Erin's Backpack

This is the poem Annabel Lee by Poe with accompanying guiding and extension questions. My students annotate the poem for rhyme scheme, alliteration, allusions, meaning, assonance, and repetition, etc. then complete the questions to extend their thinking. The following are the I can statements I use when teaching the piece in conjunction with a unit focusing on the themes of home and family. RL.11.2 - I can empathize with the author to understand the significance of the man’s definition of the

This is an excerpt from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes with accompanying editable guiding and extension questions. My students read the personal essay and the poem andthen complete the questions to extend their thinking. The following are the I can statements I use when teaching the piece in conjunction with a unit focusing on the themes of home and family. RI/L.11.2 - I can determine two central ideas or themes of the texts and compare how the

Help students spice up their writing by adding this page to their writing folders. This gives students examples of other words they can use besides "said" to more accurately describe how a person stated something.