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Practice sentences differentiating between action and linking verbs and identifying full verb phrases with helping verbs.

Intro Powerpoint for the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, including info dealing with masculinity issues.

Need something to guide your students' reading through the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz? This running table of chapter reading logs requires students to find an issue of masculinity and/or male friendship and find an allusion in each chapter as they read, as well as create deep-thinking discussion questions for each chapter after reading.

I offer my students "Outside Learning Opportunities" as extra credit, and they're options for attending events or watching/listening to programs that have educational/critical thinking value. A student chooses an option to attend, watch, or listen to and writes a reflection (not a summary). There are also non-writing options that involve recording themselves participating in one of the creative options. A list of options/suggestions is provided.

This is a list of texts (online print and audio/visual) from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own words and those of scholars and journalists showing that King was much more than cherry-picked quotes from his "I Have a Dream" speech or a sanitized version of the man often misrepresented today. These texts show King to be a radical whose thoughts on class, labor, social unrest, capitalism, reparations, and militarism have been whitewashed since his death and his legacy co-opted for political and cor

After years of repeatedly correcting the same cosmetic issues in formal writing assignments over and over, I compiled a checklist for my classes. Students then know that if they're unable to check off all of the items on this list before submitting written work, they don't have A work.

Questions for essay test responses for Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. These are for teachers who want to see students' abilities to write analytically about the reading. Included are also directions for students when taking an essay response test. These questions are divided up between the first half of the play and the rest of it, and the questions can also be used to supplement an exam with multiple choice and/or short answer questions or for formal essay prompts.

These are five essay prompts for Ch. 1-4 and six essay prompts for the rest of the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao if you're looking to have essay responses for a test/exam.

This is an intro PowerPoint for the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. It contains author background and what influenced the novel.