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Here's some resources for misplaced and dangling modifier issues, both of which appeear on the ACT English portion. Inside, you'll find two handouts, 20 practice problems and a quiz. FYI: as with all my downloads, I don't necessarily give instructions; feel free to modify and alter my resources at will.

Whether you're teaching journalism, a persuasion unit or helping your students with expository composition, this assignment is an excellent way of offering the students to write in an advanced, research-based voice. The assignment calls for a response to a school topic--feel free to adapt to issues related to your specific community--and to address them toward a specific audience (school or community paper, most likely). Students use the Monroe Model for persuasion to help construct their ads an

To help my college students construct arguable, specific, and representative thesis statements, I use a series of templates to have them work through their ideas. Included in this word document are a template warm-up exercise, which helps students articulate their core position on the essay topic; and two thesis structures, one for position essays, where they would evaluate the worth or meaning of something, and a proposal structure for when they are making recommendations or providing solutions

A host of resources for teaching semicolons (and a colons). Includes handouts, practice problems, quizzes in both multiple choice and editing-in-context formats, as well as a couple of lessons involving constructing thesis statements using semicolons.

Save yourself the time and trouble of developing a participation assessment device with this handy tool! I usually give the students a copy so they know what I'm looking for; when I factor in the grade, I just circle the criteria and give them back a copy of this rubric.

Quizzes, assignments, activities and essay response options to Dr. King's famous argument. A great teaching resource for showing argumentation or how to write persuasively!

Contains worksheet, practice problems and quiz for a common grammatical error!

Using lit theory in class can be challenging; however, the rewards of letting students see outside their own perspective are immense. Here, I've given a simple sheet with questions I've used--with sophomores!--to get them to understand how gender, particularly women, is constructed in fiction. I've used it with everyting from Scarlet Letter to Lord of the Flies!

This document can be used as a series of in-class activities or as a guide/worksheet for students when preparing for comparison-contrast analysis. Here's what's so invaluable about it: I've come up with a method to teach students how to construct their theses, and subsequently organize their response, by theme/idea, which is often difficult to express to students (especially more simplistic organizing devices are so easy and familiar to them.). This doc. is especially helpful for comparative lit

Make correct commas choices with restrictive and nonrestrictive elements are among the most difficult grammar concepts for high school English students. Included here is a clear handout, along with practice problems and quizzes.

Handy, graphic-filled comma packet that works particularly well with freshman and sophomores. The major comma rules are explained clearly and are followed with practice exercises.

I use the following outline form when my sophomores are prepping for their essays on Julius Caesar, but it can easily be adapted to any thesis-driven argumentative assignment. The form provides a clear thesis format (if you purchase this and want the accompanying powerpoint template, email me at mrcawn@hotmail.com and I'll send it to you) and asks students to move to the specifics of their topic, particularly the "so what?" element we want all students to grapple with. Perfect for any book!

14 pages of pronoun antecedent madness: problems; quizzes; and a nifty, effective handout to help high school students through it.

handout, practice, two types of quizzes

Simple handout explains how to decide between who/whom, and includes problems to practice with.