Bree Lowry
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Thomaston, Georgia, United States
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My student teaching experience and practicuums were in 8th grade and the 12th grade, but I taught full-time at the high school level several years after that. As a high school teacher, I taught 9th Grade Literature and Composition, 10th Grade Literature and Composition, British Literature (12th Grade), Literary Types (elective), and SAT Preparation. I was also the sponsor of the school's literary journal.
For six years, however, I taught at the college level at a local community college. At the college level, I have taught learning support English classes, ENGL 1101, ENGL 1102, and HUMN 1101 (Humanities at our college is a combination of art history, music history, philosophy, religion, and European history). I have taught traditional/ in-class classes, hybrid courses (part in-class and part online), and fully online classes.
I am now an attorney, but I am teaching paralegal classes at our local technical college. I also still enjoy sprucing up my English teaching resources to share with all of you on Teachers Pay Teachers.
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Introduction to Marxism & Marxist Theory
This teaching packet includes a presentation on Marxism and Marxist Critical Theory and notes pages with blanks for students to follow along with the presentation. The material has been written in an objective way and contains many examples.
Appropriate for Grades 9-12 & Higher Education
Appropriate for Literature, History, Humanities, Political Science, & Film Studies Classes
PRESENTATION
The presentation covers the core principles of Marxism in a manner which is easy for students to underst
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Literature
Elements of Fiction Presentation (with Fill-in-the-Blank Notes Pages)
In this presentation, you will find the elements of fiction covered thoroughly and in a visually-engaging way! Included with the presentation are notes pages for students. The notes pages follow the presentation and contain blanks where students fill in key words as you go through the material together. Studies have shown that, when using presentations to teach, students are more likely to stay engaged and retain the material much better if they take notes. Providing students with pre-made n
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Literature, Reading, Short Stories
Respect Presentation
This presentation teaches students about the need for respect toward others and requires them to spend some time thinking and writing about what respect means and whether they consider themselves respectful.
To be honest, I did this lesson with my 9th graders after they were extremely disrespectful to my substitute! Therefore, if you want to use it only for character education (and not discipline), you may want to lessen the amount students have to write at the end!
6th - 12th
Character Education, Writing
MLA Lesson #2: Parenthetical Citations, Paraphrasing, & Integrating Quotes
THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED TO MLA 8TH EDITION! This presentation covers MLA Format for parenthetical citations, and it also includes instruction on integrating quotes and paraphrasing. This presentation goes along perfectly with my worksheet/quiz/test on MLA Exercises: Parenthetical Citations, Integrating Quotes, and Paraphrasing. Check out my store for a preview of it as well! This presentation only covers parenthetical citations and not all of MLA Formatting because I teach it in three d
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Essays
Lesson Plan Template
This is the formal lesson plan template I used for my classes. I have uploaded it in a Microsoft Word file so that you can download it and customize it for your classes.
PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
For All Subjects
MLA Lesson #3: Works Cited Pages
THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED TO COMPORT WITH THE 8TH EDITION OF THE MLA HANDBOOK!
This presentation covers MLA formatting for sources on works cited pages.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Essays
Subject-Verb Agreement - Presentation & Quiz
In this package, you will find my presentation on subject-verb agreement and a subject-verb agreement quiz. The presentation contains numerous slides and covers standard subject-verb agreement, collective nouns and other special cases, indefinite pronoun and verb agreement, relative pronoun and verb agreement, and compound subjects. The presentation also contains charts that can be filled in for users who have an ActivBoard or SmartBoard. The quiz attached can be used as a short quiz or a ticke
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Grammar, Writing
MLA Format Lesson #1: Setting Up a Basic Document
UPDATED TO THE 8TH EDITION OF THE MLA HANDBOOK (published in 2016). This presentation shows students how to set up a basic document in MLA format prior to beginning to draft the actual research paper.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
MLA Exercise #4: Integrating Quotes Search
This handout covers integrating quotes in writing. This exercise can be used for MLA or APA format, as the principles for integrating quotes are the same. This exercise is similar to a scavenger hunt. In the exercise, students are asked to search the Internet or print sources for integrated quotes of various styles.
These exercises go well with my presentation on MLA Format for Parenthetical Citations and my other exercises on parenthetical citations, integrating quotes, and paraphrasing.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Essays
Setting Up A Basic Document in MLA Format (Presentation Only)
This presentation covers setting up a basic document in MLA Format. The presentation walks students through setting up the word processing document to meet MLA requirements. This presentation goes along perfectly with my assignment entitled MLA: Creating a MLA Template. Check out my store for a preview of it as well!
This presentation only covers setting up a basic document in MLA Format. It does not cover all of MLA Formatting because I teach it in three different segments. Learning MLA is
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Essays
Writing Effective Sentences & Paragraphs
This unit covers sentence classification, sentence construction, linking words and phrases, topic sentences, and writing paragraphs. It contains nine worksheets with answer keys. This unit also contains lesson plans for grades 6-8, 9-10, and 11-12 with Common Core Standards included. This unit contains everything you need to teach your students how to write effective sentences and paragraphs!
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing
Revising, Editing, & Proofreading Presentation
This product is an effective way to teach students about revising, editing, and proofreading their writing. It generally discuss the revision process and covers editing and proofreading in great detail. This presentation covers academic verbs tenses and aspects of editing and proofreading such as subject-verb agreement, shifts in tenses, shifts in grammatical forms, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, pronoun reference and agreement, and misplaced and dangling modifiers.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
Content Development & Writing Effective Paragraphs - Complete Unit
This unit focuses on content development in writing and teaches students how to write effective paragraphs. This is a complete unit with a helpful table of contents, an interactive presentation, exercises for students, paragraph rubrics (varied), and a bonus descriptive paragraph assignment with rubrics (varied).
The presentation is designed to help students understand why content development is so important in writing and to help them improve and evaluate the content development in their own
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Expository
Classroom Data - A Customizable Excel Spreadsheet
This Excel file can be easily customized for use in your classroom. It contains three worksheets with tables for individual student data, data for students broken into groups, and colorful charts and graphs. This is a great way to keep track of where your students started at the beginning of the year or at the beginning of a given unit and track their progress over time. It is also a useful tool in assessing student needs and sub-group performance. As we all know, standardized test data is often
PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
For All Subjects
Stress Management - Presentation
This is a presentation designed to help students with stress management. It was created for and given during a stress management workshop provided by the college's student resource center. As a guest lecturer, I created the presentation and spoke to students about how to effectively manage stress while trying to complete college.
This presentation could also be helpful for teacher and administrator workshops. The keys to stress management are applicable to all of us!
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education
Classification & Analysis Presentation
This presentation covers the classification essay, which is a very good starting point for teaching students how to write a very basic five paragraph essay. Before students can begin writing lengthy and complex research papers, they have to write about something they know, and they have to have a basic organizational structure in which to write.
In this presentation, they learn that they already understand classification, or putting things in categories. The presentation itself gives them cla
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Writing
APA 6th Edition - Setting Up a Basic Document
This presentation covers setting up a basic document in APA format, including the title page, abstract, document first page, and References page. The instructions in the presentation make it easy for students to understand the basics of setting up a document in APA format.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Social Studies, Writing-Essays
MLA Format Lesson #2: Parenthetical Citations, Paraphrasing, & Quotations
THIS PRODUCT IS UPDATED TO THE 8TH EDITION OF THE MLA HANDBOOK (published in 2016). This presentation covers using parenthetical citations in students' writing and ensuring that the parenthetical citations being used match the citations on the students' works cited page. In addition, this presentation covers effective paraphrasing and quotation integration, both of which my past students have had difficulty with.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
Medieval Period Unit - Humanities & History/ Social Studies
This unit includes a comprehensive presentation on the Medieval Period, a study guide for the Medieval Period test, the Medieval Period Test itself, and an answer key to the test.
The unit covers the following:
1. Historical background, including the early and high Medieval Period
2. Early Medieval Period - Germanic culture, history, customs, literature, myths, art, architecture of monasteries and castles, important terms, feudalism and fealty, advances in technology and nautical area, the
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Performing Arts, Social Studies
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD - POETRY UNIT
This poetry unit includes a PowerPoint presentation on Alfred Lord Tennyson and three of his poems, In Memoriam, A.H.H., Mariana, and The Lady of Shalott. The presentation includes paintings representing Mariana and The Lady of Shalott and requires the students to compare the imagery and symbolism in the paintings with the imagery and symbolism in Tennyson's poems.
The unit also includes notes pages for students to follow along and fill in as you are reviewing the PowerPoint presentation. In
6th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
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About the store
Experience
My student teaching experience and practicuums were in 8th grade and the 12th grade, but I taught full-time at the high school level several years after that. As a high school teacher, I taught 9th Grade Literature and Composition, 10th Grade Literature and Composition, British Literature (12th Grade), Literary Types (elective), and SAT Preparation. I was also the sponsor of the school's literary journal.
For six years, however, I taught at the college level at a local community college. At the college level, I have taught learning support English classes, ENGL 1101, ENGL 1102, and HUMN 1101 (Humanities at our college is a combination of art history, music history, philosophy, religion, and European history). I have taught traditional/ in-class classes, hybrid courses (part in-class and part online), and fully online classes.
I am now an attorney, but I am teaching paralegal classes at our local technical college. I also still enjoy sprucing up my English teaching resources to share with all of you on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Teaching style
I use a combination of lecture, visual materials (particularly presentations, videos, and images), and I use a lot of group or student-centered activities. I prefer to incorporate as many mediums as I can into my classes so that students of different learning styles will be better able to understand the material. I tend to use a lot of research projects, writing activities, group projects, multimedia projects, and individual student-centered activities to promote learning. I find that students internalize the material best and are able to use higher-order thinking skills when they engage in a variety of activities that speak to their learning styles and require them to engage in research and critical thinking.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teaching/Education Awards: ETS Score of Excellence - Praxis II English Language, Literature, and Composition Content Knowledge Exam (for teacher certification); Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society)
----------Law School Awards: Georgia Association for Women Lawyers Scholarship - 2013; CALI Award for Excellence in Introduction to Law; CALI Award for Excellence in Modern Family Law; CALI Award for Excellence in Gender & the Law; CALI Award for Excellence in Pretrial Advocacy
My own education history
B.S.Ed. in Secondary English Education; M.A. in English; Gifted Endorsement Program; currently a J.D. Candidate (3L) and in the Legal Writing Certificate Program
Additional biographical information
I am also a wife and a mother of three, and I am a perfectionist. As you can see, I put 100% into creating all of my classroom materials, and I typically create them from scratch. I enjoy sharing my lesson plans and activities with other teachers so that they have more time to be good teachers, wives and husbands, and mothers and fathers rather than spending their lives completing lesson plans. My husband is also a teacher. He teaches resources classes in all subjects for special education students at our local middle school. We often share and collaborate on teaching materials. Our oldest child is also special needs.
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