Moving Minds Forward

Elevate your poetry unit with our dynamic slide deck! Each slide delves into key terms like structure, stanza, mood, and beyond, offering clear definitions for student comprehension. With concise explanations, these slides make learning poetry vocabulary both accessible and painless. These slides can be presented as notes to a wholegroup, or assigned for students to take notes individually, at their own pace. Pair these slides with the Elements of Poetry Brochure and you have independent work fo

This activity helps students begin to think and make sense of the language they are reading in Shakespeare.  It contains the prologue (to be read aloud), a vocabulary list, and slides each containing a line from the prologue.  Students can then  think about one line at a time and use their background knowledge and the vocabulary presented to attempt a translation (whether individually or in groups). At the end, they put it all together and rearrange the words as necessary to write a translated

These slides explain 8 different types of arguments.

These slides break down how to write a thesis statement for students who have difficulty writing a clear and concise claim or controlling idea. It provides examples and offers plenty of independent practice.

This resource has embedded questions in the text Story of an Hour to introduce students to active reading, through annotation. It is also a good resource for guided reading, whether whole class, or in small groups.