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Fundamentalists, Terrorists, and Fanatics: Re-Imaging the Middle East through the Graphic Novel This is a complete unit on the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. IMPORTANT: While I have uploaded this as an MS Word document, it actually works much better in Google Drive, as I have linked everything together. If you purchase this, please send me a message with your email and I will gladly share the original unit documents with you. When I taught this in my class, we had frequent discus

This is a collection of unit resources I created to support my ninth graders in reading Great Expectations. This is not the full unit, but it does contain many chapters, which I used to abridge the story for the students (there's an explanation of the abridging included in this collection). The texts included contain embedded guided reading and vocabulary support, summaries of excluded chapters, and structured writing practice. I have also included the first and final quiz I gave my students; t

This versatile document supports teachers in implementing Socratic seminar and classroom discussion. Students write questions about the topic to bring up in discussion, then record their answers to other questions and ways they built the conversation through piggybacking. The bottom of the page provides helpful sentence starters to support ELL and struggling students.

This zombie-centered mini-lesson is intended for use as a review; I would not use this to introduce the concept of subjects and predicates for the first time, as the explanations are not in depth. I use this as a review for my ACT students, most of whom are already on grade level and simply need a review of basic topics before we move on to more complex ideas. You might use this as homework after teaching subject and predicate, as a review before a test that covers this topic, or as a quick revi

For this RAFT, students are asked to take on the role of a doctor evaluating Walter Mitty's mental state. Students practice analyzing character using a TAD poll (thoughts, action, dialogue). They research potential diagnoses for Walter Mitty, and then argue whether, based on Thurber's characterization, Mitty suffers from a psychological condition or is "just a dreamer." This document includes an assignment page, a graphic organizer for characterization to use during reading, an exemplar text bas

A fun final assessment for the Odyssey. Students create a press kit to release about the famous Odysseus! Includes a student assignment page and a rubric.

This is a test goal planner for students to use right before they begin preparing for the ACT. I use it when I teach ACT classes after school at the start of the course, but you could have students complete it when the semester starts or at the beginning of a unit on the ACT.

Simplify your management while teaching students to make responsible choices! Students receive three passes at the start of each quarter and may choose to use them for homework, bathroom, or water. This resource includes classroom implementation suggestions, student instructions, and passes. It works very well for my ninth graders but would be useful to anyone teaching students independence and responsibility.