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These are materials to quiz and test students' comprehension of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I've included seven quizzes, a test review sheet, a Jeopardy review game, a final 100 point test.

When the students are squirmy and you need something just before Thanksgiving break that will hold their attention, keep them entertained, teach them some holiday fun facts, and review some vocabulary words, literary terms (puns, idioms), and basic foreign language words (how to say "thanks" in Spanish, Italian, German, etc.), this is the Jeopardy PowerPoint for you! I hope you enjoy!

The sample says it all. My kids enjoy the presentation and learn irony too! PLEASE NOTE: Video clips come from YouTube, so you MUST be able to access YOUTUBE to show them.

- Bookmarks are checklists for your students to use to see the order of books in a series and keep track of which ones they have read. It is a fun incentive. - These can be used as shelf markers for students to reference as they are browsing books. - There are a few extra blank bookmarks at the end. You may continue to copy the blanks and create more for the books that are popular in your student library collection. This is a Word Document of bookmarks for 77 titles.Here are just some of th

This test/quiz can be used to assess students' familiarity of the attributes of Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses. Can be used when teaching the Illiad and the Odyssey.

This is a straightforward PowerPoint that explains then demonstrates how to cite quotes and paraphrases in essays, using many demonstration quotes from A Raisin in the Sun. Also in the powerpoint are basics about quoting versus italicizing titles and how to introduce quotes without being boring.

This powerpoint adds a spoonful of sugar to make the bard go down students' gullets more easily. Pop culture allusions keep their attention, but the content is all there. This introduces sonnets as a genre, sonnet form and structure, rhythm, rhyme scheme, and finally asks students to interpret meaning in Sonnet 18, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day."

Included with the worksheets,these Word documents also include a "typical" sappy sonnet that employs Petrarchan conceits ("My love's hair is beaten gold," etc). I have students read that poem and illustrate what the woman in the poem would literally look like. We discuss how unrealistic the image is and how it compares to how Shakepeare portrays his woman.

This giant bundle includes tests, quizzes, Jeopardy games, PowerPoints, etc. I taught mythology for 17 years; these are all my own crafted materials. If purchased separately, all the items would cost just shy of $100.

You will receive a link to a Prezi PowerPoint Lesson that covers Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Chapter, “Eight Brief Love Myths” in a visually stimulating way. I’ve spent a number of hours adding maps, art, video, poetry, etc. that all connect to these tales. All clips are YouTube links, so be sure you can access YouTube to show those portions of the presentation. Videos include: 1. Clips of “My Fair Lady” to show the connection between the characters Pygmalion and Galatea to Professor Higgins an

Students will write five pretend entries that include pretend in text (parenthetical) citation from different sources and then create a fake works cited for their pretend research. Kids really get into this AND LEARN MLA citation!

This powerpoint follows Chapter four of Edith Hamilton's Mythology text, "The Earlies Heroes". It's vivid graphics holds students' attention!

Thorough PowerPoint on Edith Hamilton's Mythology chapter on the Underworld and its lesser gods. Vibrant images and fun video clips will hold your students' attention.

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELPING MY BROTHER FUND HIS COLLEGE EDUCATION at VCU. Please help me help him . . . and you. These are tried and true favorites that can be adapted for ALL ages. My students often groan about Day 1 "fun" activities, but on Day 2 they BEG to do them again! These are different activities that help you get to know your students and your students get to know you and eachother. For $1.99, you will not be disappointed! And if you are, just think, your money is going to a good caus

This straightforward PowerPoint covers 6 ways to start an introductory paragraph and gives examples. o With an anecdote (funny story) or example. o With a startling fact or unusual opinion. o With background information. o With a question. (though this one can be omitted if the teacher chooses) o By setting the scene. o Or with a simple statement of your thesis (main idea or point).

Fun project for students of mythology or for students who have studied the Odyssey. Students in my class have done a great job of displaying their knowledge of the epic poem's content while expressing their creativity.

This PowerPoint gives students a play-by-play on how to write great body paragraphs for literary analysis papers. After reading an example essay introduction that shows students how to organize the body, the PowerPoint takes them step-by-step in writing a body paragraph for the given essay, In the end, the teacher has the option of having students complete two more body paragraphs using the example paragraph as their guiding model.

SAVE YOURSELF TIME GRADING ESSAYS! This easy-to-follow document gives you and your students abbreviations for common middle and high school student essay errors. Instead of writing novels on your students' essays, simply give them this sheet of abbreviations and what they mean. Then all you do is write the error abbreviation on the paper and that's it. Then you might have time to write the novel you actually want to write!

This cute PowerPoint goes over common mistakes middle and high school students make when writing basic essays - little or no elaboration, no attention grabbers (hooks), to topic sentences, informal tone, etc.

Very simply, this is a detailed list of names/places students should know when studying the Odyssey.