Use this MASSIVE bundle of my popular bell ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned grammar, literary term, and vocabulary skills your high school students need. This FULL YEAR package of materials includes everything you’ll need to keep your students actively engaged at the start of each period. Here’s how it works:With M.U.G. Shot Mondays, students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 38 weekly grammar ed

Welcome to M.U.G. Shot Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing. I present these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Monday has a nice ring, no?), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. Shot in case you have an extra

A $120.00 value, this GIGANTIC bundle download of thirty products: a nine-month program covering a wide range of grammar concepts complete with daily bell ringers, worksheets, quizzes, final exams, teacher's guides, and more! Ten-Minute Grammar is a comprehensive grammar curriculum based on the Common Core Standards for seventh-grade, eighth-grade, or ninth-grade students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, a series of twenty-seven individual units will help students learn a range of

This is a second semester’s worth of M.U.G. Shot Monday lessons, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing. Match with this Semester 1 bundle and you’ll have a full year of effective, easy-to-deliver grammar lessons.I present these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Monday has a nice

Welcome to Words on Wednesday, a weekly lesson to build higher-level vocabulary in your college-bound students. These weekly lessons feature words commonly used on the SAT that educated adults also use in their everyday lives. Even if your students aren’t bound for a university, they’ll still benefit from knowing these words as they enter the work force. Each lesson, which takes about 15 minutes, goes deep into understanding denotation and connotation of five separate words and includes definit

Throughout my teaching career, I have developed a step-by-step guide for writing a literary analysis essay that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In this book, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers. You can simply take each mini-less

A $40.00 value, this MASSIVE three-month unit covering a wide range of grammar concepts complete with daily bell ringers, worksheets, quizzes, a final exam, a teacher's guide, and more! Ten-Minute Grammar is a comprehensive grammar curriculum based on the Common Core Standards for seventh-grade, eighth-grade, or ninth-grade students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, a series of nine individual units will help students learn a range of grammar skills that build on one another. Conce

Exhausted by prep? Tired of spending nights and weekends reinventing the curriculum wheel? This HUGE collection of materials (1,500+ slides and 800+ pages) will take the prep load off your back and give you every slide, every handout, and every day’s detailed lesson procedure tagged with targeted Common Core State Standards for 180 days (36 weeks) of English 9 or English 10. (The CCSS groups Eng. 9 and 10 together. This bundle is one year of course work for either of those levels.)This curriculu

Use this MASSIVE bundle of my popular bell ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking/problem-solving skills your high school students need. This FULL YEAR package of materials (Vol. 2) includes everything you’ll need to keep your students actively engaged at the start of each period. (All of this content is completely new and separate from the content offered in the Volume 1 Bell Ringers – no repeats!)Here’s how it works:With M.U.G.

Smoothly launch your high school English class each day with this bundle of my popular bell-ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned skills your students need. (NOTE: This product is the first semester's worth of material included in my FULL YEAR VOL. 1 BELL RINGERS. If you've already purchased that massive budget-priced bundle, do NOT purchase this item – you already own all of the same content.)With M.U.G. Shot Mondays, students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by wor

Several teachers who are enjoying my Full-Year Bell Ringers requested another series of slides to use with their other classes, so here’s another 19 weekly grammar editing lessons to help you address the most common errors in middle-school and high-school writing. This M.U.G. Shot Pack #3 (Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar) is gives you all of the materials you’ll need to get your students working together to proofread real-world writing examples. I present these lessons on Mondays because I like al

Lizzie Borden was tried and ultimately acquitted for the MURDER of her PARENTS in the 1890s. The trial was controversial. How could a WOMAN possibly hack her parents to death and why? How could this have happened while she was HOME if she didn't do it? In this nonfiction unit, students will read articles about the case and then decide for themselves if they think Lizzie Borden is INNOCENT or GUILTY. If your students like this nonfiction unit, be sure to check out the Bespoke ELA activity on

Expand your selection of short stories for the high school ELA classroom with this bundle of printable reading comprehension assessments covering 50 narratives representing a range of authors—including Edgar Allan Poe, the Brothers Grimm, H.P. Lovecraft, Doris Lessing, Pearl S. Buck, Shirley Jackson, and Mark Twain—and a range of genres—including fantasy, fairy tale, Dark Romanticism, science fiction, young adult fiction, adventure fiction, and more.  Answer keys, public domain works, and a list

A $40.00 value, this MASSIVE three-month unit covering a wide range of grammar concepts complete with daily bell ringers, worksheets, quizzes, a final exam, a teacher's guide, and more! Ten-Minute Grammar is a comprehensive grammar curriculum based on the Common Core Standards for seventh-grade, eighth-grade, or ninth-grade students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, a series of nine individual units will help students learn a range of grammar skills that build on one another. Conce

Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f

Several teachers who are enjoying my Full-Year Bell Ringers requested another series of slides to use with their other classes, so here’s yet another 19 weekly grammar editing lessons to help you address the most common errors in middle-school and high-school writing. This M.U.G. Shot Pack #4 (Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar) is gives you all of the materials you’ll need to get your students working together to proofread real-world writing examples. I present these lessons on Mondays because I lik

Welcome to Words on Wednesday, a weekly lesson to build higher-level vocabulary in your college-bound students. These weekly lessons feature words commonly used on the SAT that educated adults also use in their everyday lives. Even if your students aren’t bound for a university, they’ll still benefit from knowing these words as they enter the work force. Each lesson, which takes about 15 minutes, goes deep into understanding denotation and connotation of five separate words and includes definit

This 247-page bundle of grammar packets is a helpful resource for teaching composition at the middle and high school levels. Concepts covered include applying comma and semicolon rules, using verbals, navigating verb tenses, writing in the active voice, applying principles of capitalization, and more. Answer keys are provided. To accommodate distance learning and traditional classroom settings, all materials will be delivered to your Google Drive as Google Docs, and a zip file containing Word

This Current Events Summary is an excellent tool for students to get involved with the news and the current events of the week. A simple writing format helps students find, summarize, and write opinions about current news stories and events. I find this activity to be a practical filler for various social studies courses.Included:Teacher directions with ideas for implementation and useSimple student directions: Find, Highlight, Summarize, Importance, OpinionGuided Student writing templates (2

Alien Text Talk Grammar Interactive Notebook: Full Year Edition is a fun new take on daily oral language exercises for middle and high school students. Instead of just proofreading and correcting punctuation, grammar, and spelling of boring sentences the student will be translating the sentence from "text talk" into a sentence using the proper writing conventions.This Common Core Standard aligned activity is broken into 36 weeks (use for the full year). Each week there are 8 text talk sentences

This extensive bundle promotes close reading, analysis, and review of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. It includes formative and summative assessment materials to conveniently measure and extend reading comprehension, including an introductory Google Slides presentation, a detailed study guide, general knowledge quizzes, close reading exercises for every chapter, a comprehensive unit test, and creative project options with rubrics for evaluation. These resources also encourage exploration of charac

Words Their Way™ activities- Syllables & Affix Spellers Digital ResourceGreat for Distance Learning! *Each resource can be purchased separately or as a BUNDLE to save $$$$.*** Click links below for more information:Words Their Way Bundle - Digital ActivitiesWords Their Way - Alphabet Spellers Digital ActivitiesWords Their Way - Word Pattern Digital ActivitiesWords Their Way - Derivational Spellers Digital ActivitiesTry before you buy: Words Our Way Digital Activities: SAMPLEThis no-prep DIGI

This bundle of EDITABLE bell-ringers for the entire school year contains 40 weeks worth of prompts (323 SLIDES)!Each day of the week is assigned to a specific type of prompt to challenge students with various skills tasks. Here is the weekly key of prompts in this bundle:Mondays = Vocabulary TasksTuesdays = Debate TopicsWednesday = Mentor SentencesThursday = Literary Analysis ActivitiesFridays = Creative Writing Prompts Use these bell-ringers at the beginning of each class period throughout the

This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur