12th Grade Valentine's Day Activities (by date, oldest first)

Teaching your kids love and compassion is a gift that keeps giving. 

Compassion teaches us about empathy and can improve our relationships with ourselves and others. Through that, children can build character and self-confidence. Fostering compassion in children is also one of the best ways to prevent bullying. With compassion, kids decision-making will be rooted in a deep, caring ethic. 

How can we teach our kids about compassion? 

Compassion is a quality that children can learn over time and through practice. We developed three lesson plans so your young yogis can foster love and compassion in three ways:

• I Love Myself: Use this lesson plan to promote inner love.
• I Love My Community: Build love, trust, and kindness with friends and family through this lesson plan. 
• I Love My Planet: Use this lesson plan to build gratitude and love for our planet!

Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents

In our Educator’s edition, we provide 3 easy-to-follow curriculums for teachers, parents, and anyone else that works with tweens/teens. Each lesson plan is formatted to teach an entire class, including discussion prompts, group activities, yoga movement, guided relaxations, crafts, and coloring pages.

Printable Heart-opening Yoga Cards

Learn six (6) yoga poses with our Love and Compassion Yoga Cards. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Use the yoga deck to teach a full sequence, learn individual poses, play games, or leave the cards in your peace corner when kids want a moment. 

This packet includes:

• Three (3) lesson plans to confidently teach a full kids yoga class
• How-to instruction for each activity, written for kids
• Six (6) printable yoga cards
• Six (6) printable coloring pages
• Facilitated discussion prompts, journaling activities, breathing exercises, crafts, games and additional activities 
• Printable journal to reflect on your practice

Love and Compassion Yoga Sequence for Tweens/Teens is a 47 page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

Microeconomics color by number activity. Designed as a valentines day activity but you could use it whenever! Final page is a DIY sheet you can modify.

Looking for a short simple semester of economics? This is it!

3 Units | Fundamentals, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics

Each unit includes editable powerpoint slides and vocab/note packet, activities for each lesson, color by number assessments that could be made into quizzes, bell ringer questions and more!

Bonus File: What else do I do? This has a few extra idea and links about things that I implement into my class but can't share because they come from our textbook.

Does this take a full semester? No, not as created. Most econ classes have a personal finance unit or international unit as well. This bundle would last until the last 4 weeks of the semester, leaving one months time for an additional unit or projects. This assumes you are also doing a review day or two, and test day.

Need some movie recommendations to fill time and give your students a break? Send me a message and I will hook you up!

Complete Microeconomics Unit Bundle!

Covers four lessons about Demand, Supply, Prices, and Market Structures.

• Includes 60 slides
• vocab and note packet
• multiple activities
• color by number assessments

Bonus File: What else do I do? This has a few extra idea and links about things that I implement into my class but can't share because they come from our textbook.

4 Fundamentals, 5 Microeconomics, 4 Macroeconomics color by number activities.

• Each activity has a questionnaire page and a coloring sheet.
• Keys included for everything!
• DIY sheet where you can make your own questions to match your content!

Four color by number activities for a microeconomics unit. Four Editable pages to create your own questions. Topics Demand, Supply, Prices, and Market Structures

Contains the questionnaire, coloring sheet, and answer keys. Also included is a blank page that you can create your own questions for each activity.

Each page takes about 15 minutes for students to answer questions and then color.

These Winter and Valentine's Day word search puzzle sheets are engaging activities designed for fun and learning. It consists of a grid full of letters, containing hidden words related to the themes of winter and Valentine's Day. The goal is to locate, circle or highlight these words within the grid, which can run horizontally, vertically, diagonally or even backwards.

These worksheets provide a fun way to reinforce vocabulary, improve spelling, and encourage attention to detail. Word lists often include terms associated with winter activities such as snowflakes, snowmen, sledding, and hot cocoa, Valentine's Day items such as love, hearts, cupid, and chocolate, and romantic phrases.

Teachers, parents, or individuals looking for fun challenges can use these worksheets as teaching tools or fun entertainment during the holiday season. They meet the needs of various age groups, making them versatile for classroom activities, home entertainment, or even social gatherings.

Puzzles usually come in different difficulty levels to suit different skill sets, ensuring that everyone can participate and enjoy the delightful adventure of finding hidden words amid the winter and romantic themes.

AVID Valentine's Day February Early Finisher Packet - Includes WICOR Skills: This engaging resource This engaging resource is great for early finishers, sub plans, or even study hall. It combines fun activities with academic enrichment, offering a blend of Valentine's Day spirit and educational content. Students will enjoy exciting challenges, goal-setting exercises, a reorganization checklist for binders, and an inspiring reading passage accompanied by thought-provoking questions, and more!

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Directions:

1. option 1- print and hole punch, students keep the pack in the AVID section of their binders and complete when they finish tutorials or class work early
2. option 2- use for sub plans in the month of february
3. option 3- students complete pieces of the packet each Friday through the month of February

21 Pages Included in This Packet:

• A cover page
• Reading passage about Walt Disney and the challenges he overcame as a student
• Reading response questions
• An inquiry page where students write leveled questions in response to the reading
• Creative Writing Prompt
• Binder checklist where students reflect on their binder organization in January and set a goal for February
• Academic SMART goal-setting
• Non-academic SMART goal-setting
• Zentaglemindfulness coloring page
• Self-care list
• Finish the picture
• Word search
• Create your own Valentine's Day word search
• Sudoku
• Word scramble
• Maze
• Word hub
• What do I love thinking web
• Coloring page

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Spanish Early Finishers l Valentine's Day Coloring Pages for SEL: Explore the ultimate Valentine's Day coloring resource featuring 20 captivating pages designed for self-expression and mindfulness. Ideal for early finishers in February, each coloring page is adorned with adorable quotes or phrases, adding a heartwarming touch to the creative process. Use for bulletin boards, early finishers, rewards, Valentine cards, and more!

Perfect for all ages, this delightful resource promises a joyous journey of relaxation and artistic fulfillment throughout the month of love.

What's Included:

• 20 coloring pages with unique backgrounds and phrases or quotes that go with the month of love.

Spanish Resources

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Early Finishers l Valentine's Day Coloring Pages for SEL: Explore the ultimate Valentine's Day coloring resource featuring 20 captivating pages designed for self-expression and mindfulness. Ideal for early finishers in February, each coloring page is adorned with adorable quotes or phrases, adding a heartwarming touch to the creative process. Use for bulletin boards, early finishers, rewards, valentine cards, and more!

Perfect for all ages, this delightful resource promises a joyous journey of relaxation and artistic fulfillment throughout the month of love.

What's Included:

• 20 coloring pages with unique backgrounds and phrases or quotes that go with the month of love.

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Valentine's Day

Classroom Decor

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Use this Valentine's Day-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Valentine's Day spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 5 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "Scientists should design robots that can feel emotions like love."

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More Valentine's Day Resources

February Early Finisher Packet

Valentine's Day Coloring Pages

Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 5-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Speed Philosophical Chairs

Public Speaking Resources

Collaboration Resources

This fun geography skill activity is great for your students on Valentine's Day! We all know how students get excited on Valentine's Day! Through this activity, not only will they have fun working together or individually to solve the puzzle, but they will also have the opportunity to practice reading absolute location —latitude and longitude — coordinate grid system. Each moment is a teaching moment, and this will allow reinforcement of their map reading skills. They will use the absolute locations that are provided on the key and identify the points on the coordinate grid, drawing one line from one point to another. End the end, they have a photo to color and decorate!

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We all know how students get excited on holidays: Chistmas, Valentine's, Halloween, and Thanksgiving! Through these activities, not only will they have fun working together or individually to solve the puzzles, but they will also have the opportunity to practice reading latitude and longitude coordinate grid systems (absolute location). Each moment is a teaching moment, and this holiday resource will allow reinforcement of their map reading skills. Students will use the absolute locations that are provided on the key and identify the points on the coordinate grid, drawing one line from one point to another. End the end, they have a photo to color and decorate!

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• Christmas
• Valentine's
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving

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We all know how students get excited on holidays: Christmas, Valentine's, Halloween, and Thanksgiving! Through these activities, not only will they have fun working together or individually to solve the puzzles, but they will also have the opportunity to practice reading latitude and longitude coordinate grid systems (absolute location). Each moment is a teaching moment, and this holiday resource will allow reinforcement of their map reading skills. Students will use the absolute locations that are provided on the key and identify the points on the coordinate grid, drawing one line from one point to another. End the end, they have a photo to color and decorate!

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• Christmas
• Valentine's
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Easter
• Earth Day
• Veteran's Day

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Visit our store Geography & Math Made Easy to view other related resources:

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✧ Geography Christmas Resources

✧ Other Fun Seasonal Activities

✧ Seasonal Year Around Puzzle Pack (Modified Version)

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Any teacher of middle or high school students knows that emotions tend to run wild on Valentine's Day, and instead of fighting it, this lesson on Shakespearean language will help you to take advantage of the birds and the bees buzzing around in your classroom!

This full-length lesson plan revolves around Shakespeare's mastery of the English language with an emphasis on his knack for coming up with the most compassionate of compliments and scathing of insults. Through a non-intimidating approach, students will have the opportunity to do a little bit of acting and make connections to modern day as they explore Shakespeare's language of love and hate. I am always astounded by the level of maturity of the discussion that arises from this activity as students discuss what makes a compliment or insult particularly effective and from whom it means the most. This is sure to be a lesson that you will use again and again on February 14th.

Product includes:

• Meticulously laid-out lesson with objectives, warm-up, explanation, application, synthesis, and 2 extension activity ideas
• 2-sided worksheet of Shakespearean compliment/insult lists

Though this product is ideal for use on Valentine's Day, it really can be used all year long. I tend to save it for the day prior to school vacation. I hope that your students get a kick out of indulging in their heightened emotions for this lesson.

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⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

⭐ Valentine's Day Love Song Figurative Language BUNDLE

⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Valentine's Day "Love Talk" Lesson Plan

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with this Shakespearean Sonnet Analysis and Creative Writing Activity!

In this creative and engaging lesson plan, students will analyze one of Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets and create their own original poetry inspired by the Bard. This resource provides step-by-step instructions using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. A teacher cheat sheet is also included with full notes on Sonnet 130 so no preparation is needed. Your students will thank you for offering such a fun way to learn about and practice writing poetry!

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- Comprehensive lesson plan

- Copy of Sonnet 130

- Teacher's notes

- Meticulous assignment directions

- Rubric

This lesson is Common Core aligned and appropriate for grades 9-12.

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⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs PowerPoint

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs Task Cards

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⭐ Shakespeare Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Valentine's Day "Love Talk" Lesson Plan

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with this Shakespearean Sonnet Analysis and Creative Writing Activity!

In this creative and engaging lesson plan, students will analyze one of Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets and create their own original poetry inspired by the Bard. This resource provides step-by-step instructions using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. A teacher cheat sheet is also included with full notes on Sonnet 18 so no preparation is needed. Your students will thank you for offering such a fun way to learn about and practice writing poetry!

Product Includes:

- Comprehensive lesson plan

- Copy of Sonnet 18

- Teacher's notes

- Meticulous assignment directions

- Rubric

This lesson is Common Core aligned and appropriate for grades 9-12.

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Also, check out these great resources to complement your unit on Shakespeare:

⭐ Shakespeare Resources by Language Arts Excellence

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Also, check out these great Valentine's Day resources from Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with this engaging communal story-telling activity!

This product features a communal story-telling activity in which students practice using Freytag's Pyramid plot structure in their own narrative writing. In this activity, each student begins a story inspired by a unique Valentine's Day-inspired photograph. They are prompted to write the exposition of the tale by introducing the setting and main characters. After the allotted amount of time, the story is then passed to another student who is prompted to write the inciting incident or conflict and begin to detail the rising action. The paper is passed from student to student twice more until the story is resolved. When the stories are finished, the worksheet is returned to the original student who can then make edits and is responsible for producing a final draft.

With this intrinsically engaging activity, each student has the chance to tap into their creativity while applying knowledge of the 7 steps of Freytag's Pyramid. It is a great activity to introduce or reinforce the plot diagram and is perfect for a Friday, a substitute plan, or simply for when students need a creative break without sacrificing learning and hard work. While ideal for Valentine's Day, it can be used at any time of the year!

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• 31 unique "Collaborative Story Time" worksheets with Valentine's Day-themed photographs (2-sided)
• 1 blank worksheet so that you may include your own picture or photograph

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⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs
⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice
⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs PowerPoint
⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs Task Cards
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Any teacher of middle or high school students knows that emotions tend to run wild on Valentine's Day, and instead of fighting it, this lesson will help you to take advantage of the birds and the bees buzzing around in your classroom!

This product features an engaging "Love Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, speaking, and moving on Valentine's Day. In this activity, they must choose between 6 different quotes from famous figures about love and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective. I am always astounded by the level of maturity of the discussion that arises from this activity as students discuss the different types of love we have for people (and animals, ourselves, and even things) and what loves means to them. This is sure to be a lesson that you will use again and again on February 14th.

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• Comprehensive Lesson Plan with warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis
• "Love Talk" Sheet for students to fill out
• 6 Corresponding "Love Quote" signs to hang up around your room

Though this product is ideal for use during the week leading up to Valentine's Day, it really can be used all year long.

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Also, check out these great Valentine's Day resources from Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs PowerPoint

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs Task Cards

⭐ Valentine's Day Love Song Figurative Language BUNDLE

⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Shakespeare Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

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This resource features a growing bundle of all of our best-selling lesson plans, materials, and activities for your unit on Shakespeare. Resources perfectly complement any Shakespearean play and can be used to introduce the unit (like the Elizabethan Mini-Unit, Scavenger Hunt, and PowerPoint), throughout the unit (Bell Ringers, Sonnet Lesson Plan, and "Death Lines" Activity), as a review (Shakespeare Escape Room), and even to decorate your classroom (Quote Posters). Each product is thoughtfully crafted and inspires students to delve deeply into Shakespeare's life and works. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. You will not find tedious lists of comprehension questions and vocabulary words in this bundle; instead you will find materials that will make Shakespeare relevant in the eyes of your students and bring the Bard to life!

Included in this Bundle:

⭐ Elizabethan England Mini-Unit

This is a differentiated mini-unit on Elizabethan England to prepare students for studying Shakespeare's works! It can be used as an introduction to any of Shakespeare's plays. It begins with a day of research into Shakespeare's life and times, then asks students to create a group collage on their topic and ultimately perform a presentation of their findings.

⭐ Introduction to Shakespeare Powerpoint, Scavenger Hunt & Lesson Plan

This resource features everything you need to conduct the perfect introduction to William Shakespeare for your students. Shakespeare can be undeniably intimidating for students, particularly if they have never had experience with reading his work before, so this lesson aims to engage and show that the greatest writer of all time was actually a pretty cool guy. The powerpoint offers a brief glimpse into the life and times of William Shakespeare and takes about 30 minutes to run through while encouraging optimal student engagement. The scavenger hunt encourages active learning as students discover answers to the 21 important questions throughout the lesson about the man, the myth, the Bard himself. This lesson plan and accompanying materials can be used to introduce a unit on any of Shakespeare's plays.

⭐Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Shakespearean Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game.

⭐ 25 Shakespeare Bell Ringer Journal Prompts

This resource features a set of 25 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on Shakespeare. Each bell ringer is comprised of a Shakespearean quote from one of his plays or sonnets and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect and appreciate the timelessness of his work. Prompts can be used as bell-ringers (most popular and mean the first 5 minutes of every class for more than a month are planned for you!), summarizers, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!

⭐ Sonnet 130 Lesson Plan

In this creative and engaging lesson plan, students will analyze one of Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets about the notorious Dark Lady and create their own original poetry inspired by the Bard. This resource provides step-by-step instructions using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. A teacher cheat sheet is also included with full notes on Sonnet 130 so no preparation is needed.

⭐ Shakespeare Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

This full-length lesson plan revolves around Shakespeare's mastery of the English language with an emphasis on his knack for coming up with the most compassionate of compliments and scathing of insults. Through a non-intimidating approach, students will have the opportunity to do a little bit of acting and make connections to modern day as they explore Shakespeare's language of love and hate. I am always astounded by the level of maturity of the discussion that arises from this activity as students discuss what makes a compliment or insult particularly effective and from whom it means the most. This is sure to be a lesson that you will use again and again on February 14th.

⭐ Shakespeare's "Death Lines" Lesson Plan

In this full-length lesson plan, students will closely examine the final lines of Shakespearean characters before their deaths (if you know Shakespeare, there are quite a few!). Following a mini-lesson on the importance of these final words, students will take part in the classic game, Mafia, with a unique, Shakespearean twist. I invented the take on this game several years ago and it has become one of my students' and my favorite days of the whole school year. There is truly nothing like seeing students having a great time while studying Shakespeare. I am confident that your students will love it too!

⭐ Shakespeare Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game ~ newly added!

This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review Shakespeare and the Globe Theater. Let's face it, review days can be boring for both teachers and students, so liven them up with this collaborative game. The resource includes not only a meticulously detailed lesson plan and set-up instructions, but 30 questions on Shakespeare's life, works, and the Globe. Besides simple set-up, very little preparation is needed for this lesson and if your students are like mine, they will ask for this form of review for every unit of study.

⭐ William Shakespeare Quote Posters

Make your classroom pop with this set of 25 beautifully-made posters featuring quotes from William Shakespeare. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a noteworthy quote from one of the Bard's plays imposed over a stunning photograph that will spruce up your ELA classroom. The square format is reminiscent of Instagram and makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters and using them not just during your Shakespeare unit, but all year long.

⭐ Shakespeare's Epitaph Assignment - BONUS FILE!!

Students get the chance to create the epitaph for the gravestone of the most revered writer of all time. The activity encourages students to be thoughtful with their knowledge of William Shakespeare but also to be creative with their inscriptions. This can be done in or outside of class and also works as a no-prep emergency substitute plan. To be festive, I love to give this assignment on the anniversary of Shakespeare's actual death, April 23, but with the subject at hand, it also works well as a Halloween lesson plan.

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