Classical Queens

Challenging potato-themed quiz for honors ELA students on nouns and pronouns. Covers the following skills: Identifying NounsProper vs. Common NounsConcrete vs. Abstract NounsCompound vs. Collective NounsPronouns & AntecedentsTypes of Pronouns (Reflexive vs. Intensive, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Relative, Indefinite)

Challenging apple-themed quiz designed for honors ELA students assessing students' understanding of the following skills: Identifying AdjectivesDifferentiating between Pronouns and AdjectivesAction VerbsLinking VerbsIdentifying Adverbs

This resource provided a graphic organizer to help students consider and evaluate Odysseus' leadership throughout Book 9. Quotes are taken from the Lombardo translation. It also contains a simple writing prompt.

Essay prompt designed for honors ELA students modeled after AP Lang standards for rhetorical analysis. The assignment asks them to analyze Mark Antony's funeral speech in Act 3. Contains an outline and AP exam rubric.

This resource is designed for honors ELA students to complete after reading the novel A Tale of Two Cities. It is a response to a past AP Literature exam prompt. The resource contains an outline and the AP Literature Question 3 rubric.

Challenging quiz that contains interesting facts about the Roman festival of Lupercalia, the origin of Valentine's Day. It assesses students' understanding of the following skills: Participial PhrasesGerund PhrasesInfinitive Phrases

Engaging activity appropriate for all levels of ELA students to review Book 2, Ch. 10-13 of A Tale of Two Cities. Students choose dating "red flags" and "green flags" for each of Lucie's suitors in the chapters. Students also analyze significant events in the chapters.

This resource contains instructions for pre-reading group project to build background knowledge related to the Odyssey. Six different topics are included along with guided research questions and links to help guide student discovery.

This resources includes direct textual evidence from Part 2 of Herbert Mason's Gilgamesh and asks student to describe what the passage reveals about Gilgamesh's development as a character. While the quotes are taken directly from this translation, it could likely be adapted to another translation.

This resource contains guided reading and analysis questions that were designed to accompany Herbert Mason's translation of Gilgamesh, particularly pages 53-92 encompassing Gilgamesh's journey to find Utnapishtim and his return to Uruk. While the questions were designed with the translation in mind, they would be easily adapted to other translations.

This resource contains guided reading and analysis questions that were designed to accompany Herbert Mason's translation of Gilgamesh, particularly pages 42-50 (encounter with Ishtar and death of Enkidu). While the questions were designed with the translation in mind, they would be easily adapted to other translations.

This resource contains guided reading and analysis questions that were designed to accompany Herbert Mason's translation of Gilgamesh, particularly pages 27-41 encompassing Gilgamesh and Enkidu's trip to the Cedar Forest to kill Humbaba. While the questions were designed with the translation in mind, they would be easily adapted to other translations.

Challenging pumpkin-themed quiz designed for honors ELA students assessing students' understanding of prepositions and their objects, coordinating and correlative conjunctions, and interjections.

Guided reading and analysis questions for Part 1 of Gilgamesh. These questions were designed with Herbert Mason's version of Gilgamesh, but likely could be easily adapted to other versions.

This resource is a graphic organizer that uses events from Part 3 of Herbert Mason's Gilgamesh to create both a visual summary as well as a written analysis of character emotion to help students track character growth and change. The resource was designed for use in 9th grade but applies to a wide range of grade levels as well as other translations of Gilgamesh.

This resource introduces the major characters from Books 1 and 5 of Odyssey and contains guided reading and analysis questions related to those chapters.

This graphic organizer asks students to draw and explain a significant image from each chapter. They must incorporate a reference to figurative language in the chapter.

Guided reading activity appropriate for all levels to review Book 1 of A Tale of Two Cities. Includes setting, character, and theme analysis activities.

Reading & Discussion guide appropriate for honors/AP/pre-AP students. Figurative language analysis & reading comprehension review.

This essay prompt asks students to analyze Gilgamesh's journey towards self-knowledge.