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Make ACT English prep something your students actually look forward to with this engaging bundle designed to build skills while keeping energy high! This resource combines a variety of interactive activities that target key ACT English concepts—grammar, usage, rhetoric, and editing—through hands-on, student-centered learning. Instead of traditional worksheets, students practice essential skills through creative formats that promote collaboration, critical thinking, and real-world application. W

ACT Prep Jeopardy Activity – A Game-Changer for ACT Review! If you're looking for a fun, engaging, and highly effective way to prepare your students for the ACT, this ACT Prep Jeopardy Activity is an absolute must-have! As a teacher, it can be tough to find ways to make ACT prep both challenging and engaging, but this game does just that! It covers ALL the bases, from grammar rules and punctuation to sentence structure, rhetorical skills, ACT vocabulary, and reading comprehension – all i

ACT English Prep-The Impostor EditionIf you’ve ever said, “They know the rules… they just can’t apply them,” this activity is for you! I made this because I was tired of doing ACT English review that felt flat. My students could circle answers, but they couldn’t always explain why something was wrong. And that’s where they get stuck on the test. This game changes that. The idea is simple: Students work in small groups. Everyone gets the target skill… except one person. That person is the Impo

Podcast Hot Takes Project — Argumentative Writing + Speaking & Listening ActivityLooking for a high-engagement argumentative writing assignment that gets students excited about analyzing literature? This Podcast Hot Takes Project brings modern media into the ELA classroom by having students craft and present a “hot take” podcast episode based on the texts you’ve studied. This activity blends argumentative writing, textual analysis, and speaking & listening standards into a creative, real-wo

Transform your classroom into an operation room where students become grammar surgeons! This fun and engaging activity takes typically boring grammar lessons and turns them into an exciting, hands-on experience. Students are given a "sick" passage filled with errors (grammar, punctuation, word choice, and more), and their task is to "diagnose/treat" the passage and correct these mistakes in pairs or small groups. With 10 different ACT-style passages, this resource provides students with a w

Bring The Great Gatsby to life with this engaging literary analysis activity that connects Fitzgerald’s classic themes to modern music. In this lesson, students analyze Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” and Rod Wave’s “Great Gatsby” through the lenses of love and desire, beauty and decay, and dreams and disillusionment. Perfect for Honors or AP Literature classes, this resource encourages close reading, lyric annotation, and synthesis writing to deepen students’ understanding of the novel’s

What if Hamlet had to face the real world instead of the ghost of his father? In Hamlet Would Bomb a Job Interview, students take a deep dive into the famously indecisive prince—not just through literary analysis, but by applying real-world reasoning. Would he make eye contact? Show up on time? Collapse under the pressure of "Tell me about yourself"? This engaging activity challenges students to analyze Hamlet's character traits through the lens of a modern job interview. They’ll evaluate his e

ACT English Prep Bingo Game Hey there, teacher friends! Want to make ACT prep fun and engaging for your students? Look no further! My ACT English Prep Bingo Game is a game-changer when it comes to reviewing for the ACT English section. In this interactive Bingo game, your students will be identifying errors in sentences and matching them to the most common grammar skills tested on the ACT English section. Whether it's fixing punctuation mistakes, correcting sentence structure issues, or sp

Get Ready for an ACT Skills Boost – with a Travel Twist! Are you looking for a fun, engaging way to help your students master ACT grammar skills while making real-world connections? Look no further! This dynamic, hands-on activity allows your students to apply their knowledge of sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, conciseness, and word choice to the world of travel brochures. They'll practice the exact skills they'll need on the ACT, but in a way that feels exciting and releva

ACT Grammar on Food Packaging-A Real-World Approach to Test PrepTransform your ACT English prep from boring to exciting with this hands-on, real-world activity that brings grammar concepts to life! Say goodbye to dry worksheets and hello to analyzing real food packaging! Your students will dive into the world of advertising, dissecting product labels to explore key elements of grammar in a fun and engaging way. In this activity, students will carefully analyze food product packaging to identif

Valentine's Day & Love/Romance Assignment Bundle: A Comprehensive, Engaging Approach to Analyzing Literature, History, and Pop Culture!Get ready to spark meaningful discussions and ignite your students' passion for literature, history, and pop culture with this dynamic and rigorous assignment bundle! Perfect for high school English and Social Studies teachers, this comprehensive bundle includes three in-depth, engaging assignments that explore the theme of love and romance from multiple angles,

Fitting in all ELA standards in a way that flows with my classroom has always been a struggle for me, especially grammar! I needed to be able to fit in quick ACT practice on a daily basis that reinforced the skill in a way that would give them exposure to ACT-type questions. That need was the inspiration for this resource! This resource is designed to be a grammar refresh with specific skill practice for how they will see these skills tested on the ACT. Day 1 focuses on refreshing the basics of

Have students embrace AI as a tool to connect music with literature! Having been previously scared of using AI in the classroom, I have strived to find ways to show students how to use it as a tool and connect it to literary analysis. With this resource you will be introducing two awesome AI tools that will allow students to create a song based on their novel. This is an awesome activity if choice reading is your jam! With this activity, they will: -write a detailed description of the book (fo

I created this resource to be an aesthetically pleasing way to respond to journal prompts about a class novel or choice reading novel. Each graphic correlates to a different day of the week. You can use this resource with your own journal prompts, or you can check out my Reader Response Journal Slides resource where you get a larger library of handouts that correlate with each slide of the week. I hope you find this resource useful! Please provide feedback after giving it a try!