*Thirteen years teaching English Language Arts at a Blue Ribbon school in Northeast Ohio.
*Sixyears teaching college writing and speech at a community college in Northeast Ohio.
Use this test at the end of your teaching unit to test comprehension of the text. Questions range all levels of Bloom's taxonomy and provide an accurate picture of the student's comprehension of the novel.
This is a batch of assessments to help you work with your students on everything from the 12 verbs tenses, to verb activity and passivity; includes the following concepts: principle parts, transitive/ intransitive, action v. linking v. helping, and tense shifting.
This is a painstakingly crafted literature unit for Pilgrim's Progress, my all-time favorite piece of literature. Here, you will find study questions for the entire book which not only call on your young readers to exhibit skills in reading comprehension but to also question their own knowledge of their Christian faith. Additionally, there are more than 100 vocabulary terms taken from the work for the students to define. Included here as well are a multi-layered (and Bloom's compliant [all le
This is a comprehensive practice assessment to teach middle schoolers (grades 5-8) the basic functions of adjective & adverbs) and a final assessment to test comprehension.
This is a set of 15 questions on Woolf's "A haunted House" that asks the reader to do a close reading of the test, looking for figurative language, making inferences, and reading deeply within the text.
This assessment tests the comprehension and understanding of the following areas regarding pronouns: 1-3 person personal, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, definite, indefinite, relative, pronoun case, and pronoun/ antecedent clarity.
This one page research assignment is geared toward sixth and seventh grade students. The benchmarks it meets includes conducting research from multiple sources, compiling a list of sources, delivering an oral presentation, and historical & scientific concepts related to this L'engle classic.
This project offers ninteen different topics historically significant to treasure Island or pirates in general. The students look up information regarding each specific topic, locate research, prepare an oral presentation w/ visual aide (posterboard, Powerpoint, Prezi, et c)., create a bibliography, and deliver the presentation.
This is a multi-level assessment to be used following the study of Edith Hamilton's Mythology. It is not designed to follow the study off all stories within the text, but more specifically study of the following grouping of stories within the text: Aeneas, Hercules, Cupid & Psyche, Quest... Golden Fleece, Odysseus, Flower Myths, The Trojan War, The Fall of Troy, Theseus, and Perseus.
This project takes your students from the brainstorming stages through the end product of both a final essay and oral presentation, with step by step instructions and guidelines for each stop along the way. The first section covers sources; the second focuses on creating an outline; this leads into the creation of the first draft; revision and final drafts are covered next; bibliographies are covered in the next section; the culmination of the activity is an oral presentation on the research co
This is a pack of activities for The House of Seven Gables that you will surely value (first off, nice call in teaching this ignored masterpiece of literary genius). Here you will find three different pre-reading/ historical research activities that will help you get your young readers in the proper frame of mind to enjoy Hepzibah & co. Next, you will find two quizzes to use during the reading of the text, in addition to a final test, all of which cover a wide range of levels of Bloom's. In ad
This research project allows your students to investigate the degree to which Christianity is used and hijacked in marketing campaigns by advertising agencies. your students will observe, interpret, and create a speech with visual aide regarding this subject. This project is intended for Christian students in 7th grade and up.
This is a final assessment over Pilgrim's Progress, one that includes questions that cover literally ever level of Bloom's. Use this one to impress your principal!
This is a year's worth of scripturally based journal prompts for cross-curricular work between Religion and English classes. These prompts will ask your students to examing their own feelisngs and relationship with the Lord.
This essay is for higher ability students in middle school grades or for standard 9th/ 10th LA classes. It asks the students to consider whether or not Wells was preferential of capitalism or communism, based only on the events of The Time Machine (outside research would give them their answer, but the text's messages are a tad ambiguous).
This is a power packed bunch of study materials that I created for the study of Frankenstein. In this pack, you will find several reading quizzes which range throughout the spectrum of Bloom's taxonomy. Additionally, there is a helpful vocabulary & application activity. You will also find two different historical background research project rubrics (one dealing with Gothicism in literature), as well as a final essay rubric (w/ three essay options).
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Experience
*Thirteen years teaching English Language Arts at a Blue Ribbon school in Northeast Ohio.
*Sixyears teaching college writing and speech at a community college in Northeast Ohio.
Teaching style
I employ varying strategies, including lecture, small group work, student led activites and lessons, et c.
Awards & shining teacher moments
*Two time Golden Apple nominee
*Master Teacher Certification (Ohio)
My own education history
Master's in Literature - 2007 - University of Akron
Bachelor's in English/ Secondary Education - 1999 - BGSU.
Diploma -1995 - St. John's Jesuit High School (Toledo, OH)
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