9th Grade Writing Projects
7-Unit Humanities & SEL Bundle for Grades 5-8 | Social Justice, Equity, SEL
By TooBookedUp
1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ | Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar
Description:
Explore the theme of equity and disabilities in schools and society with this 18-day unit designed for grades 6+. Students will engage with informational texts, videos, and case studies, leading to a STAAR-aligned extended essay and research project. This resource includes Socratic seminars, assessments, and creative projects to promote critical thinking and empathy. Perfect for SEL, humanities, and cross-curricular classrooms.
2. 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Poetry, Assessments
Description:
Dive into the global topic of migration and immigration with this 18-day thematic unit for grades 7+. Through poetry, short stories, and informational texts, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of immigrants. Includes project-based assessments, writing tasks, and creative multimedia projects to foster understanding and empathy. A great resource for ELA, social studies, and SEL instruction.
3. 18-Day Multimedia Anti-Bullying Thematic Unit for Grades 5-8 | SEL Humanities
Description:
This 18-day multimedia unit on anti-bullying for grades 5-8 engages students with a range of media—films, political cartoons, short stories, and songs—to understand the impact of bullying in schools and society. Includes two Socratic seminars, a STAAR-aligned extended essay, and a creative capstone project. Ideal for SEL-focused classrooms and humanities teachers.
4. 19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project
Description:
Help students explore their own social identity and the factors that shape it in this 19-day unit for grades 6-8. The unit includes videos, readings, and group projects focused on themes like identity, community, and belonging. A low-prep, high-impact resource that encourages self-reflection and empathy through engaging multimedia activities and a culminating project.
5. 20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Essay, Assessments
Description:
Explore the intersection of social media and mental health in this 20-day unit for grades 7+. Students will examine the effects of social media on well-being through informational texts, videos, and podcasts. Includes a STAAR-aligned essay, Socratic seminar, and multimedia project, making it an essential resource for teaching critical thinking and digital literacy.
6. 7-Day World Religions Research & Presentation Unit: Interdisciplinary Grades 6-8
Description:
This 7-day research and presentation unit allows students to explore major world religions through research-based learning. Perfect for grades 6-8, students will develop presentations on various religions, fostering understanding and global awareness. Includes guided research templates, presentation rubrics, and cross-curricular connections.
7. Human Rights 5-Day Research and Writing Unit | Middle School Social Essay Project
Description:
Introduce your middle school students to the concept of human rights in this 5-day research and writing unit. Students will engage with informational texts to explore human rights issues globally and locally, culminating in a social justice essay project. This unit is ideal for quick yet impactful lessons that combine research, writing, and advocacy.
WANTED Poster Template | Book Villains - Reading
By Nardine Mettry
Wanted! Book Villains! Turn your students into character analysis detectives with this engaging and creative activity! By creating wanted posters for their favorite book villains, students will dive deep into character traits, motivations, and physical descriptions.
What's Included:
- Wanted Poster Template: A customizable template to guide students in creating their posters.
- Wanted Poster Example: A visual model for inspiration and structure.
- Villain List: A helpful resource for students who need a starting point or alternative characters.
This resource encourages critical thinking, creativity, and a deeper understanding of characters.
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Fairy Tale And Monologues Part 2
By MsNerdWood
Are you ready to unleash the creativity of your students? If so, you’ve found a great activity!
Welcome to an enchanting world of drama activities designed to captivate and inspire your middle school or high school students! This engaging bundle features ten thought-provoking scenarios rooted in classic fairy tales, encouraging students to explore themes of identity, decision-making, and self-discovery. From Cinderella's modern twist to Snow White navigating the realms of social media, each scenario invites students into a realm of creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative learning. With rich character dilemmas, these activities offer a unique blend of dramatic arts, moral exploration, and language arts, and challenge students to analyze, interpret, and perform in a manner that's both entertaining and educational. Unlock the magic of drama in your classroom as students delve into timeless tales with a contemporary twist, fostering a love for storytelling, character development, and meaningful discussions. Your students are sure to be spellbound by the imaginative world of Fairy Tales and Monologues Part 2. If you enjoy this activity, check out Fairy Tale and Monologues Part 1!
What Students Will Be Doing:
This is a 3-part assignment that incorporates both individual and group assignments. Groups of students (4-6) are responsible for writing an individual monologue, a group script and a final monologue reflection. Students will take on the role of a character from a well known fairy tale. In the individual monologue, students will get to explore the perspective of their character and how the new dilemma a character is faced with should be solved. The group will then figure out a solution to the dilemma and will write a short script to show their resolution. After the group has resolved the dilemma, each character will have an opportunity to reflect on how their character feels about the outcome. Don't worry I've included some rubrics that you can use for each section too and some worksheets to help guide student thinking.
Topics Covered:
Monologues
Script Writing
Dramatic Performances
What's Included:
- 10 Fairy Tale Scenario Cards
-Cinderella Is Sick Of Glass Slippers
-Snow White And The Social Media Mirror
-Rumplestiltskin’s Business Dilemma
-Rapunzel’s Career Tangle
-Little Red Riding Hood’s Identity Crisis
-The Three Little Pigs: The Real Estate Dilemma
-Puss In Boots’ Style Dilemma
-The Princess And The Frog’s Cuisine Dilemma
-Hansel And Gretel’s Social Media Detox
-The Sleeping Beauty’s Career Awakening
- Detailed instructions for students
- PowerPoint to go along with each activity
- Rubrics
-Written Work - Individual First Monologue
-Written Work - Individual Writing for Final Monologue
-Written Work - Group - Script Writing
-Performances - Individual
-Performances - Group
-Peer Assessment
-Self Assessment
ENGLISH | CLASSROOM DEBATE | PERSUASIVE | JURY | UNIT | WORKSHEETS + ACTIVITIES
By French Made Fun!
Want to engage your middle-schoolers and develop their persuasive language, their confidence, their research skills, their teamwork and their respect in a fun, culminating project? Look no further!
I reserve this project for the end of the year as a fun, energetic project in which I assess oral proficiency, teamwork, research skills and persuasive language.
This 50-page debate package includes everything you need to get rolling! Let me guide you and your students to have a successful debate. This document includes:
- Teachable Content including complex vocabulary and debate-specific concepts with a language they'll understand.
- Discussion Prompts and opportunities for shared practice, independent practice and group practice.
- 40 Task Cards and Flashcards to facilitate practicing and "warming up!"
- Step-by-Step Instruction to guide them in the creation of counter-arguments and rebuttals (with models), using reputable, credible sources of information, and in properly formatting their argument.
- Teacher Notes highlighting how I structure my debates including classroom setup, timing, group creation and debate topic generation.
- Graphic Organizers and Rubrics to assist you and your students in planning out their steps and meeting the criteria.
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All About Me | CONVERSE First Day Writing | Fun Activity | Back to School | BTS
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking for fun get to know me and writing activities for the first day or week back to school? This Converse-themed All About Me is the perfect way to get to know your students! Converse sneakers are popular among teens, and any teacher that presents an activity using them will receive immediate engagement and be crowned the "cool teacher." Use this activity year after year, as students get to know each other through their interests rather than completing a boring worksheet!
Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! Students will write about any day in their life...from the point of view of their Converse!! You'll love reading the finished products.
Perfect for Back to School season to get your new batch of kiddos better acquainted with each other! Makes for a unique hallway bulletin board display as well, just in time for Open House!
This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, cut out and hang!
Boring worksheets begone!! ***CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW***
This resource includes:
- Completed Color Converse Sample for Demonstration
- Printable Converse All About Me
- POV Writing Template (PDF)
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
You may be interested in the Back to School Activity Bundle which features 25 printable activities that are just perfect for the first weeks of school. A cover is included if you would like to print it as a packet!
Included in the Resource:
- My Favorite Things Flower Craftivity -perfect for display
- All About Me
- Get to Know You Fortune Teller Craftivity
- Get to Know Me 3D cube activity
- Back to School Vibes - reveals secret message!!
- Class Bingo Get to Know Classmates edition
- Two Truths and a Lie
- School Rules Crossword Puzzle with solution
- This or That?
- Word Search - with 48 words
- Find the Classroom Maze - with solution
- DIY Word Search (use with names of students in your class!)
- Letter to Your New Teacher
- Letter to Your Future Self
- Message in a Bottle Writing
- School Memories Writing/Drawing
- Autobiography Writing
- Back to School Acrostic Poem
- Design a Hoodie
- Design a Book Cover
- Design a Hat and Sneaker Set
- Back to School Goal Setting
- Beginning of Year Vibes
- Setting Expectations
- Back to School Bucket List
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Check out the Pop Culture ACTIVITY BUNDLE - your solution to no-stress lesson planning and easy print and go sub plans.
INCLUDES THESE HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...
⭐️ Crocs
⭐️ Netflix
⭐️ Takis
⭐️ Fortnite
⭐️ MrBeast
⭐️ Air Jordans
⭐️ TikTok
⭐️ OpenAI
6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!
Each set includes...
► 1-page pop culture article
► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions
► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions
► Crossword Puzzle
► Design Page
► Impossible MAZE
This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.
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Writing a play is a perfect project that gives students time to write about an event that happened in their life or an event that they made up. Once they are finished, they can share it with different groups of people and have their friends play each character. This packet includes information to share with your students about what a play is, examples of plays they may see, what steps to follow when writing the beginning, middle and end of a play, and identifying the parts of a play. This packet also includes an example showing the process that is used to write a play using a brainstorming play chart. An example of the play chart and template is also included. On the last several pages, templates are included to help students write the rough draft and final draft of their play that includes space for characters, scenes, stage directions, and lines to show what their characters are saying.
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Monster (Myers) Breaking News Article Assignment
By Language Arts Excellence
This product serves as a chance for your students to get creative as they work on their summarizing skills with the oftentimes difficult and fast-paced work of fiction, Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Each student is responsible for answering questions and ultimately writing a "Breaking News Article" on one day of the trial of Steve Harmon. A 4-day suggested procedure is included so virtually no preparation is needed for this engaging activity. This engaging, student-tested resource is Common Core aligned.
Product Includes:
- Full assignment directions
- 4 Day Suggested procedure
- List of comprehension questions
- Graphic organizer for article
- Scoring guide for project
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Coloring Christmas Cards Template | Happy Holidays Cards | Christmas Service
By Crafting Curiosity
Looking for NO PREP Christmas Cards or Holiday Cards to print off for your students to color and write in?
These printable Christmas/Holiday Cards are the perfect service project to do with your class this holiday season. Students will color their holiday card and write a message inside. Students can gift this to their families or to a local community center in need of some holiday cheer!
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
- 24 Unique Holiday Greetings Cards: Print 2 to a page to save on paper!
- 13 "Merry Christmas" Cards
- 5 "Happy Holidays" Cards
- 6 Holiday Pun Greeting Cards
- 3 Optional Writing Pages: To differentiate for younger grades.
- Teacher Instructions
- View Preview to See ALL Cards!
Wrap up the holiday season with this heartfelt, engaging activity.
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By Meggen Loew
2 Page Country report. Pre-generated blanks and questions to guide in the development of early research skills.
Does not include space for recording citation notes.
Novel Study for Independent or Small Group For Any Novel
By Susan Wolfe
Novel Study for Any Novel (Independent or Small Group Novel Study)
For Grades 6 to 9
Aprox. 8 weeks teaching duration.
Google Slides, PDF, Editable MS Word
No Prep
Includes:
Reading comprehension questions
Several writing assignments
Analysis of character, mood, setting, literary devices
Graphic organizers
Student self assessment
Grading Rubric
20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ Project, Essay, Assessments
By TooBookedUp
Engage your middle and high school students with this 21-Day Multimedia Thematic Unit focused on Social Media and Mental Health! Designed for Grades 7 and up, this comprehensive unit weaves together ELA, social studies, and digital literacy through interactive lessons, activities, and assessments that explore the influence of social media on identity, mental health, and society.
This unit features a variety of multimedia resources, including TED Talks, informational articles, political cartoons, and the documentary The Social Dilemma. Students will develop critical thinking skills as they engage with different forms of media, reflect on their personal social media habits, and create meaningful projects like a political cartoon capstone.
What’s Included:
- Daily Lesson Plans for 21 days of engaging, standards-aligned instruction
- A range of activities including debates, Socratic seminars, and reflective writing
- Viewing guides and discussion prompts for multimedia content
- Informational text analysis with evidence-gathering strategies
- Step-by-step directions for creating a capstone political cartoon on social media’s impact
- Assessment rubrics and graphic organizers to support student learning
Aligned Standards:
This interdisciplinary unit is aligned with Common Core ELA Standards (including reading, writing, speaking, and listening), as well as ISTE Digital Literacy Standards. Perfect for cross-curricular learning, it encourages students to develop literacy skills, media analysis, and digital responsibility.
Why You'll Love This Unit:
- Interactive and Student-Centered: Students engage with real-world issues like social media usage, body image, and mental health in meaningful ways.
- Multimedia Integration: Incorporates TED Talks, articles, documentaries, and more to create a rich, dynamic learning experience.
- Project-Based Learning: Culminates with a creative capstone project where students design their own political cartoons, showcasing their understanding of the unit’s themes.
- Critical Thinking and Reflection: Encourages self-awareness as students reflect on their own social media habits and the impact on their mental health.
Who It’s For:
- Middle and high school teachers (Grades 7-12) looking for an engaging, interdisciplinary unit that addresses current issues.
- Educators seeking a Common Core-aligned and ISTE-aligned unit that integrates social media, mental health, and literacy skills.
Perfect for:
- ELA, social studies, and digital literacy classrooms
- Teachers looking for 21st-century skill-building units
- Classrooms wanting to address the impacts of social media on student well-being
This 21-Day Multimedia Unit will help students understand the impact of social media on their lives while improving essential academic skills. Get ready for insightful discussions, creative projects, and meaningful reflections that resonate with your students’ real-world experiences. Download now and bring relevant, standards-aligned learning to your classroom!
Fairy Tales And Monologues Bundle
By MsNerdWood
This Bundle Includes:
-Fairy Tale Monologue and Script - Drama and Language Arts
-Fairy Tales And Monologues Part 2
Fairy Tale Monologue and Script - Drama and Language Arts
This is a 3 part individual/group assignment where groups (of 4-6) are given a problem based on a well known fairy tale where students have to write and perform their solution to the problem. Students will write out a monologue individually and as a group will write the body of the script. After the groups have resolved their problem, each group member will have a chance to reflect on how their character feels after the resolution of the problem. This activity would be appropriate for middle school or high school students. This package will provide your students with hours of entertainment that include opportunities to write and showcase their creativity. For teachers, it provides great opportunities to teach script writing, assess writing samples, dramatic performances, and to foster group cooperation.
Topics Covered:
Monologues
Script Writing
Dramatic Performances
Fairy Tales:
Cinderella: The Shoe Fits ALL Of Us!
3 Little Pigs: I’m Not Paying Insurance!
Snow White: Time To Move On?
The Ugly Ducking: Is Plastic Surgery The Answer?
Cinderella 2.0: Matters Of The Family
Rubrics Included:
Written Work – Individual First Monologue
Written Work – Individual Writing for Final Monologue
Written Work – Group – Script Writing
Performances - Individual
Performances – Group
Peer Assessment
Self-Assessment
Fairy Tales And Monologues Part 2
Are you ready to unleash the creativity of your students? If so, you’ve found a great activity!
Welcome to an enchanting world of drama activities designed to captivate and inspire your middle school or high school students! This engaging bundle features ten thought-provoking scenarios rooted in classic fairy tales, encouraging students to explore themes of identity, decision-making, and self-discovery. From Cinderella's modern twist to Snow White navigating the realms of social media, each scenario invites students into a realm of creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative learning. With rich character dilemmas, these activities offer a unique blend of dramatic arts, moral exploration, and language arts, and challenge students to analyze, interpret, and perform in a manner that's both entertaining and educational. Unlock the magic of drama in your classroom as students delve into timeless tales with a contemporary twist, fostering a love for storytelling, character development, and meaningful discussions. Your students are sure to be spellbound by the imaginative world of Fairy Tales and Monologues Part 2.
What Students Will Be Doing:
This is a 3-part assignment that incorporates both individual and group assignments. Groups of students (4-6) are responsible for writing an individual monologue, a group script and a final monologue reflection. Students will take on the role of a character from a well known fairy tale. In the individual monologue, students will get to explore the perspective of their character and how the new dilemma a character is faced with should be solved. The group will then figure out a solution to the dilemma and will write a short script to show their resolution. After the group has resolved the dilemma, each character will have an opportunity to reflect on how their character feels about the outcome. Don't worry I've included some rubrics that you can use for each section too and some worksheets to help guide student thinking.
Topics Covered:
Monologues
Script Writing
Dramatic Performances
What's Included:
- 10 Fairy Tale Scenario Cards
-Cinderella Is Sick Of Glass Slippers
-Snow White And The Social Media Mirror
-Rumplestiltskin’s Business Dilemma
-Rapunzel’s Career Tangle
-Little Red Riding Hood’s Identity Crisis
-The Three Little Pigs: The Real Estate Dilemma
-Puss In Boots’ Style Dilemma
-The Princess And The Frog’s Cuisine Dilemma
-Hansel And Gretel’s Social Media Detox
-The Sleeping Beauty’s Career Awakening
- Detailed instructions for students
- PowerPoint to go along with each activity
- Rubrics
-Written Work - Individual First Monologue
-Written Work - Individual Writing for Final Monologue
-Written Work - Group - Script Writing
-Performances - Individual
-Performances - Group
-Peer Assessment
-Self Assessment
All About Me | First Day Writing | Air Jordan Fun Activity | Back to School |BTS
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking for afun get to know me and a writing activity for the first day or week back to school? This Jordans-themed Nike sneaker All About Me is the perfect way to get to know your students! Jordans are popular among teens, and any teacher that presents an activity using them will receive immediate engagement and be crowned the "cool teacher." Use this activity year after year, as students get to know each other through their interests rather than completing a boring worksheet!
Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! Students will write about any day in their life...from the point of view of their Jordans!! You'll love reading the finished products.
Perfect for Back to School season to get your new batch of kiddos better acquainted with each other! Makes for a unique hallway bulletin board display as well, just in time for Open House!
This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, cut out and hang!
Boring worksheets begone!! ***CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW***
This resource includes:
- Completed Color Jordans Sample for Demonstration
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- POV Writing Template (PDF)
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
You may be interested in the Back to School Activity Bundle which features 25 printable activities that are just perfect for the first weeks of school. A cover is included if you would like to print it as a packet!
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- Design a Hoodie
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- Back to School Goal Setting
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- Setting Expectations
- Back to School Bucket List
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INCLUDES THESE HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...
⭐️ Crocs
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This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.
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Writing a book report based on a book that students enjoyed reading is a fun and interesting project for your students. Students can take this time to go back and review their favorite parts of the book, favorite characters, the setting, and the plot of the story. This packet includes a brainstorming template and rough draft template for students to write a book report based on a book that they read. Students can also use the rough draft template for a final written draft or can type their final draft.
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Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle
By Language Arts Excellence
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This resource features a bundle of all of our best-selling lesson plans, materials, and activities for your unit on the Master of Suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Resources perfectly complement any of Poe's twisted tales and can be used to introduce the unit (like the Scavenger Hunt and PowerPoint), throughout the unit (Bell Ringers and the Obituary Project), as a review (Escape Room, Brochure, Human Tic Tac Toe Game), and even to decorate your classroom (Quote Posters). Each product is thoughtfully crafted and inspires students to delve deeply into Edgar Allan Poe'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 Edgar Allan Poe relevant in the eyes of your students and bring the Father of Horror back to life!
Included in this Bundle:
⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint
This product features a highly-engaging introductory PowerPoint Presentation for the Father of Horror himself, Edgar Allan Poe. A unit of study on Poe is not complete without learning the gory and heartbreaking details of his life and what made him into the master poet and writer whom we continue to marvel at today. This 20-slide powerpoint runs through his tragic family life and childhood, relationships, early occupations (before he was the Poe that you know), synopses of some of his most famous works, death theories, and current pop culture references. It concludes with a 10 question quiz to see how well students listened... and trust me, they will be hanging on your every word! This powerpoint encourages class participation, is fully editable to suit your class' needs, and lasts about 30-40 minutes to run through. I suggest presenting this on the very first day of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy and let the horror begin!
⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt
This resource features a comprehensive introduction to the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe. Students will be shocked to learn some of the gruesome details of his life. The scavenger hunt includes 15 questions about Poe, a full answer key, and links for credible websites to use to find the information.
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Bell Ringer Journal Prompts
This resource features a set of 20 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Each bell ringer is comprised of a quote from the Master of Suspense himself and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect and appreciate the timelessness of his musings. 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!), exit tickets, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, task cards, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Edgar Allan Poe 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 Escape Room on the Father of Horror himself. 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!
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Brochure - Final Project
This product features an engaging final project that meaningfully incorporates technology in a culmination of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. For this final assignment, students will showcase their knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe, his works, and his life by creating brochures using Microsoft Word. Students will love the chance to practice using technology with this project as opposed to writing the same-old same-old essay and if they are like my students, will not even realize how much research and writing they are actually doing!
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe's Obituary - Halloween Lesson Plan
This product features an engaging activity that will fit in perfectly with your unit on Edgar Allan Poe or on Halloween. Students get the chance to create the epitaph for the gravestone of one of the most revered authors in American literature. The activity encourages students to be thoughtful with their knowledge of Poe but also to be creative with their inscriptions. This can be done in or outside of class and also works as a great emergency substitute plan during the month of October. To be festive, I love to give this assignment on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's actual death day, October 7.
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game - newly added material!
This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. 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 25 questions on the Master of Suspense. 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!
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Quote Posters
Make your classroom pop with this set of 25 beautifully-made posters featuring quotes from Edgar Allan Poe. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a noteworthy Poe quote imposed over a stunning photograph that will spruce up your ELA classroom, especially during Halloween. 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 Edgar Allan Poe unit, but all year long.
By purchasing these great resources as a bundle, you save 20% off the cover price of all materials!
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18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ Project, Poetry, Assessments
By TooBookedUp
Unlock a powerful, multimedia learning experience with this 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit designed for grades 7 and up. Perfectly suited for middle and high school students, this comprehensive unit takes a deep dive into the complex themes of immigration, refugee experiences, human rights, and resilience, offering a diverse range of engaging activities, discussions, and assessments to enhance your students’ understanding of migration.
Why You’ll Love This Resource:
This unit is packed with dynamic content, carefully curated to foster critical thinking, empathy, and real-world connections to the global immigration experience. Whether you're teaching ELA, Social Studies, or Civics, this resource makes it easy to cover key learning standards while keeping students deeply engaged.
Key Features:
- 18-Day Overview with links: An organized, day-by-day curriculum featuring thought-provoking discussions, debates, and creative projects.
- Multimedia Approach: Engage students with film (A Better Life), poetry (e.g., "Home" by Warsan Shire), art, and political cartoons to explore different perspectives on migration.
- Political Cartoon Capstone Project: Culminate the unit with an original political cartoon that challenges students to think critically and creatively about immigration or refugee issues.
- Full-Length Essay: Scaffolded instruction to help students write a STAAR-aligned ECR Extended Constructed Response informational essay on U.S. immigration changes over time.
- Student-Led Socratic Seminars: Foster meaningful student discussion through Socratic seminars on immigration themes, encouraging students to reflect on resilience and media representation.
- Collaborative Projects: Group activities like creating a one-pager on legal immigration pathways and a debate on immigration rights help students work together to deepen their learning.
- Visual Analysis Activities: Analyze and create political cartoons on immigration, developing students' understanding of how media portrays immigration issues.
- Adaptable for Grades 7-12: Scaffolded activities that can be easily modified to fit your students’ grade level, ensuring accessibility for middle and high school learners.
What’s Included:
- Detailed 18-Day Unit Plan: Complete lesson breakdowns and objectives for each day.
- Engaging Activities: Four Corners debates, circle discussions, Socratic seminars, and peer editing sessions.
- Poetry Analysis: Focus on powerful immigration-themed poems like Warsan Shire’s "Home" to build empathy and understanding.
- Film-Based Learning: Dive deep into the immigrant experience with the film A Better Life, supported by guiding discussion questions.
- Political Cartoon Creation & Analysis: Encourage creativity and visual literacy with a capstone political cartoon project, complete with a rubric, directions, and planning sheets.
- Extended Constructed Response (ECR) Essay Assignment: Guide students through writing a detailed essay on the historical shifts in U.S. immigration policies, helping them gather evidence and structure their argument.
Perfect for:
- English Language Arts (ELA) Teachers: Integrate critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing skills into your curriculum through immigration-related poetry, essays, and discussions.
- Social Studies & Civics Teachers: This unit aligns with standards related to immigration, human rights, and social justice, making it an ideal choice for interdisciplinary learning.
- Project-Based Learning: Teachers seeking hands-on, creative projects that encourage students to connect real-world issues with classroom content.
- Middle & High School Classrooms: Adaptable for grades 7-12, making it perfect for different learning levels and classroom settings.
Benefits for Your Classroom:
- Standards-Aligned: Fully aligned with ELA, social studies, and civics standards for middle and high school.
- Easy to Implement: Clear, step-by-step instructions and a well-organized unit plan make it easy to integrate into your teaching.
- Creative & Engaging: Helps students develop both analytical and creative skills through a variety of learning activities and projects.
- Fosters Critical Thinking: Encourages deep reflection and discussion on complex issues like immigration policy, human rights, and media portrayal.
- Boosts Empathy: Through multimedia and personal stories, this unit helps students build empathy for people facing migration and displacement.
Bring immigration to life for your students with this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit. Get your classroom discussing, debating, creating, and writing about one of the most critical global issues of our time!
All About Me | First Day Writing | Water Bottle Activity | Back to School | BTS
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking for a fun get to know me and a writing activity for the first day or week back to school? This Water Bottle themed All About Me is the perfect way to get to know your students! Decorating Hydroflasks with stickers are popular among teens, and any teacher that presents an activity using them will receive immediate engagement and be crowned the "cool teacher." Use this activity year after year, as students get to know each other through their interests rather than completing a boring worksheet!
Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! Students will write about any day in their life...from the point of view of their Water Bottle!! You'll love reading the finished products.
Perfect for Back to School season to get your new batch of kiddos better acquainted with each other! Makes for a unique hallway bulletin board display as well, just in time for Open House!
This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, cut out and hang!
Boring worksheets begone!! ***CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW***
This resource includes:
- Completed Color Water Bottle Sample for Demonstration
- Printable Water Bottle All About Me
- POV Writing Template (PDF)
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
You may be interested in the Back to School Activity Bundle which features 25 printable activities that are just perfect for the first weeks of school. A cover is included if you would like to print it as a packet!
Included in the Resource:
- My Favorite Things Flower Craftivity -perfect for display
- All About Me
- Get to Know You Fortune Teller Craftivity
- Get to Know Me 3D cube activity
- Back to School Vibes - reveals secret message!!
- Class Bingo Get to Know Classmates edition
- Two Truths and a Lie
- School Rules Crossword Puzzle with solution
- This or That?
- Word Search - with 48 words
- Find the Classroom Maze - with solution
- DIY Word Search (use with names of students in your class!)
- Letter to Your New Teacher
- Letter to Your Future Self
- Message in a Bottle Writing
- School Memories Writing/Drawing
- Autobiography Writing
- Back to School Acrostic Poem
- Design a Hoodie
- Design a Book Cover
- Design a Hat and Sneaker Set
- Back to School Goal Setting
- Beginning of Year Vibes
- Setting Expectations
- Back to School Bucket List
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⭐️ Fortnite
⭐️ MrBeast
⭐️ Air Jordans
⭐️ TikTok
⭐️ OpenAI
6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!
Each set includes...
► 1-page pop culture article
► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions
► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions
► Crossword Puzzle
► Design Page
► Impossible MAZE
This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.
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Differentiated End of Term Reflection Activities for ELA
By Language Arts Excellence
Self-reflection is so important for students of all ages and what better time to reflect on learning than at the end of each term? With that in mind, I created this end of term reflection assignment that prompts students to consider all of the meaningful experiences they had for the quarter in my class. My students really get into this assignment and I'm sure yours will too! I've included in this product a model of my assignment and a fully editable template for you - it will only take a few minutes to tweak it and make it your own. Your students will thank you for offering this differentiated assessment! I also included three exemplary student examples. _________________________________________________________________________ Also, check out these great resources that can be adapted for any novel by Language Arts Excellence: Novel Soundtrack Assignment Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials Adaptable for ANY Topic Differentiated End of Term Reflection Activities Book Recommendation Form Differentiated Essay Prompts for use with ANY Novel – FREE!
All About Me | Hoodie | Fun POV Writing Activity | Back to School | BTS
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking for fun get to know me Writing activities for the first day or week back to school? This hoody themed All About Me includes patches students can design and add to personalize their interests. Hoodies are all the rage among teens, and any teacher that presents an activity using them will receive immediate engagement and be crowned the "cool teacher." Use this activity year after year, as students get to know each other through their interests rather than completing a boring worksheet!
Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! Students will write about any day in their life...from the point of view of their Hoodie!! You'll love reading the finished products.
Perfect for Back to School season to get your new batch of kiddos better acquainted with each other! Makes for a unique hallway bulletin board display as well, just in time for Open House!
This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, create and cut out patches and hang!
Boring worksheets begone!! ***CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW***
This resource includes:
- Completed Hoodie Sample for Demonstration
- Printable Hoodie All About Me
- 84 Printable Color Patches
- 1 Blank sheet to create custom patches
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
Check out all the different designs in the All About Me product line for Back to School here!
You may be interested in the Back to School Activity Bundle which features 25 printable activities that are just perfect for the first weeks of school. A cover is included if you would like to print it as a packet!
Included in the Resource:
- My Favorite Things Flower Craftivity -perfect for display
- All About Me
- Get to Know You Fortune Teller Craftivity
- Get to Know Me 3D cube activity
- Back to School Vibes - reveals secret message!!
- Class Bingo Get to Know Classmates edition
- Two Truths and a Lie
- School Rules Crossword Puzzle with solution
- This or That?
- Word Search - with 48 words
- Find the Classroom Maze - with solution
- DIY Word Search (use with names of students in your class!)
- Letter to Your New Teacher
- Letter to Your Future Self
- Message in a Bottle Writing
- School Memories Writing/Drawing
- Autobiography Writing
- Back to School Acrostic Poem
- Design a Hoodie
- Design a Book Cover
- Design a Hat and Sneaker Set
- Back to School Goal Setting
- Beginning of Year Vibes
- Setting Expectations
- Back to School Bucket List
⭐️ LOOKING FOR MORE RELATABLE ACTIVITIES FOR TEENS?
Check out the Pop Culture ACTIVITY BUNDLE - your solution to no-stress lesson planning and easy print and go sub plans.
INCLUDES THESE HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...
⭐️ Crocs
⭐️ Netflix
⭐️ Takis
⭐️ Fortnite
⭐️ MrBeast
⭐️ Air Jordans
⭐️ TikTok
⭐️ OpenAI
6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!
Each set includes...
► 1-page pop culture article
► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions
► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions
► Crossword Puzzle
► Design Page
► Impossible MAZE
This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.
Have a question?
Please check out the Q&A section or message me and I'll get back to you within 24 hours.
Don't forget to leave me feedback! I love to hear what my buyers say, how the product worked for them, and any feedback I can use to improve my product! (It also earns you points towards future TeachShare Purchases)
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