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!
Teaching Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Mark Twain, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Students love brain teasers, so combine word work into word fun with the Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking skills. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 52-slide product includes rules/directions and answer key slides.
Teaching Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”? This 31-slide PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned unit. Slides include background information on O’Connor, Southern gothic conventions, symbols, irony, discussion questions, and an engaging writing activity. Perfect for American or AP Literature.
Teaching Antigone, Oedipus, or Medea? Kick off your Ancient Greek Theater unit with this comprehensive 32-slide PowerPoint. Product addresses important information and concepts such as the Greek playwrights, Chorus, masks and costumes, Aristotle’s Poetics, dramatic terms (hubris, catharsis, hamartia) and Fun Ancient Greek Theater Facts to hook your students.
Teaching the Unreliable Narrator as a plot device? Turn your students into literary scholars with this comprehensive 54-slide Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses types of unreliable narrators, literary tropes, feminism theory of the unreliable narrator, and a direct instruction activity with Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
Teaching John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl? This engaging, student-friendly 33-slide PowerPoint will carry your students through the entire unit with informative facts on Steinbeck, themes, symbols, character descriptions, parable/allegory analysis, discussion questions on each chapter, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Teaching Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”? This 38-slide all-inclusive Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Frost, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion questions, and engaging writing activities. Your students will be making real life connections to this classic poem as they practice their literary analysis skills. Easy for you - engaging for them!
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Teaching Arthur Miller’s The Crucible? This 43-slide The Crucible PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned unit. Slide deck includes author information on Arthur Miller, anticipation questions, historical background on the Salem Witch Trials, craft/structure analysis, and rigorous discussion questions/answers that reflect depth of knowledge.
Research shows that student feedback is essential to the learning process! With an effect size of .79, the practice of giving students feedback enhances successful learning through all phases of instruction.
With the Student Feedback Jumbo Bundle, you and your team will have everything you need to leverage student feedback for optimal growth! 200-slide Product includes:
The Art of Giving Student Feedback PowerPoint
The Art of the Student Data Chat PowerPoint
Formative and Summative Assessments PowerPoint
(100) Exit Tickets PowerPoint
Improve your practice of giving quality feedback, and watch your student growth grow exponentially. Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!
Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “We Real Cool” TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 28 slides including complete text, text dependent-questions, writing challenge, and in-depth step-by-step instructions of the TPCASTT analysis protocol that supports students’ response to poetry, specifically - title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude/tone, shift, title (revisited), and theme. This research-based, best practice will ensure your students grasp the important concepts of poetry while amplifying their literary analytical skills.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 27 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions/answers, 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? Assess your students’ comprehension and writing with A Christmas Carol: Scrooge’s Diary Assignment. Product includes a rigorous, engaging assignment where students write from the perspective a Scrooge after his spiritual transformation. The fun challenge is students must include (10) words from Victorian England (list included). Product also includes a ready-to-go writing rubric and self-editing checklist based on the research-based Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions. Perfect for a summative assessment yet fun enough for the holidays!
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills no this classic with A Christmas Carol Final Exam Test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.
Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Teach, practice, and assess this important narrative device with the Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice close reading using classic and contemporary literary passages.
The Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 32 slides
Task Cards - 32 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.
Teaching persuasion and modes of rhetoric? Make sure your students understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with these (40) engaging task cards. Common Core-aligned product includes (20) Q/A task cards with examples of each mode of rhetoric and (20) writing tasks where students will need to determine the best argumentation strategy. Answer key included.
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching those pesky punctuation marks? Amp up the proficiency level with the Punctuation Mark PowerPoint. This comprehensive 58-slide product covers all (14) punctuation marks, provides examples, and has multiple checks for understanding, including a formative assessment quiz for a complete lesson!
Punctuation Mark PowerPoint includes:
Period
Question mark
Exclamation point
Comma
Colon
Semicolon
Dash
Brackets
Braces
Parentheses
Apostrophe
Quotation marks
Ellipsis
Hyphen
Teaching a play? Kick off an inspirational unit with this student-friendly, engaging 95-slide Elements of Drama PowerPoint. Product introduces students to drama with background information on the Greek theater, dramatic elements/terms, famous plays, and an opportunity to act out the most famous scene in all of theater - Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, which can be a lesson in itself!