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I'm a middle and high school English and language arts teacher who hopes to share a love of literature.

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I'm a middle and high school English and language arts teacher who hopes to share a love of literature.
Apostrophes
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Apostrophes

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PowerPoint presentation, notes organiser, and 5 worksheets to practice the rules of apostrophes.
Sympathy and Caged Bird by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou
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Sympathy and Caged Bird by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou

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This poetry resource includes a handout that contains lined versions of the poems, guiding questions and graphic organizers regarding theme, imagery, symbolism, and tone; and writing assignments to compare, contrast, and interpret allusion and intertextuality. PowerPoint contains essential vocabulary and literary terms, historical context, discussion questions, three writing assignments.
Using Participles to Enhance Your Writing
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Using Participles to Enhance Your Writing

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This PowerPoint explains present and past participles and how to use them as modifiers and to combine sentences. There are 3 worksheets to practice identifying participles, as well as to practice combining sentences. There is a foldable template for an interactive notebook as well.
Reading for Vocabulary
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Reading for Vocabulary

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Handout to help students skim for unfamiliar vocabulary and use context clues to determine the meaning, then checking their answers with a dictionary. Can be used with any text.
Discussion Exit Tickets
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Discussion Exit Tickets

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Pass these out at the beginning of the lesson. Students must use them to participate in whole class or group discussion. Use them in place of exit tickets. Great way to scaffold for ELL. Laminate them and re-use them!
Poetry Graphic Organizer
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Poetry Graphic Organizer

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Poetry graphic organiser that works with any poem. Helps students analyse historical context, paraphrasing, literary devices, mood and tone, and rhyme and meter.
Blank Task Cards
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Blank Task Cards

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3 sets of 24 blank task cards. Each set comes with custom front and back. Print, laminate back-to-back, and cut them out. They work best if cut out before and after laminating, although an extra time-consuming step. Use permanent marker and wash for re-use!
Creative Writing Unit
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Creative Writing Unit

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PowerPoint to introduce students to basic elements of creative fiction; graphic organisers for character development, plot graphs and storyboarding; peer review activity; and student checklist.
Harlem by Langston Hughes
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Harlem by Langston Hughes

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This PowerPoint and foldable activity explicitly demonstrates to students the difference between paraphrasing and analysis. It breaks down the poem line by line, analysing each use of imagery in the poem, culminating in a PEEL paragraph writing prompt.
Book Group Discussion Record
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Book Group Discussion Record

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To help pupils increase their depth of analysis during discussion, provide textual evidence to encourage close reading, and record what has been discusses for future reference. Handout can be used for any text length, poetry or prose, on-going literature circles or short term group work.
Make a Metaphor Task Cards
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Make a Metaphor Task Cards

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Task cards and graphic organizer for students to practice distinguishing between the three literary devices, as well as identifying the tone of each one. They use the mentor sentences, or sentence frames, to create their own version of the literary device while conveying the tone identified. These task cards can be used as an application activity in pairs or groups; as a timed activity during a stations rotation; or ask exit tickets (without the graphic organizer).
Close Reading Task Cards
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Close Reading Task Cards

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These task cards are intended to be used with any fiction text: poem or prose. Print them and cut them out; they are intended to be two-sided, with a colorful number on one side and a corresponding close reading question on the flip side, and then laminated. They are best used in groups or stations, as the questions are of varying depths of analysis. Sentence frames are provided as supports on many cards.
The Tell-Tale Heart by
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The Tell-Tale Heart by

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PowerPoint breaks down key vocabulary and poses discussion questions. Handout has comprehension questions, analysis of textual evidence, interpretation of similes, short writing prompt.
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

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PowerPoint including vocabulary for dictionary races; review of personification; discussion questions; table to identify and interpret uses of personification; short writing prompt. Printable graphic organiser handout to correspond to personification table.
The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty
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The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty

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For KS3: Lesson with handout pre-reading questions, text, and post-reading discussion questions. PowerPoint includes vocabulary and lesson on varying sentences lengths for pacing and creating tension, reviewing participles and introducing students to mentor sentences.
Of Mice and Men Complete Unit
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Of Mice and Men Complete Unit

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Complete unit pack with 4 pre-reading informational texts to build historical background (perfect for group presentations or gallery walks), vocabulary lists, character chart, dialect decoder, chapter reading questions of various depths of analysis, and summative essay prompt with rubric.