Fitness Challenge to encourage students to increase fitness levels, skills challenge and heart rate check.

This unit functions as an introduction to ELA6. Included are 7 days' worth of activities that get students engaged in the content and set the stage for yearlong processes and procedures. Activities include: a virtual Book Pass; an introduction to the process of Writing Seeds and samples for you to use; a survey that asks students to explore who they are as a reader and a writer; a Personal Reading Timeline mini-project; several options that allow students to track their IR throughout the year; and a Summative Assessment in the form of a Literacy Narrative, with mentor texts and rubric

This unit represents Unit 2 for ELA6.  Included are 16 days of activities that get students engaged in the content and continue to build on year-long processes and procedures.  Activities include practice with fiction signposts, subject-verb agreement, verb tense, summary strategies, narrative elements and plot diagrams, reading summative assessment, and writing formative assessment in the form of a narrative essay with mentor texts and rubric.

This unit functions as an introduction to ELA7. Included are 7 days' worth of activities that get students engaged in the content and set the stage for yearlong processes and procedures. Activities include: a virtual Book Pass; an introduction to the process of Writing Seeds and samples for you to use; a survey that asks students to explore who they are as a reader and a writer; a Personal Reading Timeline mini-project; several options that allow students to track their IR throughout the year; and a Summative Assessment in the form of a Literacy Narrative, with mentor texts and rubric

This unit represents Unit 2 for ELA7.  Included are 16 days of activities that get students engaged in the content and continue to build on year-long processes and procedures.  Activities include practice with fiction signposts, subject-verb agreement, verb tense, summary strategies, narrative elements and plot diagrams, reading summative assessment, and writing formative assessment in the form of a narrative essay with mentor texts and rubric.

This unit functions as an introduction to ELA8. Included are 7 days' worth of activities that get students engaged in the content and set the stage for yearlong processes and procedures. Activities include: a virtual Book Pass; an introduction to the process of Writing Seeds and samples for you to use; a survey that asks students to explore who they are as a reader and a writer; a Personal Reading Timeline mini-project; several options that allow students to track their IR throughout the year; and a Summative Assessment in the form of a Literacy Narrative, with mentor texts and rubric

This unit represents Unit 2 for ELA8.  Included are 17 days of activities that get students engaged in the content and continue to build on year-long processes and procedures.  Activities include practice with fiction signposts, sentence structure, dialogue and direct quotations, characterization, summary strategies, narrative elements and plot diagrams, reading summative assessment, and writing formative assessment in the form of a character analysis essay with mentor texts and rubric.

The series of lessons allows students to review the concepts of mutations, adaptations and natural selection by studying a population of pocket mice through a video clip and then applying their knowledge through a simulation game.

Formative Assessment for students with the alphabet in French. Example list provided but teacher can adapt to any words they would like. Recommendation to focus on letters often confused by anglophone students. 

Fun Fitness games reviewing the Components of Fitness and the FITT Principles.  Uses Fitness and Cognitive skills to complete tasks as a team.

Student will:analyze a map of the Chesapeake Baycalculate the mean, median, mode, range, and numbercreate an appropriate graphinvestigate data provided by the James River and apply learning

Students will read a variety of texts to include Fiction and Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, and Expository Nonfiction to complete the following tasks:1) read and annotate both a fiction and nonfiction paired passage2) complete the Author's Craft Graphic Organizer for each text.3) write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the two texts using the graphic organizer for guidance. 

Students examine the characterization of a character in a novel or short story to complete the "Autopsy of a Protagonist" slideshow.  

Objective:1. Go over Rules and Court Regulations2. Set up tournament. Double Elimination bracket attached (10 teams) can be modified and website attached3. Lessons on Smash and Drop Shot from UGA. 

Badminton Lesson1. Lesson Plan (serve, overhead clear and drop shot)2 UGA inforamtional video and info sheet 3. Quiz on Badminton

Students will read a fiction text to create a journal in the voice of a character of their choice.  Students will record noticings about the character's characterization and how incidents in the plot lead to a change in their character. 

Students will answer the question: Did the American Dream come true for immigrants who came to New York? Students will analyze primary and secondary sources, synthesize new information, and answer the compelling question using evidence from the lesson.  Students will use interactive simulations, videos, secondary sources, and primary sources as they engage in supporting questions throughout the lesson. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain why immigrants chose to emigrate to America, describe the process at Ellis Island, describe life in New York tenements, and explain how immigrants helped shape New York culture.This lesson is adapted from the Immigration Inquiry designed by C3Teachers.org: http://www.c3teachers.org/inquiries/immigration/