Quiz over French direct and indirect object pronouns in both present and passé composé, with a little negation.  

Quiz covers negation structure definitions and proper placement in present and passe compose sentences. 

DIce Action is a dice action game used to teach counting with an active approach. Students roll the dice, count the dots, match the number, and complete action on a poster. It is a good beginning of the year lesson for preschoolers. 

Now that students have researched their topic/social issue and created an effective formal written argument, it’s time for them to demonstrate their rhetorical skills by applying them to another genre!  Students will:Select an appropriate platform for the product and use it to articulate and present an effective argumentArgue and defend  original position in a succinct manner (brief but still comprehensive) Use appropriate tone and rhetorical devices/strategies for the chosen presentation mediumReflect on choicesClick this link to get a Raise Your Voice! Part II: Performance-Based Assessment Google Doc.

For the following project, students will be engaging in real-world topics research on a topic of their choice and producing an essay or proposal that argues their position on that topic.  This is a persuasive paper, not an expository paper.  They will need to take a position regarding the position they choose and support it using research.

An extension project to pair with A Raisin in the Sun: Whose American Dream? from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Retrieved from https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/raisin-sun-whose-american-dream

COERLL has partnered with Rose Potter and Betsy Arnold to publish Recorridos-Don Quijote, a pair of openly-licensed books for the study of Cervantes’ Don Quijote in upper level Spanish courses, including AP. The student workbook, accessible online for free, deepens students’ understanding of the text through reading, pre-reading, and post-reading activities and glosses. The companion teacher support facilitates the teaching of Don Quijote through student-centered strategies and activities, historical and cultural information, quizzes, exams and more.

This unit challenges students to view history with a critical lens, and to notice how there is always more than one side to a story. The unit begins with the Mayflower and helps students develop an understanding of why so many colonists decided to leave England and travel to the New World. Students will explore the hardships faced by the colonists, both on the ship and once they arrive in the New World, and how the colonists persevered and relied on the geography and environment to meet their needs. Students will then learn about the Wampanoag, the people who were on the land before the Pilgrims arrived. They will learn about what the Wampanoag valued, how they viewed the Pilgrims, and how the arrival of explorers and settlers negatively influenced their tribe. Then students will be pushed to analyze what really happened at the first Thanksgiving, and whose story is being told. Students will realize that the traditional story of the first Thanksgiving contains many myths that don't accurately reflect the Wampanoag and what really happened in 1621.

This strategy is an engaging and effective way to get students into reflection practice.  It can be adapted to multiple grade levels and formats.  Reflection is an important strategy for students to acquire as it helps them retain information.  This exit ticket can also serve as an effective formatve assessment.

This resource provides an explanation of, sample directions for, and suggested logistics to implement a reflection and revision assignment after students have completed at least one draft of a writing assignment. The assignment requires students to pinpoint problematic issues in the writing and to focus revisions on those. The assignment requires both reflective writing about and actual revision of particular problems in order to develop awareness of their individual struggles with writing and practice solving those problems.

This short reading about the springtime has varying images that are downloadable. One is a simple reading. Another is the same reading with short questions that follow. Another is a fill in the blank story based on the picture.

This is a video (2:03 long) resource of a woman from El Salvador talking about her childhood. Ideas for guiding students through understanding this video are given.

This is a lab exercise using different commands and ways to remove directories in a Linux command line terminal. All commands and screen shots are included in the Word document included in this resource.

This is a lab exercise using different commands and ways to remove files in a Linux command line terminal. All commands and screen shots are included in the Word document included in this resource.

Students will view a series of images and will match those images to reasons that the Renaissance began in Italy.
*Remixed to include reasons as a matching activity rather than having students come up with the reasons.

This is a document to help students reflect on their choices for persuasive technique and rhetorical devices.

This is a short review/assessment of research sources geared toward middle school students as they begin to work on research projects. The assignment is designed to assess students' knoweldge of the various types of sources that can be used when completing a research project. 

Students will research and then compose a researched-based persuasive essay. Students will debate with opponents of their topic in front of their teacher and peers. ** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.

Excel of resources for elementary exploration. Each resource is accompanied by a short descriptions and link.