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When it's time to Attack the Barracks, you'll assemble a crack squad of your finest special ops forces to gather intel on top-quality work products while constructing massive defense fortresses in an effort to outlast your rivals. Hone your writing, annotation, and research skills as you gather supplies and blast apart your opponents' structures, Fortnite style.

Suit up for a game-changing approach to the writing process! Think your writing is ready for prime time? Put your written word to the test in a peer-to-peer Badge Battle, where you'll fine tune your composition and sharpen your writing skills through a series of timed rounds and revision challenges.

Communication. Collaboration. Critical Thinking. And Creativity. BreakoutEDU throws classes right into the world of the story as they race against the clock to rewrite history and stage an epic class escape. Open notes. Open books. Open minds. But one giant locked box. Can you crack the codes before time expires?

Do you wanna' build a... LEGO creation? Imagine a Master Chef cooking challenge with little plastic building blocks. Brick Battles will put your annotation skills to the test as you and your teammates literally reconstruct key scenes, characters, and pivotal moments from creative works of fiction and prose, using Twitter and Google Docs as you go to keep tabs on all the cool details you decide to include! Brainstorm, build, and rebuild until time expires! The only limit is your imagination.

Not-so-fun fact: due to a "historical oversight" slavery was technically legal in at least one state in the United States until 2013 -- nearly a full 150 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. So can we just chalk this up to an "honest mistake?" Or is there something much more insidious at play in the awful story of America's great shame? In Check Your Privilege, we'll explore the shocking truths about the role that race continues to play in our nation in everything from standardized exams to Band-Aids.

Class debates have never felt so lively. Help your teammates out by lobbing literary knockout punches the way of your opponents, and earn the right to bounce your squad directly into the winner's circle. But don't drop the ball! High-energy, high drama, and high stakes -- the Class Debate Bounce Off will have you on the edge of your seats.

That's right, folks. You get to be in the room where it happens! For the DJO Slam Poets Alter Ego Battle Royal, you'll don the second skin of a historical or literary persona of your choice. Then you'll pick a battle rap partner and go toe-to-toe, trading blows and dropping lyrical truthbombs in an all-out-war for trash-talking supremacy. Oh yeah -- and did we mention that you'll be battling it out in front of a cheering crowd of haters and hecklers? Bring your "A game" and your dopest freestyles to the poetry slam, because your opponent is armed with a devastating array of sick comebacks and lyrical ciphers. Do not throw away your shot!

Ready to get really nerdy? Using a mix of d4, d6, d8, d10, d10(00-90), d12, d20 -- AND the monster d50, you'll battle against course content while learning to adapt and overcome against the unexpected as the dice giveth and the dice taketh away. Part skill and part chance, your fate hangs in the balance of the rolling bones!

This disembodied and all-seeing eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg watches over the Valley of Ashes, bearing powerful witness to the Lost Generation's overindulgence in excess, greed, and wastefulness. Eckleburg's Dilemma plunges you right into the heart of this ashen wasteland and exposes the shadowy underbelly of human nature. What will YOU choose?

Change the game on sleepy video lectures! EdPuzzle makes the usual "death by YouTube" routine a thing of the past, making video-based instruction infinitely more engaging by embedding prompt questions, reflection items, and running notes at strategic checkpoints throughout any video that you can find on the web.

Can you create a dialogue where equity of voice rules the day to outclass your rival class section? Equity Maps turn the traditional Socratic Seminar into a class-wide competition that will put your growth mindset to the test. Work with your classmates to create an enriched, engaged, and informed conversation using the assigned text! Then take a tour of your post-conversation feedback frames and analytics to see where you've grown and where you've still got work to do.

Draft your team, set your rosters, and take the field! The Fantasy Football Character Draft puts next-gen statistics into play as literary powerhouses collide in epic bouts of fantasy sport-inspired showdowns. Would you start Huckleberry Finn over Tom Sawyer? Keep an eye out for free agents and start working those waiver wires!

They say a picture tells a thousand words. With Flipgrid, you have the chance to turn a thousand words into a talking picture -- by recording your very own video messages in response to a common prompt question. When you're done posting your video, add selfies, stickers, and peer-to-peer feedback. It's flipping awesome!

Your favorite old-school playground game just got a social media facelift! In the Foursquare Showdown, you'll pair off against three rivals and attempt to bounce them from the game by playing ball with the big boys of American literature. Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge in this fiercely competitive head-to-head tournament.

Imagine a self-paced quiz that's supercharged with strategic powerups, streaks, and and social gameplay. Gimkit lets you purchase crazy score multipliers to rack up insane point totals, and crush the competition in solo or team play while working with (or against!) your classmates to become a leader board legend.

Ready to show those alien scum who's boss? The Flood doesn't stand a chance when the literary Master Chiefs come to town. Whether you're a Covenant Warrior or a Spartan Elite, your job is to sharped your battle senses, blast away the enemy and secure the perimeter to neutralize all hostile invaders before time expires.

Turn nightly reading assignments into can't-miss #TrendingTopics. Twitter is an annotation game-changer. Suddenly, at-home reading becomes a social affair, and before you know it, you're busting out memes, emojis, and animated .gifs to share your learning with fellow students who might not even be in your class section!

Kick back and relax as you explore the wonders of the Instructional Islands. It's a full day of island hopping, so bring your passports and get ready to make some new friends as you bounce between Instructional Islands. Earn passport stamps as you learn a thing or two from the locals on your way to the Big Kahuna.

Pick blocks and draw questions at random -- but don't let the tipsy tower collapse! It's a new school twist on an old school classic in which you'll blend strategy, skill, and a little bit of luck to work with your teammates to tackle increasingly tougher questions without leaving the block tower in ruins.

Each time Jigsaw's Challenge comes knocking on your door, rally a team of friends to take on one of cinema's most sadistic movie monsters. Jigsaw is a mastermind of puzzles with an unexpected twist -- and the challenge that bears his name will literally have player teams tying themselves up in knots to outperform their rivals.

Old-school text annotations just got an interactive upgrade. When exploring texts using Kami, you'll have the ability to collaborate with classmates and share your findings in a shared document. Think of it like a literary Easter egg hunt, where learning becomes transparent as you work together to see what we can find.

The game is simple: a bunch of marbles are balanced precariously on top of an interlocking web of plastic skewers. The object of the game: don't let the marbles drop! But in order to keep them suspended, you'll have to avoid pulling the wrong skewer -- which means you'll need to be fast and furious with top quality answers.

Welcome to the future. With the Knight Time Podcasts, you'll become an overnight sensation and an internet celebrity -- taking to the airwaves to pilot your conversational skills as you delve into great works of fiction, rhetoric, and poetry. The best part? You get to be the judge of how well the recording went! And you'll walk away with commemorative .MP3s for your troubles.

The simplest, stupidest, and singularly most frustrating game you'll encounter all year. Will your writing utensil outlast the ink supply of your peers? It's a year-long, single elimination tournament where one mistake can cost you everything. So get your game face on and brace yourself to streak past your opponents!

Sixty four teams. A full month-long single-elimination tournament. Which team will reign supreme?! Build empathy and hone your powers of persuasion as you deepen your understanding of some of the greatest characters in American Literature in this full-contact bracketology activity.

The microlab is the backbone of an evenly balanced class discussion, and it serves as an awesome training ground for larger classwide discussions like the Socratic Seminar. Take advantage of the time-bound talking protocol to help you learn from your classmates. Pivot or piggyback, and push for deeper learning!

When it comes to spotting mistakes in the peer editing process, you've "gotta' catch 'em all." And using custom-designed Pokedexes and a ton of Pokeballs, you'll square off against fellow trainers in an effort to help even the roughest of rough drafts evolve into a proper battle-ready state. Jump into the fray to represent your team! Or hit the gym and level up your fighting skills before lending a hand to a teammate in need. This one is all about collaboration. Like the theme song says: "you teach me and I'll teach you!"

Whether its poetry, prose, non-fiction, or persuasive rhetoric -- the Poker Chip Chase is your chance to work in small groups to explore an assigned text and identify as many literary techniques as you can find before time expires. But stay sharp! Each chip has a different hidden point value.

It's an escape room in REVERSE. Build your team and start solving puzzles to collect the clues and break IN to the world of a brand new unit of study. QR Break IN activities will test all of your teamwork, time management, and collaborative problem-solving skills. Avoid the booby traps and crack the QR code challenges!

Like Kahoot! But way better. Quizizz gives you the chance to self-pace your way through a battery of questions, and receive real-time feedback and analytics on how you're progressing towards mastery level understanding. Don't like your score? Take the Quizizz again before the deadline to show you've got the right stuff.

Rally. Coach. Repeat. This fast-paced twist on an old-school relay race will put you in teams of three in a sprint to see the world from someone else's point of view! Ready to get creative? Spin the wheel to determine your fate, then work with your teammates to test your creativity while solving color-coded questions at random.

Something wicked this way comes. It's the end of the seventeenth century, and witch hunt hysteria is at a fever pitch. Paranoia runs rampant as tiny Puritan towns are plagued by inexplicable misfortune and disease, and religious leaders are convinced that this is proof that their is a powerful evil at work in your midst. Can you snuff out these masters of the dark arts before terror consumes your town? It's neighbor against neighbor in a war for the very soul of your community. Listen closely and don't blink -- you never know who you can trust.

Imagine that a tabloid-style television talk show decided to film a panel discussion with some of literature's most scandalous stars. Get ready to spill some tea and sling some serious mud, as all will be revealed in this no-holds-barred approach to secret sharing and character analysis. They say controversy creates cash -- and this activity is loaded with shocking secrets, sensational allegations, and high drama.

Get your right brain ready. Sketch Notes will ask you to draw (yes, draw!) specific details from longer form works of narrative fiction, rhetoric, poetry, and prose. Did you spot something in your reading that's worth a visual representation? This is your chance to add a little artistic flair and bring the printed text to life!

Get your ninja on! Change the life of a complete stranger! Or become a one person flash mob! With Sneaky Cards, you'll become a covert ops specialist with a top-secret task: play your card without getting caught, and make the world a happier place. With Sneaky Cards, you don't just pay it forward -- you play it forward.

Step right up and witness the wonders of Snake Oil! Easily the slimiest educational activity you've ever seen (think Shark Tank, but for scoundrels). The rules of Snake Oil are simple: create a mashup of two everyday household items, and work with your teammates to concoct a totally bogus product that is custom made exclusively for an unsuspecting buyer. When you're done, you'll pitch your custom junk creation to the adoring crowd of onlookers, and try to score as many investments as you can! To win this game, you'll need to know your target's every weakness -- which means you'll need to tailor your sales pitch to let them hear exactly what they'd want to hear in order to be swindled into parting with their hard-earned cash.

Flex your social media muscles in this team-versus-team Smackdown! Using popular apps like Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, take the reigns of the social media profile for some of literature's most notorious celebrities. Image is everything. Can you garner the most likes and followers before the final bell has sounded?

Get ready to roll! Rory's Story Cubes are six-sided cubes adorned with random images instead of the usual dice pips. They come in sets of nine, and they work just like a traditional six-sided dice. For a Story Cube Showdown, you'll shake things up and use the images that appear to re-tell the most important aspects of the assigned text, character, author, or literary movement. And if you're feeling really brave, try mixing things up with any of the four different story cube variant sets, including: CLASSIC, ACTIONS, JOURNEYS, and FANTASIA. Or if you're feeling especially villainous -- perhaps you'd prefer throwing a particularly hard Story Cube set to a rival team!

Take everything you thought you knew about poetry and turn it upside down. As you explore the twists and turns of the Stranger Poetry labyrinth, up becomes down through the mind-bending abilities of this power-packed art form. On a difficulty scale of one to ten, this is an Eleven -- so you may want to bring a friend.

Why listen to a lecture when you've got the entire world wide web at your fingertips? Check your battery life and get in the game! When it's time for a webquest, you'll take a self-guided stroll through the information super highway and get a front row seat to current events and outside world connections.