Lambley

Eight original posters with examples of literary devices, focusing on: personification, metaphor, foreshadowing, symbolism, characterization, allegory, irony, and paradox. Using quotations from Dickinson, Woolf, Tolkien, Fitzgerald, Austen, Miller, Coleridge, and Ellison. Featuring photos of authors and related locations or illustrations of the characters and settings.

A timeline of literary movements from Beowulf to Postmodernism with examples of authors and texts throughout that history, as well as historical context information such as the dates of wars, etc. Includes: Shakespeare, Austen, Twain, Woolf, Angelou, and more.

This is a four-paragraph, four-page graphic organizer/outline for students to use to write their first draft of an essay. It has space for prompts and several reminders throughout about what to do for each sentence and each paragraph, as well as several sentence starter options. There is an introduction paragraph, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion - this could be easily modified to be longer or shorter. This is meant to go with my thesis statement handout.

This handout is meant to help students understand the purpose and structure of a thesis and how it connects to their evidence in the argument they're making about a text or texts. The front explains what a thesis is, with examples, and the back includes space for essay prompts and brainstorming, as well as suggested conjunctions/transition words to incorporate into the thesis. This handout goes with my essay graphic organizer/outline.

Poster with guidelines for students on first, second, and third person, as well as information on omniscient or limited narrators. 20 in. x 28 in.

Poster of images showing examples for the long and short sounds of the main five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. 20 in. x 28 in.

Proofreading checklist (in the form of Bingo) for grammar, punctuation and formatting errors for student writing.

Reminder for students who need to see how to do percentages, with the context of reading a book

A half-page activity form for students to introduce themselves that allows them to be creative and to connect their interests with literature. It also will help you create a seating chart! You can fit four onto a landscape 8 x 11 page, if necessary, to print four at a time.