This No Prep Book Unit is a companion to “Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story” and contains pages and pages of interactive notbook pages, cross-curricular and engaging activities – all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway or Anishinabe Background Worksheet RI.1 3 Questions Along the Way RL.1 4 About Sootface: In My Opinion RL.2 and W.1 5 Theme Interactive Workbook Page RL.2 6 Character Motivation Interactive Workbook Page RL.3 7 Analyzing Fiction through Illustrations RL.7 8 Summary Interactive Notebook Pages RL.2.2 9 Story Details Interactive Notebook Pages RL.3 11 Compare and Contrast Sootface and Cinderella RL.9 12 Structure of a Story – Sootface – Plot Diagram RL2 and RL.10 13 Sootface Character Analysis RL.3 14 Correct the Errors – Grammar Practice L.1 15 Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story Assessment RL.10 16 Character Conflict in Sootface RL.3.1 and RL.7 17 Inferring Character Feelings RL.1.2 18 Cause and Effect 19 Think, Question and Analyze Critical Thinking RL.5 20 Sootface Report Card 21 Sentence Sorting Cinderella for Practice RL.2 1, 7, 4, 5, 3, 6, 2 22 From Sentence Sorting to Guided Essay Writing W.2 23 Sootface Sentence Sorting L 26 Lights, Camera, Sootface 30 Rubric for All Constructed Response Questions 31 Answers and Resources 33 Thank you for looking, Elizabeth Chapin-PInotti #ChapinPinotti

This No Prep Book Unit is based on Shirley Climo’s “The Egyptian Cinderella” and contains 43-pages of interactive, cross curricular and engaging activities – all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Table of Contents Cinderella Elements #1 Draw A Title Page #2 Questions Along the Way #3 In My Opinion #4 Constructed Response Questions #5 Story Connectors #6 Character Analysis #7 Correct the Grammar Errors #8 Comprehension Quiz #9 Character Conflicts #10 Sentence Sorting #11 Sentence Sorting – My Own Strips #12 Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing Enrichment #13 Dictionary Skills #14 Compare and Contrast Rhodopis and other Egyptian Girls #16 Compare and Contrast Rhodopis and Cinderella #17 Read and Write Argumentative: Social Studies #18 Story Summary #19 Character Changes #20 Text to Text – Cross Fiction Story Analysis #21 My Thoughts While Reading… #22 Inferring Character Feelings #23 Cause and Effect #24 Compare and Contrast – Story Elements #25 Think, Question, Analyze #26 The Egyptian Cinderella Report Card #27 The Egyptian Cinderella Book Review #28 Sentence Sorting Traditional Cinderella #29 Lights, Camera, Action Constructed Response Rubric Guide Constructed Response Rubric Answers Thank you for looking, Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti #Chapin-PInotti

This is a complete no prep Novel Unit for “Fantastic Mr. Fox” by Roald Dahl Over 130 pages of: activities, lessons, writing templates, interactive notebook pages, formative assessments, teaching presentations fluency, daily warm-ups comprehension and more. Differentiated for grades 3-6 with Common Core State Standards alignment pages for quick reference. Also includes two weeks worth of Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups - Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr. Fox themed. This is an all inclusive – must have – engaging lesson for all levels. This is a comprehensive novel unit that is research-based and offers high-order reading, writing and thinking activities. Plus three teaching PowerPoints: Literary Elements, Plot Diagram and From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing –a template-based, differentiated guide to writing

These are 14-print-and-go Earth Day Themed Task Cards. They are engaging and aligned with the Common Core State Standards in ELA. This resource contains 3-mini posters and 14-Task Cards - **Silly Sentence, Parts-of-Speech and Combining Sentences. **

This is a 26-page turnkey, print and go unit for early finishers, literacy centers or whole class instruction. It is differentiated and color coded. Students will practice CCSS for Informational Text and: NGSS 4.4 and 5.5

FREEBIE - WINTER OLYMPIC THEMEDPrint-and-Go Readers - a series of engaging English Language Arts and social studies lessons that allows students to incorporate high interest topics with essential ELA, math and social studies themes and standards while learning about the Winter Olympics. Perfect for centers, early finishers, homework, whole class CCSS work, SPaG and more. High Interest Content! This 34-page Olympic themed unit contains tons activities that include: fluency practice, comprehension, word play, informational text , grammar, word study and more. Perfect for whole class, groups, pairs, intervention, centers and more. Use with the entire Print-n-Go series for a comprehensive fourt/fifth grade program. Works for summer school as well. Super for advanced fourth and to reinforce sixth grade skills as well. • 34- pages in color and also included • Great for students learning English • Great for early finishers • Work in pairs for intervention Students practice reading, writing, grammar, critical thinking and 21st century skills • Access their creativity • Learn new words • Learn about new places

FREEBIE FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. ELEVEN Reading Comprehension Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and help to foster the 21st Century higher order thinking skills necessary in today's world. Not your ordinary multiple-choice bell-ringers, but learning tasks designed to engage students and get them thinking. Eleven in all , these Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups are themed for any day of the school year and are written at reading levels from 4th through 8th grades.

FREEBIE! Each student will be a scientist and create a unique scent through a science experiment. They will label, brand and market their product! Great for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day or anytime. Students wil work through: Next Generation Science Standards •PK – grade 3 students •K-LS1, 1-LS1, 2-LS1, 3-LS1, 2-PS1 •Grade 4 – 6 students •4-LS1, 5-PSI, 5-LS1 •MS-PS1, MS-LS1 •Middle school students •MS-PS1, MS-LS1 •High school students •HS-PS1, HS-LS1 PS1- Structure and properties of matter: LS1-Structure and Function and CCSS in this differentiated science and marketing project on how to make their own perfume.

This NGSS Pancake unit contains three lab projects – for singles, pairs or groups – to be conducted over two days. The labs contain student template pages and are differentiated for different aptitude level. This unit also contains a teaching PowerPoint on the Structure and Properties of Matter. Disciplinary Core Ideas PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter Different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties. (2-PS1-1) • Pancake ingredients classified into solid or liquid. PS1.B: Chemical Reactions Heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. Sometimes these changes are reversible, and sometimes they are not. (2-PS1-4) • Heating the liquid batter turns it into a solid. Students will form a hypothesis as to whether or not this solid will turn back into a liquid and test their hypothesis. Students will explain their experiments.

This is a STEAM unit for middle school science that contains template pages for a "Save the Cacao Plant (NGSS LS3.A, 3.B, 2-4), an engineering design process to invent a candy bar and an art project to create a candy wrapper based on the science of color in marketing. This STEAM unit contains templates for three distinct, integrated projects. The first is science - where students will use the NGSS scientific method to read research (two pages included as well as vetted links to more research) and work to save chocolate from extinction. There is also a PowerPoint to help demonstrate how the scientific method process works - with differentiated student templates for students to follow along. In the second section, students are engineers and their task is to use the engineering design process to invent a candy bar. In the last project, students use the psychology of color to create a candy bar wrapper. This section contains a PowerPoint on the Psychology of Color. All three projects/labs can be done individually or in groups. This is an engaging way to teach NGSS - as it uses topics students can relate to. • NGSS Save the Cacao Plant - Middle School Standards LS3.A, LS3.B, developing and using models, LS2.4. • NGSS Engineering: Middle School ET-S1.1 and ET-S1.2 • National Art Standards - Anchor Standard - 2.3.7A for middle school The student pages are template based and include a lesson on the scientific method NGSS-style. This packet contains: • 41-page handbook with teacher pages • A ten-page PowerPoint on the NGSS scientific method • A 20-page PowerPoint on “The Science of Color” • Plus, various links to other research sites

FREEBIE! This file contains two formative assessments - Circle Around and What Does it Mean to Me for Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Download and enjoy!

These clips are intended add whimsy to your lessons, letters home, bulletin boards – anywhere. They are high resolution and .png for easy layering. These are autumn and Halloween themed. This set contains 73 brightly colored images and their black and white counter parts. They are free for your use – please credit the author if you use them online, in free or priced lessons or in any print work that is not exclusively for your classroom. Please email eac913@yahoo.com with your honest opinion of this product.

A fun fall version of traditional Bingo. 60 - unique Bingo cards with the answers to multiplication math facts 1s through 12's all with a harvest theme. Great for centers, early finishers...anytime. This is an engaging way for students to learn multiplication facts - almost by accident - great for small cooperative groups, where students take turns being the caller, as a whole class activity or for parties. Questions please email: Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti @elizabethpinotti@gmail.com

The non-fiction readings and primary source Document Pamphlet series: Discovering America is designed to help students read for information and think critically while forming their own ideas. Students and adults alike will discover history by looking at artifacts constructed by the people who shaped the United States of America. Perfect for any classroom, from Fifth Grade to college, this series engages students and prompts them to think for themselves, question, reflect and gain a deeper understanding of history. In this edition, students discover the prolific Patrick Henry – who some historians credit as firing the first figurative shot of the Revolution in his fiery “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Read select letters written by Henry, engage in his oratory, learn about his life and decide for yourself the impetus behind a man called one of the greatest Patriots in the history of America.

FREE 36-page Print-and-Go NGSS/CCSS Fiction/Non-Fiction Reader for grades 3-5. Chapter 3 File 1 The Lessons, Experiments and Activities Page 2: Comprehension Quiz Page 3: Five Minute Fluency Exercise 4.Ob.1 Page 4: Constructive Response Comprehension Quiz Page 5: The Great Panda Rescue Chapter 3 – Research Project Scientist in the Field Page 6: RI.4.1; RI.4.2; RI.9 RF.4.4; SL4.1c; SL.4.5; NGSS: 3-LS1-1, 3-LS2.1 Including 2 Non-Fiction Readings Page 13: Cloze Reading Page 14: Making Inferences in Reading RL.1 Page 15: Observations, Inferences and Conclusion RL.10 Page 16: Determining Importance RL.1 and RL.10 Page 17: The Great Panda Rescue Words, Words, Words Page 18: Central Message and Key Details Interactive Notebook Page RL.2 Page 19: Summarize the Text Template RL.2.1 Page 21: Illustrations RL.7 Page 23: Character Trait Templates RL.3 Page 24: Science Words For Analysis and Word Wall Page 25: Answers where applicable File 2 – The Great Panda Rescue Chapter 3 Interactive Reader This is Chapter 1 of “The Great Panda Rescue” Interactive Reader. This is a perfect NGCC, CCSS, STEM story with ELA and other cross-curricular activates and lessons for each chapter. Lessons include: fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, science, math and more. This chapter is aligned with 3, 4 and 5 New California Standards as well. Twelve-year-old Claire wants to be a large animal vet when she grows up, but not the typical horse and cow variety. Claire wants to doctor endangered and vulnerable animals – especially giant pandas. Claire gets the thrill of her life when her class takes a field trip to the Randolph Reserve. Not only does she get to see the giant pandas – she and Julia and their group receive the special honor of viewing a set of panda cub twins – only weeks old. Just when she thinks the day can’t get better, Claire is asked to volunteer at the center for a month that summer. With summer only four weeks away, Claire acts fast. She loves her job; however, she soon discovers that Chenguang, the mother of the cubs, is being sent home to China. A great victory for the Randolph Reserve – as one of their pandas is going back to her natural habitat!

n 1816 Mary Godwin (Shelley) and poet-philosopher Percy Shelley traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to spend the summer with their friend Lord Byron. They whiled away their time on the waterfront boating, writing and talking late into many summer nights. This was the summer in which Frankenstein was conceived. Research suggests that Mary, Percy, Lord Byron and Byron’s guest, physician and writer, John Polidori, decided, at the suggestion of Lord Byron, to have a competition to see who could write the best supernatural story. It seems the summer was rainy and the group spent many hours amusing themselves reading German ghost stories and were thusly inspired. Shortly thereafter Mary Godwin had a waking dream and Frankenstein was born. Mary was 19-years-old. Also, born of the same competition was the most famous of John Polidori's works: The Vampyre. This story was originally credited to Lord Byron; however, both he and Polidori attested it was indeed conceived and written by Polidori. Contained within this publication: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Polidori’s The Vampyre plus an excerpt from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Julian Marshall and an excerpt from the Selected English Letters (XV-XIX) arranged by M. Duckitt and H. Wragg (1913). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein John Polidori’s The Vampyre Plus an excerpt from: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Julian Marshall and Excerpt from: Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries) Arranged by M. DUCKITT & H. WRAGG 1913 Table of Contents Frankenstein page 5 Original Manuscript Page from Frankenstein 1816 The Letters and Life of Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley Chapters 1,2 and 3 Selected English Letters for Primary Source Analysis

Welcome to The New California Standards, The Elements of Mastery Learning and 21st Century Learning training. This PDF contains the teaching journal and teacher professional development pages for: Module 1: Overview and Reflective Teaching Module 2: Require active participation This is a two-year training program with the first year focusing on modules related to The Elements of Mastery Learning. The second year will focus on the New California Standards as they relate to The Elements of Mastery Learning as well as 21st Century Learning. Again: • Year One: The Elements of Mastery Learning • Year Two: The New California Standards and 21st Century Learning You will be responsible for attending one training and one individual learning session each month. Additionally, you will be expected to journal weekly about your progress as we work through each Module. All trainings and PowerPoints will be recorded and available online the day after each training session for reference.. Links will be given at monthly training sessions. Please check back for my other modules and email: elizabethpinotti@gmail.com if you have any questions. Year 1: • Module 1: Overview and Reflective Teaching • Module 2: Require active participation • Module 3: Teach to a standards-based objective • Module 4: Use the correct level of difficulty • Module 5: Always monitor and adjust instruction • Module 6: Know it is your job to motivate students • Module 7: Differentiate to ensure optimum retention • Module 8: Apply learning to real life • Module 9: Wait time If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing. -- Madeline Hunter

Before she wrote what was to become a classic of all ages, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott worked as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War. Written during the winter of 1862–63, her active and heartfelt accounts appeared in the newspaper Commonwealth where the friends and families of soldiers read them as a way to get a glimpse of the horrible realities of battlefield medicine. LMA’s Hospital Sketches also provides a window into some of the early roles of women in the military. Writing under a pseudonym, Alcott recounted the vagaries of her two-day journey from her home in Concord, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C. These chronicles provide a raw and truthful perspective look into an overlooked aspect of the Civil War. This edition contains form-fillable pdf document. Students can answer questions directly on their computer, phone, laptop or tablet and send the answers directly to you. Or you may print out the pdf and use it for packets.

This is a free ebook download for as many devices as you like. Edith Wharton's tale set in working class New England, of a loveless marriage, a horrible accident and a love that can never be. Told through the eyes of a visitor, Ethan Frome's life comes to light in a tormented bleak reality that mirror's the novel's setting. Also included, for literacy across the curriculum and Common Core State Standards analysis are source documents that provide insight into Wharton's life, as well as poetry that is a sharp contract to the dismal overtones of Ethan Frome. This poetry highlights the dedicated and charitable spirit that Wharton espoused and provides a window into her political views and life outside of America. Table of Contents Introduction page 5 Ethan Frome page 7 Primary Source Document Letters page 88 From the 1922 Anthology Poems of American Patriotism Chosen by Brander Matthews page 90

This is a free ebook download for as many devices as you like Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, was originally published in 1850 and is an American Classic. Herein lies the unabridged tale, set in Puritan New England, of Hester Prynne who conceived a child in an adulterous affair and must wear a scarlet A upon her breast. Hawthorne’s tales weave moral messages through complex and psychologically dark romance. His work is part of the Romantic Movement and The Scarlet Letter has been hailed as the first and most important novel in the Romantic Movement in America. Contains: 1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendental Themes in The Scarlet Letter? You Decide 3. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham 4. Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: New York, The Knickerboker Press, 1920