Ms. Durkin

This 8 page study was originally created for a 7th grade language arts final exam. It includes questions on all levels for topics such as historical fiction, analogies, Greek and Latin roots, MLA citiation, pronoun antecedent agreement, and much more. Questions are multiple choice, short answer, and fill in the blank.

This activity challenges students to use the MLA citation "formulas" to cite a book, magazine, encyclopedia, newspaper, and website that they can find around your classroom. The "formulas" are on the page, but students must use their high level thinking skills to cite the resource correctly! This is great practice before students do the real thing in a research paper. This was originally used in middle grades English language arts. It is a Word Document, so feel free to edit it!

This worksheet challenges students to make predictions about the novel "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor before reading. It prompts students to look at the important aspects of a novel and write full sentence predictions. There is a short answer question at the end. This was originally used for a 7th grade language arts class reading "Tangerine" in class, but would be perfect for any middle grades class before reading the novel "Tangerine."

This worksheet was used for teaching technical writing, specifically writing and following directions. There is a map and directions from point to point and students must follow the map and answer the questions. This was originally created for 7th grade language arts.

This half sheet worksheet challenges students to put verbs in the past, present, and future tense. Some of the words are irregular. Then, students must write three sentences in three difference tenses using the words they just conjugated. This worksheet was orginially used for 7th grade language arts, but would be great for any middle grades class learning or reviewing verb tense.

This printable handout challenges students to fill in the blanks next to the symbol on a map of the United States where the major Civil War battle took place. This is a printable handout originally created for 5th grade social studies, but would be a perfect review for any middle grades class learning about the American Civil War.

This PowerPoint presentation leads the teacher through a lesson about the American Civil War battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg. The full color PowerPoint has graphics and pictures. It was created for a unit on the Civil War for 5th grade social studies, but would be great for any middle grades class learning about the American Civil War.

This colorful, easy to read poster displays the most commonly used subordinating conjunctions that students need to know, and reminds them that subordinating conjunctions begin adverb clauses. The poster uses the easy-to-remember acronym: ON A WHITE BUS, to list the subordinating conjunctions. This was originally created for and used by a middle school English language arts class.

This 6 slide PowerPoint presentation leads the teacher easily through a discussion about the Emancipation Proclamation, from African American's important role in the Civil War to the 13th Amendment. The PowerPoint is full color with graphics and pictures. It was originally created for 5th grade social studies unit on the American Civil War, but would be great for any middle grades class studying this subject.

This is a 5 page study guide for the Civil War. It was originally created for a 5th grade social studies unit on the American Civil War. The study guide includes vocabulary, fill in the blank, a great cause and effect chart for major Civil War events, and more.

This worksheet is a chart challenging students to find many nonfiction text features in any book or textbook, define it, draw it, and write the page number they found it on. This was originally created for teaching nonfiction text features (sidebar, heading, subheading, graphic, caption, etc.) for 7th grade language arts.

This PowerPoint presentation gives directions and sentences for a class to easily play "Four Corners" to practice the four types of sentences. Simply label the corners of your room with a different type of sentence: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Then play the PowerPoint and have students move to the corner that represents the type of sentence they believe the sentence on the board. This fun and engaging activity gets students up and moving, while helping them practice the type

This 5 slide PowerPoint presentation leads the teacher easily through a discussion about African American's important role in the Civil War. It is full color with graphics and pictures, and discusses African American soldiers, slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation. This PowerPoint was originally created for 5th grade social studies, but would be perfect for any middle grades class learning about the American Civil War.

This one page worksheet challenges students to write their own poem based on "Summer" by Walter Dean Myers. Students choose a topic and describe it like Myers described summer in his poem. This worksheet was orginially used to 7th grade language arts study of figurative language and poetry, but would be great for any middle grades study of writing or poetry.

This 15 question middle school vocabulary quiz tests students on some of the 1,000 words every middle schooler should know! The quiz includes matching with word and definition and fill in the blank questions with 10 vocabulary words. The quiz has options A, B, C, D, and E, so it can easily be used with a Scantron. The words tested are: Grueling, Concoction, Zeal, Quell, Aptitude, Recuperate, Luminous, Apprehensive, Versatile, and Debris. This was originally created for 7th grade language arts, b

This worksheet teaches students the appropriate times to use affect and effect. This worksheet tells students each rule, gives a sentence example for each, and gives students a space to write their own example. This was originally created to teach commonly confused words for 7th grade language arts.

This simple and fun persuasive PowerPoint uses graphics and examples to teach five persuasive strategies: Facts, Reasons, Illustrations, Examples, and Statistics, or... FRIES! It walks students through the definitions of those strategies, shows examples of them used in a persuasive paragraph, and then ends with a prompt for students to write their OWN persuasive paragraph. This was originally created for middle grades English language arts. It is a PowerPoint presentation, so feel free to edit i

This is a fun homework assignment for students of any age! This worksheet teaches students to look for persuasive writing in their everyday lives. It prompts student to watch at least two television commercials and analyze the persuasive stratigies used to catch the viewers attention. This document was originally created and used in a 7th grade language arts class, but would be great for any class learning about persuasion.

This Coat of Arms template has "Sir" and "Lady" at the top of each coat of arms where students can fill in their names. It was originally used in a middle grades English language arts class when reading medieval times literature. It is a Word Document, so feel free to edit!

This 10 question quiz tests the comparative and supurlative forms of words. It was orginally created for 7th grade language arts.