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After 32+ years of teaching in New York City, I retired on January 1st. I celebrated my career with a ten day trip to Iceland - it was awesome! Though I miss my students and school community, I do not miss the ever constant call for teachers to add more responsibilities to their already full plates. So now I'm enjoying naps, reading, and swimming at the local Y, and I finally have time to update and upload more of my resources to TPT. I hope you find something inspiring to lighten your load.
Highlights
*For three years I taught in the Project Freire Saturday Literacy Program in Brooklyn.
*For three years I worked developing teachers as a literacy instructional specialist for the Brooklyn High Schools Superintendent's Office. My double period literacy class acted as a "fishbowl" and springboard for workshops.
*I was a co advisor for my school's Peer Group Connection Class, where I taught upperclassmen to facilitate weekly mentoring activities with small groups of freshmen in order to make their transition to high school successful. This turned out to be one of the most meaningful experiences I've had as an educator.
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Logical Fallacies For AP Language and Composition | 2-Session Power Point Lesson
Teach your AP Lang students to identify, analyze, and write about logical fallacies with this engaging, ready-to-use 2-session PowerPoint lesson. Aligned to College Board AP Language and Composition standards, this resource covers 12 logical fallacies using real examples from advertisements and political speeches — exactly the type of texts students encounter on the AP exam. What's Included SESSION 1 Foundations✅ Discovery Warm-Up — students analyze 3 suspicious real-world claims before instruc
10th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.11-12.6
, RI.11-12.8
Syntax & The Four Sentence Types | AP Language & Composition | 2-Session PPT
Help your AP Lang students move beyond labeling sentence types and start using syntax as a rhetorical tool — exactly what the FRQ 2 rubric rewards. This fully designed, ready-to-teach PowerPoint lesson spans two 45-minute sessions and takes students from discovery to independent assessment. Every slide is classroom-ready with timed segments, differentiated supports, and explicit AP Language & Composition skill alignment built in. What's Included :✔ Discovery warm-up — students inductively notice
10th - 12th
Grammar, Reading, Writing
The Power of Diction | AP Language & Composition | 2-Session PowerPoint Lesson
Does your AP Lang class struggle to move beyond surface-level observations about word choice? This two-session PowerPoint lesson teaches students to analyze diction with precision — identifying types, explaining connotation, and connecting word choice to rhetorical effect in a way that holds up on the AP exam. Everything is built into the slides. You open the file and teach.What's Included✅ Discovery Warm-Up — "The Word Swap" think-pair-share that gets students noticing diction before you defin
10th - 12th
Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
Line of Reasoning: 90 Min AP Language Power Point Lesson
Help your AP Lang students move beyond *listing reasons* and start building arguments that actually persuade — with this complete, ready-to-teach two-session lesson on line of reasoning.This engaging, standards-aligned PowerPoint lesson walks students through one of the most misunderstood — and most heavily weighted — concepts on the AP Language exam. From a hook that reveals the concept before naming it, to a self-scoring exit assessment tied directly to AP rubric language, every slide is purpo
11th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays
CCSS
W.11-12.1
, W.11-12.1c
AP Language | Methods of Development | Two-Day (90 Min) | Student Facing PPT
📍Give your AP Lang students the tools to write with intention — not just instinct. This fully designed, student-facing two-session lesson teaches all nine methods of development through direct instruction, mentor text analysis, and hands-on writing activities that build toward the AP Argument FRQ. ⭐️Most students know *what* to argue. This lesson teaches them *how* to build and develop that argument — and why the choices they make as writers matter to AP scorers. What's Included:✅️22 fully desi
9th - 12th
Informational Text, Vocabulary, Writing
CCSS
RI.11-12.6
, W.11-12.1
, W.11-12.2
AP Lang | Intro to The Rhetorical Situation | Two Day Lesson Plan | Power Point
📍Introduce the rhetorical situation to your AP Lang Gang with this two session lesson plan which covers speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, and tone. The slides contain:✅️Lesson Overview ✅️Warm Ups ✅️Direct Instruction ✅️Activities ✅️Exit Tickets ✅️Teacher Notes w/ Standards, Differentiation Strategies, & Suggested Texts 💬 Questions?Feel free to reach out before purchasing! If you enjoy this resource, please leave a rating — it means the world to independent tea
11th - 12th
Informational Text, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RL.11-12.5
, RI.11-12.1
, RI.11-12.6
+2
Denotation vs Connotation | 45 Minute PPT Lesson | Adaptable for 6-12g
Stop teaching vocabulary in isolation — this engaging, fully built PowerPoint lesson helps students discover the difference between denotation and connotation through hands-on exploration, real text analysis, and creative writing tasks. From the very first slide, students are hooked: they're comparing word pairs like "cheap" vs. "affordable" and "politician" vs. "statesman" before they even know what connotation means. That discovery moment sets the tone for the whole lesson. ✅ What's Included
6th - 12th
Close Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
The Power of Anaphora: A 45-Minute CCSS-Aligned PPT Lesson for HS
📍Help your students feel the power of rhetoric before they can even name it — and then teach them to analyze it like pros. This fully designed, ready-to-teach PowerPoint lesson walks students through the rhetorical device of anaphora using excerpts from some of the most iconic speeches in American history: Churchill, FDR, MLK, Obama, Sojourner Truth, and JFK. Every slide is polished, print-ready, and classroom-tested in structure.✅️What's included?*Compelling warm-up using Churchill's "We Shall
9th - 11th
Informational Text, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.9-10.4
, RI.9-10.6
, RI.9-10.9
+3
AP Language | Rhetorical Appeals Lesson | Two-Day (90 mins) | Editable PPT
Teach your students to identify, analyze, and write with rhetorical appeals using this fully designed, standards-aligned two-day PowerPoint lesson. Built specifically for AP Language and Composition and grades 9–12 ELA, this resource takes students from discovery to independent analysis in just 90 minutes of instruction.What's included:*19 fully designed slides with a color-coded system *3 teacher guide slides with CCSS and AP Lang standards, learning objectives, differentiation strategies, pac
9th - 12th
Informational Text, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.9-10.6
, RI.11-12.6
, W.9-10.1
+1
Synecdoche: The Part That Speaks for the Whole | 45-Minute PPT Lesson for HS
📍This fully designed, print-and-present-ready PowerPoint lesson takes students from zero to confident with synecdoche — one of the most rarely taught yet frequently tested figures of speech in high school ELA. The lesson follows a structured 45-minute arc with every segment timed and labeled, so you can drop it into your figurative language unit, rhetorical analysis unit, or poetry study with zero prep. ✅️ What's Included*Discovery Warm-Up that lets students *find* the pattern before you name
9th - 12th
Informational Text, Literature, Writing
CCSS
RL.9-10.4
, RL.11-12.4
, RI.9-10.4
+3
"Interbeing" by Thich Nhat Hanh | 3-Day Close Reading & Rhetorical Analysis
A complete 3-day ELA lesson built around Thich Nhat Hanh's stunning 400-word passage "Interbeing." Students annotate, analyze rhetorical moves, and write their own Hanh-style paragraph. Perfect for close reading units, rhetorical analysis introduction, or AP Lang prep at the 9-10 level. One short text. Three days of high-leverage instruction. Thich Nhat Hanh's "Interbeing" passage is just 400 words — but in those 400 words, the Vietnamese Zen monk constructs one of the most quietly powerful argu
9th - 10th
Classroom Community, Close Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.9-10.1
, RI.9-10.2
, RI.9-10.4
+7
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About the store
Experience
After 32+ years of teaching in New York City, I retired on January 1st. I celebrated my career with a ten day trip to Iceland - it was awesome! Though I miss my students and school community, I do not miss the ever constant call for teachers to add more responsibilities to their already full plates. So now I'm enjoying naps, reading, and swimming at the local Y, and I finally have time to update and upload more of my resources to TPT. I hope you find something inspiring to lighten your load.
Highlights
*For three years I taught in the Project Freire Saturday Literacy Program in Brooklyn.
*For three years I worked developing teachers as a literacy instructional specialist for the Brooklyn High Schools Superintendent's Office. My double period literacy class acted as a "fishbowl" and springboard for workshops.
*I was a co advisor for my school's Peer Group Connection Class, where I taught upperclassmen to facilitate weekly mentoring activities with small groups of freshmen in order to make their transition to high school successful. This turned out to be one of the most meaningful experiences I've had as an educator.
Teaching style
Teaching style is directly related to learning style. As a learner I am curious, enthusiastic, passionate, hard working and determined. My teaching style follows suit.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I have been nominated for the Disney Hand Teacher Award and The New York City Apple Award. I am amongst the founders of a theatre arts high school in Brooklyn. I appeared in a Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes documentary with a student I taught to read who was inspired by Seedfolks to transform an abandoned lot into a garden for teenagers in his community. He went on to graduate, attend college on a scholarship and is currently working in the NYC public school system.
My own education history
Brooklyn College
B.A. English with a minor in Secondary Education
M.S. Special Education
NYS Permanent Certification in English 7-12,
NYS Permanent Certification in Special Education,
NYC Permanent License Teacher of English Day High School,
NYC Permanent License Teacher of Special Education
Additional biographical information
Special Training:
Adult Literacy Media Alliance / TV 411
Americas Choice Ramp Up To Literacy
Bader Language Assessment
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
Theatre for a New Audience
Theatre of the Oppressed
Wilson Direct Instruction Reading Program
Peer Group Connection
CUNY LINCT to Success Pre College ELA: Exploring the Social Sciences
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