Middle School Christmas Activities

Total Pages: 63 pages
Answer Key: Included with rubric
Teaching Duration: 1 Week
File Size: 5 MB
File Type: PDF

Middle School Christmas Unit Digital and PDF Formats: This engaging Christmas Unit contains 6 different activities that will help reinforce your students' reading and writing skills. Students will learn about the historical background of Christmas traditions and prepare for a holiday-themed discussion about current Christmas customs. *This resource is focused on the North American commercial Christmas - this is not a religious unit.

• This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™. The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

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Unit Overview:

• Lesson 1: History of Christmas Video & Readings
• Lesson 2: Real or Fake Christmas Trees: Which One Should You Choose?
• Lesson 3: Christmas Opinion Questions
• Lesson 4: Christmas Opinion Fishbowl Discussion & Paragraph Assignment
• Lesson 5: Christmas Food Traditions From Around the World Video + Graphic Organizer
• Lesson 6: Christmas Creative Writing Assignment *Christmas Creative Writing Assignment can be purchased separately here.

Unit Includes:

• Individual PDFs of student pages for uploading to Google Classroom or other LMS systems
• Detailed unit plan and teacher instructions
• Lessons divided up with title pages for easy access
• Assessment rubrics (Levels and Points)
• Answer keys for lessons

Teacher Feedback

1. “Especially loved the compare/contrast on real versus artificial trees!”
2. “Lots of useful material.  My students enjoyed it very much.”
3. “This was great! It was a great activity to see what students can think outside

Resource Notes:

• Regular reliable internet access is required for this unit
• Internet must be able to access online video sources
• This resource is a non-editable PDF

Related Holiday Resources:

• Global Holiday Celebrations Research Assignment
• Christmas Truce of 1914 Media Analysis Unit
• Winter Creative Writing Assignment