Much Ado About Learning

Banned Book Week is rapidly approaching and this is your go-to bundle for teaching censorship, propaganda, and first amendment rights! This bundle includes: Complete Classroom Display 2 Posters 1 Handout Multiple Classroom Activity Ideas Censorship Debate Resources Censorship Debate Grading Rubric Don't let Banned Book Week go by without taking the opportunity to educate your students on their freedom to read and the role of censorship in the United States! Adaptable to any grade level!

If you're looking for a short unit that's perfect for Halloween, look no further! This product teaches students about the long oral tradition of story telling, and looks specifically at prominent urban legends. This product will guide your students through the process of reading & understanding urban legends & cautionary tales, evaluating a story for credibility, & writing a spooky tale of their own! It is completely editable, making it easy to adapt for a variety of uses. It includes: -Back

If you teach The Great Gatsby then you have to try this 31 page notebook! It is built to align with common core standards & guide students through a thorough understanding of the novel. From reader response to a psychoanalytic approach, this resource goes in-depth and is built to enable student-driven ideas & analysis. It includes: *Novel Specific Vocabulary, Definitions, & Exercises *Information about key Figurative Language, Symbols, & Motifs *Background information on author & historical pe

If your students would benefit from a quick and easy guide to grammar, look no further! Grab this FREE and colorful grammar cheat sheet for your students to keep as a quick reference for their grammar and punctuation questions! Includes: Parts of Speech Sentences Parts Comma Rules Clauses & Sentence Types Common Punctuation (hyphen, semi-colon, colon, dash, quotation marks, Capitalization & Italics) 8-uses for comma

Are you struggling to get your students thinking about setting, mood, tone, & diction as they write their stories? Do your students rely too heavily on outlandish plots with little thought towards good writing? This writing bundle is designed to help students develop all the elements of a good story before they start writing! It will help them develop characters, diction, theme, & mood before they ever begin writing. It includes: Worksheets for theme, mood, diction, (including connotat

If you're looking for a way for your students to maintain student choice in reading while teaching and reinforcing literary analysis skills, this product is for you! It can be a struggle to allow students to read a book of their choice, while still providing whole-class instruction on analysis & reflection. This product attempts to solve this common dilemma! I created this product to blend traditional literary analysis skills together with the principles of good reading instruction outlined in

This is quite possibly my favorite assignment of the year (and honestly, my students love it too!). If you're looking for a way to increase student engagement with Beowulf this is the assignment for you! It engages students, helps them relate to Anglo-Saxon culture, and gets them excited to read the rest of the poem. I have students write their own boast (in Anglo-Saxon style) and perform it for the class. This product includes a brief overview of boasting and how it was used in Anglo-Saxon cul

These could be used as handouts or divided and used as task cards for literacy stations! Designed to accompany any novel, these reading activities will help your students activate prior knowledge, identify unfamiliar vocabulary words, infer, and summarize. This resource is not editable.

We're all striving to get our students to evaluate their own writing and learn to identify and correct errors on their own. But often, we ask them to edit without giving them a specific purpose, which leaves them flailing. We're lucky if they identify their spelling errors! Using these Editing Task Cards gives students a purpose! You can use them as stations that students rotate through, or hand them out as task cards for individual students! But they will help any writer edit with purpose & int

Use this exciting and fun project to help students understand that poetry is broad and takes on many forms! Here students get to pick an "unlikely" poet and learn research, writing, creative, and analytical skills. Includes introductory PowerPoint, Project Requirements handout, Essay Rubric, and Vocabulary. Great to use in any poetry unit!

A growth mindset is about growth, so we can't visit it once and then neglect it for the rest of the year! If you've purchased my 7 Habits & Growth Mindset bundle, you won't want to miss these follow-up worksheets, which ask students to revisit their goals & their personal mission statement. Add on includes: *Personal Goals Follow Up WS *Academic Goals Follow Up WS *Personal Mission Statement Follow Up WS

Use this PowerPoint to introduce students to the historical and literary background of Beowulf. Includes photos, text, and vocabulary specific to Old English Poetry.