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A fun team activity to prep for your TMP or FPS tasks that can also be adapted as individual student practice. Help students practice evaluating solutions, weighing tradeoffs, and defending decisions—all in an engaging, low-stakes, holiday-themed context. This flexible activity features five North Pole scenarios, each presenting a complex problem and three possible solutions. Students analyze the pros and cons of each option, select the strongest solution, and reflect on its limitations and im

Engage your students with flash fiction through a dynamic, four-station rotation! This ready-to-use lesson targets grades 5–12 (ideal for 7-10) and helps students practice focused narrative skills, story structure, and concise, impactful writing. At each station — Conflict, Character, Setting, and Point of View — students complete a 10-minute free-write, generating ideas and practicing key techniques. Optional sharing, peer review, and revision guide students to transform a quick write into a po

Bring Poe’s Gothic tale to life in your classroom with this ready-to-go Reader’s Theatre script! Perfect for middle and high school English students, this engaging activity allows learners to explore dramatic reading, character interpretation, and the eerie suspense of The Tell-Tale Heart. Also included is a bonus worksheet on tone and unreliable narrators. You will find this extension most appropriate for high school students.