Much Ado About Learning

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'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

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