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This is a fun survey that you can use to get to know your students and how they feel about different areas of their home and school life. It is not writing intensive so all students will have access to share their thoughts. I've used humor to engage the students with an inventory that is short enough that you can review a class and hit the ground running with your group!

This is a reflection sheet that student builders can complete after their structure building experiences. This is a great way to assess what they've learned through their successes or failures with the structure building experience.

This is an exploration of Black history that allows students through critical discussion and the analysis of various forms of media to draw conclusion about the importance of studying Black History. Through further critical discussion and the creation of their own media to make connections between what they learn about Black History and an Anti-Oppression framework. The enduring understanding is how each student can take steps to reduce oppression in our learning community.

This learning task involves students completing reading, writing and persuasive speaking activities. My students greatly enjoyed being able to complete this language assignment and share what they know in a meaningful way. The focus of this learning task is on Dynamic Characters & Point of View.

This is the rubric for the Social Awareness: Song Analysis Learning Task that I posted. You can use this rubric to evaluate for final product of that learning experience.

This document is a student anchor sheet of persuasive techniques that can be used in oral speech or writing.

This activity is based on my beginning of the year book: Doors in the Air. I do a read aloud with "Doors in the Air," and then discuss the story and hopes and goals for the year. This activity is designed so that students can express what they feel their "doors in the air" (opportunities) will be in the coming year. The documents can be printed and turned into student booklets. Good luck!

This is the student ballot that you can use for the mock student awards that you can hold at the end of the Song Lyric Analysis learning experience. My students really found that this was an exciting way to cap of an interesting learning experience! Have fun with it!

This powerpoint was NOT created by me and I am just posting it for the purposes of sharing the resource as it was shared on the internet. I did modify the presentation slightly. In any case, the presentation can help guide your students through the analysis of an existing country and can be used in combination with the graphic organizers that I created.

This power points is a great introductory lesson to guide students as they develop their own nation. There are a number of critical questions to get them started with their creative writing and design.

This an excellent learning task that will allow you to differentiate your instruction in history. Students are tasked with creating symbols or images that reflect powerful themes that we use a framework for learning history.