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Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States

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I have been teaching high school since 2007. I have taught grades 9-10, creative writing, AP English Literature, IB English, and Journalism. I have also been teaching online undergraduate and graduate-level courses online since 2014 with Southern New Hampshire University. I love my content area and am constantly working on improving my craft. My online teaching experience helps me design products for distance learning but will also work in a traditional face-to-face classroom!

Taylor Swift #Swifttok Activity Theories, Thesis, Rhetorical & Literary Analysis

Theme & Modern-day Retelling of Fairy Tales for High Schoolers Remote/In-Person

Mexican Gothic Teaching Unit High School Remote/Distance and In-Person

Macbeth Crime Board Project High School Remote/Distance or In-Person

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Analyzing Suspense and Setting in Stranger Things

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Lit Up

Students love learning about suspense and what better way to do that than by pairing it with a popular TV show the students already know and love? With this activity, students will be asked to answer basic plot-based questions during the viewing. The viewing guide also includes 13 critical thinking and analysis questions that can be assigned for a Socratic seminar or remote-learning discussion board posts. After viewing the episode, students will analyze the intention choices made by the write

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts

Get-to-Know-You Bingo for High School Theater/Drama

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Lit Up

Students need to have a strong classroom community to fully commit in a theater classroom. This activity is a great way for students to get to know one another. It encourages students to get up and move around, ask questions, and learn about each other. This activity takes about 20 minutes. The twist? The bingo card prompts are theater-focused. Students will need to find peers who: Have been a production outside of schoolCan name Tony Award-winning musicals and more! This download includes: T

7th - 12th

Art, Drama

Digital Crime Board Template for Textual Analysis (Remote/Distance or In-Person)

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This digital crime board template is great for any text where a murder or crime needs to be "investigated." With easy to customize text boxes, student click and type. It's that easy! The template includes specific guidelines and continuously prompts students to incorporate textual evidence. There is even a slide where students are asked to write two short paragraphs analyzing the text. This is great for remote/distance learning classrooms. With this crime board, students will incorporate motifs,

7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, Literature, Social Studies

To Kill a Mockingbird: Social Justice Final Project

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Lit Up

To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic text to introduce social justice. This project allows teachers to take a classic text and make it more relevant to students today. With this project, students will be researching a social justice topic, learn how to use credible research, and connect research to a larger text like To Kill a Mockingbird to create a digital project, reinforcing 21st-century skills. This Download Includes… Instructions for the teacher (in-person)Instructions for the teacher (dis

8th - 10th

English Language Arts, Literature, Social Studies

Building Classroom Community Norms in High School (Remote or In-Person)

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Stop making classroom rules and have your student make their own norms. This is a great way to build rapport with your students, and it also gives them a chance to get to know the needs of their peers. This activity helps students understand and learn from their past experiences in the classroom, and their relationship and history with reading. This download is complete with instructions for face-to-face and remote/distance learning. Now, more than ever, it's important for teachers to help buil

8th - 12th

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Reading

Also included in: Building Classroom Community, Norms, and Organization for High School BUNDLE

Literacy Circles for Novel/Book Study High School (Remote/Distance & In-Person)

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This 5-week unit is everything you need to complete a rigorous novel study. Students are grouped by novel or other larger text and complete roles that rotate on a weekly basis. The unit is designed to encourage a deep dive into any larger body of work and then create a product that shows an outgrowth of learning. Students will collaborate and create with this unit. It works well in conjunction with other lessons and is a great way to break up the week so students are consistently reading indepen

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, Other (Social Studies)

CCSS, TEKS

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Introduction to Annotating Bundle for High School

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Lit Up

Tired of getting pushback when you ask students to annotate? End this nonsense now! This bundle includes the only annotation rubric you will ever need to grade student annotations, an introduction to annotation activity that helps students understand the value of digging deep into a text, assignments for self-reflection and peer review, tips, and more! Start 'em annotating and keep 'em annotating. Download includes:Tips for students to annotate (T.W.I.S.T.) List of reading strategies students

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Other (Social Studies)

Premium Writing Rubrics Bundle for High School

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If you assign students writing assignments, this is the only you will ever need. This download includes rubrics for any writing assignment you might require of your high school students. These rubrics work for all subject areas and includes peer review and reflection assignments. You can easily embed these rubrics into your online classroom and use them for easy grading in a face-to-face or remote/distance learning classroom This Download Includes: - General Writing Rubric Self-reflectionPeer Re

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Social Studies

Writing Rubric, Self-Reflection, & Peer Review for High School

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Lit Up

This rubric is designed to work with any writing assignment. It easily adapts to argumentive, research, or short answer assignments. Great for remote or distance learning classrooms, where rubrics can be embedded, allowing teachers to add additional feedback in each category. Works for any subject area. This download includes: - General Writing Rubric (Google doc), can be customized if necessary. - Rubric with space for teacher feedback - Self Reflection assignment - Peer Review assignment Ch

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

For All Subjects

Also included in: Premium Writing Rubrics Bundle for High School

Rhetorical Analysis of Inaugural Speech & Poem (Remote or In-Person) High School

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The theme of President Biden's inauguration was "America United." This bundle asks students to examine this theme. Students will look at the speech and the poem to analyze the rhetorical devices used and how they reinforce the central message of "America United. Inaugural Speech Product Description:Speeches are great text to use when analyzing rhetoric. This assignment is designed to have students examine Biden's argument and the rhetorical devices he uses to reinforce the inaugural theme of un

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, Poetry, Social Studies

Building Classroom Community, Norms, and Organization for High School BUNDLE

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Lit Up

This bundle is all you need to build rapport and community in your classroom. You'll also facilitate students in establishing classroom and group norms. Lastly, you'll be able to review figurative language and get writing samples from all your students, all while students get to know you and their peers. This bundle also contains materials and instructions for remote-learning and in-person classrooms. This Bundle IncludesCustomizable Daily AgendaGroup Norms FormClassroom Role Sheet (high schoo

8th - 12th, Higher Education

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, Pinterest, & Facebook Projects Bundle (Distance)

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This bundle includes social media projects designed to help your students deep dive into a text and analyze the author's intent, themes, characters, and more! Each project works as an independent or group project and has resources for in-person or distance learning. TikTok Download Includes:Lesson Plan template with common core standardsIn-person instructionsRemote-learning instructions for the teacherProject guidelines for studentsRubric to embed in LMSRubric for teacher feedback Peer review a

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Drama, English Language Arts, Other (Social Studies)

CCSS

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Remote/Distance Learning Discussion Board Rubric and Tips

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Lit Up

Remote-learning looks different than in-person learning, but teachers know that all learning needs to have opportunities for students to share and discuss with peers. This rubric and the bonus tips provided will help teachers hold students accountable for their online discussion, encourage students to stay grounded in the content, and not turn discussions into the tangential and unrelated talk that does happen in the classroom. This download includes: Google Doc rubric that can easily be tran

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

For All Subjects, Social Studies

Also included in: Premium Writing Rubrics Bundle for High School

Taylor Swift #Swifttok Activity Theories, Thesis, Rhetorical & Literary Analysis

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Lit Up

For years, Taylor Swift fans, Swifties, have identified Easter Eggs in the artist’s work to determine messages and meaning and come up with theories about the style of her different eras, messages she’s trying to send the public, album and track lists, and release dates. For this assignment, students will do the same, but with their favorite artist. Students will review and analyze different forms of media to justify a theory they have about their favorite singer. Just like a Swiftie, they wi

8th - 12th, Higher Education

English Language Arts, Social Studies, Writing

CCSS

RI.9-10.1

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Getting to Know You Figurative Language Distance Learning Activity

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Lit Up

Tired of the same old ice breaker activities that high schoolers loathe? Try this figurative language review activity instead. It allows you to get to know your students and gives your students an opportunity to review skills for your course AND build a community with their peers. In this download, you'll have access to the necessary tools to do this activity in-person OR via remote/distance learning. This Download Includes: Figurative Language ReviewFigurative Language HandoutFigurative Langua

8th - 12th

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading

CCSS

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Also included in: Building Classroom Community, Norms, and Organization for High School BUNDLE

Understanding Symbolism, Motifs, & Themes in Romeo & Juliet (Remote & In-Person)

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Lit Up

Students often need a helping hand to navigate the symbols, motifs, and themes of a large work like Romeo & Juliet. This Niemeyer chart and discussion board is a great way to get students to slow down and examine each act of the classic Shakespearean tragedy. As a handout, it's great on brightly-colored paper. Students can keep it out as they read the text in class. Remotely, it offers students the opportunity to visualize a challenging text. In addition, this download has a grading rubric wh

8th - 11th

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Social Studies

Introducing Annotation for ANY TEXT and ANY LENGTH (high school)

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This activity is designed to show students that reading closely helps them dig deeper and get more out of a text. The activity also provides a tool for you to have your students engage with each other and begin an academic conversation about a short text or chunk of text. Introducing Annotation is a great activity to help establish the expectation that annotation is the norm in your classroom. This product includes instructions for teachers to use this assignment in both face-to-face and remote

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Other (Social Studies)

Also included in: Introduction to Annotating Bundle for High School

"The Hill We Climb" Amanda Gorman Analysis & Social Justice Remote/In-person

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Lit Up

Since performing "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration, Amanda Gorman has become a historic figure herself, as the youngest poetic laureate. Her poem and its relevance make it an ideal text to study with students. This activity, which would be a fantastic text for Black History Month, asks students to read and annotate the poem. In addition, 30 specific guiding questions to get students to think more deeply about the craft of writing. The activity specifically focuses on the fol

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

English Language Arts, Poetry, Social Studies

Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis of Inaugural Speech & Poem (Remote or In-Person) High School

Facebook Characterization Project Remote or In-person High School

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Lit Up

This activity is designed to have students think deeply about the characters in the stories and novels they are studying. They are being asked to go beyond the surface and dig into the text. This could also be used in a history class to examine historical figures or a theater class to examine characters in a play or musical! This activity has tools for teachers who want to do this activity in-person or remotely, including a discussion board gallery walk activity. Modify this activity to make i

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies

Also included in: Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, Pinterest, & Facebook Projects Bundle (Distance)

Instagram Stories Plot, Structure, & Author's Intent (Remote/In-Person)

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Lit Up

Your students are already making Instagram and Snapchat stories to share with their friends. Why not have them share what they know with you using a platform they already love and know how to use? This activity is designed to help students summarize, understand the structure and plot of a story, and analyze the intentional choices writers make and the impact of those choices. This download includes options for remote and in-person learning, as well as project guidelines and rubrics to help comm

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Social Studies

CCSS

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Also included in: Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, Pinterest, & Facebook Projects Bundle (Distance)

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About the store

Experience

Teaching style

Intentionality is a major component of my teaching and the content I create. I want my students to see how writers and artists are intentional with their craft. I want my students to understand the value of being intentional in their own writing. I believe students should do the heavy lifting in the classroom, so my resources are designed to be robust and rigorous, but easy to adjust and customize for all levels of learners. I’ve done the front loading so that my resources make it easy for teachers to make literature and writing accessible and relevant to their students.

My own education history

I have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University. I earned a Graduate Teaching Certificate in English grades 9-12 from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami in English.