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15 Confusing Verbs in English - MyEnglishTeacher.eu

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Apostrophes | Piktochart Infographic Editor

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Apostrophes | #English lessons | Created in #free @Piktochart #Infographic Editor at www.piktochart.com

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Food Idioms English - iNFOGRAPHiCs MANiA

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Food Idioms English: English lesson No 10. Talk before eat them. 10 popular and "tasty" food related idioms to turn your listener's appetite on.

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Middle school students are straddling the world between childhood excitement during the Christmas season and adult disinterest. Regardless of the mood they're in, students should love the following short stories, which are perfect for December lesson plans.

Holiday Short Stories

1. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry | Activities | Reader's Theater | Resources

2. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson | Activities | YouTube | Lesson Plans

3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | BBC Audio | Activities | Reader's Theater | Flipped Lesson

4. A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum | Video

5. The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather | Lesson Plans - $

6. Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck | Audio | Lesson Plans - $ | Analysis - $

7. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Lesson Plans | Audio

Bonus short stories!

1. A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry | Audio - $ | Lesson Plans - $

2. The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern | Additional Reading

3. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote | Audio | Lesson Plans | Holiday Unit

If you have any other short story ideas for the Christmas or other December holidays, please let me know!
Copyright notice: These stories are published on sites other than MrsWatersEnglish.com and NONE of them are excerpted or quoted in MWE-created materials. Some stories are in the public domain (not copyrighted), or are excerpts of larger works, while others are not. In some cases, teachers may print a class set for their own classroom usage, but there are exceptions. Please check with your district regarding its policies and licenses for reproducing printed copies. Generally speaking, you may ask students to download their own copies (outside of the one you download for your own use) to their devices for their own educational studies.

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7 Christmas Short Stories For Middle School

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Middle school students are straddling the world between childhood excitement during the Christmas season and adult disinterest. Regardless of the mood they're in, students should love the following short stories, which are perfect for December lesson plans. The Gift of the Magi by O.

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7
Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.9
Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

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English Language Arts Standards " Reading: Literature " Grade 6

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

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David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page - A Christmas Carol

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Dedicated to Bringing the Genius of Dickens to a New Generation of Readers

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George Lucas Educational Foundation

Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)

By providing middle school students a chance to walk in someone else's shoes, teachers can help them develop empathy-and a stronger connection to content.

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A free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education.