Powerpoint details five techniques writers - and especially advertisers - use to convince you to agree with them and take action (and possibly buy ... ByHappyedugator
Send a note home, tell a student good job, or have students write journals or reading responses in style with these Shakespeare-inspired notes. In... ByTracee Orman
This PowerPoint presentation instructs students in the beginning stages of writing a research paper. It offers guidelines and advice that every stu... ByJosh Rutherford
Here are free sample teacher tips that can be used in the classroom immediately. Download them now and use them right away. See your classroom envi... ByBibi Angola
If you're frustrated by the inability of your students to master comma usage, this strategy, awarded "IDEA OF THE YEAR" in 1996 by the Teaching for... ByJoan Azarva
This is a full Lord of the Flies Unit Plan aimed at grade 10. This unit plan has been taught in full. It is timed out to take 6weeks using 45 minut... ByAutumn Sanders
These are small group study questions for Shakespeare's sonnets Sonnets #128, 129 130, 143, 144, 147. I used them first for a day when I was abs... ByLarry B.
This is a complete novel unit. It includes chapter quizzes, reading worksheets, vocabulary practice puzzles, vocabulary tests, quick-write prompts,... ByAdam Erickson
This includes the full text of the Declaration of Independence along with 18 high-level questions analyzing the text from the basis of understandin... ByAlex Mauldin
This is a one-period lesson for upper middle/high school that uses the famous story "Planet of the Carrots" as part of an exercise in developing an... ByMark Aaron
This classroom Jeopardy ® PowerPoint game is based on the TV game. It has the following categories: Persuasive Advertising Techniques, Elements of... ByHappyedugator
This is a combined Speech and Debate unit. In other words, You get two units in this folder.
In my English classes I spend one semester on Deba... ByAdam Erickson
One of the main purposes of the AP summer assignment is to engage students in the sort of quality work they must do in class. Another is to make th... ByEugene Wohlsdorf
Students will explore the three types of point of view by changing poems from first to third person OR third person limited to third person omnisci... By
This is a short, 8-question reading check on acts 1 and 2 of The Crucible. The format allows 6 quizzes on one sheet of paper to save from paper wa... ByMelissa Soeltz
A complete unit on teaching figurative language...hyperboles, onomotapoeia, similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification...through poetry...co... ByWendy Sanders
This bundle contains three different assignments for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The first is a list of essay questions. The second is a c... ByJulie Moore
Variety of exercises, suggested activities, and writings on Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Combining. Good for senior high school and colleg... ByMary Ellen Page
Where to begin? There's 174 files in this zip! Everything you need is here.
I use a persuasion unit to teaching various rhetorical and stylistic... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
Resources--activities, quizzes, essay options, discussion questions, etc.--The Great Gatsby
As with all of my unit plans, I do not lay out for y... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
Students will use a kooshball and toss at a snowflake. The snowflake will take them to a page and the students will read the passage and identify ... ByDebra Winburn
Here are my Great Gatsby files--almost all of them. In this zip containing 50+ documents, you'll find discussion and quiz questions for every chapt... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
Ask more. Know more. Share more. Speak more.
That's the educational philosophy behind Compelling Conversations, written by Eric Roth and Toni Ab... ByEric Roth
This worksheet is an excellent higher-level thinking exercise for students. Given three quotes and three distinct themes from the novel (Lord of t... ByTonya Thompson
This open book scavenger hunt has 50 questions on The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Prologue and The Pardoner's Tale. This is an excellent in-cl... By Lonnie Jones Taylor
This is a lesson plan and thorough explanation for an ongoing creative writing project I have used with my students while reading Speak by Laurie H... ByEla Ms. P
A day by day, step-by-step unit plan for Holes, by Louis Sachar. Discussion of themes, character, and plot are included, along with interdisciplin... ByWendy Sanders
This colorful powerpoint presents, with some humor I hope, a model for argument developed by Stephen Toulmin. I call it a "take no prisoners" mode... ByDonna Hart
Great Expectations Chapters 30 & 31Quiz
This quiz assesses the student's ability to identify the direct quote of a character. The character ban... By Lonnie Jones Taylor
This file contains worksheets that lead students, step-by-step, to analyze a story or novel. Aiming for an in-depth analysis, the 9-page worksheets... ByJoy Learning
This is a Power Point presentation on how to set up and grade a book report. Each semester, I allow my students to select a novel of around 200 pa... ByStewey
This is a general PowerPoint about fiction. Includes types of fiction,definitions of plot, plot diagram, characters, setting and theme. I used this... ByJessi C
This PowerPoint contains over 15 slides. It has activities for practice inside each element. It focuses on comparing and contrasting using a venn... ByHigg
This is an overview of five facets of strong expository writing written in student-friendly language. In contrast to other "facets of writing" guid... ByTeachthought
Here's another worksheet that requires the student look deeply into the text to find answers. This can be performed together with the class, or in... ByRobert M. Baker
Completely rewritten & expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured novel unit. There is no strict schedule or pacing guide here, t... ByAdam Erickson
Students will select a dynamic group project from a menu of activities that deepen their understanding of core concepts in Brave New World.... BySteven Kahl
The SAT prompt based essay is an important critique of student writing. Students are assessed by their prior writing skills, and expected to perfo... ByPowerpoint Guru
This is a 75 question matching and true/false exam on the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." There are four matching sections including: character ide... ByLindsay Gypin
37 pages. For each topic, there is a page discussing pros and cons with vocabulary, the second page has critical thinking questions and fact/opinio... ByLynn Eggleston
Note: Completely re-written, and significantly expanded: July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured novel unit. There are no strict schedu... ByAdam Erickson
This test is an assessment of student understanding for the Elizabethan Age of literature. Covered topics include: The sonnet, Spenser, Marlowe, R... ByAmorales