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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

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

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

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

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

13 Pages of Propaganda Work!This lesson contains:Historical Context for Hitler's rise as a propagandistMein Kampf - context on when it was written after Beer Hall PutschHitler's argument on PropagandaExamination of political slogans (Obama versus Trump)Examination of WWII propagandaDiscussion questions on different aspects of propagandaEra of Fake News in relation to propaganda affecting modern democratic societyExtension questions for summation paragraph response****File should include a PDF in

25 Pages of Handouts / Work This Package Includes: Anticipation GuideIncludes 11 Anticipation prompts. While can be done all to start the novel, they are also broken up by chapter chunks to coincide with readings and offer opportunities to turn into fuller journal responses for larger class discussionsDebate FormatStructured debate form, with research topics, pages for note organization, and class marking rubricSocratic Circle HandoutInstead of debate, looking for a more free flowing class discu

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Iconic Speech - "I Have a Dream" AnalysisThis Mini Unit Includes: One Page Biographical Information & Comprehension QuestionsOne Page Background Information on Segregation Era - Jim Crow & Comprehension QuestionsOne page Significant Events - Information on some other events in MLK's rise as a leader & Comprehension Questions One Page MLK the 'Radical' - Background on MLK and how he was viewed in his age, and by his daughter Bernice & Comprehension QuestionsFull Speech -

Review of writing process with exercises examining:Topic SentencesParagraph UnityParagraph Coherence / DevelopmentThesis StatementsExpository Writing (with exemplar)Literary Analysis (with exemplar)Synthesis Writing (with exemplar)Narrative Writing (with exemplar)Includes Writing TemplatesIncludes RubricsBooklet is aimed to take students through the writing process to develop an understanding of styles of writing, structures to use - exercises to lead students through the process and exemplars t

Holocaust Series Night of Broken GlassThe goal of this lesson is to highlight the importance of the Night of Broken Glass in terms of cause and consequence leading to the Holocaust. It also looks at the nature of propaganda that led everyday German people to the point where such an event was made possible The lesson also looks briefly at the insurgence of Capitol Hill in 2021, how the mentality of Kristallnacht is similar to the insurgence of 2021. The lesson consists of informational text, man

Review of writing process with exercises examining:Topic SentencesParagraph UnityParagraph Coherence / DevelopmentThesis StatementsExpository Writing (with exemplar)Literary Analysis (with exemplar)Narrative Writing (with exemplar)Includes Writing TemplatesIncludes RubricsPages 1-39 take students through the writing process Pages 39-44 writing templates (lit paragraph and expository writing) Pages 45-48 graphic organizers Pages 49-52 grading rubrics (lit paragraph, persuasive, expository, and na

This package includes 5 exercises to help students with formatting and expectations when it comes to creative writing. Filtering Knife Exercise:· Pronoun control – learning to limit use of pronouns, especially the I. Exercise that will require students to take two passes at a passage to reduce their overreliance upon personal pronouns. Punctuating Dialogue Exercise (2):· Two formatting exercises to reformat sections of dialogue from texts, to focus on proper indenting and punctuation. List o

Review of writing process with exercises examining:Topic SentencesParagraph UnityParagraph Coherence / DevelopmentThesis StatementsExpository Writing (with exemplar)Literary Analysis (with exemplar)Synthesis Writing (with exemplar)Narrative Writing (with exemplar)Includes Writing TemplatesIncludes RubricsBooklet is aimed to take students through the writing process to develop an understanding of styles of writing, structures to use - exercises to lead students through the process and exemplars t

Holocaust Series Auschwitz The goal of this lesson is to highlight the importance of Auschwitz, and why this death camp has become integral to the study of the Holocaust - while only one of many camps, studying how it sprung from the ghettos, to what life was like in the camp, and the experiments that went in the camp. Also highlights personal stories, most notably one survivor's story upon her return to Auschwitz. The lesson consists of informational text, many punctuated by videos to support

Holocaust Series Nuremberg and Origin of Genocide as a Cultural TermThe goal of this lesson is to highlight the importance of the Nuremberg Trials in history. This unit is not about all those who face sentencing, but to put the role of the trials within a historical context and a focus on Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil perspective regarding the Eichmann trial. The lesson walks students through historical context, framework for the trials with a series of discussion questions along the way. Th

Review of writing process with exercises examining:Topic SentencesParagraph UnityParagraph Coherence / DevelopmentThesis StatementsExpository Writing (with exemplar)Literary Analysis (with exemplar)Synthesis Writing (with exemplar)Narrative Writing (with exemplar)Includes Writing TemplatesIncludes Rubrics** should have both Word and PDF format in here so you can adjust topics if wishing, but pdf there in case program formatting goes off a bit Booklet is aimed to take students through the writin