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Welcome to The Cheat Sheet—your source for all things English and Social Studies! We're a team of two Canadian high school teachers who love creating critically engaging resources for our classrooms. After years of designing materials from scratch, we understand the challenges of developing high quality classroom resources within a demanding profession. We decided to share our resources so that teachers like us can spend more time enjoying life outside of school, while still delivering professional quality lessons. Consider us your "cheat sheet" to a healthier work-life balance!
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Discovering Poetic Forms Lesson - Digital & Print!
Looking for a fun way to teach poetic forms? This 2-day lesson provides an engaging alternative to the lecture-based lesson. Students will learn about 8 different forms of poetry in a student-directed group activity. Poetic forms include: Petrarchan SonnetEnglish SonnetBalladFree verseBlank verseHaikuLimerickBlackoutIn this lesson students can "discover" the structure behind each form of poetry, instead of simply memorizing it. Students will not only learn the rules, but help each other to u
7th - 12th
English Language Arts, Poetry, Reading
CCSS
RL.6.5
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, RL.8.5
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Welcome to The Cheat Sheet—your source for all things English and Social Studies! We're a team of two Canadian high school teachers who love creating critically engaging resources for our classrooms. After years of designing materials from scratch, we understand the challenges of developing high quality classroom resources within a demanding profession. We decided to share our resources so that teachers like us can spend more time enjoying life outside of school, while still delivering professional quality lessons. Consider us your "cheat sheet" to a healthier work-life balance!
Teaching style
Using culturally relevant pedagogy, we push students to question, inquire, create and debate within the safety of the classroom so that they may apply these skills to the world around them. Our resources incorporate a wide variety of strategies and teaching tools - everything from individual activities, think-pair-share discussions and lectures, to inquiry-based activities, collaborative, project-based learning, textual analysis, written responses, simulations, debates and more.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Superintendent's Award for Excellence in Teaching at Maple Leaf International School
My own education history
Brittany holds an Honours Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Global Studies with a minor in Geography.
Jason holds an Honours Bachelor's degree in History and Political Science, as well as a Master's degree in History.
Both Brittany and Jason hold a Bachelor's of Education from the University of Toronto.
Additional biographical information
On a more personal note, we are both currently teaching at secondary schools in Ontario, Canada, but lived and taught abroad for six years at the start of our teaching careers. We had an amazing time teaching at Canadian international schools in both Dalian, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Needless to say, we love to travel and learn about different cultures while eating all the food. Thanks for taking the time to get to know us! We’re glad you’re here.
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