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Looking to enhance your students experience with the classic tale of Icarus and Daedalus? This pack includes an anticipation worksheet to get the ideas and conversation rolling prior to reading the story, as well a worksheets and a contest to assess understanding and creative and critical thinking skills.

Challenge students to analyze Angelou's poem before they read it with this fun mad-lib-like activity. Students will make inferences using the title in order to decide on words to insert in the blanks. There is also a drawing component that will let the students express their decisions visually. This activity is a great introduction to the imagery and style of Maya Angelou's poetry.

Challenge students to analyze Frost's poem before they read it with this fun mad-lib-like activity. Students will have to make inferences using the title in order to decide on words to insert in the blanks. There is also a drawing component that will let the students express their decisions visually. This activity is a great introduction to the imagery and style of Robert Frost's poetry.

An anticipation activity, questions for discussion and assessment, and a letter writing activity to enhance Cisneros' short story about a classroom situation. This activity pack lends itself to to great discussions about the different personalities of the students in your classroom, and is great for the start of the school year.

A poetry activity pack for Nikki Giovanni's poem, Winter. Activities include: a cut and paste poetry puzzle; a "break it down" worksheet; a short assessment; an activity comparing two of Giovanni's poems; and a create your own poem challenge.

Activities to enhance the understanding of Eve Merriam's poem Thumbprint. This pack includes:comprehension questions; fun fingerprint facts; fingerprint observation & simile activity;“What Makes You Unique” descriptive word activity; and poetry writing challenge Whether you are looking for an accompaniment for the poem or are studying fingerprints and looking to add language arts standards, this pack will keep your students thinking.

Using Alberto Rios' poem "When Giving Is All We Have," students will analyze what is means to give. This pack teaches paradox, topic, and theme, as well as challenging students to create their own "giving" poem and reflect upon what they are thankful for.

Engage students with drawing, interpreting, and creation activities to accompany Langston Hughes' April Rain Song.

Use this pack to accompany Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benet's poem, "Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright." Resource includes a pre-reading activity, poem, questions to assess student understanding, and a letter writing activity, challenging students to think about the progress in air travel.

Encourage students to question aspects of their own personalities and the opposing perspective with this creative & critical thinking activity packet. Students will use quick response thinking as well as thoughtful response thinking to make choices and defend those choices. Students will also creatively "sell" their new alternate egos with an advertisement.

Use this pack to accompany William Stafford's poem, "Watching Sandhill Cranes." Resource includes a pre-reading activity, questions to assess student understanding of the poem, and a sandhill crane research activity.

Inspire budding poets with the art of ballet, or budding ballet dancers with the art of poetry. Students will be challenged to create acrostic, haiku, limerick & free verse poetry relating to ballet.

Whether you are looking for activities to accompany Quindlen's thoughtful story or interested in raising student awareness about this growing issue, this packet is applicable. Pack includes anticipatory questions, a webquest, a reading assessment, and a poster challenge. (Quindlen's story is not included.)

Explore Arthur Miller's "Grandpa And The Statue" with this activity pack. Pack includes a Statue of Liberty Webquest, Questions from Reading, Character Traits Identification Activity, and a Poem/Rap Challenge.

Test your students' memory and observation skills with these fun two minute challenges. This is a great Back to School or End of Year activity--ideal for Critical Thinking classes.

Challenge your students to create poetry based on environmental issues and Earth Day goals. This 9 page activity pack contains interactive worksheets to bring awareness and spark creativity about this important day of celebration.

This flexible organizer can be used for note taking, web searches, or as a form of assessment measuring student knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere. I created this as a research tool for my Critical Thinking class as we began to explore the future of space exploration.

Through web research, using these worksheets as a guide, students will look for commonalities and differences between the United States and other countries around the world. This pack contains 2 similarity worksheets, 2 diversity worksheets, and a reflection exercise.

Explore the reflective words of William Stafford in his poem "Stray Moments" with this activity pack. The pre-reading activity challenges students to think about what they are thankful for, and the "Past and Present" exercises and comprehension questions require students to dissect the poem and work to find meaning and connections.

Poems often make us think about ourselves--our good qualities and those areas we want to improve upon. This poetry pack challenges students to analyze Lucille Clifton's "i am not done yet," and make connections between it and themselves. Pack includes, pre-reading activity, discussion page, simile, real life issues, and pause and reflect activities.