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This includes context articles and a pre-reading worksheet to help students understand the different time period. My students struggled to remember that the play takes place in 1592 and this activity really helped them put it into the appropriate context.

Time to play the blame game! For their final "Romeo and Juliet" essay students will pick one of the six major character deaths and write an essay about whose fault their death is. This includes the assignment overview, graphic organizer, grading rubric, and MLA format outline.

For all your student accommodation tracking needs! Use this cheat sheet to help you keep track of which students in which classes have what in class, assignment, and testing accommodations. I've found this super helpful in the past and am excited to be using it again this year.

I used this system in my middle school reading intervention class to motivate students to read as well as participate in class. They got Book Bucks for: reading and reviewing books, answering questions in class, following behavior expectations, showing kindness to other students, going above and beyond in class, etc. The students had a say in the prizes they were able to earn, the ones on the chart are from my classes. It worked well with my students and several of my coworkers adapted it to fit

29 vocabulary words used when teaching "Night" by Elie Wiesel and other literature from the Holocaust including primary sources and "Devil's Arithmetic". This includes the vocabulary guide in which students fill in the missing definitions using the sample sentences to make sure they pick the correct context and find an image to help them remember the word's meaning, a teacher copy of the vocabulary guide with definitions filled in, and three vocabulary activities (I print these out for students

This is an independent reading project that I paired with my Classic Poetry Mini Unit however it can very easily be a stand alone or addition to any poetry units you already teach. The idea is to have students engage with long-form, modern poetry by reading a book in verse. They then needed to give a presentation about why the author chose to tell this story through poetry/verse rather than traditional prose and what they understood the pros and cons of storytelling through verse are.