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Can your students help Jonas escape the Community? This exciting, student-centered lesson is a great end-of-unit activity or it could even be a test review! Escape Rooms are HOT in education right now. Why? Because they ask students to be critical thinkers, use content in a creative way, and are just plain FUN! My students absolutely loved this activity- I hope you and your students enjoy it too! This product includes: a detailed lesson that explains exactly how to set up your classroom for the

Students participate in 5 engaging stations to build their background knowledge about the play, The Miracle Worker. Students will: participate in a blindfolded trust walk, virtually tour Helen Keller's home, practice American Sign Language, view a clip from the movie, and listen to an interview with William Gibson, the playwright. The information these activities provide can be referred to as you teach the play. My students LOVE this activity as it gets them up and moving, allows them to work bo

Do you need a quick and engaging wrap-up to a novel unit? Do you want to reinforce the themes presented in that novel you just finished? Ask your students to design a THEME POSTER. The themes and example posters in this product are based upon The Outsiders, but you can use the directions and rubric for ANY NOVEL. Using a Google Slide, students will also practice some graphic design elements as they design an attractive poster based on their book. This product includes an Instruction Sheet, Googl

Engage students in poetry by using the extremely popular musical Hamilton! Practice identifying poetry devices using the lyrics of the Hamilton song "Right Hand Man." Students need to be familiar with the following poetry devices: tone, repetition, end rhyme, internal rhyme, consonance, assonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The download contains a link to the Google Doc assignment and ANSWER KEY. If you notice any errors or encounter any problems, please let me know so that I can make corre

Teach your students to write like a food critic! This is a very fun and engaging unit for students in 6th-10th grade. Students love to write about food and restaurants. This will be just the hook they need to get into your descriptive writing unit! This unit can last 2 or more weeks depending on how you decide to use the included materials. Your students will train to be food critics by: -reading about the job of a food critic -learning the vocabulary for describing food and restaurants -parti

Based on The Fundamental 5 Revisited: Exceptional Instruction in Every Setting (2021), this poster captures the highlights of each fundamental practice all in one place. If your school district is focused on these instructional practices, this poster can serve as a handy reminder of all five strategies. The poster is delivered as a PDF. If you'd strongly prefer an editable copy, please email me after purchase: sthurt5@gmail.com The poster is included in the Fundamental Five Bundle which also

This study guide will help students capture the key ideas, names, and events in the film Clash of the Titans (2010). My students absolutely loved watching this film and comparing it to the original myth of Perseus. There are so many important comparisons and contrasts! This guide helped them focus during the film and to review important information later on as we completed a writing assignment. You will have access to a printable PDF of the study guide & answer key, as well as access to the G

Long Way Down is a wonderful book by Jason Reynolds. This product could be used to support a whole class study, literature circle groups, a book club, or even as an independent reading project. When you purchase this product you receive: a 7 page study guide with answer key, three supplemental activities (author interview with questions, poem comparison, & non-fiction article), and a vocabulary guide with answer key. The links to both the editable Google doc and the PDF version are available.

If you use StudySync as your ELA curriculum, you know that students often need more background knowledge in order to successfully understand a text. In order to help student engagement and background knowledge, I have curated a list of supplementary resources for each text in the Grade 9 Unit 1 curriculum. These resources include websites, alternate lesson plans, videos, interactives, images, and review games. It is up to you to decide how and when to use these resources, but consider the guidan

If you use StudySync as your ELA curriculum, you know that students often need more background knowledge in order to successfully understand a text. In order to help student engagement and background knowledge, I have curated a list of supplementary resources for each text in the Grade 10 Unit 1 curriculum. These resources include websites, alternate lesson plans, videos, interactives, images, and review games. It is up to you to decide how and when to use these resources, but consider the guid

Do you need an excuse to listen to Taylor Swift all day? Do you also need to teach grammar? Well, I have just the thing for you! Are you ready for it? You and your students will be in your GRAMMAR ERA with this product: Grammar- The Errors Tour!This product includes...40 lesson slides (themed by era)  covering the following grammar topics: Common vs. proper nounsProper title treatmentPunctuation rules, including dash, semicolon, colon, parenthesis, ellipsisDialogueCapitalizationSentence typesNu

If you use StudySync as your ELA curriculum, you know that text annotation is an essential skill that helps students find success with the comprehension questions and essays. However, students are often at a loss about what or how to annotate while they read. By teaching this very concrete strategy–54321–your students will know exactly what notes to add to the page to help them make meaning. This product includes:1) A link to an editable Google Slide Deck containing 12 slides that will help y

Based on The Fundamental 5 Revisited: Exceptional Instruction in Every Setting (2021), he resources in this product are useful for professional development around the five fundamental practices. The Fundamental Five Self-Reflection Tool is a slide deck filled with questions that come straight from the chapters of the book. Use it as a group reflection opportunity, a coaching conversation, or as a way to self-assess progress on the implementation of The Fundamental Five. The Fundamental Five po

If you use StudySync as your ELA curriculum, you know that students often need more background knowledge in order to successfully understand a text. In order to build engagement and a deeper connection to each text, I have curated a list of supplementary resources. These resources include websites, alternate lesson plans, videos, interactives, images, and review games. It is up to you to decide how and when to use these resources, but consider the guidance I offer next to each link.  This Produc

Ditch the old book report and focus on digital literacy instead! Ask your students to create a visually-appealing infographic based on any non-fiction book they choose. My students were very engaged with this project and it motivated them to read their books. At the conclusion of the project, they shared their Piktochart with a partner who analyzed it. All materials for this project are included and there are examples of everything. You will receive a PDF that contains the assignment, an i

StudySync Grade 9 Unit 2: "The Call to Adventure"If you use StudySync as your ELA curriculum, you know that students often need more background knowledge in order to successfully understand a text. In order to help student engagement and background knowledge, I have curated a list of supplementary resources for each text in the Grade 9 Unit 2 curriculum. These resources include websites, alternate lesson plans, videos, interactives, images, and review games. It is up to you to decide how and whe

SAVE big by purchasing this classroom-tested bundle for ROMEO and JULIET. Common-core aligned bundle includes: -Beautiful packet cover -Five study guides that cover each act in detail -Six one-page quizzes relating to the study guides -Answer keys included for everything! Study guides and quizzes assess students on the following COMMON CORE skills: -define important vocabulary -review and use a figurative language term -summarize a passage -use evidence from the text -analyze author's craft -t

Let your students choose between three engaging projects. All projects require using text evidence! Lord of the Flies is such a fantastic piece of literature. Teaching about imagery, characterization, symbolism, and allegory just comes naturally with this book. However, the chapters are quite long and each one is challenging. By the time we get to Chapter 4--when the signal fire goes out because the boys are too busy hunting and the ship passes by-- we are usually ready for a short break from r

This 2 page Student Notes Sheet can be used with any lesson from Patterns of Power Grades 9-12. There is space for students to write their thoughts for each step of the process: notice, compare, imitate, and edit.

I lov Slow Reveal Graphs from https://slowrevealgraphs.com/ is an amazing classroom resource! It’s a wonderful and engaging way to build graph literacy with students. There are a wide variety of graph types, as well as graph topics to keep everyone engaged. As the graph is revealed frame by frame, use this guided notes sheet to lead students through a prediction routine. Once the entire graph is revealed, reflect on the graph by recording the title, type of graph, the values, the units, and the