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This slide deck is designed for use with middle or high school GSAs to spark meaningful conversation during Transgender Awareness Week. It explores five common myths about transgender identities, with each slide clearly debunking a misconception and providing thought-provoking discussion questions to encourage student reflection, understanding, and respectful dialogue.

This slide deck is designed for use with middle or high school GSAs to spark meaningful conversation on Bi Visibility Day. It explores six common myths surrounding bisexuality, with each slide clearly debunking a misconception and offering thought-provoking discussion questions to engage students in reflection and dialogue.

This Slide Deck is designed to complement a student facing worksheet (included in the bundle) and helps teach students the key skills of writing in a formal style. The activity is inquiry-based: students first brainstorm, individually or in groups, what formal writing does and does not look like. Next, they review sample sentences from a student essay comparing two familiar texts ( The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Tortoise and the Hare). The sentences feature common style errors such as vague wor

This student-facing packet prepares students to participate in a fishbowl-style discussion after reading both "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and The Giver by Lois Lowry. The packet includes instructions and a rubric, nine discussion questions formatted in a graphic organizer which requires students to provide text evidence, and space for note taking during the discussion. Discussion questions are divided into three categories: Theme, Character/Setting, and Personal Reflection. I typically div

This mini-unit is for the graphic novel version of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson. Materials are designed to be used with student-led literature circles. Each Lit Circle Guide focuses on one or two chapters in the novel and follows a Before/During/After Reading approach. Students begin each day with a Turn & Talk that will help students connect their own lives and the real world to issues in that particular chapter. Then, students will read the chapter and complete com

This slide deck is great to use with a middle or high school GSA. It could also be useful in a media course. The slides will guide the group through a series of discussion questions. In the middle of the discussion, students will watch a video that will spark further discussion for the following slides.

Use this checklist as students decode the NJSLA released rubrics and sample prompts for all three writing tasks: Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, and Argumentative. This can be used throughout the year, or as a review of key terms and elements used in each type of writing.

This is a student-facing guide to a fishbowl discussion for after the reading of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Discussion questions focus on characters, plot, and theme. The packet includes a rubric, graphic organizers for preparation, and a note taking page for during the discussion. Feel free to modify anything to fit your students' needs!

This resource is provided as a Google Doc so it can be assigned in Google Classroom, giving each student their own editable copy. The document serves as a digital game board featuring major characters from the novel. Just like in the classic game of Guess Who, students ask their partner Yes/No questions to identify the mystery character. It works well as a review activity near the end of the novel, or earlier on to help students keep track of the many characters.

This resource is provided as a Google Doc so it can be assigned in Google Classroom, giving each student their own editable copy. The document serves as a digital game board featuring major characters from the novel. Just like in the classic game of Guess Who, students ask their partner Yes/No questions to identify the mystery character. It works well as a review activity near the end of the novel, or earlier on to help students keep track of the many characters.