Amanda Kirschner

Download includes a two-sided worksheet for S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. The front side has students create a pie chart to illustrate who or what is responsible for killing Bob. The back side has students explain their reasoning and then view and evaluate another student's pie chart in paragraph form through pair-share.

Product includes a digitial download of a double-sided activity worksheet for Lois Lowry's The Giver. The worksheet has students do research for an assigned job and reflect on the idea of not being allowed to select their own career.

Download includes a 7-page packet for a Marketing Campaign packet for students to practice or show their understanding of the rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, and pathos). Students can choose or be assigned a company or organization that they will design on-paper advertisements for. Students will make a total of three advertisements (one for each rhetorical appeal) for their selected company or organization. Each advertisement should include the company/organization name and logo, slogan, image

Download includes a two-page worksheet about identifying and analyzing text features in articles and other informational texts. This worksheet can be used with virtually any informational article or text that uses text features. The front side has a text features checklist for students to run through and a table to fill out with definitions and examples from the accompanying text. The back side has students write a paragraph where they predict what the informational article or text is about base

This download includes a two-sided worksheet that has students compare and contrast Victor Frankenstein and Robert Walton from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The front side contains a venn diagram for student to label each characters' traits. The back side contains a space for students to explain in paragraph form how Victor Frankenstein and Robert Walton function as foils.

Download includes a one-page activity worksheet that is perfect for Halloween. Students use their creative writing skills to write an original spooky story. Afterwards, you can have students crumble up their papers into balls (or pumpkins) and toss them to another person to share.

Download includes a one-page graphic organizer for students to construct a three-pronged thesis statement for an argumentative essay.

Use this MLA Format Checklist as a guide to help students properly format their writing in Google Docs. Students can go step-by-step and check off each box as they go.

This double-sided worksheet includes a compare/contrast Venn Diagram columns for students to compare a story's book version and its movie version. On the front side, students can take notes on similarities and differences in each version. On the other side, students are asked to write and reflect on the choices made in the different version and write an opinion on their preferred version. The back side includes sentence frames for struggling writers and ELLs.

This worksheet contains the original prologue from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and space for students to create an original, modern version of the prologue.

This double-sided worksheet is designed to help students learn how to see an issue or story from different perspectives. This worksheet can be used for informational texts, literature, and videos. The front side has students write a summary of the story/issue and then identify and explain two different perspectives that can be found in the story/issue. The back side has students reflect on their ability to understand each perspective and how looking at multiple perspectives helped broaden their

Use this structured graphic organizer to help students organize their notes on five different types of Text Structure: Chronological Order/Sequence, Compare/Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, and Description. There are sections designated for definitions/purpose and signal words. Worksheet can be used as a a note-taking guide for a lesson or given as an independent assignment.

This front and back worksheet is designed around idioms. On the front page, students will research or list four idioms that they have come up with and provide a defintion and example sentence for each one. The back side has students create an original idiom and provide a definition, example sentence, and image to go with it.

Download includes a front and back worksheet to help students construct a theme. Students will answer questions to get them to think critically about a story's events in relation to theme, apply that thinking to construct their own theme, then find evidence within the story to support what they come up with.