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I have taught Secondary ELA in New York State since 2004. I have experience with grades 7-12 with many varied abilities, second languages, learning disabilities as well as advanced students in AP Lang.
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The Crucible Unit Bundle
This unit is based on reading the play the Crucible aloud in class. It includes moments for students to stop and and analyze characterization and foils by tracking and writing about a character throughout the play. The study guides are comprehension based questions ending each Act with in depth questions focused on characterization and how they change.
9th - 12th
Literature, Reading, Writing
The Crucible Study Guide Act 1
This is a study guide made and edited over several years that focus on pre reading strategies, plot construction and most importantly characterization. The guide walks students through major themes of the play, events of Act 1 and culminates with activities to such as a Sociogram, Character Analysis group work with textual evidence and a writing piece that analyzes the characterization of a character.
9th - 12th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
The Crucible Final Critical Lens Essay
As a final assessment to the play, student will write a critical lens essay in which they discuss two characters in the play “The Crucible” from the particular perspective of a critical lens statement they choose. In the essay guidelines, they need to provide a valid interpretation of the chosen statement, agree or disagree with the statement as they have interpreted it and support their opinion using specific references to elements of characterization from the play. This essay is a character an
9th - 12th
Literature, Writing, Writing-Essays
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
of Mice and Men Interactive Reading Journal
This is a reading journal for the novella "of Mice and Men". At the end of every chapter, students will write a brief journal entry. The journal is designed so that students intact with the text and their thoughts, consider authors choices and to make text to world/text to self/ and text to text connections. Each entry must consist of a: A) Title for the chapter. Create your own and provide a brief explanation as to why. Try to avoid titles that just simply restate the plot. Aim for deeper meani
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Close Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies
Rhetorical Analysis Essay NYS Regents Question 3 Guidelines.
This simple to use outline and overview allows students to have a strong structure and framework to respond to Question 3 on the NYS Regents Exam. It provides a 3 paragraph overview, sentence by sentence introduction guidelines with models and examples, list of tone words, transition words as well as a list of verbs to describe writers. Follow the guidelines and you will guarantee kids will pass.
9th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository
The Crucible Study Guide Act 3
This a study guide made and edited over several years that focus on reading strategies, plot construction and most importantly characterization. The guide walks students through major themes of the play, events of Act 3 and culminates with paragraph writing about character foils and characters development since Act 1. Also includes vocabulary for Act 3.
9th - 12th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
The Crucible Study Guide Act 2
This is a study guide made and edited over several years that focus the student on plot construction and characterization. The guide walks students through major themes of the play, events of Act 2 and culminates with several constructed responses about character development and their conflicts within the play. The guide also includes vocabulary study rel;ated to the act.
9th - 11th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
"A Teachable Good Book: of Mice and Men" By Thomas Scarseth
Close reading questions for the reading "A Teachable Good Book" by Thomas Scarseth. Students love to debate on whether this book should be taught in schools. This essay examines why it should be taught. Students read the essay after completing the novella "of Mice and Men" in order to understand its importance. Student will complete a close reading of the text using questions to guide their re-reading and thinking.
9th - 12th
Close Reading, Literature, Reading
McCarthyism Reading after The Crucible with multiple choice and short answer
This is a reading designed to lead students to see the connections between the play and the Red Scare. The reading is followed by a few multiple choice questions and 2 short answer ones.
9th - 12th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Informational Text
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
SocioGram for "The Crucible" Act 1
What is it? A sociogram is a visual representation of the relationships among characters in a literary text. You can make use of pictures, symbols, shapes, colors, and line styles to illustrate these relationships. Sociograms are used to help readers understand the dynamics among characters. As the story develops, they help to illustrate the changing relationships, the traits of each character, and the emerging primary and secondary conflicts. We will make one at the end of Act 1 and again at
9th - 12th
Close Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies
Also included in: The Crucible Unit Bundle
Sociogram for "of Mice and Men"
A sociogram is a visual representation of the relationships among characters in a literary text. You can make use of pictures, symbols, shapes, colors, and line styles to illustrate these relationships. Sociograms are used to help readers understand the relationships among characters. As the story develops, they help to illustrate the changing relationships, the traits of each character, and the emerging primary and secondary conflicts. We will make one at the end of the 2nd chapter and agai
9th - 12th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
"Young Goodman Brown" Close Reading Questions and Study Guide.
A quick simple 12 question Study Guide to accompany the short Story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I use it as bonus material prior to reading the Crucible.
9th - 12th
Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories
Argument Essay Overview and Guidelines
This outline provides a very simple, effective and time tested outline for students to follow when approaching and writing a timed Argument or Synthesis Essay. This outline will also work exceedingly well for any Social Studies essay. The outline provides guidelines for how to write an excellent but brief introduction, 3 developed but short bodies of evidence and analysis. Some slides provide sentence starters for counter claims and list transition words organized by relationship.
9th - 12th
Informational Text, Writing, Writing-Essays
Sociogram for "of Mice and Men"
A sociogram is a visual representation of the relationships among characters. Students make use of pictures, symbols, shapes, colors, and line styles to illustrate relationships and dynamics within the story. Sociograms are used to help readers identify characters and their relationships. As the story develops, Sociograms help to illustrate the traits of each character, and the emerging primary and secondary conflicts as well as the change occurring. Students will make one at the end of the 2
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
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About the store
Experience
I have taught Secondary ELA in New York State since 2004. I have experience with grades 7-12 with many varied abilities, second languages, learning disabilities as well as advanced students in AP Lang.
Teaching style
I run a very organized structured classroom with lots of room for improvisation. My units and lessons are designed backwards with the goal in mind first. I like to lean on the structure of the lesson but use their interests, thoughts, mood etc... to direct the examples and stories I use and tell to explain ideas and concepts in a modern way. I am a very animated teacher who uses lots of story telling, jokes, and interactions to make the structure seem invisible. Students generally tend to enjoy my high school English classes and my "style".
Awards & shining teacher moments
I've taught in a public high school in a lower income community for over 20 years - no one really awards good teachers. We remain invisible backbones. Cynicism aside, I have been invited by many students to their athletic game teacher appreciation nights. These are really the best awards to receive. :-)
My own education history
Aquinas Institute of Rochester: NYS High School Regents 1991
Monroe Community College: Associates Degree Liberal Arts
S.U.N.Y Brockport: Bachelors of Science English Literature, Minor in Education
St. John Fisher University: Master of Secondary Literacy
A.P Course Work and College Board Certifications for Lit and Lang
25 successful years of experience in a diverse low income public high school. School of hard knocks teaches better than any school. .
Additional biographical information
Father of 3: a Teacher, a Veterinarian and a Physician's Assistant. <3
Varsity Soccer Coach: 15 years
Club Soccer coach for elementary age children: 15 years
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