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The Three Blind Men and the Elephant, based on an ancient Indian parable, allows students to reflect on the importance of perspective and avoiding bias in their lives. I use this at the beginning of the year to review/introduce the IB Approaches to Learning skills. The final slide draws a connection to freedom of speech issues (Should offensive speech be banned?) and provides an opportunity for guided discussion as students apply perspective to the real world. (The first 10 slides may be used wi

Help students improve their writing in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on organizational patterns. Use this as a stand alone lesson or in conjunction with the other 6 Traits Writing Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students define and reflect upon their use of voice in this 6 Trait Writing Powerpoint lesson. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Trait Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students learn how to use transition words to connect ideas in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on organization in writing. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Trait Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help your students learn to identify sensory language and use it in their writing more effectively in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on word choice. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Traits Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Build a cooperative classroom community in this creative Get to Know You Activity. Each student will create a paper bag collage and share their characteristics, some outwardly noticeable and others more hidden, with their classmates. Materials are as simple as paper lunch sacks, glue, scissors, and old magazines, and the rubric is included!

Help students recognize run-on sentences and review revision strategies in this 6 Trait Powerpoint lesson on sentence fluency. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Trait Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Get your students to know each other by comparing their own personalities to...a shoe! Students will analyze their own traits and categorize those traits with others like them. Students will then write a narrative story on their life as the shoe of their choice. This is the PPT used to introduce the creative story assignment. The complete lesson plan with rubric is available from Profoundly Grace.

Help students learn how to use conventions more effectively in their writing in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on conventions. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjuntion with the other 6 Traits Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students learn how to vary the length of sentences in their writing in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on sentence fluency. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Trait Writing Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Have students engage in the pre-writing process by taking them through step-by-step as they journal ideas with the help of this Powerpoint lesson.

Help students fine tune their writing from sketchy to clear in this 6 Traits Ideas lesson. This Powerpoint lesson may be used as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Traits Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students focus ideas in their writing with the journaling exercises found in this 6 Trait Powerpoint writing lesson: From Fuzzy to Focused. This may be used as a stand alone lesson or in conjunction with the other 6 Trait Writing PPT lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students learn to clip the clutter in their writing in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on word choice. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Traits Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

Help students learn to identify specific, lively, and vivid language and use it in their own writing in this 6 Traits Powerpoint lesson on word choice. Use this lesson as a stand alone or in conjunction with the other 6 Traits Powerpoint lessons from Profoundly Grace.

These MYP International Baccalaureate Global Context posters are ready to print and place on your classroom wall. (Global Contexts are the lenses in which we focus our IB units.)

Help students write more descriptive sentences in this PPT lesson. The Scarology Descriptive Sentences lesson plan with rubric is available at Profoundly Grace.