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Career Exploration 2-5-8 Projects

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15 differentiated assessment projects for middle and high school career exploration class. Students complete two projects to equal 100 points. Each project is either worth 20, 50 or 80 points depending on the complexity of the projects. Students

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, Critical Thinking

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Internet Activities

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To Kill a Mockingbird Common Core Aligned Quizzes

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Looking for chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird that are CCLS aligned? These three multiple choice quizzes chunk the chapters of TKAM for students to assess their understanding of the text. Answer keys included.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Assessment

$5.00

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Interactive Reading Foldables for Dystopian Fiction

By The Teaching Factor

Do you use interactive reading foldables in your classroom? Do you teach dystopian fiction? If you answered yes to either of these questions than this resource is for you. This product contains five different interactive reading foldables and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

$10.00

$8.00

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Strengths Lesson Plan

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This is a great beginning of the year lesson plan to help students identify their strengths. This lesson plan was originally created for a career exploration class with a focus on how one's strengths can help pin point a career but this lesson plan

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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Lethal Lit Podcast Listening Guide & Choice Board Assessment

By The Teaching Factor

Podcasts are great texts for teaching and learning. Lethal Lit Podcast Series is an engaging six episode mystery series available on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, and other podcasting platforms. Teen detective Tig Torres as she returns to her small

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

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4 Large Class Debate Activities

By The Teaching Factor

Whether you teach speech and debate or a specific content area, these different debate activities focus on skills of argument construction and refutation while involving a large group of students (20+). The four different activities include: Large

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Oral Communication

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

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Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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Expository Writing Outline: Quick First Draft

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A quick expository writing outline to help guide students to writing a first draft for any expository writing assignment. The outline is for upper elementary and early middle school students with may be struggling with writing and putting ideas

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Outlines

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Career Exploration Resume Assessment Project & Rubric

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For a career exploration class, a resume project for students to complete a resume for themselves 15 years in the future. The second part of the assignment includes students writing an elevator pitch to promote themselves and what they hope to

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Assessment

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Media Literacy Curriculum

By The Teaching Factor

This curriculum is intended for middle school students addressing media literacy. This curriculum includes, skills, objectives, outcomes, more than 25 activities, essential questions, assessment project ideas, and resources. The curriculum follows

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Life Skills

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Unit Plans

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Dystopian Playlist

By The Teaching Factor

This three week dystopian playlist is utilized for a book club unit among students. Teachers can personalize the playlist specific to their students and the books selected. This playlist is in conjunction with the dystopian interactive foldables

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.10

$5.00

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Midsummer Night's Dream Task Cards

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Looking for activities, analysis, and questions about Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream? These task cards contain five sets of task cards (four tasks per Act). Activities are based on close reading analysis, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Multiple

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3

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Mythology Activities

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There are two activities as part of the bundle of mythology activities. The first activity can be used as a short do now or be extended into a larger project. The first activity requires students to create their own futuristic mythological god or

Subjects:

Ancient History

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Worksheets

$3.00

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Persuasion in Advertising Assessment Project & Rubric

By The Teaching Factor

Five unique persuasion in advertising project choices for students in a media literacy class. Detailed and specific rubric included with the project choices. Project choices range from advertising scrapbooks, detailed essays, or power point

Subjects:

Other (Specialty), Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Projects, Assessment

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Voice Production Lesson

By The Teaching Factor

Your voice is one of the most influential tools when it comes to public speaking. Before you address tone, volume, pitch, and rate, one has to learn and understand the inner workings of their voice: breathe, respiration, resonation, and

Subjects:

Oral Communication

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

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Japanese Internment Magic Squares Activity

By The Teaching Factor

This is a magic squares activity about Japanese Internment. Students have to identify the 9 words related to Japanese Internment on the top of the page using the clues listed below. Similar to Suduko, all the numbers across and down are equal to

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

8^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Worksheets

$2.00

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1960s Vietnam War Pursuit or Pre-Assessmnet

By The Teaching Factor

Are you teaching about the Vietnam War and looking to find out what your students already know? Or are you looking for a way to get students up and talking about the Vietnam War. This activity was used as a pre-assessment in a rock history class

Subjects:

U.S. History

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

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Worksheets

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ELA Exam Scavenger Hunt

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Great activity for the study of ELA Exams as a genre study. For this activity students work in small groups and use an older New York State ELA Exam to examine the elements of the test. This activity can take up to two class periods for the small

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities

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Rock History Pursuit

By The Teaching Factor

Looking for a fun activity to do your students to find out what they know about rock history. Students move around the classroom to find out what their classmates know about rock and roll history.

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

$1.00

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Figurative Language QR Code Quest

By The Teaching Factor

This Figurative Language QR Code Quest can be used for a refresher on figurative language or an activity to use with students to learn about figurative language. Students will need a Smart Phone or Tablet with a QR Code reader in order to complete

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

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Writing a Thesis: An Interactive Foldable

By The Teaching Factor

If you are into interactive journals, you can add this to help your students learn how to write a thesis. This interactive foldable helps students understand the basic elements necessary to include in a thesis for a persuasive essay.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Arts

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

15+ teaching in secondary education in New York and Connecticut as English and Reading teacher. 5 years teaching graduate level education courses in literacy. Currently teaching academic electives for middle schoolers including rock and roll history, speech and debate, career exploration, media literacy, and speech and debate.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Reading and writing for real purposes, teaching topics that are relevant to students and at the same time focusing on literacy skills to deepen understanding and comprehension.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

GlogsterEDU Ambassador Presented at numerous conferences from 140EDU in New York City to NCTE

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.A. English Education, Syracuse University Ed.M. English Education, Teachers College Columbia University Ed.D. English Education, Teachers College Columbia Unversity

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Author of The Teaching Factor blog and administrator for internationally recognized wikispaces: www.rockwritelisten.wikispaces.com www.mediasavvykids.wikispaces.com www.beyondrms.wikispaces.com www.cyberteaching.wikispaces.com

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading, Specialty, Social Studies - History, Ancient History, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Music, Drama, Career and Technical Education, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Literature, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Informational Text, Close Reading

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