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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

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