Making Inferences Activities: The Eras of Rap | Nonfiction Passage with Questions
Practice making inferences using rap song lyrics as a reading passage, focused on the history/eras of rap music.
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Practice making inferences using rap song lyrics as a reading passage, focused on the history/eras of rap music.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Confucius and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Geometry activity with scaffolded notes teaching the Triangle Inequality Theorem through a hands-on discovery activity using cut straws (or spaghetti) of measured lengths, then guided notes and practice problems.
Eight quadratic-function problems ask students to determine domain, range, intercepts, vertex, increasing and decreasing intervals, and end behavior. Four functions are presented as graphs and four as standard-form equations. Two answer pages provide completed characteristic tables; students should show their algebra separately. The file is labeled Version 2: Standard Form.
Practice calculating segment lengths formed by intersecting chords, secants, and tangents in circles as a high school geometry maze exercise.
A sequencing and timeline reading activity using rap-song lyrics about the history of jazz music as a nonfiction-style reading passage for comprehension and chronological-order practice.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Claude Monet and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Practice identifying key features of quadratic functions (domain, range, intercepts, vertex, increasing/decreasing intervals, end behavior) when given as a graph or as an equation in standard, vertex, or intercept (factored) form.
A homework/classwork worksheet giving students practice simplifying expressions using rational exponent rules.
A short GCSE worksheet giving students practice analysing what stage directions in Act 1 of An Inspector Calls reveal about character and setting.
A vocabulary practice set using an original nonfiction rap song about the history of breaking (breakdancing) as a reading passage to teach synonym and antonym identification in context.
Guides students through independent biographical research on James Baldwin and a structured 5-paragraph research-essay assignment (thesis-driven introduction, early-life paragraph, exploring Baldwin’s most renowned and well-known literary works, analyzing Baldwin’s influence on the history of Civil Rights, conclusion, and works cited…
A nonfiction context clues reading activity that uses rap song lyrics recounting the history and elements of breaking (breakdancing) as the reading passage for vocabulary and Hip-Hop terminology practice.
Multi-page piano/vocal sheet music for the contemporary Christian praise and worship song 'Begin the Music,' for music instruction and performance.
Practice setting up and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations through age-related word problems, at a high-school algebra level.
A 5-page set of repeated practice drill worksheets for fraction and number-theory skills: LCM, GCF, equivalent fractions, and converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Charlotte Bronte and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Teach English/ESL vocabulary for food and drinks, including category sorting and dietary-label terms.
A math worksheet set introducing function tables: what a function is, how input/output relate via a function rule, and practice completing and deriving function tables.
Provides paired English/Turkish translations of common greeting and self-introduction phrases for ESL/EFL students who speak Turkish.
Practice evaluating limits, with correct answers driving a color-by-number picture.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Dwight D. Eisenhower and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
An outline-format PowerPoint introducing high school students to the origins, core beliefs, and practices of Hinduism.
Practice solving real-world bearing/navigation word problems using the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines to find angles and distances.