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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy by Emily Bazelon
Outstanding Books
for the College Bound
Bazelon, E.( 2013).Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture
of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. Random House .New
York.

There are several books that can all so help with the bulling they are found in Amazon and the lesson plans found in Teachers pay Teachers website;
Bullying can cause hurt feelings, tears, and emotional scars. This pack helps define the many different types of bullying as well as how to handle it in different situations.
Bullying Definition Posters
• What is Bullying? poster set (includes definitions and examples for: bullying, tattling, telling, reporting, kindness)
• Types of Bully poster set (includes: exclusion, cyber, physical, social, verbal)
• 3 non bullying posters
• 8 inspirational quote posters
Reading Passages and Printables on What Bullying Looks Like and How to Stop It
• What is Bullying? reading comprehension passage and questions
• Is it Bullying?
• Who's Involved?
• Be More Than a Bystander
• Why Do People Bully?
• Face It!
• How Do You Feel? (using two real pictures)
Role Playing Activities So Students Can Practice What They've Learned
• 12 Buddy and Bully task cards
• Buddy and Bully response sheet
• 24 bullying role play cards and die
Bullying Definition Posters
• What is Bullying? poster set (includes definitions and examples for: bullying, tattling, telling, reporting, kindness)
• Types of Bully poster set (includes: exclusion, cyber, physical, social, verbal)
• 3 non bullying posters
• 8 inspirational quote posters
Reading Passages and Printables on What Bullying Looks Like and How to Stop It
• What is Bullying? reading comprehension passage and questions
• Is it Bullying?
• Who's Involved?
• Be More Than a Bystander
• Why Do People Bully?
• Face It!
• How Do You Feel? (using two real pictures)
Role Playing Activities So Students Can Practice What They've Learned
• 12 Buddy and Bully task cards
• Buddy and Bully response sheet
• 24 bullying role play cards and die
All of the activities in this pack can also be used without the book!
Bullying Activities:
- Friendship Bullying Survey
- Put Ups and Put Downs
- I Spy Friendship Bullying
- My Book of Helpers
- My Bully Busting Book
- 6 Role Plays
Rationale:
Friendship Bullying or relational aggression is defined by the National Association of School Psychologists as “harm within relationships that is caused by covert bullying or manipulation.”
Relational aggression (RA) can be difficult to spot. Students in grades 2nd-5th tend to view RA as a “friendship problem” rather than as a type of bullying. It is important to teach students the difference between relational aggression and friendship problems.
Students experiencing RA need to be able to:
Identify when their friends are not acting like a friend.
Know that they do not need to put up with unfriendly behavior.
Execute strategies to combat aggressive behavior.
Bullying Activities:
- Friendship Bullying Survey
- Put Ups and Put Downs
- I Spy Friendship Bullying
- My Book of Helpers
- My Bully Busting Book
- 6 Role Plays
Rationale:
Friendship Bullying or relational aggression is defined by the National Association of School Psychologists as “harm within relationships that is caused by covert bullying or manipulation.”
Relational aggression (RA) can be difficult to spot. Students in grades 2nd-5th tend to view RA as a “friendship problem” rather than as a type of bullying. It is important to teach students the difference between relational aggression and friendship problems.
Students experiencing RA need to be able to:
Identify when their friends are not acting like a friend.
Know that they do not need to put up with unfriendly behavior.
Execute strategies to combat aggressive behavior.
Empathy, Bullying, Self Esteem Lessons: 4-Weeks of Invaluable Health Lessons!
★This “Empathy, Violence, Self-Esteem, Bullying, Values Unit” is the perfect Health unit to help your students connect as a group, learn to respect differences, learn to get to know people for who they really are, and to realize almost everyone has hardships to overcome!
★Help your students build self-esteem and work on one of the greatest relationship skills-EMPATHY!
★Help your students see the value of empathy, the power of words for good or bad, and the incredible difference each student can make by supporting the victims of bullying and teasing.
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***What sets this curriculum apart from others is that***:
-I-T'-S -N-O-T -J-U-S-T- -A- -U-N-I-T- -O-U-T-L-I-N-E- …
Highly organized, step-by-step teacher directions follow daily PowerPoints and tell you exactly to say!!
★This “Empathy, Violence, Self-Esteem, Bullying, Values Unit” is the perfect Health unit to help your students connect as a group, learn to respect differences, learn to get to know people for who they really are, and to realize almost everyone has hardships to overcome!
★Help your students build self-esteem and work on one of the greatest relationship skills-EMPATHY!
★Help your students see the value of empathy, the power of words for good or bad, and the incredible difference each student can make by supporting the victims of bullying and teasing.
********************************************************************
***What sets this curriculum apart from others is that***:
-I-T'-S -N-O-T -J-U-S-T- -A- -U-N-I-T- -O-U-T-L-I-N-E- …
Highly organized, step-by-step teacher directions follow daily PowerPoints and tell you exactly to say!!
Friday, July 22, 2016
Passenger by Bracken, A.
NYT Bestseller
list (chapter books for 10+) from January-May 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/02/07/young-adult-hardcover/?_r=0
Bracken, A. (January, 2016) .Passenger. Disney Hyperion Bracken Better World Books .Mishawaka,
IN, U.S.A.

Teachers pay Teachers website on the subject of time travel lesson plans for the book;
Time Travelers: The Colonial X Factor Grades 9-12

Conjecture, If-Then logic, SWOT analysis, and persuasive writing skills are honed in this unit. Research, analysis, and speculation will be a driving factor in this interesting unit. Students will examine today’s innovations and choose one that could benefit society much earlier as the students time-travel to deliver this information to someone in the colonial period. 8-10 week Project Based Learning Unit.

HISTORY QUESTERS Colonies Trek- a historical time traveling adventure
Time travel — Braxton Morgan had never heard of a secret app for that. But his suspicions, ignited by some pretty weird goings–on in his new history class, were confirmed by a click on Ms. McQuester’s electronic Q–Pad. With little warning, Braxton spirals back in time to the settlement of the 13 English colonies as the newest member of the History Questers Team. It seems that his teacher meant it literally when she said she preferred hands–on history lessons. On their trek through the Colonial Period the team meets some important people from the past, like Pocahontas and Benjamin Franklin, and becomes involved in real historical events—way more involved than they want their teacher to know.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland a graphic book
Great Graphic Novels for Teens (2015-2016)
Hartland, J. (2015) .
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great .Schwartz
& Wade Books. New York.
On teachers pay teachers website I found several resources on the subject and life of Steve Jobs.
Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Worksheet - Steve Jobs
This reading comprehension and vocabulary worksheet is based on an article about Steve Jobs the CEO of Apple Inc. It includes reading, writing and speaking activities.
Expository Text: Steve Job's Speech and Rhetoric Worksheets

Steve Job's Commencement Speech transcript and analysis. I use this as an Article of the Week (AoW). After watching the the speech on YouTube (which is a MUST!), students analyze Jobs' use of rhetoric in a series of challenging multiple choice, short answer, and extended response questions.
Steve Jobs Biography Unit

Steve Jobs is the creator of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod...all of which are staples for today's technology. This product contains biography study trifolds for the book Who was Steve Jobs? and a mini book research report on Steve Jobs and is sure to engage today's tech-saavy students.
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall. National Geographic. Washington, D.C.
2016 Nonfiction Award Nominations
Silvey, A.( 2015).Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall.
National Geographic. Washington, D.C.

Other books written by Jane Goodall that are similar in information are the following;
This books can be use to teach on the subject of helping our planet and conserving our resources to preserve life.
On Teacher pay Teachers website I found several lessons to teach with Jane Goodall's book.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Out of Darkness by A.H. Perez
Pérez,
A. H. (2015). Out of Darkness.Carolrhoda Lab T. Menneapolis.
Two teenagers of different race find love on a segregated community.
It is East Texas, oil country in 1937 an all there is around them is signs that
read 'No Negroes, Mexicans, or dogs.' One is a Mexican and the other is black
just trying to live their lives as any American teenagers. Noami has gone to
live with her half-brothers to help them live and unfamiliar father. To make things worse she is
very pretty and none of the white girls at school like her. Then there are her
brothers who can read better than any seniors in their high school. The story is
wrapped around the New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when
a natural gas leak caused an explosion, destroying the London School of New
London, Texas, more than killed more than 295 students and teachers in the U.S.
history. The school board canceled their natural gas contract and had plumbers
install a tap into Parade Gasoline Company's residue gas line to save money. Students
had been complaining of headaches for some time, but little attention had been
paid to the issue. The story leads back to the explosion and then its aftermath
which brings you to the climax. Noami has an over domineering and salacious father
on her constant move and her aloof brothers and he is the only Mexican-American
girl living in the city. This all leads to her falling in love to the only man
who shows her protection and love, which would be a black boy name Wash. This book
deals with sexual abuse, rape, violence against women, violence against
everyone, racism, sexism, murder, dead bodies, guns, child abuse, it is a
difficult book but a must read. Naomi is sexually abused by her stepfather. It's
Henry, the twins' father and first husband to Naomi's mother.
Another book dealing with racism is Brown girl dreaming and The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963.

Emmett Till: Civil Rights, segregation, Jim Crow, etc. (PREZI)
On Teachers pay Teachers website you can find this lesson:
This prezi tells the story of Emmett Till, a young black boy who was viciously murdered in the Jim Crow south and whose confessed murderers were freed by an all-white jury. I use it as part of my introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, but it would be great for any novel that deals with social justice, a history class, or a discussion of what sorts of things inspired the Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks cited Emmett Till as a reason that she refused to give up her seat on the bus!). Finally, there is information about the reopening of the Emmett Till case just in the last decade - great for discussion about whether justice really can be served at this late date. The video files are attached to the prezi, so no worries about streaming from YouTube.
Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
Rae Carson, C. (September, 2015 ).Walk on Earth a Stranger. Greenwillow
Books.

Depending on the audience, this book could be an excellent
resource for a homeschooling unit, as well as just a great a fascinating
history lesson on women hardships during this period of time.

On TEachers pay Teachers website you can find several lessons for this book example is the following:
The 1849 California Gold Rush: A Student Exploration on the Gold Rush!
Students learn about the creation of the Gold Rush, who was involved, how people traveled, the struggles they faced, the laws of supply and demand, the cultures that thrived (and those that didn't), and how the population of the region surged!Students are guided through this exploration with primary source documents, secondary source texts, a variety of images, graphs, and charts! Too, each section of this exploration concludes with a page (4-8 questions) of very focused common-core aligned questions that force students to go back into their text to justify their answers.
The sections of this activity are as follows:
- Introduction
- Catching the Fever
- Traveling to "Gold Country"
- Life in "Gold Country"
- Too Late? Too Bad!
- An Equal Gold Rush for All?
- The Birth of San Francisco
- San Francisco and California Population Growth
California Gold Rush Lesson Plan Collection
This great lesson plan collection includes five lesson plans covering the California Gold Rush. One webquests, two primary source worksheets, a journal activity, and a miner role-playing game are included in this collection. My students really enjoy these lesson plans!
The following lesson plans are included in this collection:
California Gold Rush Webquest
California Gold Rush Webquest: What did it really cost?
California Gold Rush 1849 Primary Source Worksheet
California Gold Rush Vigilante Justice 1851 Primary Source Worksheet
Gold Rush Journal (Not Independently Posted on TPT)
Gold Rush Activity/Simulation (Not Independently Posted on TPT)
The following lesson plans are included in this collection:
California Gold Rush Webquest
California Gold Rush Webquest: What did it really cost?
California Gold Rush 1849 Primary Source Worksheet
California Gold Rush Vigilante Justice 1851 Primary Source Worksheet
Gold Rush Journal (Not Independently Posted on TPT)
Gold Rush Activity/Simulation (Not Independently Posted on TPT)
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
.Girl in the Blue Coat.
Hesse, M. (2016).Girl
in the Blue Coat. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.New York.N.Y.
In order for Hanneke to survive War War II in Amsterdam she would go sell in the black
market to help her family survive. Hanneke is rebelling against the Nazi régime
by supplying black market goods throughout her city. Hanneke likes to think of
it as a small act against the regime after her boyfriends was killed in the Dutch
front lines when the German army invaded the city. Hanneke carries the burden
of guilt because she had convinced Sebastian to enlist. Because of the death of
Sebastian, they plan to get married once he returns from the front lines, his
death left her with a great emptiness. In one of her deliveries she is asked to
look for a Jewish teenager, Mirjam, which an older woman, Mrs. Janssen was
hiding went missing. She thinks it dangerous to do such thing to help a Jewish
girl after what she and her family are going through but eventually she gives
in. As she becomes part of the Resistance in looking for the girl in the blue
coat she becomes obsessed to find out just what happened. In her discovery she
goes from a child trying to survive such horrendous times to a young adult
caring for the people around her. Germans initiated a Jewish Council, an organizational
committee created to warrant that their demands were carried out among the
Jewish people. While Dutch Jews believed this council would help ease relations
between the Jews and the Nazi's, it actually made it easier for Nazi' to track
them down for extradition. This is the context which Mirjam, Girl in the Blue
Coat, goes missing.
This is a great novel to teach young adults of deep guilt that comes with choices and regret. War makes people go through struggles that forces us to do things we never thought we had the strength to do or be heroes to those who need us most.
Two other book you might like is the following with similarities but all so great big differences.
On Teachers pay Teachers website you can find the following lesson plans;
World War II Worksheets and Word Wall Bundle
Vocabulary, historical events, and concepts, can be a challenge for many students. Help them to remember, understand context, and use correct terminology, by posting this vibrant word wall during the unit. This attractive and visually appealing 28-page set, combines colorful graphics with photographs that I have carefully researched in historical archives. Print in color and laminate, and you will have a collection that provides a stunning display for your classroom that can be used for years.
World War II: Predicting German Foreign Policy 1933-1939
World War II: Predicting German Foreign Policy 1933-1939
This is one of my favorite activities when teaching the causes of World War II. Students will pretend they are advisors to the German leaders prior to World War II. First, the teacher will review the goals of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s and then the students will be given different scenarios where they will have to guess what the best choice would be to keep in align with German goals. In the end, the correct answers are revealed. The students compare their answers with what actually happened. The events that are discussed include the German occupation of the Rhineland, Austria, the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Your students will love this activity! Teacher created, student approved!
If you are interested in seeing my other products related to World War II follow the link: World War II
This is one of my favorite activities when teaching the causes of World War II. Students will pretend they are advisors to the German leaders prior to World War II. First, the teacher will review the goals of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s and then the students will be given different scenarios where they will have to guess what the best choice would be to keep in align with German goals. In the end, the correct answers are revealed. The students compare their answers with what actually happened. The events that are discussed include the German occupation of the Rhineland, Austria, the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Your students will love this activity! Teacher created, student approved!
If you are interested in seeing my other products related to World War II follow the link: World War II
Monday, July 18, 2016
Princess labelmaker to the rescue! by Tom Angleberger
Angelberger, T. (March,
2014). Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue! . Harry N. Abrams. New
York, N.Y.
Middle school is hard as
it is but now they are taking away recess to replace FunTime with useless test
prep programs promise by Principal
Rabbski. So they need to come up with a plan. Princess Labelmaker who steals
the rebels’ secret case file and gives it to the principal that can bring bad consequences
on the "Rebel Alliance". The team
convinces the principal to help them and get their fun activity back. With team
work they get to work out their problems and come to a resolution that they all
enjoy. When before they would quickly go to Yoda for advice but since Yoda is
not around they had to come up with their own ideas and relay that it will turn
out fine. But who is this Princess and where did she come from? Questions that
will be answered later on the book. It
turns out Princess is one of their own who wants to come out. At first they don’t
know how to handle it. They are shocked and confused but soon they come to
accept their friend for who he is. This book message it to teens that even
though they are young they can make a difference in what they strongly believe
in if they don’t give up on themselves.
Tom Angleberger
Instructional Materials
https://www.teachingbooks.net/authoridsearch.cgi?id=12448 here is where you can find lesson plans for teacher on the books.
This are several other books by the same author with his unusual humor on each book. As well as message to our teenagers in middle school.

Sunday, July 17, 2016
The fault in our stars by John Green
Green, J. (January
10, 2012). The Fault in Our Stars. Penguin Group. New York, NY.

Resources Teachers
pay Teachers
FAULT IN OUR STARS Unit Teaching
Package (by John
Green) NOVEL: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green LEVEL: 7th-12th TOTAL: 218
slides/pages Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included »»» MEETS COMMON CORE
STANDARDS
Subjects: English
Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays
FAULT IN OUR STARS Unit Teaching
Package (by John
Green) By Created for Learning
Reading,
Reading Strategies, Poetry
Grade Levels:
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Homeschool/ Resource Types Study Guides, Novel
Study, Printable
Key words-
summer reading, close reading, YA, literature, fiction, cancer, relationships,
nerd fighters, John Green
This packet
contains study questions for all twenty-five chapters- more than 200 questions!
A detailed and comprehensive answer key is provided that includes poetry
analysis, definitions, discussion concepts, and teaching resources that tap
into the world of author John Green and his extensive internet outreach.
Friday, July 15, 2016
When You Reach Me. by R. Stead
Stead, R. (2010). When You Reach Me. Yearling Newbery. New
York, NY.
1979 in New York as twelve-year old Miranda and her friends
explore their neighborhood, and figure out how to maneuver them around about
the neighborhood. Miranda has had the same best friends since she was a baby.
Her best friend, Sal, lives in the same building just downstairs of the same building
her and her mom live in. Sal stop coming by when he was punched by a bigger boy
at the streets.


On Teacher Pay Teachers website you can find this that goes well with the story;
Novel Scavenger Hunt Using Sticky Notes-- Common Core Aligned
Novel Scavenger Hunt Using Sticky Notes - Common Core Aligned
It's time to make learning fun and interactive! How do we do this? By sending students on a scavenger hunt using sticky notes that have printed questions on them! Simply follow the directions, load/print the sticky notes, and enjoy watching the students search through their books to find the answers!
This product meets the following Common Core State Standards:
7-12.RL.1
7-12.RL.2
7-12.RL.3
Pictures/examples included!
It's time to make learning fun and interactive! How do we do this? By sending students on a scavenger hunt using sticky notes that have printed questions on them! Simply follow the directions, load/print the sticky notes, and enjoy watching the students search through their books to find the answers!
This product meets the following Common Core State Standards:
7-12.RL.1
7-12.RL.2
7-12.RL.3
Pictures/examples included!
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