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This engaging, interactive activity is meant to help students connect with major thematic ideas in The Crucible. On occasion, some of the nuance of the play can be lost on students who have a difficult time relating to characters who believe in witches. This activity is meant to connect students' to that experience, and the feeling of hysteria, in a fun, action-packed with-hunt in their very own classroom!

Engage students by having them create a comic from their own life or family history or an “extra” scene that could have been in the graphic novel. The write-up justifying their aesthetic and content choices focuses primarily on conflict and theme. Download includes: -Assignment outline -Rubric -Exemplar

This plan contains everything you need to make debate interesting and challenging in your classroom. This 3-day plan puts students on a deserted island, with only a few select items to survive... This download includes a guided 3-day debate that is accessible to all students and will help develop student-centered discussions and teamwork to develop critical analysis. This package is an engaging way to develop students' debate skills and also as a pre-reading task or a culminating activity for

A final exam on the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel. This comprehensive final includes questions from every level of Bloom's Taxonomy including: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Help your students connect with their favorite character in a way that is both creative and critical analytical by having them create a wordle! I use this assessment at the end of Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet to help to reinforce their understanding of character. For this assignment, students will be creating a wordle (a bundle of adjectives that take the shape of a symbol- website provided) that effectively and creatively describes a character from the play.  In their wordle they shall include de

Included in this purchase: Film question and therapy tracker: Generalized film questions based on setting, character motivation, etc. A table for students to connect with the therapy sessions as a process of integration as hidden parts of Will's self are brought into consciousness. Mask assignment: This creative representation assignment helps students to explore how Will is able to access the repressed or denied parts of himself by having students explore how Will is on the inside (internal se

Engage students with a review game! This activity includes four sections with four corresponding codes for students to receive to escape the room! Estimated time may vary but should take between 30-60 minutes. 1) Plot- students will place quotes and plot points in chronological order 2) Technique- four questions related to literary devices/stylistic choices 3) Characterization- students will need to select provided quotes and order them correctly to show character development (Jack and Ralp

This writing task allows students to connect with the titular character Macbeth by exploring their perspective of his moral alignment throughout the play. Based on the alignment system from the popular game Dungeon's and Dragons, students must categorize Macbeth based on their perception of his views on " law" versus " chaos", and the other on " good" versus " evil". The two axes allow for nine alignments for the students to choose from. While some make more sense than others, there is no "rig

The podcast Serial is of high engagement to students and can make a nice introduction to a crime themed unit or as a persuasive writing task. Included in the package are: a worksheet that allows students to organize their thoughts on the first episode of the podcast including identifying the most significant details and connecting with basic literary terminology. The writing task allow students to explore their perspective/opinion of the murder based on the first episode with accompanying rubr

This plan contains everything you need to make debate interesting and challenging in your classroom. This download includes a guided 2-day debate on a topic that is relevant to their lives and is accessible to all students. The package also includes graphic organizers, PTA character profiles, a step-by-step guide, and an assessment rubric. Throughout this lesson, the materials will help develop student-centered discussions and teamwork to develop critical analysis. This debate is geared towar

Reading comprehension terminology and vocabulary broken-down for student accessibility.