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Mark Taylor is a professional writer, a TEA-certified teacher of grades EC-12, a college professor, a graphic designer, a composer, and an historian all rolled up into one guy! Before becoming an educator, Mark spent 20 years running his own marketing company, TaylorCreative. As a teacher of both elementary and middle school students and college undergraduates, Mark put his talents to work to make learning a little more hands-on to increase active cognitive engagement.
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Thirteen Colonies Map Set (4 pages + key)
Have your students label the original thirteen colonies and add notes, or draw symbols for a variety of economic, political and/or social details of each. This set includes an overview map of the entire 13 colonies and then an enlarged version of just the New England Colonies, just the Middle Colonies, and just the Southern Colonies. There's also a key included that labels them all, in case you want to put that up for the students to check their labels. There is lots of blank space around the co
5th - 11th
Government, Social Studies, U.S. History
WWI Project: Texans In The Great War Questions, Quiz, and Book Jacket Project
This is an all-in-one WWI package specifically designed to encourage higher order thinking! This PDF download includes the following: -Presentation slides about Texans in WWI -Biographies of famous Texans from WWI -Activity Instruction Sheet w/ project checklist -Question (short answer) page to go with the presentation slides and bios -Book Jacket project (students create a book jacket to go with one of the bios) -WWI quiz with easy-to-use "quick grade" answer key The bios and question/answer sh
4th - 11th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, U.S. History
Economic-Political-Social Posters for U.S. History & Government
Your students MUST know the difference between economic, political, and social reasons, causes, and effects. Why not help them learn to mark their warm-up questions and test questions by having them draw these simple symbols anytime they see something in a question that cues them to one of these areas? Keep these posters up all year, even right up on your white board. Project questions on the screen and show students how to use these symbols to mark their questions to help them engage with the c
5th - 11th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
Hot Date Posters for U.S. History
Display the six major dates that students need to remember for early U.S. History:
1607 (Jamestown), 1620 (Plymouth), 1776 (Declaration of Independence), 1787 (U.S. Constitution), 1803 (Louisiana Purchase), 1861-1865 (Civil War)
These colorful posters each have the date and the main reason students need to remember that date so they can see it all year and be reminded every single day.
There are six different posters, each 13x19. You can print them out in color on card stock at your local co
5th - 11th
Government, Social Studies, U.S. History
Sentence Fragments — Mastery Check
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This short passage about the invention of filmmaking includes seven sentence fragments. It's an ideal way to find out if students can really identify a sentence fragment in a passage.
The mastery check is mounted 2-up on an 8.5x11 page to save on copies. Answer key is included.
4th - 10th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing
Key Events of the American Revolution (Beginning, Middle, End) Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer—Help your students remember the key events at the beginning, middle, and end of the American Revolution. This single page note sheet gives them lines to fill in details about the Battles of Lexington & Concord, The Battle of Saratoga, The Winter at Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, and the Treaty of Paris (1883). Each event features space to write key people, dates, and other details.
This PDF includes a color version, black and white version, a blank black and white vers
5th - 11th
Other (Social Studies), Social Studies, U.S. History
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About the store
Experience
Mark Taylor is a professional writer, a TEA-certified teacher of grades EC-12, a college professor, a graphic designer, a composer, and an historian all rolled up into one guy! Before becoming an educator, Mark spent 20 years running his own marketing company, TaylorCreative. As a teacher of both elementary and middle school students and college undergraduates, Mark put his talents to work to make learning a little more hands-on to increase active cognitive engagement.
Teaching style
Hands-on; active; lots of student collaboration
Awards & shining teacher moments
Numerous awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, Communicator Awards, Telly Awards, Silver Quill Awards and more.
My own education history
B.S. in Ag Journalism, Texas A&M University
M.S. in Ag Education/Adult Education, Texas A&M University
Doctoral Studies in Educational Human Resource Development, Texas A&M University
Additional graduate studies in literature, Texas A&M University
Additional graduate studies in music, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Additional biographical information
Mark Taylor grew up on a farm in the small, farming community of Webberville, Texas, on the outskirts of Austin. After graduating from Texas A&M University, Mark work in radio for five years as a station manager for KAGC radio in Bryan, Texas and as a reporter/studio engineer for the USA Radio Network in Carrollton, Texas. His marketing background includes marketing director positions for two manufacturers, communications director for a school district, and his own experience as a self-employed marketing consultant and free lance writer. He lives in College Station, Texas with his wife, Beverly, who is also a career educator. He currently teaches Texas History for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. He is also a part-time instructor for Blinn College.
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