9th Grade Thanksgiving Google Apps

Just in time for the fall season, this French autumn activities bundle will let you celebrate the cooler weather and spooky times. Includes a variety of printable and digital/distance items. Whether you teach level 1 or advanced French, there will be something for your students in this bundle.

Included in the French autumn bundle you will find a nice variety of short stories, non-fiction readings, games and activities. It’s a mix of print and digital items - so if you’ve never tried assigning a Google drive or Boom cards activity before, this can be a way to try it out.

Short stories in the bundle - great for sub plans:

• Un Dîner Spécial - a printable short story for Thanksgiving. Follow the adventures of a crew of animals who have misunderstood the holiday in a very bad way.

• La Guerre du Pumpkin Spice Latte - a short story about the real reason why pumpkin spice flavoring is found everywhere this time of year. Includes a Google drive AND print version of the story.

• Les Zombies Attaquent - a fun short story about - what else? - zombies!  It’s a great review for the imparfait and passé composé.  Includes a Boom AND print version of the story.

• Frankie le Vampire - A fun short story about a vampire who isn’t really very good at being a vampire.

Digital activities:

• Halloween digital stickers - A set of 12 digital stickers that you can use wherever you like - One Note, Google drive, or any digital platform that allows png images.

• Digital magnetic poetry - A Google drive activity with “magnets” of French words that students can move around to make their own poems with a fall theme.

• Halloween vocabulary digital game - Includes 30 vocabulary words about the holiday - a fun, no-prep way to learn and practice the vocabulary.  Both a PowerPoint/PDF/Google drive version and a Boom version are included.

• La Toussaint digital escape game - A fun and challenging game for your students!  They will learn about some of the spooky things in French history as well as how the holiday of La Toussaint is celebrated.   No need to prep - just share the URL with your students!

• Thanksgiving vocabulary digital game - Includes 30 vocabulary words about Thanksgiving - a fun, no-prep way to learn and practice the vocabulary.  Both a PowerPoint/PDF/Google drive version and a Boom version are included.

• L'armistice digital escape game - Learn about the end of World War 1 and how the holiday is celebrated in different countries.

• Le Fantôme du Manoir - A digital game for the passé composé with avoir. Collect the objects and put them in the family tomb in order to remove a ghost from your new home.

Non-fiction readings:

• Sous Paris French reading - learn about the spooky things under Paris and the people who love to explore them.  Includes information about the catacombs.
• The Cursed Lighthouse - the lighthouse of Ténnevec off the coast of Brittany had a reputation for being haunted.  Find out what the real story behind it was.
• Père-Lachaise cemetery - Read about the final resting place of many Parisians and a major tourist attraction.

Writing activity:

• Thanksgiving writing prompts for French levels 1-4 - a variety of prompts that will allow all levels to write about what they are thankful for.

This bundle includes 4 of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms (3 in-class, 1 digital) to review grammar, poetry, and more ELA skills for Thanksgiving!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 4 full-length Thanksgiving-Inspired Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that with these lessons, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of the games!

How does it work?

Your students must work to escape the classroom for Thanksgiving break by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.

Each In-Class Escape Room Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Welcome Sign for Your Door
• Materials for 5 Unique Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions, and supplementary worksheets
• Student Answer Booklets
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity

Digital Escape Room Includes:

• Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive
• Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials
• Digital Student Worksheets
• Digital Teacher Answer Key

*Note that this is the digital version of the Thanksgiving ELA Escape Room; tasks are identical, just reformatted for digital experience. Requires use of Google Slides.*

Purchasing this bundle saves over 25% off the cover price of the 4 escape rooms. Suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of November.

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A growing bundle of no-prep, self-grading digital practice games for French grammar and vocabulary. All games include PowerPoint and Google drive versions, certain games also include a pdf version. Includes a nice mix of games for the most commonly taught grammar points - verbs, adjectives, and more!

Assign for individual practice or do as a class on the smartboard. Games will guide the student through the path, giving immediate feedback.

This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging digital escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom for use with Google Drive.

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate 12 of our popular digital escape rooms at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted bundle of resources. Each escape room is skills-based so that with these fun activities, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so these escape rooms aim to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of language arts skills.

How does it work?

Your students must work to escape your digital classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.

Each Escape Room Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and interactive worksheets

- Digital Student Answer Booklet

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

Suggested Escape Room Progression:

• August - Back to School ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning
• September - Back to School Grammar Digital Escape Room
• October - Halloween Digital Escape Room
• November - Thanksgiving ELA Digital Escape Room
• December - Christmas ELA Digital Escape Room
• January - Escape from Dystopia Digital ESCAPE ROOM & PowerPoint
• February - Valentine's Day ELA Digital Escape Room
• March - Spring Break Digital Escape Room
• April - Digital Poetry Escape Room
• May - Shakespeare Digital Escape Room
• June - End of Year ELA Digital Escape Room
• July - The Lottery Digital Escape Room

Purchasing this bundle saves 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students. Note that these products require free accounts through Google Drive and are completely paperless.

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Get a full year's worth lessons and activities for first year French. These French units and resources include everything you need to teach and practice the typical things taught in a level one French course.

Teaching from a textbook can get boring, and sometimes textbooks simply don't give enough practice to learn vocabulary and grammar. Maybe you would rather focus on communication, and you plan to use a comprehensible input approach, but your textbook doesn't really work for that. This French curriculum bundle will give you everything you need to have structure, variety, and practice in your level one French classes.

This level 1 French curriculum Bundle Includes:

• 8 full units using comprehensible input - cover the same material as most first year French textbooks but using the language with repetition and context.
• 36 Digital games to practice vocabulary and grammar
• 19 Digital escape games to learn about the culture of the Francophone world
• 12 Non-fiction CI lessons - learn about interesting topics using sheltered language and grammar, with lots of repetition and a focus on comprehensibility
• 12 CI short story lessons - cute stories with very limited vocabulary - each story includes story retell and comprehension activities.
• 3 Interactive notebook pages for some of the biggest grammar points in first year.
• 5 grammar lessons with PowerPoints to teach some of the most basic French grammar - subject pronouns, adjectives, ER, IR and RE verbs

Use the full units as the backbone of your instruction, and the digital games will give students extra practice with the vocabulary and grammar points. For fun, you can spice it up a bit with an escape game, short story, or non-fiction lesson every so often.

The French bundle includes the following items:

Digital escape games:

L’Armistice/Le jour du Souvenir

Cathedrals of France

France

French Holidays

Mardi Gras

Paris

Joyeux Noel

La Recette perdue

La Toussaint

Le cinq mai

Loire valley châteaux

Mbappé is Missing!

Mont Saint Michel

Save Notre-Dame

The French-speaking world

Trouvez l’espion

Belgium

Quebec Province

Valentine’s Day

Non-Fiction CI lessons - each lesson includes a PowerPoint, story script, and comprehension activities to do after you've gone over the content.

La ville de Paris

Lafayette

Thomas Pesquet

French Food

Le lycée

Le TGV

La Martinique

Francophone Africa

D-Day

The Eiffel Tower

Notre Dame

Joan of Arc

CI Short stories - each story has specific targeted structures/vocabulary that is used over and over again to build acquisition. Includes post-reading activities and links to video version of the story.

J’ai mal!

Le Grand Chien

Le pantalon moche

Tu sens mauvais!

L’homme invisible

Le mauvais chef

Marc a faim

Le Cadeau parfait

La pomme de terre seule

Le Président Américain

Le Monstre sous le lit

Tu conduis mal!

Foldable interactive notebook pages

Big 4 irregular verbs

Foldable regular verbs

Foldable vocabulary pages

Digital games

Digital games can be played in PowerPoint or Google slides. Play together as a class using projection on a smartboard, or individually! Games are self-correcting.

Present tense irregular verbs

Present tense regular verbs

Adjective agreements

Ce and quel

ER verb conjugation

Être

IR verbs

Irregular verbs

Possessive adjectives

RE verbs

Vouloir, pouvoir, devoir

Numbers

Irregular adjectives

Clothing

Food

Adjectives

School supplies

House and furniture vocabulary

Question words

Body parts

Fruits

Vegetables

Professions and jobs

Ce, cet, cette, ces

Quel, quelle, quels, quelles

Connaitre and savoir

Un une des de d’

Telling time

Avoir conjugations and expressions

Halloween vocabulary

Thanksgiving vocabulary

Christmas vocabulary

Fruits and vegetables

Clothing

Mardi Gras

Valentine’s Day

Comprehensive CI units

Each unit includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, teacher planning guide, assessments, and a video version of the unit story.

Unit 1 : Bonjour !

Unit 2 : J’aime

Unit 3 : Le lycée

Unit 4 : On va sortir

Unit 5 : Ma famille et mes amis

Unit 6 : Les achats

Unit 7 : Bon appétit !

Unit 8 : J’habite ici…

Grammar lessons

Each targeted grammar lesson includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, reading based on the grammar lesson and answer key.

subject pronouns

regular adjectives

ER verbs

IR verbs

RE verbs