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Your Year Covered Unit PlanYour Year Covered Unit Plan
Publisher
Macmillan Education
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
15 mins
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Year
2012
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Your Year Covered

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Feeling stuck? Want to energize the class? Use activities such as quizzes and fill-in-the-blank worksheets to get class members' attention with a year's worth of holiday celebrations. From Mother's Day to Robert Burns's birthday, learners explore celebrations throughout the year.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

national holidays, holiday celebrations, world holidays, culture

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the included activities as a warm-up for a unit of study on culture

Classroom Considerations

  • Includes St. Patrick's Day, as well as other prominent holidays
  • Resource is geared toward English culture, but it is easy to adapt them to a variety classroom settings

Pros

  • Activities are quick and easy to adapt to a variety of lessons and grade levels
  • Resource includes answer keys

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.6-8.10

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