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Crystal's Creations
Canada - British Columbia - Quesnel
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"Be the difference you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi".
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My students love this activity! I have taken lines from popular song lyrics and created a poetic devices review activity. The devices (allitera...
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Matching Activity (Literary Terms to definition) and multiple choice questions to identify literary devices in the story.
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This monologue project for Drama classess includes a number of sample monologues taken from internet sources for students to choose from.
This rubric is designed to evaluate students' performance when writing a newspaper or school paper article (either online or in print). It encou...
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This series of lessons is a compilation of resources from the internet as well as some original material and includes handouts on how to write a ...
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Mini-unit on descriptive writing. Contains a variety of creative activities designed to help students improve their writing abilities.
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Students have the opportunity to dream big with this lesson as they try to spend one million dollars (with spefic guidelines to make it more chal...
This rubric covers format, grammar and content requirements for a friendly letter. It is written in a clear, easy to understand manner, making i...
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Help students become shopping savvy with this quick lesson using grocery store flyers. It's a fun way to help them realize the value of money in...
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Students work in groups to create a presentation on different works of Edgar Allen Poe.
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Generic Short Story test for Grade 8 - 10 English courses.
This rubric is valuable for students who are beginning the narrative writing process. Organization, content and mechanics are evaluated in a clea...
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This rubric is designed to help guide students while writing a persuasive letter. It encourages them to pay attention not only to format and gra...
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Handy guide for students when choosing to write a speech. These are general guidelines and stragies that would be valuable when writing on any t...
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This lesson is a compilation of internet resources which include steps to writing a narrative essay, possible writing prompts, sample narrative e...
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Quick worksheet to review students' ability to identify prefixes, suffixes, homophones, homographs, synonyms and antonyms.
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This functional math activity gives students a chance to practice recording hours worked, converting hours to money units and calculating wages. ...
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Students will be challenged to view commercials, tallying the number of times healthy and unhealthy advertisements are displayed. They will comp...
A quick activity to get students thinking about the importance of utilizing strong word choice in their writing. Students choose from a variety ...
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FEEDBACK
RM1230
Great resource!
April 28, 2013
ckrzywon84
Great product!
April 14, 2013
mgbloomer
Great Tips! I would consider spell checking before posting.
March 27, 2013
mrspjam
I think my students will really enjoy this project!
March 20, 2013
murmur1
Very helpful. Thank you.
February 28, 2013
mandat1231
Works great!
February 27, 2013
alsmoak
My kids loved it! Thanks!
February 26, 2013
sholzberger
Thanks for the great resource!
February 22, 2013
pjavid
Very practical and creative project for Drama students. Thanks!
February 18, 2013
gandrews77
This has some very helpful information for students.
February 14, 2013
KMR32410
Helped me to introduce speech writing to my kiddos. Thanks for the resource!
February 10, 2013
crouth
Totally practical.
February 3, 2013
AmandaKraft3
Great work sheet!
January 18, 2013
kandice
thanks! what a time saver!
January 14, 2013
annecako
Thank you!
January 13, 2013
danatrenovich
Awesome...thanks
January 8, 2013
atnorth
saved for later use
January 8, 2013
pamelaknows
Great resource!
January 1, 2013
Bubbelori
Thank you, this was great.
December 28, 2012
ROOM201
Great resource
November 13, 2012
Mindy Hildebrand (TpT Seller)
I'm using this as a final project for my sixth grade class. I liked how there were options for students and rubrics. It's only missing the rubric for the project part of the three part assignment.
November 10, 2012
holtgirl3
It was just what I needed for this story. Thank you!
November 6, 2012
msgroicds
Great!
October 31, 2012
lilweis
This is a great resource.
October 27, 2012
drob
Thank you
October 26, 2012
jkreis
Great idea to teach literary devices in this story! Thank you.
October 13, 2012
Christine Rhodes (TpT Seller)
I like the examples chosen to illustrate the literary devices.
October 11, 2012
Aclever
Brief, not ready to use.
October 9, 2012
LKaiser
Thanks for the great resource!
October 7, 2012
natgoodwin
Great Worksheet to go along with the short story. Very helpful!!!
September 29, 2012
kash9
Exactly as described :)
September 22, 2012
isaacsonl
Good for review and to determine what they already know--
September 13, 2012
attleson
This will be a great help as we discuss one of my favorite stories. Thank you!
September 9, 2012
kathicunningham
very satisfied.
August 19, 2012
kidRN (TpT Seller)
Good practice for parts of speech, synonyms, antomyms and homonyms.
July 30, 2012
BRKuhn
:)
July 1, 2012
BRKuhn
Great lessons. I was looking for some new descriptive detail lessons. Thanks!
July 1, 2012
artswarrior
What a great plan!
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May 2, 2012
msgroicds
Very helpful!
April 25, 2012
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Kim Carnahan (TpT Seller)
Dear Crystal,
Thank you for your response - I appreciate your taking the time to answer me. The purchase price for this item was already refunded to me when I e-mailed customer support a few weeks ago, but thank you for offering to do so for me. I did not want to leave you, or anyone else, a poor rating, and this was resolved to my satisfaction. Best wishes.
Kim Carnahan
Thank you for your response - I appreciate your taking the time to answer me. The purchase price for this item was already refunded to me when I e-mailed customer support a few weeks ago, but thank you for offering to do so for me. I did not want to leave you, or anyone else, a poor rating, and this was resolved to my satisfaction. Best wishes.
Kim Carnahan
April 23, 2013
Kim Carnahan (TpT Seller) re: Identifying Poetic Devices in Song Lyrics
Dear Crystal,
I sent you a message several weeks ago about problems in this packet. I am about to leave you a very poor rating on this product. Please respond and let me know that you have corrected the problems. If you do not respond within three days, I will leave a poor review. You have not responded, and I cannot guess why not. This needs to be revised and offered as an update. Please let all of us know that you care about the worth of this product.
Kim Carnahan
I sent you a message several weeks ago about problems in this packet. I am about to leave you a very poor rating on this product. Please respond and let me know that you have corrected the problems. If you do not respond within three days, I will leave a poor review. You have not responded, and I cannot guess why not. This needs to be revised and offered as an update. Please let all of us know that you care about the worth of this product.
Kim Carnahan
March 24, 2013
Crystal's Creations (TpT Seller)
Thank you for taking the time to provide such an in-depth response to my lesson. Apparently, I should have edited this much more closely. I will remove the product immediately until I have time to edit it. I'm not sure how to give a refund as this has not happened before but I will look into how to do so. I am sorry that you are disappointed. I would have responded earlier but I have not spent much time on the site recently.
April 23, 2013
Kim Carnahan (TpT Seller) re: Identifying Poetic Devices in Song Lyrics
Crystal, I appreciate the time you took to make this, and the relevance to teenage students. However, I am disappointed in this resource for several reasons. I am afraid that this is going to be painful for you, but I actually am avoiding leaving you a very negative rating by sending you a message about this resource. At best, it is clever and useful. At worst, it is sloppy and incorrect, and I am stunned that your previous reviewers did not find these errors. First, in "Other Examples" is the glaring, almost shocking error of "Charles Dickenson." There is no such author. The quote you cited is from Charles Dickens. Tale of Two Cities, as a novel title, should be italicized, not in quotations - and you only placed a single quotation mark. Let's teach them proper MLA 2009 form - see Purdue OWL if you have any questions about this. Next, to help students to find all instances of figurative language in each example, wouldn't it help to provide as many blanks as there are instances, per question? I am specifically referring to numbers 4, 11, 13 (answer sheet number, #12 on the paper) (which needs many blanks, and also, needs to have "hyperbole" as an answer also), second number 13 on your answer sheet, and 17. Your answer sheet is misnumbered and does not correspond 1:1 with your student worksheet. Also, your explanation of the metaphor in #6 is incorrect. Clearly, love is not being compared to war; it is being directly compared to a battlefield, as stated in the quote. In "other examples," bittersweet is one word http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bittersweet and should be represented as such. Alliteration: reverse your apostrophes to go in the right direction. Onomatopoeia: "hiss" is misspelled. Also, I have some uneasiness about #11. I looked up, and confirmed, my suspicion about the first part of the quote, "That girl is a dime . . ." It means she is a "10," but a "dime" is also slang for $10 worth of a drug. Knowing that students are very likely to know this definition, I just wouldn't use the example. Actually, I would probably leave that one out altogether because of the sexual nature of the metaphor of gun and holster. Because I will have to spend an inordinate amount of time revising this document if I wish to use it (I already have spent too much time on this, but didn't want to leave you a negative rating), I would like to request a refund of my purchase price. I am just so disappointed that you would not only put this in front of students riddled with errors as it is, but also present it before your peers as something professionally done and excellent. It is not. Thank you for your time and consideration.
March 3, 2013
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have ten years of teaching experience in a variety of high school settings: English 8-12, French 8-10, Career and Personal Planning 8-10, and Special Education 10-12. I have also participated in curriculum development at the district level.
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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
I hold a BA in Arts (English Major) as wells as my Teacher's Certificate. I am currently completing my Masters in Administration and Leadership.
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Thank you for taking the time to read my profile. I have always enjoyed the challenge of planning lessons, and I hope you find my selections to be relevant and engaging.
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