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Use these interactive daily bell work (bell ringer) presentations as vocabulary lessons for your 8-12th grade students. These words are found on SAT and ACT test prep lists and use different modes to teach students, including context clues, finding synonyms and antonyms, drawing pictures, matching and writing sentences. This bundle of Google Slides presentation has 11 upper-level vocabulary words per presentation--77 words total. The words in this presentation are: Set #8: aberration, clout, vi

This novel study and review activity for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert can be used in two ways: to help students look for important moments in the text as they read it for the first time, or as a whole-class review activity after everyone has finished reading the text. As a read-along Bingo activity: Students get a list of 44 moments from the text that may not be major plot points, but are essential for students to notice in order to understand characters and how they interact with each oth

This critical thinking activity for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert uses hexagons and hexagonal thinking to encourage students to draw new connections between characters, elements of plot, and elements of Flaubert's writing within the novel. Students will work with hexagons printed with information from the novel, information from the historical and social context surrounding the novel, and several other categories and draw conclusions about how those tidbits of information fit together. Th

Use this FREE! guide to annotating poetry with your students. This guide walks students through seven steps of poetry annotation from their first read and analysis of the title to writing an interpretation of the poem overall. This guide uses seven steps: 1. Analyze the title of the poem 2. Read the poem multiple times 3. Paraphrase and define tricky lines and words 4. Write a simple summary 5. Identify elements of language 6. Analyze structure 7. Make an interpretation This guide is appropriate

This FREE resource includes 4 plot diagrams: plot line onlyplot line with each part labeledplot line with each part labeled and definedplot line with quirky box shapes for students to fill inIf you're looking for a lesson to teach with these plot diagrams, check out: Writing Summary using The Devil & Tom Walker

Original and translated, modern lyrics to Auld Lang Syne in PDF form! This resource contains three different versions of Auld Lang Syne: 1. A single page with the original and translated lyrics 2. A single page with just the translated lyrics, centered on the page 3. A single page with just the translated lyrics, centered on the page, but aligned right. If you'd like a resource to use to teach the history and meaning of Auld Lang Syne to your students, please check out our lesson "Teaching Auld