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Looking for a way to combine social emotional learning within your typical curriculum? This fun activity addresses both. This 3-day lesson uses the picture book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt to help students analyze character needs, motivations, and perspectives in a low-stakes, highly engaging format. While this was designed for 9th grade students, this lesson can be easily adapted for upper elementary or middle school. High school students love the chance to read a picture book

This handout is derived from Graff and Birkenstein's "They Say, I Say" text. My students do not have their own copies of the book, but I use it as a mentor text during our argument writing units, and this handout gives them a good selection of sentence frames to use. I would recommend this product to anyone teaching argument writing, especially if you are involved with the NWP's C3WP (College, Career, and Community Writing Project). Note: I did not include all of the sentence frames from the b

This is "Day 1" of the science fiction lesson I teach. It is a prezi that goes over subgenres of science fiction, a historical look at science fiction (the prezi includes the George Melies "Trip to the Moon"), and the difference between science fiction and fantasy. Guided notes and a key are included.

Students compare the acutes and chronics in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Simple character analysis worksheet to use with any literary character to identify motivations and character background.

Students choose one of the main characters and make inferences about the character based on dialogue they choose. This was used with a "remedial" 11th grade course.