Chaffy
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Georgia, United States
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Currently, I'm working as a media specialist librarian in a high school. My favorite librarian position was a K-12 librarian in a small town. I taught high school English in Georgia for many years. My favorite focuses right now are critical and creative thinking, interdisciplinary connections, and media and technology integration.
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Suspense Writing Unit: The Most Dangerous Game 6-Day Workshop for High School EL
Teach Suspense Through Reading and WritingThis 6-day workshop uses “The Most Dangerous Game” to help students analyze how authors build suspense and apply those techniques in students' own narrative writing. Designed for secondary ELA classrooms, this unit moves students from close reading → discussion → writing → presentation, making it a complete, low-prep instructional sequence. What This Unit Does Helps students analyze suspense techniques like foreshadowing, pacing, and dramatic irony Gui
8th - 10th
Reading Strategies, Short Stories, Writing
Adjective and Adverb Phrase and Clause Quiz with Key
This is a short, 10-question multiple-choice quiz requiring students to show understanding of the difference between a phrase and a clause and the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
This quiz can be used as a pre-test or a formative assessment.
The key includes "metacognition" notes, explaining the thought process for each answer.
6th - 9th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Narrative Writing Middle Grades Writing Blips
This file includes ten narratives with pieces missing! Students are challenged to use creativity and inference skills to fill in the missing pieces and then revise for a specific Common Core narrative skill (using transitions, creating and sequencing events, using powerful language, incorporating descriptions of characters and events, and introducing characters).
A quick self-scoring and teacher-scoring tool is attached to the bottom of each narrative. Standards correlate with 6th, 7th, and 8
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing
Socratic Seminar Introduction PowerPoint
This presentation, told from the point-of-view of Socrates himself is an introduction to the Socratic Seminar discussion format. I use it in an 8th grade language arts classroom to give kids the rules of the discussion format that we use throughout the rest of the year. I use the rules slide to review the guidelines each time we discuss.
If you download it, please rate it and leave your comments, so I can make it even better! :)
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Inspiration Investigation: Haunted Palace and Hotel California
Take a break from writing essays, and invite your students on an investigative journey analyzing poetry and song lyrics. Is it possible that the authors of "Hotel California" were inspired by Poe's "Haunted Palace?"
This file includes a plan and six pages that guide students through comprehension and analysis of both pieces of literature using paraphrasing, SOAPStone, and TPCASTT. Use the activity as a springboard into a class debate or extension activity inviting students to create their own
8th - 11th
Literature, Poetry
CCSS
RL.9-10.4
Voltaire's "On Government" with Leveled Text
Are you a European History teacher looking for ways to integrate literature? Are you a Language Arts teacher searching for an interdisciplinary connection? Want a great text to use for a class discussion or Socratic Seminar? Wondering how to increase text complexity when it seems like students struggle with what you already give them? This might be what you're looking for. This 17-page document includes a pre-reading "historical scrapbook" page and six-pages of Voltaire's Letter Nine, "On t
8th - 12th
English Language Arts, European History, Informational Text
CCSS
RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.5
, RH.9-10.10
Outsiders Movie Reflection
This simple, one page question page invites students to compare the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton to the classic film version of the story.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
CCSS
RL.6.7
, RL.7.7
, RL.8.7
Goods and Services Board Game
This board game is easy to print, glue onto manila folders, and laminate. It includes a bank of pretend money, property cards, and a short pre-quiz and post-quiz related to 3rd grade social studies economic standards (goods & services).
3rd - 5th
Economics , Social Studies
Writing an Introduction
This is the clearest way I've learned to teach students how to write introductory paragraphs. This activity page breaks down the three parts of an introductory paragraph. It includes four items. The first three items ask students to complete just one of the three parts of introductory paragraphs, and the final item asks students to write their own introductory paragraph.
This document includes a Common Core Standard at the top.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing
5th Grade Science Literacy Standards Materials--Circuits/Electricity
Are you a science teacher wondering where to start when it comes to teaching literacy? Want a critical thinking, research-based strategy? Here's something that might help you address those literacy standards while helping train your students to think more creatively.
These materials are meant to be used after a science-text-reading or lesson plan about circuits/electricity. The pages guide students through a synectics/metaphorical thinking exercise in which they compare a circuit to a human.
4th - 6th
Earth Sciences, Science
Federalist Paper 10 Reading Support
Make Federalist Paper No. 10 accessible and engaging for your students with this classroom-ready resource! This document includes a side-by-side simplification of James Madison’s original text, breaking down the complex language into modern, student-friendly terms without sacrificing meaning. Perfect for helping learners grasp the core ideas about factions, republics, and the dangers of majority rule. This resource includes: Side-by-side translation: Original text on one side, simplified versi
9th - 12th
Government
CCSS
RI.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.4
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The Most Dangerous Game Suspense Workshop
The Most Dangerous Game Suspense Workshop is a dynamic, six-day reading and writing experience designed for high school English classrooms. Centered on Richard Connell’s classic short story, this workshop helps students uncover and apply key suspense-building strategies through collaborative close reading, active annotation, and structured discussion. In six days, read the text and write a suspenseful narrative. Use the reading/writing workshop format to connect reading and writing, giving writ
8th - 12th
Creative Writing, Literature, Writing-Essays
CCSS
CCRA.W.3
6th Grade Science Literacy Standards Materials--Rocks
Are you a science teacher wondering where to start when it comes to teaching literacy? Want a critical thinking, research-based strategy? Here's something that might help you address those literacy standards while helping train your students to think more creatively.
These materials are meant to be used after a science-text-reading or lesson plan about rocks. The pages guide students through a synectics/metaphorical thinking exercise in which they compare the formation of rocks to the format
6th - 8th
Earth Sciences, Science
Heaven by Angela Johnson Anticipation Guide
This anticipation guide is a great way to introduce Angela Johnson's Heaven. The handout asks students to rank how they feel about eight statements. Then, students make a guided prediction about what they think the novel will be about.
5th - 8th
Reading, Reading Strategies
New Georgia ELA Standards, Grades 9-12 with "I Can" Statements
I wanted a way to print the standards easily and include "I can" statements, so I could highlight as I address them throughout the year. I hope it helps you, too!
9th - 12th
ELA Test Prep
Media/News Bias Carousel Lesson
This product includes a one-page lesson plan and a media analysis chart that students complete as they view different news examples.
I could not include actual news examples with the lesson, so there is a little preparation necessary to use this lesson, but biased news examples are pretty easy to find. Just grab a stack of newspapers. :)
This lesson can be adapted and used weekly or monthly to help students develop the habit of viewing media critically, looking for potential bias, and seein
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
SL.7.2
, SL.8.2
, SL.9-10.2
Dante's Inferno Canto Tracker
This file is a simple table that invites students to track each canto, circle, level, and synopsis of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first book of his narrative poem, The Divine Comedy.
The key is not included. The first few are completed as an example to students.
10th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Poetry, Reading
Close Reading Anchor Chart
This close reading anchor chart, poster, or handout is a simple step-by-step reminder for students and me as we walk through a close-reading activity.
4th - 12th
Informational Text, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.4.1
, RL.5.1
, RL.6.1
+3
Memorization Action Game
This file is all text, but don't be fooled! This is one of my favorite games, and it will woo your really active kids and really help every kid in your classroom memorize information. You have to know the information before you can apply it or think critically about it, right?
You can use this game for any subject area. Need to memorize planets, pronouns, vocabulary, genres, historical figures, etc.? This is your "go to" game! Try it. Let me know how it goes!
3rd - 12th
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About the store
Experience
Currently, I'm working as a media specialist librarian in a high school. My favorite librarian position was a K-12 librarian in a small town. I taught high school English in Georgia for many years. My favorite focuses right now are critical and creative thinking, interdisciplinary connections, and media and technology integration.
Teaching style
My students sometimes say, "You're one of those freedom teachers." I don't mind noise in the room as long as it's productive, and if a kid needs to stand while he writes his story, so be it! If someone made me sit in a desk for 6-hours, I'd be crazy.
I try to have fun, and I think the most productive class periods are the ones when I don't have to talk much at all. The kids know what to do, and they're busy doing it!
I do have rules and guidelines, of course, and I really make sure to teach procedures/protocols--which is something elementary teachers are great at, but sometimes middle school teachers lose.
My own education history
I have a BS and M.Ed. in English Education. I also have an Ed.S. in Advanced Education and a library-media certification and an ESL credential. I like to learn.
I had some awesome professors during my time at each university--my favorites taught me about caring about kids first, so you can connect them to the content you love in a more meaningful way. A few in every program have blown my mind with their methods and content. Most recently, I went on a deep dive with case studies and the importance of qualitative data.
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