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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.

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.

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