Life Lessons

These are materials to quiz and test students' comprehension of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I've included seven quizzes, a test review sheet, a Jeopardy review game, a final 100 point test.

When the students are squirmy and you need something just before Thanksgiving break that will hold their attention, keep them entertained, teach them some holiday fun facts, and review some vocabulary words, literary terms (puns, idioms), and basic foreign language words (how to say "thanks" in Spanish, Italian, German, etc.), this is the Jeopardy PowerPoint for you! I hope you enjoy!

- Bookmarks are checklists for your students to use to see the order of books in a series and keep track of which ones they have read. It is a fun incentive. - These can be used as shelf markers for students to reference as they are browsing books. - There are a few extra blank bookmarks at the end. You may continue to copy the blanks and create more for the books that are popular in your student library collection. This is a Word Document of bookmarks for 77 titles.Here are just some of th

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELPING MY BROTHER FUND HIS COLLEGE EDUCATION at VCU. Please help me help him . . . and you. These are tried and true favorites that can be adapted for ALL ages. My students often groan about Day 1 "fun" activities, but on Day 2 they BEG to do them again! These are different activities that help you get to know your students and your students get to know you and eachother. For $1.99, you will not be disappointed! And if you are, just think, your money is going to a good caus

This straightforward PowerPoint covers 6 ways to start an introductory paragraph and gives examples. o With an anecdote (funny story) or example. o With a startling fact or unusual opinion. o With background information. o With a question. (though this one can be omitted if the teacher chooses) o By setting the scene. o Or with a simple statement of your thesis (main idea or point).

SAVE YOURSELF TIME GRADING ESSAYS! This easy-to-follow document gives you and your students abbreviations for common middle and high school student essay errors. Instead of writing novels on your students' essays, simply give them this sheet of abbreviations and what they mean. Then all you do is write the error abbreviation on the paper and that's it. Then you might have time to write the novel you actually want to write!

This cute PowerPoint goes over common mistakes middle and high school students make when writing basic essays - little or no elaboration, no attention grabbers (hooks), to topic sentences, informal tone, etc.

This is one page activity. Students read a variety of fun clichés on different topics. They must then write nine of their own on other provided topics (man, cats, air). Last, they must choose three of the clichés to define. Thanks for looking!