool. This is an extremely important teaching and practical tool that will help our students when they go through life crises. More mothers are diagnosed with cancer and their children are
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Competitive Debate: The Complete Package
I could give you a lot of reasons for why your school should have debate as a centerpiece for it's advanced language arts or English program, but the article below from The Wilmington Star News is probably the best case for it. If that doesn't sell you, I only ask that you take a moment out and read what I wrote for the TPT page Preview. I PROMISE you, I will be there for you in every way imaginable if you take this on (... short of coming to your school. I'm a North Carolina teacher and funding
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
Stories Alive! The Mightiest Heart Lesson Plan
Stories Alive! is a multi-workshop lesson plan utilizing two wonderful fairytale stories: “Baba Yaga and Vasalisa The Brave” and “The Mightiest Heart.” Both include audio recordings of the stories read by theater professional, Kristine Waters is a veteran performing arts, teaching artist, originally trained by Lincoln Center artists in the mid-90’s. Her Masters in Education focused on Collaborative Educational Leadership. She is a professional actor with tremendous background and training in a v
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1st - 8th
Independent Study Proposal Form: Quick 2 Per Page Printable
Use this quick form for students who are engaged in independent study time, to submit their topic proposal prior to getting ready for independent research. Perfect for early finishers or gifted students who have already learned a concept and can move onto another choice project to build self-efficacy.
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3rd - 8th
Digital Comprehension Test (Google Docs) - The Haunting of Hounds Hollow
If you are familiar with the Accelerated Reader program, you know that they can be useful tools for monitoring student comprehension. When my school didn’t renew our AR subscription, I was at a loss because earning AR points was a big part of my classroom reading incentive program. So I created my own program and tests for books in my library—“RIF” (Reading is Fun) tests. I keep track of the tests taken by students, the comprehension rate for the tests, and the points earned. This is my digital
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4th - 6th
Graphic Novel Class Resource Material
All Graphic Novels discussed in this product I have material for at my TpT store.When I first tried to develop a graphic novel class it took me a long time of researching to figure out how to make it work and I had to create a lot of material for administrators and school board members unfamiliar with Graphic Novels to quickly evaluate and feel confident in what I was trying to do. Here I'm providing all that material I had to make for free in the hopes it'll help save time for any other teacher
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8th - 12th
A Complete Course on Critical Thinking
This 12 unit course can be used as an entire semester course or individual units to supplement an existing English or social studies curriculum. Units include media analysis, impact of social media and various forms of propaganda that students are exposed to everyday. Can also be used for debate teams or forensics clubs such as Model UN, Junior State, etc.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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21st Century Music: A New Curriculum for a New Century
What is 21st century learning, what are 21st century skills, and what does a 21st century classroom look like?
What are the main elements that are indispensable for success today? What are you doing in your classroom to implement them?
In this 10 week unit we focus on 3 main ideas
Personalized Learning Approach
Technology & Tools
Collaboration & Feedback
Using technology to enhance instruction, web-based resources, and peer-to-peer interactions. Students are creating, critiquing, and
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Put Student Motivation First: Generating Discourse That Motivates Students
Naturally, having a professional background in engineering and business, and being the son of a mother who taught school for 30 years, I had dreams of implementing an entrepreneurship curriculum into public schools. However, it wasn't long after trying my hand at teaching, first as a substitute and then a math teacher, that I realized the broad culture of public education wasn't conducive to this integration--the students were too far removed to appreciate the creative freedoms of such an opport
Grades:
6th - 12th
Scary Shelf Display
A great student Library Aide visual design opportunity.
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6th - 12th
Mythology Recruitment Poster
A poster and flyer that can be used to generate interest in your mythology course. It prints especially well in black and white - but printed onto colored paper.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Getting Started with Blended Learning: 8 Week Syllabus
Transitioning to Blended Learning is here! Are you ready? Where do we start? This customizable online syllabus is a great place to begin!
Transitioning to Blended Learning by Consuelo Frausto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Based on a work at https://docs.google.com/document/d/15_JxbccDYrv2KxyZh6dhyIXwWMgpm8IgJ5QMjcSfdVQ/edit?usp=sharing.
Grades:
5th - 7th, Staff
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