*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 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 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 Anthem essay rubric asks your students to consider the motivation (or lack thereof) of the characters in this Ayn Rand classic on individualism versus group think.
This is a poetry test intended for higher level 8th graders up to regular classes in 10/11 English. It follows a unit in which the following poems were studied and analyzed: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Chaucher's "The Compleint of Chaucer to His Empty Purse" and "Truth," Poetry form, style, structure, figuartive language, and denotation/ connontation are covered. This assessment touches on all levels of Bloom's.
This is an essay rubric for Elie Wiesel's Night which requires multiple levels of Bloom's. Research and thesis creation are involved, as are MLA parenthetical citation and source citation.
This is a rubric for final assessment of To Kill a Mockingbird. This rubric includes four thought provoking options which accommodate different learning styles, while also requiring the students to create a thesis and support it with examples from the text.
7th - 12th
Literature, Writing-Essays
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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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