Let's Get Lit

This handout is designed to help students quickly reference the rhetorical situation of nonfiction pieces including the speaker, message, and audience. This would be a great addition to a journal for quick point of reference, or it could be blown up to create a poster for your classroom.

Part of mastering skills is understanding what that specific skill is asking you to do. This activity gives teachers specific questions to walk students through analyzing a scene by giving them a guide of what to look for in their chosen scene. The questions can be used isolated or as part of a larger project. All questions can be used with any piece of literature that is broken up into scenes. While the activity is geared toward English II, this activity can easily fit most 6 to 12 grade ELAR c

Graphic Novels! As we enter a new wave of instruction and move toward including all types of literature in the classroom, we as teachers are now having to redesign our lessons. If you are like me, I want resources! This lesson focusses on the visual components of graphic novels and gives students the tools to analyze images they encounter during their reading. This activity is created to align with the Texas TEKS to help prepare them for the EOC test without the use of multiple choice.

Getting students to invest in a choice novel is hard. As it is now part of the Texas TEKS for high school English, we have to find ways to get students there. This small activity is designed to engage students and get them familiar with their choices when it comes to reading. This Google Form is designed to function as a 10/20 minute warm up in which they explore interests, past relationships with novels/ readings, and begin to build a small reading list.