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An excellent culminating project or differentiated/compacting assignment for your geometry and angles unit. The students will learn about Cubism's history, defining elements, and important artists. They will view major works of Cubist art with guiding questions about geometric attributes, lines and angles. Finally, a project is presented where students will recreate a famous work of art. They will write a paper that analyzes the geometric attributes, lines, and angles of the work. (Specific guid

This product divides the book //The Tale of Despereuax// into four manageable sections. Each section contains two Creative Thinking and two Critical Thinking questions. The Creative Thinking questions encourage the students to think about the text in a fun and creative way (self-connection, poetry, etc.) The Critical Thinking questions require the students to think about the text using literary analysis (inferring, questioning, predicting, character analysis, figurative language, etc.) There are

This menu offers six choices of activities for "telling time" vocabulary. The choices are based on Bloom's levels understanding, applying, and creating. This was a great way to extend the learning and practice for my students who had already mastered telling time. Time Vocabulary Menu by Annie Lewis Tunnell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

A five-page packet to help your students practice the comprehension strategies (summarizing, visualizing, inferring, predicting, connecting, and questioning), as well as figurative language and advanced vocabulary. I use this packet for my students' self-selected books that they read independently at home or during SSR time. This is a great way to guide them into practicing the comprehension strategies while they read for themselves. I usually use it when we are studying poetry or drama in cla