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**This lesson is EASILY adapted to any social studies/history standard!** Students will practice creative thinking using DeBono's Six Hats to evaluate the consequences and implications of taxation and foreign aid as they relate to the American Revolution. This product contains two activities that encourage students to think deeply with strong discussion about these issues from multiple perspectives. By doing so, they will analyze and evaluate the situations in order to create their own general

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

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