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Vocabulary Builder: Berate (Respond to the Quote)

Here is a supplementary vocabulary-building activity. The day after introducing students to the word BERATE, I like to revisit the word by having students respond to a quote. Here is the first video I show: Here is a link to our vocabulary activities:

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Idea Generator: Write About School

To be better writers and thinkers – students must learn how to generate ideas. This often takes patience and focus. For this activity, students need to put their phones away, sit, and write. That’s it. The focus of this activity is ideas. Ideas, ideas, ideas. When student are finished, they pass their papers around class, and underline “interesting ideas” they read. Then they leave a quick explanation on why they found that idea interesting.

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