Students will learn why text features are important and how they help you read better. This is a great activity to teach text features. You can use this lesson with any textbook! Its also a Power Point so there is no need to make worksheets!
Students will debate the first amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to pray at a school football game based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.
What you get:
1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides.
2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read.
3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate.
There are 14 different exit tickets that can be used with almost any lesson to have a successful ending to your class. All exit tickets are in Microsoft Word so that they can be easily edited if needed. End your lesson with style using these exit tickets.
Students will debate the First Amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to publish the school newspaper based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.
What you get:
1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides.
2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read.
3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate
This activity compares two conflicting primary source writings about the War of 1812 and examines why some wanted war with Great Britain while others saw it as a bad thing that would hurt the country and trade with other nations. After reading the primary sources the students will choose a side and answer this essential question: Should the United States have gone to War with Great Britain during the War of 1812?
Included in the packet is the two primary sources, a guide in how to write a five paragraph essay, sentence starters for struggling students and a rubric.
There are 26 worksheets on letters A-Z
Use them to teach students their ABC's and sight words.
Have the students color the worksheets and put the alphabet up around your classroom!
The students will try and solve the mystery of who fired the first shots at Lexington by looking at Primary sources, finding the main idea of the documents, making judgments and then writing up a detective report to explain what they discovered in a 5 paragraph essay format.
Students will learn how to write an essay by examining a short article about the ownership of the moon answering the essential question: Who owns the moon?
Here is what is in the packet:
1. A short article about the ownership of the moon.
Here is a sample of the article: Land on the moon is for sale! You to can purchase a piece of the moon for a mere 20 dollars an acre or for 25 dollars if you want the mineral rights. Dennis Hope a bar owner and business man says he exploited a loophole in the 1967 UN Outer Space treaty to claim ownership of the moon and other celestial bodies in the solar system. He sells the deeds to the lunar property out of his bar and on the Internet.
More than 6 million people have bought lunar property from Mr. Hope and he has made over 10 million dollars. Even famous people have bought pieces of the moon like Tom Cruise, President Reagan, President Carter, Clint Eastwood and......
2. Questions about the article.
3. A how to write your essay guide.
4. Helpful hints for writing (Great for struggling students and special ed.)
The stories of Pocahontas and John Smith have been told many times but their story has been told in many different ways. The way Disney chooses to tell the story in the Pocahontas movie conflicts with primary source documents of John Smith at the time. Students will read two primary source documents by John Smith that are different accounts of how he was saved by Pocahontas and then watch the Disney video clip where Pocahontas saves John Smith in the movie Pocahontas. Students will notice that one of the primary sources does not match up to the movie. I use to call this lesson the angry letters to Disney because most students will be upset that Disney chooses fiction and excitement over what may have really happened. Of course this is a whole new lesson about why you cannot always believe what you see T.V. This is a very fun activity your students will love and remember.
Your students will write a formal letter to Disney explaining whether or not they liked the Movie and if it was truthful or misleading. Then send the letters to Disney and wait for their response!
What you get in this 5 page packet. Two primary sources form John Smith, a rubric and a how to write your letter example, also notes/lesson plan for the teacher.
Writing a decent persuasive essay can be hard for students but with this simple format students will learn to master it. The seven page packet contains detailed paragraph by paragraph instructions on how to write a 5 paragraph essay and win your argument. It also has a list of writing prompts that they can choose from. The packet also contains sentence starters and suggestions for struggling students and a detailed rubric. You could do this lesson several times picking a different prompt each time until your students master persuasive writing.
This is a packet about identifying different kinds of nouns.
There are 10 lessons in this packet to include:
1. 5 worksheets that identify different types of nouns to include common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and plural nouns. These come with answer keys.
2. There is a worksheet that looks at different types of nouns in sentences.
3. There are 3 color worksheets that create a picture by coloring the different types of nouns different colors. Very fun!
4. A worksheet on I spy nouns in the classroom.
Teach students how to write a good persuasive essay. With this format students will learn to master it. The six page packet contains detailed paragraph by paragraph instructions on how to write a 5 paragraph essay and win your argument. It also has a list of writing prompts that they can choose from. The packet also contains sentence starters and suggestions for struggling students and a detailed rubric. You could do this lesson several times picking a different prompt each time until your students master persuasive writing!
Teach students about current events in many different ways. There are 16 different current event lessons allowing you to change up how you teach current events week after week. There are graphic organizers, persuasive writing assignments, summarizing articles, article analysis worksheets, rubrics, and a text feature assignment all based on current events.
1. Current Events Worksheet
2. Front Page Current Event Activity
3. Current Event Political Cartoon Worksheet
4. Current Events Group Work Activity
5. Developing the Front Page Worksheet
6. Political Cartoons: Current Event Worksheet
7. Current Event Text Features and Predictions Worksheet
8. Bias in the News Worksheet
9. Analyzing Political Cartoons Worksheet
10. Article Analysis Worksheet
11. Post-Book News Website Design Worksheet
12. 5 Different Current Events Graphic Organizers
This is a Journalism packet with 15 different lessons.
Here is what is in this packet:
1. Interviewing log
2. Freedom of the Press Worksheet
3. News or Story Worksheet with Answer Key
4. Writing an Editorial
5. Descriptive Writing Activity
6. In the News Activity
7. News Story Based on News Activity
8. Political Cartoons
9. The Elements of Feature Stories
10. Persuasive Suggestion Techniques
11. Persuasive Writing Activity
12. Descriptive Writing Activity
13. Poetry Review Activity
14. Cover Worthy Activity
15. Expository Writing
This is a packet that contains everything you need to hold a mock trial. The packet sets up the mock trial with a short story where the principal has edited the school news paper. Put the principal on trial and see what the jury decides. The packet will guide the prosecution team and the defense team through the trial setting up opening arguments, questioning and closing statements. This is a fun activity that the students will love.
This essay activity looks at primary sources and quotes about the conditions at Valley Forge and George Washington's concerns about the Continental Army.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. 2 primary sources about the conditions of the army. One is from George Washington and another is from a surgeon that is helping wounded soldiers.
2. There is a rubric for "How to write an essay" as well as a how to write an essay guide.
3. There is a document that gives struggling students helpful tips for writing and sentence starters.
4. There is a Valley Forge: Quotes from the past reading with questions to answer about the quotes. It includes an answer key.