Valentine's Day Unit

Celebrate Valentine's Day with your middle school students. This unit contains 5 different activities that will help reinforce your students' reading, writing, and creativity skills. Students will learn about the historical background of Valentine's Day traditions, prepare for a Valentine's Day discussion about current customs and exercise their creative writing skills.

• This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™.
• The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

Unit Overview:

1. Lesson 1: History of Valentine's Day Video & Reading
2. Lesson 2: Valentine's Day Opinion Writing
3. Lesson 3: Valentine's Day Opinion Fishbowl Discussion & Paragraph Assignment
4. Lesson 4: Valentine's Day Creative Choice Board Assignment
5. Lesson 5: Valentine's Day Creative Writing Assignment

Unit Includes:

• Digital and Print Lesson Formats
• Detailed Unit Plan
• Detailed Lesson Plans
• Assessment Rubrics (Levels & Points-Based)

Resource Notes:

1. Regular reliable internet access is required for this unit.
2. The internet must be able to access online video sources.
3. This resource is a non-editable PDF.

Teacher Feedback

1. “Great resource; my Grade 7/8 students enjoyed this unit!”
2. “These were fun activities to do with the students. I liked the options for colour or black and white as well as Canadian/American versions.”
3. “Fishbowl discussion was great!”
4. “Great product. Loved the 2 choice boards, as I have a split. My students loved the fishbowl discussion.”
5. “Very user-friendly. My students liked the variety of creative writing prompts. I enjoyed the pre-made rubrics that were easy to use and adapt.”
6. “I just started this unit today and both of my 7th grade ELA classes had a great discussion with lots of participation.”

Additional Engaging Valentine’s Day Resources

• Valentine's Day Creative Writing Assignment
• Valentine's Day Non-Fiction Article
• Valentine’s Day Digital Escape Room

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• Global Holiday Celebrations Research Assignment
• Creative Writing Year Long Bundle