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With this short unit over scholarship essays and narrative writing, students will evaluate winning scholarships, then write their own using common essay question prompts. I found focusing on how much money students could make from these essays, as well as how useful this essay would be for the future created a lot of interest and some of my kids' best work. I'm happy to share this!

AI generated essays about relatable argumentative topics.

Gift your book club a unique and useful gift! Print and cut out this bookmark and gift it to the readers in your life.

Have your students go through some example essays, annotating each part and analyzing the author's craft, purpose, and effect.

Have your students go through some example essays, annotating each part and analyzing the author's craft, purpose, and effect.

Need an activity that will work with any book? Have students follow the tasks on these critical lens notecards and answer the questions as a group. This pushes for deeper thinking, and will ask rigorous questions of all your students.

This google sheet helps your production organized. It contains a place for everyone's measurements to be in one place, as well as sheets that can be copied for dressing lists. This can be helpful if you have a show where many actors need multiple costumes.

These cards are a quick and easy way for students to begin to analyze literature and films through critical questions. You could give them to various lit-circle groups, or have each group tackle one lens when the whole class reads the same text. This activates deeper thinking and makes connections to the world in which the students exist in outside the classroom.

Help students find better and more reliable sources with this cheat sheet! This poster is 11" x 17", so easy to print on school printers!

Easily keep track of what props you'll need for your production. Know what the prop is, what scene it's in, how you'll get it, and what side of the stage it needs to be on. Share with your stage manager and keep everyone on the same page!

Editable google slide, simple structure with objectives, standards, agenda, materials, assessment, and accommodation.

Print out this lesson plan template to guide your fully fleshed out, backwards-designed, and reflective lesson.

Let students show their higher order thinking when addressing difficult concepts!

Managing your time as a teacher is hard! If you need some help keeping all of your to do lists organized, here is your place.

These are the stations that correspond with the Irony Hunt Worksheet

Meant to be used with Irony Hunt Scenarios/Stations Students can fill out the document as they go around to each station, deciding if something is ironic or not.

These are the notes that the Irony Hunt is based off of. Use these before the notes, or let students scroll through them to study.

Pair this with the slides for an easy way to call students up for conferencing!

Easy way to conference with students. Give them a number, and call them up when it's their turn.

Customize and print these notes 4 to a page for a small, easy way to keep your students organized!