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Adventure and Escape
Students are exposed to literature that is focused on the theme of adventure and escapism. They are encouraged to enjoy the story and remember times of play with significant others.
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Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas
Students use a Flip camera to complete various projects about Christmas. In this Christmas and technology instructional activity, students write and record letters to Santa. Students write letters to Christmas characters and record them....
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Movie titles
In this movie title activity, students read a summary of the movie and try to guess the title. Students read and guess 8 movie titles.
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My School Year Memory Book
Students create memory books of what they have learned and experienced to use throughout the school year using photographs taken of the them as they are involved in different tpes of activities such as art projects, reading groups, seat...
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Adjectives - ed or -ing exercise
In this adjectives worksheet, students fill in the blank to sentences with adjectives given to them. Students choose the -ed or -ing version of the adjective for 20 sentences and make up 3 of their own.
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Brad Pitt
In this famous people learning exercise, students read a passage about Brad Pitt and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Julia Roberts
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Julia Roberts and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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Kitano Takeshi
In this Kitano Takeshi instructional activity, students read a passage about Kitano Takeshi and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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What Makes the Writer Write?
Students study Charles Dickens's Great Expectations to gain insight into a classical piece of fiction and to explain how writers respond to social conditions. They also consider how that response is important today.
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Posing for Rembrandt
Students consider the elements of costuming and posing in Rembrandt's work. They collect various costumes and experiment with poses in the theme of the painting "Night Watch". Students take photographs of poses and write accompanying...
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New words in the dictionary
Young scholars examine how language evolves. They discover that language reflects changes in society. Students guess the meaning of words. In a group activity, young scholars become wordsmiths by inventing new words. Students devise...
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Unit 4 (Grammar and Word Choice Quiz)
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a 3 page, 15 question multiple choice quiz on correct word use. Students complete each sentence with the correct word from 4 choices.
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Seeking Shakespeare in Local Communities
Students explore where Shakespeare exists in local community plays. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a documentary to define the existence of Shakespeare in their community drama activities. Students participate in community...
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Gandhi's Alternate View of Women: Changing the Face of Modern Media & Advertising
Eleventh graders analyze the violence of media and advertising on women, as well as Gandhi's views of women. In this women and media lesson, 11th graders Killing Us Softly and Tough Guise as an analysis of media and advertising and their...
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Verb Tenses Exercises
In this past simple and present perfect simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in the correct tense, and rewrite sentences by choosing for or since to insert in the sentence. Students complete 10 problems...
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False Friends Exercise
In this appropriate answer activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the most appropriate answer out of 2 words. Students fill in 23 sentences.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Eighth graders read the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and then watch a movie based on the novel. They write an essay comparing the movie to the book.
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What If It Happened To Me? A Look At The Disabled in Society
Students examine what it would be like to be disabled. They read literature with characters who have disabilities and discuss how society treats people with disabilities. They write an essay explaining why they are "normal."
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Activity Three: Diary of a Driver
Students explore and document historic elements of Horatio's journey by creating a fictitious journal in Jackson's voice.
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry : Art Activity
In this reading response worksheet, students create a word of art depicting a scene in Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars. Students use lead pencils or charcoal to make a picture in black and white because color photography was not...
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Bored or Boring?
In this adjective worksheet, students learn the difference between the "-ed" and "-ing" adjective forms. Students analyze 14 adjectives in a word bank and use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences.
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Making Good Decisions
Students explore the consequences of their actions. In this personal choices lesson, students practice balancing different interests involved in compromise. This lesson includes downloadable materials and 2 extension activities.
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Mending Walls: Barriers in Communications
Students explore a literal and figurative wall. In this communication activity, students examine and discuss barriers in communication as they analyze Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Robert Frost's "Mending Wall".
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Conjunctions II
In this conjunction worksheet, students combine sentences using a given conjunction. Students may click on an answer button beneath each sentence to check their work.