9th Grade Back to School Cultural Activities

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL students that are FUN? Your students will have the chance to research their origin countries and share their culture with the class. NO PREP

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to learn more about themselves and their heritage

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to complete an AMAZING project.

What’s Included:

• 55 slides in a Google Slides presentation for the teacher to present the unit and guide pacing and activities---including inclusive graphics and interactive Pear Deck slides with tons of writing, videos, vocab and more!
• Google Slides & PDF Printable template for students to make a "Passion Board"
• An ode poem writing template for ELL students and Kobe Bryant's "Ode to Basketball" as the mentor poem 
• A research note catcher that has built in language supports and visuals
• A google slides presentation template for students to use to construct their presentations with built in sentence frames and titled slides
• A peer presentation note catcher so students are actively listening while watching presentations
• Engaging videos and visuals for secondary multilingual learners
• A fun flyer to invite other teachers and staff to your food and poem party!
• About My Family PDF 

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Theresa V. wrote, “I am currently using this activity with my beginning language learners at the middle school level. The slides are perfect for their level and they are having a great time researching their culture and they will be sharing what they learn with their classmates. The final projects look amazing! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evon S. wrote, “I am currently using this activity with my ESL students this summer. The project is perfect for their proficiency level. The activities are interesting and keep them engaged. I love this project and look forward to using this with my students in the fall! No prep work was needed! Thank you for this resource!! A++!”

This origin project will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the EXCITING bundle. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Want to give your ESL ELL Newcomers a fun project to work on writing and speaking by presenting to their peers? This resource has everything your secondary ESL ELL Newcomers need to share and write about their OLD school and their NEW (current) school! 

This project should take 1-2 weeks of teaching time

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This project is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

• 47 teacher slides to teach grammar, vocabulary, and to go through EACH slide with students to help them do the project
• 12 Student Google Slides that are TEMPLATED with visuals, sentence frames and LINKED PDF vocabulary to support them EVERY step of the way
• Project rubric PDF
• A fun project that students will use to write about their old school and new school and food, students, teachers, school building, things they miss, things they like, classes and more!
• TONS of PDF Vocabulary printables
• Grammar handouts for the verb TO BE and TO HAVE in present simple tense
• Slides to help students present!
• Everything you need for OVER A WEEK of lessons!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Justin H. wrote, “This project was awesome! I a great way to get my 8th grade Newcomers sharing about school and using school vocabulary. They had so much fun making the slides and I learned a ton about them. This project took us about two weeks.”

This newcomer project will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the EXCITING project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

ESL Newcomer Bundle - Back to School

Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing