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A companion mini-project for the CommonLit 360 Courageous Choices unit. It includes the starter activity (finding three courageous youth who they find interesting), a narrative writing prompt (write your activist origin story), the slides checklist, a list of people to pick from or use as suggestions, and a slide template one of my students created.

This is an independent reading project that allows students choice that has them exploring what it means for books to be appropriate and deciding if they agree or disagree. In this unit while students are reading their book choice outside of school (or in class, your classroom your call) they are using time in class to learn about what it means if a book is banned or challenged and how that comes to be. This unit comes with articles, resources, and activities using banned or challenged children’

This 3-4 week unit is designed using the fairy tale genre to teach students about the genre, have them practice reading comprehension, give them a chance to review story elements and figurative language, and have them write narratives. Each week of the unit is dedicated to a different fairy tale (Twelve Dancing Princesses, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin) and students will read three different variations of the same story. The first version students read each week is the Grimm Brothers’ story s

This includes the Pre-Reading and Essay resources in my shop as well as a sonnet activity, a debate, and an independent assignment. The sonnet asks students to practice writing Shakespearean sonnets and then to pick one of their sonnets to be graded as a sonnet while the others were participation. I did this before reading while introducing Shakespeare. The debate asks students who they believe is responsible for Mercutio's death independently of the fact that Tybalt struck him with a sword. Stu

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.

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.

This is the unit I use with my 8th graders to review poetry during Poetry Month! Often times I pair it with a viewing of Dead Poet Society and we talk about how poetry makes people feel but that's not included in this unit. Everything is in Google Drive so it will be a doc with all the links to all the materials and slides for you to add to your drive so everything can be tailored.

This project based mini unit has students identify which classic poet they would most enjoy then working either in groups or independently gathering background on that poet and analyzing one of their most famous poems (options provided). I did this in my classroom over a two week stretch with the goal of teaching students how to read poetry the way poets intended for it to be read - for pleasure and with feeling. Overall feedback from students was positive and I've noticed that they better unde

All of my poetry resources that have been successful in the classroom in one easy bundle!

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.

While I love the trend of Taylor Swift themed rules it was hard to find any suitable for high schoolers. So I made some using some popular and my personal favorite songs. These six rules are the foundation of my classroom for the coming year and years to come!

Homophone review slides, packet, and knowledge check that I used with my middle schoolers. After seeing the wrong there/their/they're one too many times I knew it was time for a review. If you're feeling the same way this is the review for you! My students did really well with the refresher!

I used this as a companion to the CommonLit360 Courageous Choices Unit. My students really enjoyed being able to find women they found interesting and connecting the CommonLits to outside sources.