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This spreadsheet offers a menu for middle school content area teachers (ELA, Social Science, Math, PE, Science, and Electives) with multiple activities for them to choose from to present college and career mini lessons to their classes. Each subject area has four possible lessons to choose from- do one or do all four (24 lessons included)! Lessons can be accessed via the link provided for each content area. All lessons include links to necessary resources.

Let your students get creative while assessing their understanding of the novel Where the Red Ferns Grows. Students create a twelve-page magazine about the novel, including a cover page of their own design, character biographies, friendly letters, acrostic poems, and illustrations of the river bottoms based on students' close reading of the story.

Generic notes to be used in conjunction with reading any novel. Students look at: unknown vocabulary (and defining based on context), setting, characterization, plot elements, figurative language, and predicting. Notes can be adjusted to meet the needs of your students (sections can be added, deleted, or copied and pasted to create pages for more chapters). **NOTE: This packet does NOT look at individual chapters with a multitude of comprehension questions. Each worksheet is a template that st

This is a silent reading log created for use in a secondary language arts classroom. My students currently complete silent reading each night they have class with me (3 times a week, as we are on block schedules). It can be modified to fit the needs of your particular class.

This PowerPoint introduces students to the beginning of the spread of Christianity throughout Europe. Included material covers friars, monks, and monasteries, among other information necessary for students to understand how Christianity spread throughout the European continent.

Students search for clues showing examples of poetic elements and figurative language, then deduce definitions (for most) on their own. 12 clues total, including simile, metaphor, irony, types of poetry, and onomatopoeia. This took approximately 45 minutes for my small tenth grade class to do (25 students), broken up into groups. They loved it! Afterwards, present students with actual definitions or have them look them up. Great creative preview of the unit of study. Comes with all clues (and wh

This document contains four separate writing prompts covering four short stories/poems read in the 7th grade (in California). These prompts can be done by individual students or in groups. Have students practice breaking down the prompts by circling the verbs that tell them what the writing function is and then have them create a thesis and provide brief support for their thesis. Great practice for district or state writing exams.

Several worksheets/activities that focus on simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and hyperbole, primarily in modern music (one page uses a classic poem to teach imagery). Each page defines the terminology, provides examples, and has students demonstrate their understanding of the concept through independent practice. The last page is a classroom tested activity that asks students to discover new examples of these elements through their own music.

Print and copy this form to give to students who are missing work. Write their missing assignments on the slip with their grade and the date due, and then leave their grade in their hands. I've had quite a bit of success using this with my high school students.

This handout asks students to look for examples of a specified literary element or rhetorical device, provide the example, and respond to the example they chose. Product can be edited for use with any text, though I originally used it with Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket. This work by Sarah D. Peterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This PowerPoint goes with the High School Verbs Notes also included in my store. Subject matter covers action, mental, visible, transitive, and intransitive verbs. The end of the PowerPoint asks students to create a product in groups demonstrating their understanding of transitive and intransitive verbs. These slides can be deleted for your convenience.

Students apply their knowledge of capitalism to describe how they would run their own skateboard shop. I did this activity with my 7thy grade world history students and they ate it up! Even my TA for the class wanted to do the assignment! Your kids will love it too.

Make copies of this simple reminder sheet for students so they never forget what a properly formatted MLA-style paper looks like!

7th grade history students often learn about the west African empires that existed centuries ago. This brief Power Point covers the geography, economies, and traditions of some of the key peoples of west Africa, including the Ghana and Malian people.

This worksheet coincides with the High School Verbs Power Point also included in my store. Material covered includes action verbs, mental and visible verbs, and transitive and intransitive verbs. Examples are given of each--and students complete blanks using the PowerPoint presentation noted above. Students are then asked to apply their knowledge of verbs to correctly identify different verb types.

This assessment asks multiple choice and vocabulary questions as an end to a unit on the Fall of the Roman Empire. Questions include topics such as geography, rulers, causes of the Empire's collapse, content vocabulary, and religion.

For early US history, this Power Point covers the develop of the cotton economy in the pre-civil war southern United States. From the cotton gin and Eli Whitney to the use of slave labor, this Power Point covers it all.

This quick reference page summarizes seven different types of pronouns: personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive, intensive, and relative. A quick definition is provided for each, along with examples of words for each pronoun category. Examples of sentences using these pronouns are also a part of this very useful page.

My students were struggling with writing coherent introductions. They couldn't seem to grasp that the thesis statement should come at the end of the introduction, and should be the guide for the rest of the essay. After some serious thought, I came up with these activities. The result was beautiful--my students went from writing introductions that would have earned them between a No Score or 3 on the CAHSEE to almost all of them scoring a 3 or 4. They expressed so much more confidence after doin

Briefly covers the economy, geography, weather, plant and animal life of the African continent.