Inspired Instruction

This is a pretest designed to administer to high school English students. It breaks the contents of ELA into the following categories: -Grammar -Literary Terms -Dictionary / Conjugation Skills This pretest is designed to assess students' general ELA knowledge at the beginning of the school year.

This is a 15 page novel study packet / fiction study guide with presentation rubric included. It is generic and can be applied to any novel. However, it includes an introductory page that prompts students to choose from a novel list. If you do not wish to embark on that particular project, you may select to ignore the first page, and use the following 14 pages for your novel or fiction study. Packet includes preliminary novel research questions, novel questions, charts, project / assignment pro

An overview of the elements of a STAAR persuasive essay structure. Intended to be paired with the Intro To Persuasive Essays (STAAR English 2 Prep) Fill-in-the-blank guided notes which contain a sample essay for deconstruction.

This warm up power point has two sections. Section 1: Argument Free Writing. In this section, students are given a debate topic and a 6 minute timer to write their response. Section 2: Art Analysis and Interpretation. In this section, students are given a thought-provoking piece of art (found from google searches, not my own) and are asked to reflect on the piece in six minutes. There are helpful sentence stems for this section to help teach students how to write thoughtful, analytical, and refl

This Julius Caesar quiz is over Act 1 of the drama. It includes multiple-choice, true / false, quotes, and open ended questions. There are 20 questions total. Answer key provided. William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar