Joy Atkinson

This is a fun quiz to get your students engaged during a Shakespeare unit. The quiz includes 16 quotes from various Shakespeare plays and Taylor Swift songs. There is also a PowerPoint that goes along with it as well as an answer key.

This product includes a list of vocabulary words from Part 1 of The Hunger Games and a second list of vocabulary words from Parts 2-3. For each word, the page number, definition, and part of speech are listed. There is a column for students to jot down synonyms of the words and another column for them to write a sentence that uses the word correctly. This can be used strictly as notes, or you could have your students complete the synonym and sentence columns for a grade. These words were chosen

This timeline activity helps students keep track of the events of Romeo and Juliet day by day. This activity emphasizes how quickly all the events take place. It can be used as notes throughout your study of the play or as a review exercise.

This document contains two articles with a prompt followed by an example argumentative essay. The essay's body paragraphs follow the T-BEAR method, so students see how to cite and analyze evidence within a logical argument. This essay is designed to be annotated by students, and it includes a color coding key. The first body paragraph is color coded for you.

This is a resource to assist teachers as you read The Crucible with your class. The resource contains comprehension and discussion questions to ask students as you read the play. It lists the paragraph number to stop at and what question to ask. An answer is also provided for the comprehension questions. The resource also includes annotation suggestions for the prose portions of Act 1.

This quick quiz assesses students' knowledge of the simple past and past participle forms of twenty popular English verbs.

This activity can be used with any story or novel. It's a great group activity that gives students to opportunity to be creative while also analyzing a character and citing textual evidence to support their analysis. It can be adapted into an independent activity, if desired.

This is a quiz for the vocabulary words from Part 1 of The Hunger Games. A note sheet for these words can be found in my store for free.

This ACT resource can be used with any of the sub-tests. This activity requires students to analyze the test questions and answer choices to determine not just which choice is correct but also why that choice is correct and why the others are wrong. This activity allows students the opportunity to think deeply about the questions while causing them to draw upon their English, reading, math, or science skills. You could use this as its own solitary activity, or it could be used as a form of test

This activity includes 13 questions for students to answer as they read Hemingway's short story "Hills like White Elephants" and seven post-reading questions. The questions cover multiple depths of knowledge.

This ACT resource can be used with any of the sub-tests. This activity requires students to analyze the test questions and answer choices to determine not just which choice is correct but also why that choice is correct and why the others are wrong. This activity allows students the opportunity to think deeply about the questions while causing them to draw upon their English, reading, math, or science skills. You could use this as its own solitary activity, or it could be used as a form of test

Use this chart to review the different types of writing. I teach in Tennessee, but this could be adapted for various states.

Use this prompt after reading The Crucible. It requires students to evaluate the play's conclusion and defend their positions with logical reasoning of their own.

This resource includes three narrative writing prompts to go along with your study of A Streetcar Named Desire.