Jaclyn Baca

A pre-test to judge where students stand at the beginning of the year, or the beginning of a new semester. Answer key included.

Use this reflection, to add in an easy writing assignment for a Culinary or Foods class. After doing a lab, students can reflect on the experience with this writing activity.

This is an outline, to organize a Literary Analysis piece, while incorporating any chosen social problem, using the book as evidence. (Can be a tie in for social studies, or many electives including sociology or psychology).

This is a cumulative test on the entire book. It includes matching, multiple choice, quote identifications, and true/false. It is 40 questions long. Common Core Standards addressed are included on the test.

This is a blank chart, for students to take notes on all foodborne illnesses. They can research the material for themselves, or could take notes on presentations if you split up the illness for group projects/presentations.

Directions for having students work in pairs, but could be adapted to an individual project as well. Students are to create a travel brochure for a specific area of the Mediterranean where Odysseus wandered.

If your short story unit is focused on, The Necklace, The Gift of the Magi, and The Most Dangerous Game, then this is for you! Bundle includes a worksheet to focus on Characterization in 'The Gift of the Magi', a worksheet for Irony in 'The Necklace', a group project to focus on a short story of choice, a unit test, and guidelines for students to write/create their own short story.

Have students pick out a song of their choice, and use this worksheet to analyze the poetic elements that exist within it.

Included in this bundle is, a worksheet for using context clues to define vocabulary within the story, a study guide to use while reading, a test, a travel brochure project description, and a written essay on the characterization of Odysseus.

Included is an outline and a graphic organizer for creating your own short story, a worksheet to evaluate the theme/central idea of a story, a worksheet for identifying plot with evidence, a note taking form for the short story elements, and a short story group project.

This test has 10 multiple choice questions, and 8 essay questions, to accompany the book, 'Barrio Boy', by Ernesto Galarza.

A writing project, designed to be used at the end of a Short Story Unit. Included is a spot for the plot diagram, some character development, and a way to incorporate the seven human emotions into the story.

A place to take notes on all the short story elements, as well as a plot diagram. One to take notes on, one to do an example with.

Students will pick one of four quotes to analyze, from the book. They will need to use quotes to back up their line of thinking, on what that quote fully means/symbolizes within TKMB. This worksheet will help them fully plan out each of their five paragraphs for their written essay.

This includes 45 questions to answer, from parts 1-4. It can be used while reading, or afterwards. Could even be broken up into smaller portions, for reading checks. Common Core standards addressed, are on the bottom of the form.

There are two questions, per chapter, included. A great way to do quick reading checks, for any assigned reading. This could also be used as a reading guide, for students to take notes on, as they read.

Questions to use in a jeopardy style game, while reviewing for the Food Handlers or ServSafe cards for students.

A writing assignment, for students to analyze the character of Odysseus from The Odyssey. This is an outline structure, for them to discuss three of Odysseus’s character traits, and find evidence/support from The Odyssey, to back up their opinion. They will take this structured outline, and then be able to write out their draft, adding in details and transitions.

I've used these as a class discussion. Each person gets a strip of paper, and will read it aloud to the class, then say whether they think it's a safe or unsafe thing to do in the kitchen. Ask the class to agree or disagree, and why.

This is an assignment to use while reading The Odyssey. Students can use context clues, to form their own definition of what each word means. Words are from parts 1-4.