This unit was designed for high school students who are studying folktales. It includes a lesson plan (with common core standards), a PowerPoint presentation, a rubric for assessment, and modifications for the assignment (note-taking guide and example of a folktale with hyperlinks to the definition of words that might be difficult for those reading below grade level or for English Language Learners)

This game was intended as a review for a unit exam over the novel, 1984. It was designed for students at the high school level.

The following presentation was designed for 12th grade students. It defines and gives different examples of sonnets. It also includes a flow chart to help students decide whether or not a poem is a sonnet.

This Web Quest is designed as the first step in the creation of a project dealing with the topic of bullying. It is intended for high school students, and it provides information about bullying, examples of effective strategies for dealing with bullying in schools, and a short story about bullying. This resource also contains a rubric for assessing the final product.

This unit is aligned with the Common Core and is intended for high school students. It includes a PowerPoint introduction to the novel, Nectar in a Sieve (the Academic Decathlon reading for the 2015-2016 school year) with a literary analysis assignment. Also included in this resource packet is a reader's log, reading questions over the novel (a reader's guide), and an answer key for the reading questions. A note-taking guide is provided for students who need this accommodation. The PowerPoint has many useful hyperlinks and lots of visuals to help students better understand the novel.

This Unit includes four PowerPoint Presentations (The Writing Process, Rhetorical Devices, Logical Fallacies, and the Mini-Research Project), note-taking guides, Logical Fallacy Activity, and a Unit Overview. This resource is aligned with the Common Core and is intended for High School Students.

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and activity cards. It was designed for high school students who were about to begin studying literature from the Medieval period. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to define and give examples of syllogisms, identify the four humours and resulting personality types, and be able to define and use four SAT words. This lesson was used in cooperative groups.

This lesson was designed for high school students. It includes a PowerPoint presentation over the life of Joseph Conrad and an introduction to "The Secret Sharer." It also includes a Unit Overview (with common core standards) , a reader's log (with examples included in the log), a sample thesis paragraph, and the writing prompt.

This lesson is intended as an introduction to poetry explication and was used with high school students. This resource includes a lesson plan (with Common Core Standards), a PowerPoint presentation, a TPCASTT Activity (with a Teacher Key), and a Note-taking guide accommodation.

This unit is intended for high school students who are leaning about literary analysis. It includes three PowerPoint presentations (Literary Analysis, Introduction to "A Rose for Emily," and a sample thesis paragraph). It also includes a Unit Overview that is aligned with the Common Core standards and provides suggestions for accommodation.

This game was intended as a review for a unit exam over the novel, 1984. It was designed for students at the high school level.

This resource is a review of rounding and how to find the circumference and the area of a circle. It includes a hyperlink to a YouTube video about the Pythagorean Theorem. It also includes a hyperlink to show the places of Pi and a hyperlink to an example of a proof.

This resource covers the concepts of Prime Factors, Greatest Common Factor, and Least Common Multiple. It includes whole class response to practice problems. It was used with a group of fifth grade students as a review of these concepts.

This resource is aligned with the Common Core and is intended to be taught with students who are in High School. It includes a PowerPoint Presentation introduction to the novel, a Unit Overview, a Research project, a Literary Analysis project, a Web Quest, vocabulary and a reader's log to help guide students' reading.

The following games have a Halloween theme and were designed for students in a resource room. This bundle includes sight word bingo (First 100 Frey Sight Words), word find, crossword puzzle, and math games.

This Web Quest activity was designed to be used as a pre-reading activity for the novel Go Set a Watchman.

This unit is intended for high school students who are leaning about literary analysis. It includes three PowerPoint presentations (Literary Analysis, Introduction to "A Rose for Emily," and a sample thesis paragraph). It also includes a Unit Overview that is aligned with the Common Core standards and provides suggestions for accommodation.

This rubric has evolved over time and has been used to grade SAT timed writings, general classroom essays (both at the high school and college level), and essay assignments similar to state standardized tests. A hard copy can be printed and/or the electronic version can be sent to students (be sure to restrict the edit option under the Developer tab on the tool bar). This highly versatile rubric can be used to grade only content or the teacher can include a format and Grammar, Usage, Mechanics grade. It also has an Excel worksheet embedded in it to assign a grade.

This resource is intended for high school students. It was designed to be used during Bully Prevention Month.

This resource was designed for fifth grade students. It covers the order of operations with a review of multiplying negative numbers. It includes several problems and hyperlinks to the slides that show how to arrive at the correct answer.