Beverly Brown

This powerpoint is the perfect resource for teaching the novel, Hoot, by Louis Sachar. It contains 46 slides, and is fully animated and illustrated. Created by Beverly Brown, it includes slides covering the following topics: author study, essential pre-reading questions, topics, themes, protagonist, antagonist, setting, conflicts, foreshadowing, flashback, characterization, palindromes, allusion, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. It also includes these activities: conflict disc

This fully animated, graphic packed, 13 slide powerpoint is the perfect anticipation guide for the Lois Lowry novel, The Giver. Created by Beverly Brown, the presentation focuses on Utopia, Rules, the Genre of Science Fiction, Setting, and Conflict. It also includes links for 5 websites of utopian societies. I also have a 38 slide powerpoint to use during the reading of The Giver available for sale.

This 29 slide, fully animated powerpoint focuses on the Indian removal act, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Supreme Court Judge John Marshall, the Georgia gold rush, and the 5 tribes involved. It includes maps,documents, photographs, and artwork connected to the Trail of Tears. Created by Beverly Brown, this is the perfect source to help teach a unit on the trail of tears.

This fully animated 23 slide powerpoint, created by Beverly Brown, focuses on the seven types of figurative language. It compares figurative and literal language with a nine sentence exercise to differentiate between the two. Using the "SHAMPOO" acronym, it explains simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, and onomatopoeia. Also, this fully animated, picture filled powerpoint includes a 7 sentence exercise for practice (with key), and as an example, the poem, "Th

This 26 slide powerpoint is the perfect companion to teach the Ellen Raskin novel, "The Westing Game". Fully animated with artwork and pictures on each slide, it includes slides on the author, anticipation guide, main character analysis, genre, Sunset Towers graphic organizer, and cast of players. Created by Beverly Brown, it also includes 2 sets of vocabulary words (with definitions and pictures for each word), and 3 quizes. Special bonus slides are included explaining the stock market, obitua

This 20 slide powerpoint focuses on a step-by-step process to teach students to write a 3 paragraph book review. Created by Beverly Brown, it is fully animated and illustrated. The process can be used to write a review for any book. It also includes a sample book review using the novel, Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen.

This 24 slide powerpoint focuses on the reliability of sources both primary and secondary and is totally interactive for your students. It explains the differences between eye witness accounts, diaries, newspaper articles, internet sites, magazines, and tabloids. Created by Beverly Brown, it is fully animated and illustrated. It includes an interactive webquest to 3 different websites on the same topic. It also has a link to a website that is a hoax and several multiple choice exercises. To p

This 24 slide powerpoint presentation focuses on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Created by Beverly Brown, it includes background information on the Louisiana Purchase, Sacajawea,original documents, manifests, maps, quotes, and beautiful pictures and artwork. There is a correlating worksheet/timeline (50 cents) for your students to complete as you teach through the powerpoint presentation. Check it out at: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lewis-and-Clark-Timeline-Worksheet

This 26 slide powerpoint is the perfect tool to teach a unit on Native Americans. Fully animated and beautifully illustrated, It begins with facts on the Anasazi and Mound Builders. Created by Beverly Brown and Glynn Brown, it includes numerous details on Native American groups, their beliefs, shelters, day-to-day life and culture, and focuses on five Native American Culture Areas: Northern (Inuit, Aleut), Northwest (Tlingit, Chinook, Tongass), Southwest (Zuni, Hopi, Pueblo, Apache, Navajo)

This massive, 53 slide powerpoint is the perfect accompaniment to teaching the Daniel Keyes novel, Flowers for Algernon. It includes many interactive activity slides. Among these are a complete Rorschach Test, central questions, anticipation guide, a complete verbal Rorschach test, vocabulary with definitions and matching picture activity, a chart activity, venn diagram activity, punctuation activity, a 14 item true/false activity, and a 10 item post reading questions assignment. Also inclu

This 19 slide powerpoint teaches the literary skills of theme and topic. After this lesson, your students will no longer confuse topic and theme. Created by Beverly Brown, this powerpoint is interactive and is a favorite with students. Using popular movies and familiar stories, students will easily remember how to determine topics and themes. It includes four interactive exercises, 1 multiple choice activity, and an extension/reinforcement activity you can tailor to your own classroom literatu

This 14 slide powerpoint is fully animated and contains colorful clip art. It explains the signal or clue words for cause and effect. It has interactive slides that call for students to complete the statement on screen with either a cause or an effect. Created by Beverly Brown, it ends with a written exercise for students to find the cause and effect in three different paragraphs.

This 15 slide, fully illustrated and animated powerpoint is the perfect accompaniment to teach the Bluford Series novel, "Brothers in Arms". It includes an anticipatory journal entry, vocabulary with definitions and a picture for each word, a sentence completion exercise, 3 creative writing journal entry activities, 3 sets of chapter review questions, and three post reading activities/projects. Created by Beverly Brown, it contains everything you will need to teach this novel.

This powerpoint focuses on the California Gold Rush of 1849. It is the perfect teaching tool to convey to your students all aspects of this historical time period in our nation's history. Created by Beverly Brown, it contains 23 slides, is fully animated and illustrated, and contains many historical photographs. This powerpoint details John Sutter (his immigration to California, his fort, mill, and his worker's discovery of gold on his property), the influx of '49ers from all over the world

This 46 slide powerpoint focuses on 11 different poetry terms and includes explanations and examples for formula poem, limerick, epic, narrative, auto-bio poem, couplet, extended metaphor poem, concrete poem, onomatopoeia poem, personification poem, haiku, cinquain, and free verse. Created by Beverly Brown, it also includes several poems and song lyrics (complete with questions) to analyze. Poets include Maya Angelou, Rudyard Kipling, Nikki Giovani, Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, William Shake

This 23 slide powerpoint is the perfect review before taking a standardized or state test in language arts. It can also be utilized as a Back-To-School review. Created by Beverly Brown, it is fully animated and illustrated. The following language arts skills are included: prefixes, suffixes, context clues, inferences, drawing conclusions, characterization, plot, theme, tone and mood, author's purpose, similes, metaphors, and comparing and contrasting text structures. Each skill is defined

This 18 slide powerpoint is the perfect teaching tool for a European Explorers unit. It focuses on Christopher Columbus and gives details about his three ships, his four voyages to the new world, and his relationship with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Created by Beverly Brown & Glynn Brown, it is full of clever animation and illustrations. It also includes facts about Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, the line of demarcation, a list of other European explorers of the e

This 24 slide presentation focuses on the different fiction and non-fiction genres of literature. It explains Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Folktales, Drama, Poetry, Informational, Biography, and Autobiography. Created by Beverly Brown, it also includes a 16 slide interactive review for your students, giving titles, illustrations, and a synopsis of each book.

This unit is everything you will need to teach the Carl Hiaasen novel, HOOT. It contains 26 separate items. The powerpoint contains 26 slides. Created by Beverly Brown, it includes vocabulary, questions, and tests for 3 sections. It also includes the following worksheets: probable passage, anticipation guide, central questions, story map, author webquest, reading log, quizzes, "quiz, quiz, trade, trade" cards, chapter reader's guide, create a protest, summarizing, and compare/ contrast. I

This powerpoint contains all the information you will need to introduce and explain the Louisiana Purchase. Containing 18 slides, it is fully animated and illustrated with clever clip art, maps, and photos. Created by Beverly Brown & Glynn Brown (middle school English and History teachers respectively), it is classroom tested and very practical. Concepts explained include: Westward Expansion, US economy at the time, importance of the Mississippi River and the city of New Orleans, Spanish Ter