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Do your students love visual aids? This is a chart to show how each character is connected to Chase Ambrose with images representing their age/group. This is a helpful resource to show students when reading Restart by Gordon Korman to show visual relationships between characters!

I use this resource for introduction to poetry or introduction to narrative writing. It is so easy for students to engage into their own story with these sentence starters or head off with their own imagination on the blank line template. Easy, ready to use template for your beginner poets! No prep for you! 3 template options for varied levels of learners - ready to DIFFERENTIATE!!!

In the novel Restart, Chase wakes up with amnesia! Ask your students to make a text-to-self connection and put themselves in Chase's shoes to think about what they would want to know about themselves if they woke up with no memories. As a bonus, they also feature the "of course" trend from TikTok as a theme! These slides include: InstructionsA letter to myselfBasic about me infoSchool infoStudent favoritesGoalsFamilyFriendsiPhone template

Updated 4/20/2023 to fix an error on the planner page! A great way to introduce the dystopian genre! Students work in groups to create their own utopian or dystopian society, including the government, the people, the look, the backstory, etc.! This is READY TO PRINT, but you can make it as simple or elaborate as you would like. As it is, it took my students 3-4 days to complete. This can also be turned into a cross-curriculum assignment!

This version of "My Memory Book" is not novel specific, so it is excellent for any time of the school year! It is ready to assign or can be edited to meet your current unit! These slides include: Letter to myselfBasic about me infoSchool year infoStudent favoritesGoalsFamily Friends

Middle schoolers love the DRAMA and the MUSIC! Introduce argument with arguments, claims, and counterclaims in music! Can be used for whole group, small group, or individual 1. This resource focuses on the songs "Driver's License" by Olivia Rodrigo, "Skin" by Sabrina Carpenter, and "Crisis" by Joshua Bassett. 2. The second page is ready for you to write in your own songs!

Ready to print! Print this page, add the title of the song you want to use, and you are ready to go for an easy, fun lesson! I suggest using the song "Just the Two of Us" by Will Smith (clean lyrics and loved by all of my students)!