Brain Windows

Students use the rules for adding commas with dependent clauses and compound sentences to correctly color in the numbered design. Grade visually! 12 questions Answer key included

This is a one-page, student-friendly flowchart that walks the viewer through scoring the prose analysis question (Q2) for essays AFTER 2019. This is a JPEG image to embed in your documents (A PDF version is also available.)

Students can use this hyperdoc to learn about formalism and new historicism and apply it to their reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The document includes links to videos and online sources where students can learn the basics of formalism and new historicism. In addition, there are graphic organizers that allow space for students to generate ideas about how "The Yellow Wallpaper" can be viewed through the two critical lenses.

This 1-sheet document lists 5 quotes from literary critics on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". These can be used in student reflection, discussion, or as analytical paper starters.

This 2-page assignment asks students to read and analyze the modernist poem "The Glory of Women" by Siegfried Sassoon. Students are to read the poem and respond in two ways-- textual annotation on the poem and answering analytical questions. The assignment contains a reproducible copy of the poem with glossed vocabulary and questions for annotation and analysis.

Use vocabulary study and questions that prompt close reading to examine excerpts from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man". The download for this lesson includes: - Vocabulary list - Complete text of the excerpts from “An Essay on Man” - 17 close reading interpretive questions - 3 reflection / essay questions - 2 versions of questions: one with space for student responses and one that is compressed into two pages for paper conservation or discussion - Teacher notes for possible responses