Teaching John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”? This 40-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Keats and Romanticism, vocabulary review, the text, analysis on craft and structure, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this classic ode that has captivated audiences for generations. Perfect for British or AP Literature.
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Every brain needs a Brain Break! Now you can have a bank of Movement and Silent Brain Breaks at your finger tips with the 55-Slide Brain Break Bank PowerPoint - including a Dance Party, Would You Rather, Human Knot, Snowball Fight, and Invisible Ball Toss. Perfect for grades 5-12.
Best practice research shows giving students Brain Breaks can:
Increase creativity
Improve mood and motivation
Restore energy and support learning
Reduce boredom, stress, anxiety
Help kids focus and be more productive
Teaching argumentation and persuasive rhetoric? Make sure your student understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with this comprehensive 60-slide PowerPoint.
Common Core-aligned product provides information on each mode of rhetoric with definition, examples, and the effect on audience along with a formative assessment and engaging student writing tasks.
Teaching ethos, pathos, and logos? Teach, practice, and assess these important argumentative devices with the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice these rhetorical skills.
The Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 60 slides
Task Cards - 40 Task Cards
Assessment - 30-question test with answer key
Here’s how it works:
You TEACH the skill with an easy-to-understand, comprehensive instructional PowerPoint.
Students PRACTICE the skill as they review the content with high yield Task Cards that generate active engagement.
You ASSESS the skill with a Common Core-aligned assessment that will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic.
You will set a positive tone while establishing your classroom procedures with this student-friendly 25-slide presentation on rules and expectations. Slides cover all the middle and high school hot-button topics, such as bathroom, food/gum, bullying, cell phone, etc., along with Bonus Classroom Memes for a little added humor. PowerPoint template can be used for any subject or grade. Simply “fill in the blanks” with your own particulars. A must-needed gem for every secondary teacher!!
Teaching Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this 10-page unit test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.
Teaching Southern Gothic literature? This 31-slide PowerPoint is a perfect introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying, or Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Product includes information on the tropes of Southern Gothic literature, authors, themes, and engaging writing tasks incorporating this genre’s distinctive motifs.
Students love games, so combine word work into word fun with the Scattergories PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher!” Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 41-slide, no-prep product includes rules/directions for easy scoring.
Teaching Antigone? Introduce this archetypal Greek tragedy with a comprehensive, engaging 38-slide PowerPoint. Product includes informative facts on Sophocles, Ancient Greek theater, the dramatic structure, characters, setting, themes, and Common Core aligned text-dependent discussion questions. You and your students will love this!
Teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Elevate this literary horror classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 38-slide Dracula PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in both the genre and novel. Slides include informative facts on Stoker, anticipatory questions, themes, symbols, and analytical discussion questions/answers. Product is Common Core-aligned and editable.
Research shows that student feedback is one of the most important parts of the learning process! With an effect size of .79, the practice of giving students feedback enhances successful learning through all phases of instruction. But we all know that not all feedback is effective…
The Art if Giving Student Feedback PowerPoint (34 Slides), you and your team can learn about The Feedback Four, Formative/Summative Feedback, the Compliment Sandwich, Feedback Stems, Giving Feedback Tips and Tricks, and practice with “Your Turn” Real-Classroom scenarios.
Improve your practice of giving quality feedback, and watch your student growth grow exponetially. Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe or gothic literature? This comprehensive 40-slide PowerPoint on Poe’s poem “The Haunted Palace” is all you need for a perfect lesson that can last 2-5 days. Product includes background information on Poe, gothicism, complete text, discussion questions (and answers), TPCASTT analysis, and student writing challenge.
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who Are You”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 24 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, satire, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions, and writing challenge.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Kick off this time-honored classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 32-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Charles Dickens, Victorian London, themes, and character descriptions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Teaching the concept of irony? Help your students understand this literary device with the 30-slide PowerPoint: Isn’t It Ironic? Presentation addresses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony with examples and kid-friendly pictures. Students will have an opportunity to show what they have learned as they analyze Shel Silverstein’s ironic poem, “Smart.” A wonderful review for standardized test prep. You and your students will love this!
Teaching irony? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with (30) Irony Task Cards that address situational, verbal, and dramatic irony - a literary concept often found on standardized tests. Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”? This product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned week-long unit. Product includes a 30-slide PowerPoint, a 10-page test with answer key, and 40 Edgar Allan Poe Task Cards. Each product is aligned to Common Core reading and writing standards, so that you can be assured your students are learning as they are transfixed by this classic short story of suspense.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? This 30-slide PowerPoint is all you need for a comprehensive, all-inclusive lesson. Product includes background information on Shakespeare, the sonnet form and structure, Petrarchan conventions, satirical thematic message, discussion questions, and writing activity. You will love this product and so will your students!
Perfect for an upcoming evolution and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Kick off your literature class with The Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint (40 Slides) based on Christopher Booker’s renowned book used in college classrooms across the country. Product addresses each plot archetype with the meta-plot, examples from literature, and summary. Plot archetypes include the following:
1 - Overcoming the Monster
2 - Rags to Riches
3 - The Quest
4 - Voyage and Return
5 - Comedy
6 - Tragedy
7 - Rebirth
Your students will be discussing and writing about literature like college professors in no time! Perfect for an introduction to AP English or American/English literature, this is the reference no serious English teacher should be without!
Kick off The House on Mango Street with this comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that piques students’ interest in Esperanza’s coming-of-age story. Slides include background information, discussion questions, and engaging literary analysis tasks. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core writing activities and quotations from the book. You and your students will love this!