Jenni Merry

Home Alone is a movie almost everyone has seen a dozen times. Our students love it and for good reason. The main character is lovable and around their age. This is an assignment I’ve used around the holidays to engage my middle school students when, let’s face it, their attention is hard to capture. “Alone Home Part… You” allows students to interact with a well known holiday movie and become a part of it on a rigorous and fun level. While completing this assignments students will be practicing w

I’m so excited about starting this with my class next week. After we discuss acts of kindness as a class, I will pass out the following handout for students to take home to show their parents. I will be printing TONS of light blubs templates and setting them a common area in my classroom. Each day, students who complete an act of kindness will write their name and summarize what they did on a paper light blub and turn it in to our class ‘Turn in bin’. At the end of each day, I will display the l

This is an assignment I’ve used around the holidays to engage my middle school students while practicing argumentative writing. Students will demonstrate higher level skills by evaluating well known holidays and providing evidence as to why they believe one is more superior than the other. This product includes teacher instructions, printable pages for students to use for their final draft, printable and an outline for students to use to brainstorm, a scoring rubric, and an editable of the hando

This innovated reading log will get your students planning and thinking while reading. This reading log incorporates depth and complexity thinking, literary vocabulary, and higher level thinking. Students may complete for daily/weekly homework, or the teacher may decide to use this will a common class reading. Teachers will be able to check for students' understanding and interest with this reading log.

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of simple, compound, and complex sentences by completing one of the assignments. This is a great way to engage students in a lesson that tends to be boring.