Annie B

Make Your Biography Reports Interesting. Students research a person in history (I have my students read a "Who Was?" book for their information) and fill out their information paper. They then make a person out of a Pringle can to represent who they are. Product includes samples of people, information sheet for students to fill out, and email to parents about the project.

Have your students use the graphic organizer to write an essay comparing and contrasting the Maya, Inca and Aztec ancient civilizations. This product includes a graphic organizer to plan their paper, an information paper about what should be included in their paper, and a rubric for grading. *** This product can be used with the Maya, Inca and Aztec information chart where the student gather their information used in this paper.

Google started giving employees 20% of their time to develop their own interests. In this project students will get 20% of their time (one class period on Friday) the last month of school to work on their own interests. Each student gets to choose what they want to do. They might create a fundraiser for a charity they choose, make quilts for the NICU, collect donations for the animal shelter, pick up trash, help a neighbor with work, bake food from their culture, or anything else they can dr

Use the chart to gather information about the Maya, Inca and Aztec Civilizations and then write an essay using the information gathered. This includes a graphic organizer to gather the information, a graphic organizer to plan the essay, an information paper about expectations for the paper and a rubric for grading. This is a bundled pack that includes two separate pieces.

Planning papers and rubrics for reflecting on any book. This includes expectations for historical fiction, biography, and non-fiction book reports, as well as rubrics.

A checklist for partners to use when peer editing an argumentative essay.

After a student reads a book, reflecting on what they read is so important. This framework has the students introduce the book to the audience, and then answer three of 31 unique questions to help the student analyze the book. The student must use text evidence to answer the questions. There is also a second framework option that lets students write about the theme of the story using text evidence.

Have your students explore a website and fill out this chart using the information they learned. They can then use the information to write an essay about the civilizations.

Students will create a poster, bill board, or a commercial to convince people to visit the biome they chose to learn about. Students can use screen castify or adobe spark to create their commercial. They can use canva, google slides, paper or adobe spark to create their advertisement. This packet includes what they need to have in their presentation and a rubric to go along with it.

Explanation for how to host your own Battle of the Books competition.

After a field trip, have students divide their paper into four sections and write/draw about the trip. Make sure they have a title at the top of the page. This is a rubric for their poster.

I'm "cheer"ing you on note for testing week.