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Start your classes with these warm-up activities - students can cooperatively work through and practice their editing skills, and learn an assortment of different cultural references. 8-10 minutes for students to work through and then review 53 daily editing passages (plus 10 on specific rules to start package) on various pop culture topics like Harry Potter or Thor, to inspirational people like Coco Chanel and Michelle Obama, to significant people in history like Jackie Robinson, Kobe Bryant, L

50 Pages of Paragraph Editing:Great for class start ups to chunk out a segment of the class: Use them daily, once a week or whatever works Used extensively for English 8 and 9 in my classes, but could still work well for English 7 or English 10 classes that struggle with editingfocusses largely on punctuation rules, subject verb agreement, spelling, tenses, parallelism, quotation / title punctuation ..etc. Answer Keys Provided Great for class start up, homeschool learning, or general ELL develop

A creative and fun way to teach about Heraldry in the Medieval Era. This resource begins with an overview of common Heraldry symbols, and four family crests for students to interpret based on the symbol codes provided. This gives students a chance to interpret the symbols and gain a sense of how every aspect of the crest holds meaning. Second aspect provides a brief overview as to how Heraldry has extended beyond the Eurocentric world, with a few examples from India, Nigeria, Japan, and closer

This is a Content Driven Escape Room - An Academic PuzzleThe Escape Room consists of an image of a desk, with a series of images that relate to specific events within the Nazi reign. The informational sheets will help students uncover information about the horrific / racist time period that is reflected by the Nazis, and using this information to help come to a conclusion as to what Hitler and the Nazi Party were working towards. Recommendation of groups of at least 4 students to ensure collecti

Weekly Editing Quizzes:Looking for Easy End of Week Assessment?I tend to run these once a week, end of weeks - chunks out first 15 minutes or so of class Found these quizzes to be really ideal for the grade 8/9/10 range (strong grade 7 is still possible)Quizzes focus on more of the common editing mistakes: spelling, punctuation, proper noun capitalization, homonym errors, tense errors, parallelism, apostrophe use ... etc Great for chunking first part of a class and allows students to see grammat

Hip Hop and Angie Thomas's Novel On the Come Up - 95 pages of content! 3 full months of work!This unit is a creative writing driven unit added with poetry deconstruction work. Aimed to takes students through a creative writing process and poetry deconstruction to begin the unit, then a walk through the history of Hip Hop before getting into the novel itself. At this point, already 3-4 weeks (including in-class essay writing time) into a course before actually starting the novel. The novel itsel

25 Warm Up / MC (Quiz) ExercisesThis file contains 24 editing review sheets, can be used for warm-up activities or for quiz activities. *** Recently added a Bonus 25th on Wild Woman The activities include paragraphs broken up into 10 "sections" each containing one error in an underlined section, with ONE of the ten being correct, and having no error. The content of these passages are varied, offering informational text from a range of different First Nations / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Isla

Six Puzzles Escape RoomThis file contains an escape room with six different cipher puzzles. Students will reinforce their knowledge of a few parts of castles, learning some basic information regarding each of the rooms (The Barbican, The Bailey, The Throne Room, The Keep, The Great Hall, & The Dungeon) while they engage in the material. This escape room, though Castle Themed, is more about educational entertainment. Each of the rooms has a riddle, which will require students to push their read

Intro to Basic Editing Rules - 16 Common Editing MistakesSubject-Verb AgreementParallelismComma UsageApostrophesColon & Semi-ColonRun-on Sentences Comparatives & SuperlativesMaintaining Tense & Number Versus AmountHomonyms & HomophonesWho Versus Whom, Capital Letters, & TitlesPronoun AgreementAdverbsGreat intro to a year, short bell work to get students thinking about editing skills - each of the above pages range anywhere from 10-15 minutes - some single pages can double side for a longer intro

Two Indigenous Literature Units*****NOTE: MANY / MOST assignments are ready to go, a number of texts need to be located and added to your work given copyright BUT many links provided for quick access so will take just a couple minutes AND more here in Word file if 'looking.' For this reason, the amount of work here is priced with this recognition of some added links to follow are needed - but shouldn't take too long. See bottom for list of texts included and ease of access for you. Most can be

Pre-Reading Questions:Attached are 13 pre-reading prompts that can be used before the novel as a whole, or along the way. These questions allow for a deeper understanding of concepts by creating discussions before students read the novel, or chapters in questions. I have broken the prompt into chapter sections, to engage students in discussions that correspond to the subject matter of the chapters. The questions are geared towards engaging in discussions in a thoughtful manner. While I have enga

Start your classes with these warm-up activities - students can cooperatively work through and practice their editing skills, and learn an assortment of different cultural references. 8-10 minutes for students to work through and then review 50 themed daily editing passages (plus 10 on specific rules to start package) This file is a themed focus - on the followingGreek Mythology (10 days - Hercules, Atlas, Kronos, Perseus ...etcBlack History (10 days - Plessy vs Ferguson, BLM, Juneteenth, Tuske

65 Pages of Chapter Work - Novel Unit Plan MaterialThis unit aims to give some academic rigor to what is otherwise an easier novel for the Grade 7-10 range. The focus of this unit is three-fold Writing: Chapter work in the first third of the novel aims to develop writing skills (quote integration) and comprehension skillsQuote Integration Tutorial - Good for grades 7 through 12:Quote Integration Tutorial Oral Skills: The Middle part of the novel sets up a debate on Nature vs Nurture, and Free v

First and Foremost this is Meant as an Educational Escape Room:This resources is aimed to give a flavor of the time, to give students a sense of the time, a few important figures, to use some elements of the Civil War. The resource will include references to: Lincoln Gettysburgh Address & Final SpeechJohn Booth post assassination letterReferences to Benedict Arnold and Aaron BurrExcerpt from Walt Whitman References to Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee- Important note - the material does make re

Existential Literature Unit - unit works through aspects of philosophy with short readings - essays, short stories, poems, films - 41 pages of literature to work through with students while they can conduct a independent novel choice, reading groups for discussion Way This Unit Works for Me: - students can select a novel that works within the theory - can be dissected according to the novel - students conduct dialectical journals with their novels (sample provided in appendix in this file

Hip Hop and the BronxThis short unit will provide a brief introduction to the socio-economic factors that led to the rise of a cultural phenomenon. This unit takes students through African, Latino, and Caribbean influences, acknowledges the impact they all had in the formation of this genre of music. Provides a handful of discussion questions along the way. Offers a deconstruction of one of the first Hip Hop songs, that can be played in class for a student driven discussion, followed by a resea

7 Pages of Work!The British oppression leading up to the Revolution was brought on by a series of Tax Acts. While there are many such acts created by the British, this lesson focusses the first of the acts, to give students a sense of the effect such acts were created. While learning about all the tax acts would be too much for students at this level, having a sense of what motivated the colonials to feel oppressed, to recognize the impact of taxation without representation will help students t

Upper Level English Course Editing:- Common editing mistakes universities see in undergrad writing --- Begins with a review of 16 of the most common undergrad editing mistakes ----- 11 pages - rule overview and editing practice - Multiple-Choice Editing:- Use as Warm-Up Activity (bell work) or Test Student's Editing Skills in MC Format - -- format consists of paragraphs broken up into 10 sections, each with three parts underlined - students determine which sentence has the error --- each page

10 Aspects of Trump's Presidency - 10 Challenges!Designed with Animal Farm in mind, to explore aspects of his presidency that has a lot in common with George Orwell's novel. Designed to give students an overview of his term in White House, to hit a number of highlights to give students a firm grounding of the four years. While Orwell explored the Russian Revolution, this activity will give students a more relevant and modern example that reflects Orwell's argument regarding a democratic societ

2 Terms Practice Pages to Prepare for the Tests 2 Grade 8/9 Tests - alternate versions, or use as retest 2 9/10 Tests - alternate versions, or use as retest Answer keys highlighted to indicate answers and where in examples answers are seen for ease in marking Includes a terms definition Poetry & Prose handout with definitions provided as a handout for students *** many of these questions I have also used on senior tests, just bolstered up a few of the definitions and examples to account for new