The Most Dangerous Game Short story Activities
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 If you are “on the hunt” (did you see what I did there?) for a super engaging and culturally iconic short story for your middle…
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Mythical Allusions To Build Student Vocabulary
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 21, 2024 All About Mythical Allusions Mythical Allusions can be a tricky (but important!) topic to teach. Put simply, mythical allusions are terms that “allude” to characters…
Freak the Mighty – the Perfect Middle School Novel Study
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 9, 2024 Teaching Freak the Mighty Teacher friends who have been following me on the blog for a while know how passionate I am about the powerful…
Back to School Activities for the First Week
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 21, 2024 In beautiful BC, Canada, we are about a month away from returning to our classrooms. I am not sure about you, but to me this…
Ancient Civilizations Unit – Free Resource Roundup
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 Looking for some FREE activities to help spice up your Ancient Civilization Unit? I wanted to be sure you had access to all of the…
5 Ways to make your Ancient Civilizations Unit more engaging
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Dec 12, 2023 Ancient Civilizations Unit Teaching Ideas As a middle school history teacher, I have always found Ancient Civilizations to be super engaging to learn about and…