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Using the "Quote Sandwich" and R.A.C.E.S. formatting strategies, students can use this document as writer's checklist for their Text-Dependent Analysis response and/or as a way to peer review another student's response.

This Text-Dependent Analysis question is set up for Keystone exam practice, but can be used in any English classroom. The focus is poetry analysis for structure, tone, style, and figurative language relating to author's purpose using "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman. It contains instructions, grading information, the poem, and the prompt that can be given as a packet all at once for independent completion or worked on together in steps. Consider R.A.C.E.S. formatting to answer prompt.

This is a close reading of "Cult of Personality" lyrics by Living Colour that encourages students to do online research. This was originally used with an Animal Farm unit but can stand alone.

As an instructional coach, it is hard to find time to meet with everyone to share new ideas and products. The attached posters have been hung every month in the copy room (a common area) throughout the school year. They each contain a strategy, resource, and tool.

This document has a printable booklet that contains 42 creative writing prompts for throughout the year. They are set up with Focus Correction Areas (FCAs) for length, relevance, and a blank FCA for you to assign a certain skill, grammar focus, etc. This can be used as often as you'd like to introduce, practice, or review a skill or just as a general bell ringer to get students writing. They can have choice between all prompts, or you can assign certain ones. The possibilities are endless :)

Lyrics and close reading questions for seven songs about war and its effects on humans and society. Have students choose a few to complete while you play these songs throughout the period. Used in a Beowulf unit, but could be attached to any battle novel, poetry analysis, or political discussion about art and activism.

This breakout box is made to be completed in about 30 minutes as a review of material on illegal drugs. Information for set up, all lock codes, hints, and paper supplies are all included. You will need a larger box, a smaller box, a key lock, a three-digit lock, a four-digit lock, and a five digit multilock, along with a blacklight marker and light.

This slideshow that you can print as a handout allows students to start with developing a character then writing their own first-person narrative as part of a group wherein all participants have the same general plot and climax. This requires focus on perspectives and reflection in their narrative writing.

This timeline worksheet has five events on it that happened in America from 2000-2016 and asks students to place their own important life events on the timeline.

Chart to guide students in setting SMART goals.

A list of the chapter numbers that correspond with the chapter titles in the original and 10th anniversary edition of tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom, the pages they start on, and the rounded Audible audio listening time per chapter.

Printable color PDF of slides for a countdown with, at most, 40 days. Use it for days until winter break, graduation, AP test, or whatever you want to count down to without being obnoxious! :)