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Included here are six different handouts covering a total of 10 different grammar concepts; in addition, each handout has at least 10 accompanying practice problems. In addition to that, there is a full 60 question test that you can use a diagnostic or an end-of-unit assessment. Lots of great stuff here that will save time! Note: answer key IS included.

100 Pages of lesson plans, activities, assessments, supplemental readings, and guides, all packed into a single accessible document. This Ultimate guide provides you with creative, learning-centered tools to enhance your literature experience. Customize at will.

11 pages of parallelism handouts, practice problems, sentence creating, quizzes and tests. There's a nice mix of multiple choice questions and interpretive questions, including a rhetorical analysis quiz that is a great reading strategies activity.

This document contains dozens of ideas to develop lesson plans: bellringers/sponges, direct instruction techniques, group activity descriptions, closure exercises. Will inspire you during unit/lesson planning and save you lots of time! This is the one document I consistently return to, both for secondary and postsecondary teaching situations.

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!

Attached are 11 pages of resources for Albert Camus's most famous piece of existential short fiction, "The Guest." In addition to handouts on existentialism, the download also features a Reading Level Response journal assignment based on Hillocks's tenets of reading comprehension; there is a followup activity for class discussion that follows along these lines. You can use these resources in any way you see fit--let me know how it works for you!

A series of lessons, handouts and assessments for Rebecca Gilman's controversial 1999 play on race, Spinning into Butter. In the attachment are discussion questions, a group performance activity (w/character & scene analysis handouts) and an analysis essay to culminate the work. If you are unfamiliar with the play, it's not Shakespeare but will intensely engage your students; it's impossible not to have a strong opinion about its ideas. Should take between 5-8 instructional days to get through t

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.

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

Features a response assignment w/three options, key dialogue from the film, some review/summary material, and my question/notes that I use with teh class. This is great as a pre-reading tool for the Great Gatsby!