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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

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

UPDATED JAN 11th TO MAKE A CONNECTION WITH CAPITOL BUILDING STORMING AS CONCLUSION TO UNIT - TO HAVE STUDENTS ASSESS OVERALL IN CONNECTION TO FINAL PASSAGES OF THE NOVELThis FUL 3-4 week unit plan looks at Orwell's classic novel and the eerie parallels that can be found during Trump's Presidency from 2016-2020. This unit plan does not look to the past, with the Russian Revolution as most units do, but to the present - to see how modern day America has a number of parallels. The unit focusses on:

Hans Christian Anderson's short tale of The Little Mermaid has been seen as an icon for the transgendered community - written from a person whose sexuality has often been discussed in relation to such a journey this mini unit will introduce the transgendered journey as seen through discussion around animated film - segments and shorts that offer analogies for understanding the journey against oppressive forces in society the unit has links to videos / excerpts from a select number of films, disc

Research Assignment for Revolutions:Assignment incorporates key stages of a revolution along with Historical Thinking Concepts. This is an assignment that can be applied as a general understanding to most revolutions and allows students an opportunity to learn about a revolution of their choice. Students will focus research on uncovering information on: - Historical Significance - Primary Evidence Followed by research on revolution of choice - looking at factors before during and after that app

Not wanting to read the entire play? Students struggling with William Shakespeare - consider this mini-unit: This film study assignment begins with a handful of key passages - short passages students can dig their teeth into, get a feel for the language, get a feel for some of the characters BEFORE watching the film. With this front-loaded work, students find the film and language of the film more accessible and are able to follow along Post film, a handful of options for character projects are

Prose Terms Review & QuizzesFile ContainsCrossword Review of key terms w/key25 Multiple Choice questions for review (or use as a test for weaker classes) w/key25 Matching Terms quiz (form as shown on cover page) w/keyPoetry & Prose terms handout with definitionsFocus is on key termsConflicts - Character versusPlot Graph stagesCharacter Types - Round, Flat, Protagonist ... etcPOV - First / Third ... etcOthers: Theme, Symbolism, Setting, Mood, foreshadowing ... etc

A Close Reading of the Declaration of Independence with Political Philosophy InfluenceStudents will begin by learning the basic theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes - their political theories on human nature and government. Students will then complete a directed reading (starting guide provided to help students get into close reading / critical reading skills) followed by questions based on their reading Close reading is followed by an original comic creation using the philosophy provided (t