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This is a fun activity to encourage your students to use imagery in their writing. Students will look at different original pictures from around the world and describe them without using the most obvious, common terms. It will challenge them to stretch their narrative writing skills.

This is a concise, yet thorough powerpoint on rhetoric. It breaks down the meaning of ethos, pathos and logos. It defines the terms, gives guiding questions and tips for each. The last slide is a review that can also be printed up and used as a classroom poster. I have taught it and revised it based on student questions, so it is student friendly! Common core standard for writing: "Write arguments to support claims in an analysis...using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

Enclosed are thirty-one word searches, one for each day of the month of December. Each page starts out with a short summary of something significant that happened on that day in history. Underneath is a puzzle containing key words from the summary. Have your students do one a day or save them to use throughout the year when you are teaching topics related to the wordsearch.

This power point is a 20+ slide presentation of Chichen Itza. It is complete with original photographs taken during a recent trip, a brief history of the people and succinct descriptions of the most important structures there. It is a great way to introduce a unit on the Mayas or bring in a bit of culture (and exposure) during a history, geography and/or Spanish class.

Students build their vocabulary through making word associations. They build their logic skills through analyzing analogies. So, word analogies are exactly the type of critical thinking skills we should have students engaging in on a regular basis. Included in this packet are six word analogy Centers around subjects including: U.S. geography, math, art, measurements, opposites, and word parts. Use these during a unit on one of the subjects above or have them available as extra credit station

This is a fall packet containing five activities/stations for Halloween and Day of the Dead. It includes puzzles, a scavenger hunt and writing prompts.

Students who are learning new vocabulary are making associations. This is how they make sense of words in their surroundings...by connecting them to schemata. This activity is created to ask students to group words, identify the word that doesn't belong and explain why. It turns this important mental activity into a written activity, requiring students to use metacognition. The topics vary from geography to Spanish numbers to cognates and beyond.

This is a 30 question matching quiz that asks students to identify the Greek gods and goddesses by their characteristics and legends. The Greek gods/goddesses that are covered include: Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, Demeter , Aphrodite , Hephaestus, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Athena, and Artemis.

Here is a worksheet you can use to have your students practice formatting a variety of sources uses MLA guidelines.

Ever struggle to engage your students in an activity where they dialogue in Spanish with each other? Here is a lesson plan and necessary handouts for a class session of human bingo/loteria humana.

This product is a simple slideshow of images from Prague in the Czech Republic. It can be used to give students a glimpse of the city when you are studying anything Prague related. You are also welcome to use the images as clipart, as long as you publish it with credits.

Here is a packet of winter holiday word problems practicing fractions, decimals and percentages.

This is a three part quiz on the Scarlet Letter. It contains short answer questions, characterization questions and an essay.