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Remember the figure from Greek mythology, Sisyphus, whose punishment it was to push a bolder up a hill for all of eternity? If you are like me, spending hours making comments on student compositions just to see the same mistakes continue to occur time after time in the same student's writing may make you relate to the poor, cursed mythological figure a bit too much for comfort. I would not dare to be presumptuous enough to say that this free product will 100% fix our little problem, because it a

I love teaching The Iliad, but I have always struggled with an easy way to introduce the major knowledge required in understanding the epic poem. This is why I created The Iliad Webquest. It has been student tested for two years, and my students come away from it prepared to tackle The Iliad. This editable Google Slide is a guided research project. Directions, guiding questions, and research links are included in the speaker notes to keep students on track, and images are already provided to

This is to be used with the novel The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. The main course of this product is the student tested Magic Square activity, which utilizes 25 terms that are essential to helping your students understand The Book Thief's world. Magic Square activities encourage students to use their deductive reasoning and prior knowledge to solve a numerical puzzle. An answer key and instructions have been provided to help you and your students along the way. I have offered some ideas on how