One of the specific text preparation objectives for my county / state is to identify the tone of a piece of writing. It is one of the more difficul... ByElblackmon
I created this lesson as a part of my literature unit on the Diary of Anne Frank; however, it could also be used in a history class. This lesson i... ByElblackmon
I created these materials to aid me in teaching how to identify theme in literature. As a part of this unit, I also had the students write a short... ByElblackmon
I created this reading lesson for the poem "Naked" by Sara Holbrook (http://saraholbrook.blogspot.com). The poem speaks of an adolescent girl's exp... ByElblackmon
This document includes two mini-assessments for sentences, fragments, and run-ons(pre and post). Each assessment includes ten(10) questions and th... ByElblackmon
This is a one page set of rules or hints to help students distinguish between and identify adjectives and adverbs. When I taught 6th grade, I had m... ByElblackmon
This lesson addresses the controversial "i before e except after c except when it sounds like a as in neighbor and weigh" spelling rule. While I a... ByElblackmon
This document includes two mini-assessments for participles (pre and post)and a power point with 14 slides. Each assessment includes five (5) multi... ByElblackmon
This power point is a Jeopardy game for Georgia history. The categories cover the units on geography and native cultures. The categories are: Na... ByElblackmon
This lesson involves the students in a reading activity as a way of previewing or introducing the events of the French and Indian War. When I wrot... ByElblackmon
This is a lesson designed to encourage active reading and literary thinking. The lesson asks the student to compare Walton and Frankenstein as he/s... ByElblackmon
This zip file contains all the materials I created to aid in teaching the Trustee and Royal Periods in Georgia history. The download contains ten ... ByElblackmon
UPDATED: See below for the original product description. I have added a third document to the zip file. It is the same rubric, but with revised w... ByElblackmon
I developed this lesson to help students learn the "bottom line" or most important information for each domain of the 8th grade writing test for Ge... ByElblackmon
I created this project to help the students learn the basics of Georgia's geography during their first quarter of 8th grade. Over a period of abou... ByElblackmon
These are all the materials I created to teach the Constitutional Convention of 1789 and the respective history in Georgia including Georgia's Cons... ByElblackmon
I created this lesson for teaching the students about Jimmy Carter, one of the people included in the Georgia history curriculum. I taught the les... ByElblackmon
These materials are designed for an 8th grade social studies class in Georgia history. The power point slide "chunks" [breaks it down] the essay f... ByElblackmon
I wrote this letter for my social studies department. We sent it home the day we started our civic lessons on the election and the importance of v... ByElblackmon
These documents were created in response to our county assessments, which asked lots of questions about genre. The power point includes characteri... ByElblackmon