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This resource features 90+ slides to accompany teaching Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X complete with questions, definitions, translations, literary devices, activities, assignments, and rubrics.

In this fun and engaging lesson, students solve the mystery of a stolen ring using witness profiles, interview transcripts, and their detective's notebook. At the end of the activity, students write who they think are responsible for The Hill Heist, the robbery of a jewelry store, using claim, evidence, and reasoning. This activity includes crime-scene themed slides to explain the scenario, provide printable witness profiles, a printable detective's notebook, scripts for students to perform the

Students create their own poetry journal as they are reading Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X. This download includes a file on Google Slides with printable options for 5 full-size pages or 8 half-sheets of 40 journal prompts to use with The Poet X. Recommended UsePrint a class set of prompts (either full page or half sheets) for students to select from and then have students hand write their poems in a journal or separate sheet of paper. To create your own journals, each student can fold four

This packet is a fully editable student-friendly packet to accompany the graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down. This download includes 8 printable pages on Google Slides with a possible answer key for 16 total pages. Recommended UseThe first page of the page is an introduction. I recommend showing students a short interview clip with Jason Reynolds. Then, you can invite students to make predictions and facilitate a discussion on the agree/disagree statements. Personally, I

While I love teaching Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, I have discovered students need a lot of historical background on Iran to understand and appreciate her story. Use this student-friendly and engaging presentation (inspired by Sara Saedi's Americanized) to teach students some of the necessary background information. You can pair the Google Slides with the guided notes worksheet. There is a bonus task to scaffold students' reading of the "Introduction" to Persepolis (Satrapi 1-2) with an addi

Enjoy this print-and-go worksheet to accompany Disney and Pixar's CARS. The printable includes character analysis, theme, and a film review. This is perfect for a sub plan or movie day.

I love to use this graphic organizer as a reading guide while listening to Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. Students can either draw or write a summary in the polaroid, pose a discussion or reading quiz question, track unknown words or allusions to look up, record significant quotes, and track the topics we are examining as themes in the memoir: crime, education, family and parenting, identity, poverty, racism, and violence. The sticky note space is where I pose a specific question for students to

Product OverviewThis is a Google Slides activity for students to complete alongside reading Chapter 2 of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. There are 13 interactive slides that provide pictures, visuals, and maps of the locations, as well as questions and tasks to complete. These slides help to focus students and provide vocabulary in context and reading comprehension checks. Each slide has an interactive task for students to complete (polls, dialogue, questions. etc.). Recommended Use I will usuall