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1 pound ground beef
1 packet onion soup mix
1 3/4 cup mixed frozen veggies
5 cups water
1 28 oz can diced tomatoes
1 cup uncooked macaroni
1. In large pot, brown ground beef. Drain fat.
2. Add water, onion soup mix, and diced tomatoes (undrained).
3. Simmer 1 hour on med. low
4. Add macaroni and frozen veggies. Cook 15 min. longer on med heat.
5. Serve with crackers or croutons. Add a splash of hot sauce to up the heat if you like.
1 24 oz bag frozen cheese ravioli
2 cups shredded mozzarella
1 24 oz jar marinara or pasta sauce
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
1. In a baking dish, pour thin layer of marinara sauce (about 1/3 of the jar).
2. Lay out a half of the bag of frozen ravioli.
3. Pour another 1/3 of the sauce.
4. Sprinkle 1/2 of the mozzarella.
5. Lay another layer of ravioli.
6. Pour rest of sauce.
7. Sprinkle remainder of mozzarella. Add parmesan cheese to top.
8. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake 30 minutes.
9. Remove foil and bake an additionl 15 minutes or until cheese starts to brown.
Serve with veggies and breadstick.
16 oz. frozen meatballs
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 package dry Ranch dressing mix
1/2 soup can water
1. Mix together soup, water, and dressing mix.
2. Dump frozen meatballs into crockpot.
3. Pour soup mixture over.
4. Cook on low 4-5 hours.
Serve over rice, mashed potatoes, or pasta of choice.
3-4 chicken breasts
1 jar salsa
1 can black beans
1 can corn
1. Place chicken into crockpot
2. Pour salsa, beans, and corn over chicken.
3. Cook on low 4-5 hours.
4. Shred with fork.
Serve over rice, as a filling for burritos, as filling for tacos, mixed with tortilla chips and lettuce for a taco salad.
3-4 chicken breasts
1 cup chicken broth
1 packet Ranch dressing mix
1 packet taco seasoning
1. Mix chicken broth, dressing mix, and taco seasoning in bowl.
2. Place chicken breasts into crockpot.
3. Pour broth mixture over chicken.
4. Cook 4-5 hours in crockpot.
5. Shred with fork when done.
Serve on tacos with your fav toppings!!
3-4 chicken breasts
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 packet Ranch dressing mix
1 packet Italian dressing mix
4 oz cream cheese (softened)
1/2 cup shredded cheddar
2-3 pieces of bacon (cooked and crumbled)
chopped green onion (optional)
1. Mix together soup with both dressing packets in bowl.
2. Place chicken in crockpot.
3. Pour soup mixture over chicken.
4. Cook on low 4-5 hours.
5. Shred chicken with fork.
6. Add cream cheese and stir until thickened and creamy.
7. Sprinkle with green onion, bacon, and cheddar.
Serve over rice or egg noodles along with some steamed veggies.
3-4 Chicken breasts
1 cup barbecue sauce
1 cup orange marmalade
1-2 tsp soy sauce
Sesame seeds (optional_
Sliced green onions (optional)
1. Cut chicken into cubes and put into crockpot.
2. Mix all other ingredients together in bowl and pour over chicken.
3. Cook on low 4-5 hours.
4. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.
Serve with fried
rice and steamed broccoli or other veggies.
I had been teaching about five years or so, I guess, when this happened.
I stayed up late one night reading. No. Really. I knew I was going to have a hard time getting up the next day for school, but the book was just sooooo good. (Okay, I know you ELA teachers can relate. lol!)
I don't know if I forgot to set my alarm or if I just turned it off and rolled over, but the next thing I knew, my phone was ringing. I looked at the clock. 10:00. I grabbed the phone and said, "I'm on my way." The school secretary just laughed. I threw on my clothes and rushed to work. By the time I got there it was third block. THIRD BLOCK.
Now you may be asking yourself, Why did no one miss me before third block? Was I off the first two blocks? Why, no. No I was not. However...
The first two blocks were very small classes for struggling readers. I also had students who acted as my teacher's aides in each class. They always checked roll and put the list of absent students on the clip in the hallway. (Before the days of computers, folks. lol!)
The classes were so quiet that no one noticed I wasn't there. Nobody went to the office to ask where his/her teacher was. They just hung out. 😅
Who knows when they would have noticed? But another teacher stopped by to ask me a question, and when she asked where I was, the class confessed that they hadn't seen me at all.
Every time I think about this, I crack up. I didn't even get into too much trouble because my principal was too busy laughing.
But after that, they did implement a sign-in procedure. 😇
Black History Month is a great time to remind students of the contributions black men and women have made to the literary field. This is a great product to use in your ELA classroom.
The following brief articles are designed to be used during Black History Month. There are four short articles about four black authors. Accompanying each article is a short literary piece by each author, either a poem, short story, or excerpt from a longer piece. The articles are in the forms of guided notes with blanks to be filled in as students watch the accompanying PowerPoint Presentation. A key is provided for each article if you do not wish to use the PowerPoint Presentation. Questions follow each literary selection. A key is also provided for the questions.
The four authors featured in this packet are as follows:
1. Matthew Henson-Henson accompanied Commander Robert Peary on his Arctic expeditions. He wrote a memoir about his experiences titled A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. An excerpt from this memoir is included.
2. Alice Dunbar-Nelson- An American poet, author, journalist, and political activist, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was among the first generation of African-Americans born free in the South after the Civil War. In 1895, her first collection of short stories and poems, Violets and Other Tales, was published. A story from this collection is included.
3. Langston Hughes-Hughes is a renowned black American poet, novelist, and social activist. He was one of the major leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement. His works are often included in student anthologies. One of his poems is included.
4. Alexandre Dumas-Dumas is the only non-American in this packet. His father was the son of a French nobleman and a slave of Afro-Caribbean descent. He is one of the most widely read French authors. His works include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. An excerpt from The Count of Monte Cristo is included.
You can find this product here in my TPT store.
3-4 chicken breasts
16 oz bottle barbeque sauce
1/2 cup Zesty Italian Dressing
1/4 cup brown sugar
Mix all ingredients in bowl. Put chicken in crock pot. Pour mixture on top. Cook on low 4-5 hours.
Then you have some options:
1. Shred with fork and put on hamburger buns for delicious chicken sandwiches.
2. Leave whole and serve with mashed potatoes and vegetable of choice.
So because I am an English teacher and can therefore teach anything with language 😜, I was assigned to teach our school's debate class. Now, I had never seen a debate, been in a debate, nor was I even remotely interested in debate. I begged my principal to give the class to someone else. He just patted my shoulder and said, "You can do it." So of course I immediately went to the library and got a book on debate. It was like reading Greek. 😟
I did find a 9-week debate course workbook that I purchased. Unfortunately the class was 18 weeks. Oh well. At least I had the first nine weeks covered. (I'll think about that tomorrow-Scarlett O'Hara).
The first day of class, I was so nervous and worried, figuring the students would know more than I knew. I was B*ll S*itting like nobody's business, pretending I knew what the h*ll I was doing. I was talking about possible topics and said, "For example, you might have to argue the pros and/or cons of a topic like Capital Punishment."
A student raised his hand and said, "Well, I personally think a parent should be able to spank his child whenever he wants to."
Okay. I think I got this. 😂😁😂
This is a fun and functional activity for students to practice writing theme statements. There is a definition of theme and guidelines for distinguishing between subjects and theme statements as well as a strategy for writing a theme statement from a subject. Students are then asked to write a theme statement for a text they are reading. They must be able to defend their theme statements with textual evidence.
After that, students take their theme statements and turn them into tweets of 140 characters or less.
Students can work individually or in small groups for this activity. You can find this product on my TPT store here.
Jim wrote this book to help teachers like himself whose often large and always diverse classrooms contain a wide range of reading abilities and needs. All of the strategies have been tested and tested again with his students, and each one has achieved significant gains in student performance, confidence, and engagement. Together, the reminders will challenge your best students and support struggling ones. This book will help you:
I love this book. Heck, I love anything Jim Burke publishes. It's like having a great mentor teacher who is always available.
This book is chock full of helpful ideas and techniques for teaching English Language Arts. Jim Burke is a legend in ELA circles, and if you haven't read any of his books, you're missing out on some amazing ideas.
Some of my students, even at the high school level, were seriously struggling readers. This book has lots of practical strategies for helping struggling readers and really all of your students with comprehending difficult texts. We're living in a day and time when there is a real focus on adopting reading goals for the high school classroom. Most ELA teachers are not equipped to teach reading. This book is just what you need if this is your goal. This book also has an appendix chock full of reading strategies, graphic organizers, student surveys, etc., that you will find helpful. Do yourself a favor, add this book to your personal library. You won't regret it.
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cans water
2 packets chicken gravy
2 packs chicken breasts
garlic powder
salt
pepper
mashed potatoes (I use instant because...why not?)
1. Place cream of chicken soup, water, and chicken gravy packets in bowl. Stir until well mixed. Pour into crockpot.
2. Season chicken breasts with garlic powder, salt, and pepper to taste.
3. Chicken in crockpot.
4. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
5. Take out chicken and pull apart. Add back into crockpot.
6. Prepare mashed potatoes.
7. Serve chicken on top of potatoes.
Goes great with rolls or cornbread. Add a healthy side salad. Yummy!
