Description Topic: Analyze the causes, events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Age of Exploration. SS.912.W.4.AP.4: Identify characteristics of Renaissance humanism in literature and the arts. Bellwork To Start Your Class In Each Unit: These units are focused on close reading in history/social studies, primarily in the discipline of history, and using text-dependent questions to help students gain a deeper understanding of informational texts. Unit 3 will offer suggestions for how to implement FL CCSS in the other related disciplines of civics, economics, and geography. Why Close Reading Now? I wear a variety of professional hats - Department Head, Social Studies Coach, Youth In Government Advisor, Interactive Notebook Team member for the District, Chromebook Leader, tech Leader, School-Based Leadership Team, AVID Tutor, and most of all Teacher. To keep myself honest (and humble), I spend a lot of time in classrooms watching kids and teachers at work. During the past few years, I've observed a transformation in the teaching of reading from an approach that measured readers' successful understanding of text through lengthy packets of comprehension questions to one that requires students to think about their thinking, activating their good reader strategies. The National Assessment of Educational Progress even made one of those strategies - making reader/text connections - a thinking strand within its framework (National Assessment Governing Board, 2002). For a long while, this approach looked ideal. What could be better than creating metacognitive readers? Social Studies Bellwork/ Bellringer/ Close Read models to start your day: Product Description: The students will complete the bellwork in a 5 day model. Each day is a scaffolded release of questions targeted at 5 main language arts standards. This allows students to pick apart the important information while meeting their language arts requirements in social studies Bellwork Procedure: Conversation: There is no talking during Bellwork time. Silently get Bellwork out from the bin & return it silently as well. Quiet/ voices off from entrance into the classroom till last Bellwork is put away. Help: There should be no talking during this activity, so if you have a question: please raise your hand quietly, wait patiently, & once I can I will answer your question. Please think about the wording of your question before you ask, seeing as this is an assessment. Activity: Bellwork day 1-4: One question per day. Bellwork 5: Quiz= do all four questions. UNREAL: EVERYDAY Underline the title Number the sections Read to understand: mark the text Eliminate wrong answers Answer Look back to double check answers Movement: 1. Quietly grab your Bellwork from the bin without emptying file folder out; just grab yours. 2. Silently do your Bellwork at your seat. 3. Silently place Bellwork back into the correct file folder. 4. Sit quietly at your seat as we patiently wait for others to finish. Participation: This is an independent activity. Please look at your paper only and give a full effort. I am checking your understanding/ skills, not someone else's. Success: • UNREAL: __/12 points • Daily Questions (front): ___/10 points each • Quiz (back): total of ___/40 points • Efficiency: Smart Goal of 80% or above - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Check out samples on my Instagram: @HistoryGuruTPT Blog Customer Tips: Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the Follow me symbol on my storefront! I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. If you have any concerns or any of my resources are not what you expected, please contact me first before leaving feedback so I can have a chance to fix it for you! You can DM or follow me at Follow me on Instagram: @HistoryGuruTPT Like this product? • Click on the Pin it button and pin it to one of your boards!
Decorating, organizing, and preparing your high school classroom spaces is critical for new and veteran teachers alike. Here are four ideas to get your classroom prepared to support and inspire your students and keep you motivated to deliver incredible lessons!
I recently just finished my first set of Middle School Mentor Sentences to teach grammar. As I’ve started talking about and posting about Mentor Sentences, I’ve realized that most teachers fall into the following categories when it comes to implementing mentor sentences: I have no idea what mentor sentences are, but I am intrigued now. I ... Read more
Whether you call them warm ups, bell ringers or do nows- those first 7-10 minutes of class are the most precious minutes you have! These are the few focused minutes before you accidentally get so swept into a novel that you lose track of time. The end of class bell is my enemy, so I needed to fall in love with that first bell.
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Morning meeting activities for a first grade classroom. See the layout of morning meeting in this primary classroom. From the greeting to the message, get ideas for your classroom.
Shhh! Did you hear that? It was the second bell. They’re COMING. Skipping, tripping, sauntering and marching right down that hallway. Are you ready for your students? Because make no mistake, they are ready for you! In an instant, the classroom goes from empty and silent to bursting with energy. Let’s face it: we teachers ... Read more
Creative writing prompts for high school children can be used as part of their daily journal pages. Enabling them to reflect on their feelings
Pocahontas Bellwork Puzzle Worksheet - Free to print (PDF file).
This engaging activity lets students use their background and mathematical reasoning skills to find the measure of 30 angles when they are only given 3 angles. This resource is intended to be classwork, homework, bellwork, a partner activity, cooperative learning, and/or engaging. There is also a...
This April Math NO PREP packet that will keep your fifth graders engaged! This packet is just plain fun. Not only is it PACKED with fifth-grade common core math problems, it also gives students fun coloring, puzzles, and problem solving. Use this packet for bellwork, classwork, extra credit, fast fi...
If you want to introduce the CER method to students or have them practice periodically, using video clips is a fun way to go. (If you aren’t familiar with the CER method, check out this blog post on ways you can use it in your classroom). I prefer short video clips because they are great for bellwork ... Read more
Addition & Subtraction Ocean Fun - TEN Color By Numbers Printables for some Ocean Math Fun in your classroom! Looking for a resource to excite and engage your students? Print this packet, add it to your weekly plans and you're all done. Your students will love working on these skills during seat work, bellwork, center time, small group lessons, morning work, tutoring... they are even perfect for homework! Are your parents asking for extra work for their children? #FernSmithsClassroomIdeas
Description Topics Included (but not limited to): Citizenship 14th Amendment National Anthem -------------------------------------------- Types of Activities for each unit Included (but not limited to): Question Practice Readings & Dialectical Journals Videos and Questions Interactive Vocab Activities Visual Vocab Learning Goal Charts to start each unit! Bellwork to start each unit! Close Readings DBQs -------------------------------------------- Product Description/ Breakdown: This is a Google Slide with interactive tabs. This would be distributed to each student via your Distance Learning or Classroom platform per student. This can easily be printed, downloaded as a pdf, or downloaded as a PowerPoint to meet your learning needs in this crazy teacher world that we teach in. This unit has a huge variety of styles to make learning needs and to achieve learning goals! It has Readings, Document Based Questioning, and Video Q&A's. Check this out and click to follow to stay informed as more pop up in my store. Bundle in the digital interactive notebook: ACTIVITIES, BELLWORK/ BELLRINGERS, GUIDED READINGS, LEARNING GOAL CHART, DBQ'S, READING STRATEGIES, VOCAB, & MUCH MORE -------------------------------------------- Check out samples on my Instagram: @HistoryGuruTPT -------------------------------------------- Customer Tips: Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the Follow me symbol on my storefront! I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. If you have any concerns or any of my resources are not what you expected, please contact me first before leaving feedback so I can have a chance to fix it for you! You can DM or follow me at Follow me on Instagram: @HistoryGuruTPT
