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Brandon Juhl
United States - Washington - Mercer Island
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This lesson is on comparing and contrasting the two poems "I Hear America Singing" by Whitman and "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and ...
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A reference sheet for students to help them comprehend what the different characters in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are saying. It in...
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This lesson is about comprehending the types of irony in the short story "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, as well as the intense race-consciousne...
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This lesson plan focuses on helping students analyze and interpret a difficult (classic) poem by T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
The lesson is focused on understanding the plot and character developments in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as to have stu...
This lesson is about charting the relationship of the two main characters Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students ...
These are the Photoshopped pictures of the 'crime scene' of Pap's cabin after Huck has staged his own death there. They go along with my lesson ...
This lesson is about the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway and primarily focuses on understanding the content of the s...
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This worksheet is meant to be used in addition to other worksheets to help students generate excellent questions for Twain's Adventures of Huckle...
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A description of several different final project options for Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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This lesson focuses on getting students familiar with the basic legal knowledge they will need to understand the play 12 Angry Men (the 1997 vers...
This packet addresses how to properly format quotations, how to blend quotations effectively, common misunderstandings of the book's plot or char...
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This lesson is on the short story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston and the story of "The Flying Africans." It primarily relates to the theme of how...
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This exemplar--which I illustrated and wrote myself--is to show students what a visual metaphor is. It is designed to go along with the rubric s...
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This lesson helps students understand the plot and character developments in the last few chapters (before the very last chapter) of Mark Twain's...
This is for helping students understand how to properly format quotations according to MLA guidelines, using quotations from Steinbeck's Of Mice ...
This lesson is a standard discussion of Ch. 7 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The questions focus on students' comprehension of plot...
Lesson plan for Hemingway's two short stories "Old Man at the Bridge" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" includes discussion questions and answers...
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This is a rubric and assignment explanation for an assignment where students write their own original song lyrics relating to the content of Mark...
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Daphne Succes
Great
June 17, 2013
ccmckee
Huck is a difficult read, my kids just don't get the dialect. This helped greatly.
June 8, 2013
ccmckee
This lesson allowed me to have student write journal entries, and reading reflections for Gatsby.
June 8, 2013
jatteacher
Very thorough!
May 4, 2013
sarahranderson45
Great, thanks!
April 29, 2013
Cynthia Campbell (TpT Seller)
My sophomores loved reading this! Very creative and a great way to open the study of Cyrano.
April 24, 2013
gparker1
Thank you for emailing the answer key too! Great resource!
April 22, 2013
amandalbetz
Thanks!
April 14, 2013
Abalant
excellent questions
March 10, 2013
msgroicds
This was great!
March 1, 2013
msgroicds
This was great!
March 1, 2013
msgroicds
Very helpful!
March 1, 2013
walidsaleh
Excellent notes
February 6, 2013
Abalant
Great discussion questions, really got students thinking!
February 4, 2013
mightymo12
Great project to make the book come alive.
January 10, 2013
mightymo12
Good set put together for my students. This helps a lot.
January 10, 2013
Joybells27
The CSI activity has so much potential, but I don't think that the concept is well explained. I felt that the instructions were vague. Does each group get the same set of clues? When/how do you show the pictures. Overall, I was pretty disappointed!
December 13, 2012
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
I revised the instructions a bit. I hope this is clearer.
Have discussion, based on questions they generated and teacher questions, then explain and move into the Crime Scene Activity. Divide the class in half, with four groups on each side, to make eight groups total. You have eight manila envelopes, four of which just contain the worksheet labeled “ESCAPE!” and four of which contain the CSI worksheet as well as the crime scene photos. Hand an envelope to one person in each group. Tell the groups to open their envelopes and read and follow their directions. Monitor their progress. If there is time, have the groups volunteer to report out to the rest of the class. Collect their worksheets when they are done.
Have discussion, based on questions they generated and teacher questions, then explain and move into the Crime Scene Activity. Divide the class in half, with four groups on each side, to make eight groups total. You have eight manila envelopes, four of which just contain the worksheet labeled “ESCAPE!” and four of which contain the CSI worksheet as well as the crime scene photos. Hand an envelope to one person in each group. Tell the groups to open their envelopes and read and follow their directions. Monitor their progress. If there is time, have the groups volunteer to report out to the rest of the class. Collect their worksheets when they are done.
December 14, 2012 
Nathalie Reid
Would have loved a bit more formatting
December 6, 2012
westlake3
fun activity that I can adapt!
November 9, 2012
vautelle
This is only the lesson plan. I assumed, wrongly, that it would include everything needed to carry out the lesson plan. If you want the 5 questions the lesson plan refers to, you will have to buy those separately for another $1.50.
October 22, 2012
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
1. How did Monsieur and Madame Valmonde come to be the ‘parents’ of Désirée?
2. Who fell in love with the grown-up Désirée “as if struck by a pistol shot,” and then married her?
3. How did Désirée’s husband change in his behavior towards his slaves once his and Désirée’s baby was first born (before he begins to suspect anything is wrong)?
4. What does Désirée’s husband start to suspect about their child—and thus about her—that leads him to become cold and cruel toward her, and makes him drive her away?
5. What ‘twist’ of situational irony happens at the end of the story, discovered only after the drowning death of Désirée and her child, when she takes her child in her arms and walks into the water of the bayou to kill them both? What do we find out about Désirée’s husband, a revelation that he no doubt finds devastating for many, many reasons?
Sorry about the confusion. I have updated my TpT description of the lesson plan to make it clear that the worksheet with the discussion questions is a separate document.
2. Who fell in love with the grown-up Désirée “as if struck by a pistol shot,” and then married her?
3. How did Désirée’s husband change in his behavior towards his slaves once his and Désirée’s baby was first born (before he begins to suspect anything is wrong)?
4. What does Désirée’s husband start to suspect about their child—and thus about her—that leads him to become cold and cruel toward her, and makes him drive her away?
5. What ‘twist’ of situational irony happens at the end of the story, discovered only after the drowning death of Désirée and her child, when she takes her child in her arms and walks into the water of the bayou to kill them both? What do we find out about Désirée’s husband, a revelation that he no doubt finds devastating for many, many reasons?
Sorry about the confusion. I have updated my TpT description of the lesson plan to make it clear that the worksheet with the discussion questions is a separate document.
October 22, 2012
Jessica Hyatt (TpT Seller)
Very nice set of questions. These will be good for my regular kids, and I can tweek them for my honors kids.
August 21, 2012
jennlaws
The CSI idea is going to help bring a story that students tend to see as outdated to life for my students. Thanks for the great product!
July 16, 2012
cmacomber
Loved this! Great price, too!
March 1, 2012
cmacomber
Highly creative!
March 1, 2012
keefep
My sophomores really liked the CSI and Escape exercises. I allowed them to choose which of the two they wanted to do instead of assigning them one or the other and they enjoyed working in groups on the project. I did have a few students who chose to work independently on either the CSI or Escape instead of joining a group.
I asked the seller to clarify how the CSI and Escape was done and received an instant e-mail and a follow-up.
Brandon's work is well done and I would purchase lesson plans from him again. I used this as an anticipatory activity before we read chapters 7 and 8 in Huck Finn. The students enjoyed comparing what they had written with what was actually in the novel.
I asked the seller to clarify how the CSI and Escape was done and received an instant e-mail and a follow-up.
Brandon's work is well done and I would purchase lesson plans from him again. I used this as an anticipatory activity before we read chapters 7 and 8 in Huck Finn. The students enjoyed comparing what they had written with what was actually in the novel.
March 31, 2011
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
gparker1 re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Lesson Plan
I bought the lesson plan, but there are no answers...Can you email me the answers?
April 19, 2013
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
Yes. I will do so. Send me your email by emailing me at brandon.juhl@gmail.com. Put "J. Alfred Prufrock" as the subject line so I know it's not spam. Sorry about that. I will try to update the lesson plan that's posted here on TPT also to include the answers as soon as I can.
April 19, 2013
jatteacher re: Discussion Questions for Every Chapter of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Hello Brandon,
I was trying to decide which Ender's Game packet to buy, so I downloaded a bunch of previews to review. I decided on yours, but since there was no name or any indication whose store it came from, it was hard to track it down again. You might want to consider putting a link to your store on the preview (and also perhaps copyright information) in case someone loses track of where it came from (like me!). I put this in the questions rather than feedback, so you can delete it. I'll give a great review because your product is awesome. Thanks. I hope this was helpful.
JAT
I was trying to decide which Ender's Game packet to buy, so I downloaded a bunch of previews to review. I decided on yours, but since there was no name or any indication whose store it came from, it was hard to track it down again. You might want to consider putting a link to your store on the preview (and also perhaps copyright information) in case someone loses track of where it came from (like me!). I put this in the questions rather than feedback, so you can delete it. I'll give a great review because your product is awesome. Thanks. I hope this was helpful.
JAT
April 15, 2013
karendodson re: Discuss Chapters 3-6 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and CSI
Hi! Just downloaded this as a student teaching activity. Looks awesome!! I have a question: What do you do with the "Escape" activity? Do you give it to students individually to complete, or is it included in the CSI activity? Any help you could give me is greatly appreciated! Thanks!!
November 3, 2012
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
I divide the class in half, and have one half of them do the CSI activity, deducing what happened based on the evidence and eyewitness testimony, while the other half of the class has to use the list of things they have available to escape and not have their captor pursue them. So one half of the class looks at the perspective of the authorities who assume (based on the crime scene) that Huck was murdered (at first suspecting Pap, then later Jim), while the other half has to think like Huck and figure out a way to escape. A few will even think of faking their own death. Anyway, in either case they are working in groups of three.
November 3, 2012
keefep
I bought your Huck Finn Quotation Citation lesson plan which I thought was a Word Template but it appears to be a word printout. I'm having trouble figuring out the directions, just not clear to me as is. Perhaps I should have bought the Worksheet version? Could you clarify if the templates are online and/or send me the alternate Worksheet version which I did not purchase. I don't think I'm going to be able to use what I have? PKeefe1845@aol.com
March 28, 2011
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
It's not a lesson plan; it's a series of worksheets where students use the examples given and the directions to figure out how to properly format quotations according to MLA standards. So, a snapshot of the page, then a word processed version of that, and (given the rules, and examples) students are to format quotations according to MLA standards. You have the students download the document (in a computer lab) and word process the quotations and format them correctly, then print them out, show them to you, and you sign off on them if they are correct or tell them what they did wrong and need to fix if they didn't get it right.
March 28, 2011
keefep
I purchased your Huck Finn lesson for chapters 3 to 6 and it did not include photos so I then purchased the set of photos to go with the crime scene. In reading the lesson plan, it says to divide the students into groups and that each group will have an envelope. But I can't find anything that tells me what goes in the envelopes, how many envelopes, who the envelopes are for (groups or for the sheriff, detective, etc.). It states there are 8 groups 4 of each???? Could you please clarify as I am really excited about doing this in class Wednesday? There are only 5 pictures, is that all of them? PKeefe1845@aol.com
March 28, 2011
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
What goes in the envelope is the five pictures, plus the witness statements and the 'arrest warrant.' I would divide the class into eight groups of four each (assuming class size of 32). Half of those groups get the envelope to solve the crime. The other half get the worksheet with the list of items and the task of figuring out a way to escape and not have their captor follow them.
March 28, 2011
Amanda Byrd (TpT Seller)
Thanks for the response. Will you please email me the photos to byrdette@hotmail.com and byrda@d93.k12.id.us just in case? Thanks so much!
January 31, 2011
Amanda Byrd (TpT Seller) re: Discuss Chapters 3-6 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and CSI
I thought this included the photos. I downloaded it and there were no photos included!
January 27, 2011
Brandon Juhl (TpT Seller)
Sorry about that; give me your school email and I'll send those to you as an attachment. I've updated the lesson on my site so it now definitely does include the photos; thanks for the heads-up on that.
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January 27, 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have twelve previous years of teaching experience, all of it in the same district. I have taught Freshman English (for those who had failed it before), Sophomore English, Junior American Literature, Humanities Block (team-taught with a Social Studies teacher), Honors American Literature, and Science Fiction.
MY TEACHING STYLE
I believe in doing what works, using personal experience and research to constantly improve, refine, and fine-tune my teaching to maximize student engagement and learning.
HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT
Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Pi Lambda Theta.
MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
I attended Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN, where I graduated magna cum laude with an English major and Education minor, then got my Master's in Teaching from Seattle University.
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
I live in Washington state.
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