Ms. Gallon's Resources

This slide deck contains 50 SAT questions that all focus on Standard English Conventions. It contains the questions and answers. The questions vary in type and punctuation focus. It makes for a great warm up!

This slide deck introduces students to irony, and the three types - verbal, situational, and dramatic. It includes a note sheet for students to complete as they learn. Then it guides students through a game to identify the three different types of irony in comic strips and movie clips. Finally, students complete 2 assignments to show what they learned. First, through finding an ironic comic strip online and explaining the type of irony. Second, creating their own ironic newspaper strip.

This is a lesson to teach students about the 12 literary archetypes. It begins with a gallery walk (note sheet and print outs provided). Then students play a matching game to pair popular Disney characters with the 12 archetypes. Finally, students take a personality quiz that matches them to their archetype and reflect on the result.

These slides guide scholars through a mini lesson on skimming to prepare them for the SAT. Agenda for lesson: What is skimming?Why does it matter?4 step strategySkimming practice - Wayground This lesson should take approximately an hour. It includes a 4 step process to approach skimming which is then practiced as a whole class on a question. Then there is a custom Wayground that walks students through 20 example SAT questions where skimming is helpful. This Wayground can also be downloaded as a

These slides guide scholars through a mini lesson on central idea style questions on the SAT. These questions are part of the information and ideas domain of the SAT. Agenda for lesson: TOPIC: Central (Main) Ideas & DetailsWhat are these questions?How do we approach them?Try it - Kahoot!This lesson should take approximately an hour. It includes a 4 step process to approach these questions which is then practiced as a whole class on a question. Then there is a custom Kahoot! that walks students t

These slides guide scholars through a mini lesson on inference style questions on the SAT. These questions are part of the information and ideas domain of the SAT. Agenda for lesson: What does “infer” mean?What do inference questions look like?How can I approach inference questions?Inference questions practice - gameThis lesson should take approximately an hour. It includes 3 example questions to walk through as a whole class, and 15 questions to gamify.

This slide deck walks through a lesson to teach students about why it is important to make reference pages, what they look like, and how to make them. Then students engage in a competition activity to race to create a correctly formatted reference page (activity explanation link & answer key link included in slide notes).

This web activity is intended to educate students on the use of "mood" in short stories. It should be completed independently. There are 10 questions total. It first links students to a Scholastic YouTube video that teaches them what mood is, and how it is created. Then students are prompted to read or listen to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart". They then answer questions around the mood of this story, finding evidence, and further explaining Poe's intentional crafting of this mood focus

This file is a guided note sheet to introduce students to poetry. It contains an explanation of what poetry is, types of poetry, why authors write poetry, characteristics of poetry, and examples of poetry books. It also comes with it's answer key.

This slide deck contains gallery walk posters, a gallery walk note sheet, a matching game to review, and an application activity where scholars are integrating art to reflect on their own skills, talents, and abilities.

This packet contains ten SAT vocabulary sets. There are 10 words per set and include a range of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs . It includes a note sheet for each set, a word search, a link to Blooket set, and a link to the flashcards on Quizlet.

This activity walks students through connecting careers to potential college majors to colleges that offer this major.

This assignment walks students through researching acceptance requirements for different colleges.

This activity is meant to introduce students to financial aid, the types aid, and how to find it. This online activity guides students to the federal student aid site to define financial aid and the 4 different types of aid. Then they will answer 5 true / false questions regarding financial aid. Next, they will answer 3 short term questions regarding the FAFSA. Finally, they will link 3 financial aid sites for different colleges. It includes an answer key.

This is a worksheet that educates scholars on the differences between hard vs soft skills. Then it has scholars research the most applicable skills that careers are looking for today.

This file contains a gallery walk note sheet, the gallery walk posters, and a reflection art activity where scholars point out their own skills and how they apply those in their lives.

Plant themed desk tags that list out accountable talk sentence starters

This Google Doc is an interactive activity for scholars to complete the MBTI (16 Personalities) test, and report / analyze / reflect on their results.

This Google doc guides scholars in creating a character description of a monster or an alien. It focuses on extrinsic and intrinsic traits. It also comes with a linked example. I collaborate with my building's art teacher. I give them the completed copies and her art students draw the creatures. Then both classes play a matching game where scholars try to match the descriptions to the drawings

This is a back to school activity for scholars to share more about themselves. It comes with a choice board for scholars to choose what they would like to include. The jars can be cut out to create a bulletin board.