Teaching While Catfeinated
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I've been working in the classroom for nearly twelve years. I started out as a Teaching Assistant to my favourite English teacher, when I was sixteen, and then immediately began working as a substitute teacher while I worked toward my degrees in English-American Literature and Secondary English Education. Once I earned my BA, in 2013, I began teaching full time at the High School level.
I took a year off to emmigrate to the United Kingdom, and I am currently working in England at the Middle School level.
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Discussion Guide
Designed as a teacher's guide for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot. Complete with a teacher's guide and a student's guide.
11th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
Author's Style Checklist
A 1-sheet handout designed to help students break down the different elements that make up author's style. Students can use this sheet to help formulate responses for any question pertaining to author's style.
8th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories
Eve's Apology: Class Discussion
A complete breakdown of the popular excerpt of Aemilia Lanyer's poem "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" designed for teachers who are not familiar with the poem. This focuses on a class discussion, requiring students to prepare by reading the excerpt on their own & answering questions, taking notes during the discussion, and then summarizing their analysis of the poem based on information shared in class.
Ethos, pathos, and logos play a minor role in this lesson, so it can easily be assigned
12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
CCSS
RL.11-12.1
, RL.11-12.4
, CCRA.SL.1
 +1
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" Class Discussion
A student hand out and teacher's guide for "To My Dear and Loving Husband" designed to help students read poetry that seems difficult at a glance, and to guide teachers who haven't taught the poem before (or want to do something a little different!).
11th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
The Great Gatsby: Questions for Consideration
Four powerful, complex questions designed to give students the opportunity to connect The Great Gatsby to the era in which it was written as well as the literary conventions of the time.
This is originally part of a supplementary materials packet that I give to my students at the beginning of our Modernism/Gatsby unit so that they can refer to the questions throughout the unit. It was designed to work towards the end goal of our writing unit: a comparison analysis between the novel and the stu
11th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Writing
Epics Comparison Essay rubric
Rubric and step-by-step breakdown of how to complete a cross-media analysis essay for 9th graders using the traditional qualities of epics and _The Odyssey_ in tandem with a modern movie that follows the same basic format.
In addition to the grading criteria, students are walked through pre-writing, outlining, and reviewing.
It's recommended that students be given notes on the traditional qualities of an epic as an extra resource
8th - 9th
English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays
CCSS
CCRA.W.1
, CCRA.W.4
, CCRA.W.5
 +3
Strange Fruit Reading Guide
Analyze Billie Holiday's song, Strange Fruit as a way to give some extra historical context to some modernist literature such as Of Mice and Men. This one-off lesson can take 50-100 minutes, depending on how much time you give your students to work independently. The song comes with an instructor's guide which gives some basic analysis and prompts to get you started in a classroom dialogue about the themes and ideas. The questions on the student version will help your students begin thinking
9th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
CCSS
RL.11-12.1
, RL.11-12.2
, RL.11-12.3
 +3
Invictus Class Discussion Guide
A brief overview of William Ernest Henley's "Invictus" complete with a student hand out, comprehension questions, teacher's discussion guide, and common core standards.
12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
How to Read a Poem
This guide will give students step-by-step instructions for how to read a poem. It includes guiding questions, things to look out for, suggestions for things to make notes on and take note of, and reminders to look for literary devices that may help students understand what they are reading.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
Shakespeare's Language Made Easy
A quick worksheet that guides students through Early Modern English. The worksheet gives students the ability to familiarize themselves with EModE by having them read and translate a segment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Page 2 of the worksheet gives students a few tips and tricks for tackling Shakespeare's language.
9th - 12th
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
RL.9-10.9
, RL.11-12.4
, RL.11-12.10
 +3
Electronic Book Presentation
A project for which students apply literary elements such as characterization, plot, and figurative/literal language to a fiction novel they have read. Designed to help students become familiar with electronic presentation formats such as Prezi or PowerPoint, and good for building an expectation of speaking in front of the class.
Includes a grading rubric which is excellent for knocking out grading while students are presenting.
7th - 10th
English Language Arts
Lesson Plan Builder (printable copy)
This .pdf contains easy to use templates to guide you through Marzano's Design questions 1, 2, 3, and 4. It can be used to break down each lesson, or a week of curriculum and includes:
- easy to project/poster-ize learning goal & week calendar for design question 1
- learning goal chart for teacher and student use
- design question 2 and 3 charts
- design question 4 templates
You can alternatively purchase the .docx which includes textboxes for editing in Microsoft Word - https://www.teachers
6th - 12th
English Language Arts
Yeats' Second Coming: Class Discussion
A complete breakdown of the W.B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" designed for teachers who are not familiar with the poem. This focuses on a class discussion, requiring students to prepare by reading the poem, taking notes during the discussion, and then summarizing their analysis of the poem based on information shared in class.
11th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
Weekly Vocabulary (GLEA)
GLEA: Greek Root, Latin Phrase, Eponym & Allusion.
This assignment is a fantastic way to improve your students' foundation vocabulary and literary knowledge as well as their research skills on a weekly basis. The rubric provides an example of a completed GLEA, and answers the inevitable, "What if I'm absent?" question.
This is a great addition to an interactive notebook or binder.
8th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Vocabulary
CCSS
CCRA.L.4
, CCRA.L.5
, CCRA.L.6
"Rebecca" Discussion Questions
A selection of questions for Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" designed to be preparation for a Socratic seminar.
12th
English Language Arts, Literature
Richard Corey Class Discussion Guide
A handout for students, and a reference sheet for teachers. Includes questions to ask while reading with the class, and a short activity helping students break down the poem on their own.
9th - 12th
English Language Arts
Research Project Presentation Rubric
Used to grade students on presenting topic of a research paper.
11th - 12th
English Language Arts
The Great Gatsby Reading Journal
Originally designed as part of a supplementary hand outs packet for the Modernist unit I teach, this handout provides a "deeper thinking" alternative to comprehension quizzes for the chapters in The Great Gatsby.
In addition to the rubric, there is a handout which you can give to students as part of differentiated instruction. I have found this to be particularly useful for students who struggle to organize their work, and higher level ESOL students.
11th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature
Hands (Sherwood Anderson) Discussion Questions
A collection of questions designed to help students work through the short story "Hands" by Sherwood Anderson. This can be used as a comprehension guide, a preparation for a Socratic Seminar for your students who have a hard time developing their own questions for class discussions, or even a guide for a Jigsaw-esque activity, if you set the students in groups and have them work together to answer the each set of questions.
11th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories
Active Reading Bookmark
Cut this paper in half and give it to your students so that they always have a series of simple questions that will help them understand and interact with their text.
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading
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About the store
Experience
I've been working in the classroom for nearly twelve years. I started out as a Teaching Assistant to my favourite English teacher, when I was sixteen, and then immediately began working as a substitute teacher while I worked toward my degrees in English-American Literature and Secondary English Education. Once I earned my BA, in 2013, I began teaching full time at the High School level.
I took a year off to emmigrate to the United Kingdom, and I am currently working in England at the Middle School level.
Teaching style
Reciprocal, student based learning, & Socratic instruction, outlined w/ Marzano Domain 1.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Consistently awarded Highly Effective according to Marzano evaluations.
My own education history
Alumna of University of South Florida
Additional biographical information
Teaching While Catfeinated was started as an excuse to polish up some of my existing lesson plans, and to make a bit of extra money during my move from the US to the UK.
I miss the American curriculum a great deal, and use TWC as my excuse to percolate new ideas for literature not on the UK curriculum, and not suitable for the age group I'm currently teaching.
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