Michelle's Materials

These two short stories by Ronald Dahl have a very similar theme and similar characters that are very engaging for students to read and compare. I have created six text dependent questions for each text and an additional six questions that directly compare the two stories. I focused on characterization (direct and indirect) and inferencing in the questions. I have also attached an answer key. Tip: My students loved answering and debating these questions in a student-led discussion!

This scavenger hunt guides the students through the USHM's online exhibit entitled, "Life in the Shadows: Hidden Children in the Holocaust." This would work well in a Holocaust novel study unit (such as Maus or Anne Frank) or in a Social Studies WW2 unit.

Anticipation guides are a great pre-reading strategy as it gets the kids to connect with and engage with a text before reading. My anticipation guides ask the students several controversial statements (relating to themes in the text) and then the student must choose whether they agree or disagree and why. I love to have the kids debate their responses before reading and then evaluate their responses after reading. I have included anticipation guides for the following three stories: -Masqu

This webquest incorporates three websites: USHMM.org, History.com, and AMBC.gov in order to review key topics of World War II. There is a total of 30 questions and the answer key is included.

This is a short "quiz" style context clues practice. I've created seven questions based off seven sentences from "Landlady" by Dahl and the students would choose which multiple choice response is the meaning of the unknown word.

Based off the 5th book/movie, I've created a "Proclamation" poster in HP style to tell students of classroom rules.

This is the PowerPoint presentation I have used on the first day of school with my middle schoolers. The presentation includes 5 basic classroom rules with memes and room for individual policies. It includes an a warm-up as well as an ice-breaker activity on the slide and document.