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Use these interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) presentations as vocabulary lessons for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This bundle of Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words per presentation--77 words total. The words in this presentation are: Set #1: entity, presume, bell

This collaborative, back to school get-to-know-you hexagon activity is perfect for helping your students get to know each other! This hexagon activity can be done with students in grades 8-12 (and younger, with some modifications) and helps students learn each others' names, share safe information about themselves, find commonalities with their classmates, practice critical thinking skills and cooperation, and then reflect on the process as a whole. This resource includes: Teacher instructions,

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

Use these interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) Google Slides presentations as vocabulary lessons for your 8th-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including: context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching, and writing sentences. This presentation has 12 weeks' worth of vocabulary lessons--60 words total. Words are broken into six color-coordinated sets in order to help teachers keep wor

This collaborative, back to school get-to-know-you paper chain activity is perfect for helping your students get to know each other! This paper chain activity can be done with students in grades 8-12 (and younger, with some modifications) and helps students learn each others' names, share safe information about themselves, find commonalities with their classmates, practice collaborative skills as they put everything together, and then reflect on the process as a whole. This resource includes: T

Use these interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) presentations as vocabulary lessons for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This bundle of Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words per presentation--77 words total. The words in this presentation are: Set #8: aberration, clout, vi

Introduce high school students to poetry with this engaging end-of-year presentation. Featuring mini lessons and short analysis activities, it doubles as bell work to seamlessly fit into your classroom schedule. Inspire an interest in poetry while enhancing students' analytical skills with this versatile, ready-to-use resource. This resource includes: 155 Slide Presentation (PowerPoint and Google Slides)10-page packet of poems used in the presentationTeacher Instructions for each slide, availabl

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

This lesson introduces the process of color marking and annotation to students, appropriate for grades 6-12. Using "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, this lesson reviews what annotation and color marking is, why we do it, how to do it, and shows how doing it well helps prepare us for critical thinking and analysis. This resource is presented using PowerPoint and PDF. If you'd like a Google Slides and Google Docs version of this resource, click here. This lesson walks students through the entire

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

Wrap up the old year or start the new one learning the history of Auld Lang Syne and analyzing its lyrics. This presentation allows students to reflect on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day while learning about one of its classic celebratory components. This resource centers around a Google Slides presentation and comes with two handouts for students. It is designed to be completed in 45 minutes, but has optional extension activities that could stretch the lesson to at least two (maybe three, i

Use these interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) PowerPoint Presentations as vocabulary lessons for your 8th-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including: context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching, and writing sentences. These 2 PowerPoint presentations have 12 weeks' worth of vocabulary lessons--60 words total. Words are broken into six color-coordinated sets in order to help teac

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do

Use this Halloween-themed interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are all associated with Halloween and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 15 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students. The words in this presentation are: arcane, a

This novel study and review activity for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert can be used in two ways: to help students look for important moments in the text as they read it for the first time, or as a whole-class review activity after everyone has finished reading the text. As a read-along Bingo activity: Students get a list of 44 moments from the text that may not be major plot points, but are essential for students to notice in order to understand characters and how they interact with each oth

This critical thinking activity for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert uses hexagons and hexagonal thinking to encourage students to draw new connections between characters, elements of plot, and elements of Flaubert's writing within the novel. Students will work with hexagons printed with information from the novel, information from the historical and social context surrounding the novel, and several other categories and draw conclusions about how those tidbits of information fit together. Th

This activity teaches elements of plot and how to summarize a short story using The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving. Using Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" as an example, this lesson teaches students what the elements of plot are, how to identify them in a story, how to summarize them so they fit on a plot diagram, and how to use the plot diagram to write a one-paragraph summary of the story. This resource includes: 56-slide Google Slides Presentation with: Teacher instruct

Use this interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) as a vocabulary lesson for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words for advanced 8th and 9th grade students through 12th grade students--enough for a word a day, plus a bonus if one of them do