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Bring Shakespeare to Life Through Movement!Are your students struggling to connect with the "poetic distance" of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Transform your classroom into the Royal Opera House with this comprehensive Balcony Scene Adaptation Analysis. This resource challenges students to look beyond the written word and analyze how complex emotions like forbidden love and internal conflict are translated into world-class choreography. What’s Included?Detailed Analysis Worksheet: A structure

Looking for a way to introduce students to Native American literature? This activity is creative, engaging and informative! Students will appreciate the autonomy of being able to create their own poster according to the story while experiencing some of North America's earliest stories. You can use the shortest story as an example!

Bundle of Six Classroom Posters: Looking for some new posters for your classroom?! These are great for any classroom. They provide some great reminders, a bit of a laugh/cringe (depending on if you're a teacher or student), as well as some fun colors and vibes. Six total posters with fun designs.I am also open to creating any other design or editing any of these to fit your needs.

Included is a fun ice breaker game that I love using during the first week of school to help students become acquainted with each other and comfortable in the classroom. Name Pictionary -- Students draw objects for each letter of their name, and they have to guess other people's names. It helps them and YOU learn and remember the class. I will be adding more ice breaker activities in the coming weeks. I hope you and your students enjoy!

These posters are a fun and relatable way to help students understand the different types of figurative language. Great to have in your classroom as a reference resource. Posters Include:Allegory, Alliteration, Anthropomorphism, Cliche, Hyperbole, Idiom, Oxymoron, Pun, Symbolism

Use these fun ice breaker activities during the first week of school! They're fun, engaging and help your students start working together and getting to know each other and the class. Please let me know ASAP if there are any issues with any product.

❓ Do you need something to help your students with annotating? Try this Close Reading Annotating Toolbox Kit! There's just something about a tiny toolbox loaded with helpful guides and supplies that really puts a buzz in my classroom. I fully believe that providing students with resources and tools that aren't paper after paper ignites something in their brains whether it be a creative spark, confidence boost or just paying attention at all. These toolboxes have everything they need in order to

Use this fun and engaging resource to help your students analyze characters through music. In order for students to really understand the character's taste in music, they have to really know and understand the character. This tool can extend that knowledge and analysis even deeper. Be sure to also ask students to explain their choices for added depth.

Included is a fun ice breaker game that I love using during the first week of school to help students become acquainted with each other and comfortable in the classroom. Line It Up -- During this activity students line themselves up according to the criteria given. You can even have them do it without talking to make it more of a challenge!I will be adding more ice breaker activities in the coming weeks. I hope you and your students enjoy!

Included is a fun ice breaker game. I love using these during the first week of school to help students become comfortable and acquainted with each other. Back to Back Drawing -- This is by far one of my favorites! Students a paired up to try and help each other blindly draw an image projected. The results are always entertaining.I'll be adding more activities in the coming weeks! I hope you and your students enjoy!

Explaining the outline of an argumentative research paper can be monotonous, so here's a fun alternative! The set up of a paper mimics the skeleton of a body perfectly, so of course, why not make it educational?!

This is a great resource for pairing two texts together. Feel free to edit or add any section headers that work with your lesson. I am using this as a whole class activity, however, I see this working perfectly as a group activity or individual. Plenty of space for thoughts and analysis!

I prefer having a copy of the reading and the close read note taking on the same document so the students can see how their notes and questions are coming straight out of the reading and certain sections. It also appeases those organizers who prefer having their notes in a clean and orderly fashion. I've also included some reading comprehension questions and discussion questions. You could have the students answer the questions in the boxes or as they read, take their own notes in the boxes. I'

Here is a great resource to use to send home some positive notes about students! It is so important to make parents/guardians aware of the positive happenings in the classroom as well as the negative. I've created a simple and attractive way for you to do this!