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Worksheets to go along with eight Youtube videos from the American Theatre Wing that allow students to explore careers in theatre that aren't acting. Links to every video in the play list that corresponds with the worksheet. Keys included! Can be assigned for independent work or watched as a whole class.

This was used with "All Together Now" by Barbara Jordan, but can be adapted very easily for any persuasive letter to a government official. This worksheet includes instructions, examples, steps for finding contact information and addressing a letter, and a graphic organizer.

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.

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 :)

This can be given as an introduction of eras in a British Literature course so students have an understanding of the progression of works they'll be reading. They will use the website at the top of the worksheet to find the answers, and a key is provided.

This packet contains multiple examples of texts with questions about short story elements, characterization, structure, POV, etc. The packet ends with a TDA practice based on the final short story.

TDA information that begins with prompts, then textual evidence, and moves to writer longer and more in-depth responses. Uses RACES strategy.

This chart encourages students to connect a real-life example of mob mentality with the teleplay "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." An article on the Rosewood Incident to use is included.

Instructions and a planning chart for writing an Ode poem.

Students will answer questions using the linked article from The Onion.

Worksheet for Chapter 5 of The Outsiders on "Nothing Gold Can Stay."

This worksheet describes what a motif is, gives examples, and has a chart for students to track mentions of an assigned motif throughout reading Macbeth. Assigned at the beginning of the play and due at the end.

These worksheets provide work for three stations that relate to "A Modest Proposal" and satire. There is a version for both general and academic courses to be used before reading the text.

This can be used as an introduction to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe to annotate the first few paragraphs, focusing on mood and unreliable narrator.

Students choose three questions to answer which make a Tic-Tac-Toe win. They must use textual evidence to respond about the play itself and Shakespeare's plays in general.

A worksheet to be filled out while watching two TED Talks on speaking effectively and being a better listener.

Introductory activity using notes and Youtube videos to understand concepts of the voice.

This worksheet introduces a few rules of using quotation marks in writing and provides practice questions.

A slideshow that can be printed for students to work on qualifying their claims and in turn their thesis statements. This was used in an AP Language and Composition course for the beginning of an argumentative writing unit.

This document contains two graphic organizers/outlines for writing a compare and contrast essay, one for the Block Method and one for the Point-by-Point method.