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How to Practice Sensitivity When Teaching About the Lottery

For Teachers Higher Ed
To some, a simple game of chance might be considered a sin, or even something downright evil.
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"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers who are about to read the chilling tale, The Lottery, do some writing beforehand. They are asked to write how their lives would change if they won a huge lottery jackpot. Then, they read the short story, and will be...
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The Pearl: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is money the root of all evil, or the answer to everyone's dreams? Analyze the role of money in John Steinbeck's The Pearl with a writing prompt where kids imagine that they have won the lottery, and must think about the ways it will...
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Breaking News English: Lottery Win

For Students 5th - 10th
In this lottery win worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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Rituals, Scapegoats, and Mobs...Oh My!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
One way to teach "The Lottery," a suspenseful and rich short story by Shirley Jackson.
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Beat, Earn and Win Exercise

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary recognition activity, students read examples of using the terms beat, earn and win, apply them to fill in the blanks completing sentences, and create additional sentences. Students write 18 answers.
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Future Time Clauses

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What will you do when you grow up? What are you going to do after school is over? Learn about future time clauses and how they connect to independent clauses with a helpful grammar presentation.
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Past Simple and Past Continuous

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this past simple and past continuous worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct word or filling in the correct tense. Students complete 6 exercises.
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Fill in the Gaps: First and Second Conditional

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this first and second conditional activity, students fill in the blanks with the first and second conditional tense of the verbs given in sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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Introduce Vocabulary: My Chinatown: One Year in Poems (Mak)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Beautiful illustrations and tender memories of cultural identity make Kam Mak's story My Chinatown an ideal resource for budding readers learning four vocabulary words in context: fortune, scraps,...
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Quiz--Conditional #4

For Students 4th - 5th
In this completing sentences worksheet, students complete 17 sentences by filling in 26 blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
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Gold Found in California

For Students 4th - 5th
In this historical reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a factual account of the Gold Rush. Students answer 14 questions about the passage.
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Possessive Nouns: indicating possession for people or things

For Students 4th - 8th
In this possession worksheet, students complete the sentences with possessive nouns. Students complete 14 multiple choice questions.
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Breaking News English: Irish Woman in $135 Million Lotto Win

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Irish Woman in $135 Million Lotto Win," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Ed/Ing Emotion Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
In this emotion adjective instructional activity, students read a situation and see how the writer feels. Each adjective is written with an -ed ending and an -ing ending. 
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Punctuation

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students read twenty sentences and insert the correct punctuation for each sentence. For example, "I am in elementary school..."
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Introduce Vocabulary: My Chinatown: One Year in Poems

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary lesson, students work in small groups assessing the meaning of new vocabulary words. Young scholars record vocabulary in a word journal or discovery chart.
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Verb Forms- Present and Past Tense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in 30 blanks by choosing the proper verb form from the word in parenthesis. They complete a conversation by putting 18 verbs into the present perfect or simple past tense.
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Super Sellers

For Teachers 2nd
Practice listening skills with the novel Max Malone Makes a Million written by Charlotte Herman. Read a chapter a day and answer daily questions such as predicting how Max makes his money.
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Present/ Future True Conditionals 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students read an instruction box about the use of "if" and the result clauses. Students write the correct form of the verbs in 20 sentences containing the word "if." Then students complete sentences with...
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Phrasal Verb Gap Fill Worksheet W-Z

For Students 6th - 7th
For this ESL phrasal verbs worksheet, students read 10 sentences that are missing a verb phrase. For each sentence, students insert a phrase from the word bank.
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Probability With a Random Drawing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students define probability, and predict, record, and discuss outcomes from a random drawing, then identify most likely and least likely outcomes. They conduct a random drawing, record the data on a data chart, analyze the data, and...
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REVIEW OF “UNLESS”

For Students 6th - 8th
In this review of "unless" worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to select the appropriate verbs to complete the sentences.
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Tom's Day Yesterday

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL past simple verb worksheet, students read a passage that tells about Tom's daily schedule. Students fill in the 24 blanks with a past simple verb.