Emily Benham

Give this challenge to your students and have them race to complete it. A great lesson on how important following directions is. Pro tip: Record them! This will turn your classroom into gleeful chaos.

Students work either individually or with a partner, is to find someone featured in Humans of New York and write a biography on them. Students practice summarizing, paraphrasing and reflecting. Students then mimic Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York style of photography and storytelling to photograph and interview someone. Download includes assignment instructions, visual display and example.

Students will learn about imagery and, using quotes from other novels and short stories will explore which sense the passage of imagery appeals to and why the author chooses to include imagery in this specific passage. Based on a provided image, students will have the opportunity to describe the picture using examples of imagery. Finally, students will engage in a week-long observation homework in Shayla's eyeball journal style. **This is a good resource to pair with "A Good Kind of Trouble" by

Prefix and suffix practice for students. Comes with definitions of prefixes and suffixes with examples and two practice worksheets.

Students choose 15 questions from a list of 30 prompts to answer. They organize their answers in a creative Google Slide presentation and present the first five responses to their classmates. Great way for students to get to know each other and for the teacher to get to know their students.

Can be assigned as an in-class working assignment or homework assignment. Students create Google Slide presentations with various key information about themselves including background, character traits, interests, hobbies, and goals. This is a great way for students to get to know each other and for the teacher to get to know their students.

Can be assigned as an in-class assignment or homework assignment. Good way for students to introduce themselves at the start of the year. Optional opportunity for students to present their poem to the class to get to know each other.

Students identify five new vocabulary words in Lisa Moore Ramée's "A Good Kind of Trouble". The assignment includes a place for the student to include a definition, citation, and sentence in their own words.