Debra Tandy

a. Argumentum Ad Hominem b. Begging the Question  c. Circular Argument d. Common Sense Fallacy e. Composition f. Hasty Generalization g. Non Sequitur h. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc i. Red Herring j. Slippery Slope k. Straw Man Worksheet with definitions, 20 questions identifying the type with Answer Key Quiz identifying the type, 25 questions with Answer Key

A collection of popular worksheets: 70 Logical Fallacies with keys, 40 Figurative Language with keys, Commas (one week of bell work) and 22 Organizers. Plus a bonus, 3 Day Lesson in PP of Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs.

Homonyms, Homophones, and homographs 3- day, interactive lesson on 59 beautifully-formatted slides. Focus on common words with students memorizing 30. Students will move words into the right places in narratives to work with the words and to experience words having more than one meaning. They will also insert the words into their own writing and complete a chart for the 30 words they memorize. Common Core Aligned: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are

5 Day Lesson: Diary of Anne Frank from Holt McDougal: Diary and Play 5 Day Lesson: Bloody Times, Abraham Lincoln from Holt McDougal 3 Day Lesson: The Drummer Boy of Shiloh from Holt McDougal 3 Day Lesson: Harriet Tubman from Holt McDougal 2 Day Lesson: Frederick Douglass from Holt McDougal Lessons are presented in Power Point with guided reading. They are designed for you to make students a copy in Google Slides so they can follow along and complete work directly in the slides. Provides in-depth

Set of 50 logical fallacy questions with answers. Can be used as worksheet or assessment or both. Matching. Word document so you can easily divide them into various assignments and assessments. Argumentum Ad Hominem, Begging the Question, Circular Argument, Common Sense Fallacy, Composition, Hasty Generalization, Non Sequitur, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Red Herring, Slippery Slope, Straw Man. Includes definitions.

5 Day No Prep Lesson: I Do, We Do, You Do Based on The Diary of Anne Frank and corresponding play excerpts in Holt McDougal. Could easily be modified for any source material on the diary and/or play. Beautifully formatted PP presentation designed to be copied to Google Slides for students to follow along and complete work directly in the slides. Includes several embedded organizers, high DOK questions, collaborative activities, and writing assignments with planning organizers and outlines. Com

This is a bundle of 5 lessons (8 days of no-prep instruction, 109 slides) to lead students through the prewriting process. Progressing through these lessons takes students from a blank paper/document to a detailed frame outline, equipping them to easily write their first draft. They will learn how to brainstorm/freewrite to generate ideas, conduct background research, create a research question, sort and organize their thoughts, plan what will be included including sub-categories, write a thesi

This is a 3 day, all inclusive assignment. It is designed for you to make your students a copy of the slides so they can complete their work directly into the slides. It consists of 17 beautifully-formatted slides which guide them through the assignment and includes engaging, detailed organizers. Students will choose a notable black American from a list, research a specific list of questions about that person, fill out an engaging, detailed outline organizer, and write a five-paragraph biography

This activity requires students to find MLA formatting answers within the Purdue Owl website. It will get them comfortable and adept in using the site and teach them some of the basics of using MLA formatting. Most importantly, it will teach them that they must look up the details in order to correctly use MLA (or any style). It is intentionally a bit challenging: I did not include the headers of where the answers are so that they will really have to dig to find the answers. This will force them

Complete editable 3 day lesson plan I Do, We Do, You Do for The Drummer Boy of Shiloh from Holt McDougal Collections. Presented in an exceptionally-well formatted Power Point with interactive activities including 2 charts, both of which are also free in my store if you want them available in a separate Word document. Day one covers tone and mood, day two covers figurative language, and day three covers dialogue. This is an excellent resource for teaching each of these objectives with embedded v

A 35 slide, aesthetically-pleasing, Power Point introducing and defining classroom procedures and expectations. It is completely editible, so you could use it just for the formatting and plug your own procedures in. It could also be used to help create or expand existing procedures and expectations. Some examples include how to: transition, enter the classroom, get/turn in missing/late work, coordinate collaborative learning, and policies such as bathroom and classroom discipline practices, and

Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln from Collections in Holt McDougal A Five- Day Lesson: I Do, We Do, You Do 65 Beautifully Formatted Power Point Slides Student-centered: high-level critical thinking questions and prompts, embedded graphic organizers, collaborative work, challenging writing prompts, with a guided reading approach. Some answer sheets/rubric included. Several materials which could be used for writing assignments and/or assessments are also included. Unit Vocab Include

This is a large research paper/project broken down step-by-step through 105 beautifully-formatted slides, designed to copy for students to complete nearly all their work directly in the slides. It includes interactive organizers and leads students through the entire project: from preliminary research to final draft. Provides a topic, but is easily adaptable to any topic. For my 8th grade advanced group, I plan 6 weeks with 2-3 workdays in class each week. This is very suitable for high school as

Understanding theme with morals begins with the easy skill of identifying morals within fables and builds on it to develop the skill of identifying themes. It is addressed from the concept that there are topics for themes: love, courage and perserverance, coming of age, etc. and that full sentence themes are identified under the topics. This is a three-day lesson contained within 60 beautifully-formatted slides. Students will identify morals and themes, fill out charts, and create their own fabl

This two-day lesson leads students through the "pre" pre-writing process for research papers. Students will be guided to conduct preliminary research, write a research questions, and create a statement with their position and sub-categories. Beautifully formatted in PP format with 21 slides, includes collaborative work completing organizers. Designed for you to make students a copy in Goggle Slides so they can work directly on them. Please check out my prewriting lessons which would follow this,

We need our students to be able to respond to prompts so they can excel on their tests. It’s not enough to teach them to read and write; we need to explicitly teach them how to read prompts and write accurate responses. This is a one-day lesson that does just that: actually teaches them how to read (and break down/annotate) a prompt and write a response (that is detailed and exactly what the prompt is asking for). Includes embedded organizers and is designed for you to make a copy for your stude

WebQuest: Writing Effective Hooks: 1 Day Complete no prep lesson. Students will be directed to sites to review and evaluate hooks, to create a list of types of hooks, and to look up information to paraphrase in order to outline a paper for which a hook will be written. Several organizers are embedded, as are links to websites. Higher DOK is involved in evaluating hooks. PP designed to be copied to Google Docs for students to follow along during the lesson and to complete activites on. Rubric Inc

Completely original and alligned to from Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in the Collections Series by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Copyright © 2015: Could be used with another resource Based on Florida standard LASF.8.RL.1.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW! Also includes figurative language, vocab w/ Quizlet activity,

This is an interactive lesson to teach students the critical thinking process of sorting and organizing their thoughts so they can effectively plan and organize their writing. It is a step-by-step process with students filling out interactive organizers on their copy of the slides. They will freewrite, create main and sub categories, list supporting details, write a thesis statement, write a hook, and complete an in-depth organizer suitable to write a rough draft. The second day culminates with

What sets this lesson apart from many is the whole process is geared toward getting student buy in to prewriting: after doing the prewriting process in a guided manner, they will discover that writing the rough draft is amazingly quick and easy. Includes embedded graphic organizers and fill in activities. Structured as I Do, We Do, You Do. Designed for you to make a copy of student slides because it makes it easy for them to share when they work collaboratively and to turn in copies of specific