Early in my teaching career I spent many summers teaching students in summer school and summer bridge programs. In fact, I even created a summer Step Ahead program working with students who would be in my classroom in September. We worked on summer reading projects and acclimating them to the skills, expectations, and units that they would experience in the classroom in the upcoming school year. It was such a wonderful experience. Students that traditionally floundered at the start of school entered my classroom confident and well...a step ahead.
While I found teaching summer school rewarding, there were certainly days that I would have rather sipped lemonades poolside than grade and plan inside. That's why I created a comprehensive summer school program for middle school English Language Arts.
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It's filled with five different units woven together with a journey theme. That means that summer school teachers can skip the planning, focus on the fun stuff - teaching!, and help students meet CCSS in an engaging, rigorous, and thematic way. Enjoy!
Investigating Historical Texts - Close reading of the Lewis and Clark's journal entries
Short Story Literature Study - "Lob's Girl" by Joan Aiken (story about a dog's incredible journey to his owner)
Mini-Research Project, Speech Analysis and Writing - Study of the speech genre, analysis of speeches about journeys, mini-research projects on incredible explorers, speech writing on research and presentation
Poetry Analysis and Writing - Analysis of three journey-themed poems and two poetry writing guides
Personal Journey Reflection - Quote investigation, personal reflection, and journey map
This multi-unit pack is available at Brain Waves Instruction on TpT here. Wishing you summer days with more lemonade a whole lot less planning!
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P.S. - This multi-unit bundle would also be great to teach at any point throughout the school year. Just imagine...your first six weeks of school - planned and ready!
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