Accelerate Humanities

As a middle school Social Studies teacher, I have noticed that most students start the year with significant gaps in their social studies skills that apply to all regions and peoples of study. I use warm ups in my English classes that help students review essential grammar and conventions skills, so why don't we do the same for social studies? I developed this resource as the solution to that problem; students will review things we would hope they already know, develop skills that they can use

Help your students master one of the most challenging literacy skills: writing accurate, concise summaries. This resource provides explicit, easy-to-use sentence frames and language patterns that guide middle schoolers through summarizing fiction, nonfiction, and mixed texts—without copying, retelling, or focusing on unimportant details. Created by a middle school ELA teacher, these supports give students the structure they need to identify key ideas, determine importance, and produce clear su

Give your students the confidence and structure they need to write clear, effective Short Constructed Responses! This resource provides a comprehensive set of student-friendly language patterns that guide middle schoolers through every part of an SCR—introductions, claims, evidence, reasoning/explanations, and conclusions. Designed by a middle school ELA teacher, these sentence frames help students who struggle to get started, stay organized, or fully explain their thinking. They’re perfect for

Take the stress out of essay writing with this digital handout designed to support middle school students in crafting well-structured essays. Featuring language patterns for introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs, this resource provides scaffolding at various writing levels to meet students where they are and help them grow. What’s Inside:Introduction Paragraph FramesLanguage patterns to hook readers, introduce the topic, and present a clear thesis statement.Body Paragraph FramesTools

The PERSIA note-taking system is designed for your social studies students to understand the intricacies of a civilization. They will take notes on the political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic qualities of a civilization and think about how these factors interact. This product can be used in a variety of ways! You can pass out the notes packet at the beginning of a unit of study and have students take notes directly on the pages. You can have students take notes normall

This quick yet comprehensive goal-setting guide will help your ELA students reflect and refocus when returning from Winter Break. Students begin by reflecting on something they accomplished during Q1 that they are proud of. They then think about the academic skills in English that they want to improve as well as the student habits that they need to work on. Students brainstorm the steps they will need to take to attain their goals, as well as how they will know that they have successfully comple