Teaching Homer’s The Odyssey need not be an “epic” challenge with this comprehensive, student-friendly 72-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes informative facts on Homer, epic conventions, themes, symbols, scenes from film adaptations, character descriptions, and rigorous Common Core aligned essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.
You and your students will love this!
Teaching Antigone, Oedipus, or Medea? Kick off your Ancient Greek Theater unit with this comprehensive 32-slide PowerPoint. Product addresses important information and concepts such as the Greek playwrights, Chorus, masks and costumes, Aristotle’s Poetics, dramatic terms (hubris, catharsis, hamartia) and Fun Ancient Greek Theater Facts to hook your students.
Kick off Shakespeare’s Macbeth with a comprehensive, student-friendly 62-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in this classic tragedy. Common-Core aligned product includes informative facts on Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, character descriptions, quotations, symbols, theme, and deep-thinking essay questions. Presentation will last the entire unit.
Teaching sequencing as a literacy and reading comprehension skills? Teach, practice, and assess this important concept with the 75-page Sequencing Bundle for everything you need.
This Common Core-aligned Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 35 slides
Task Cards - 30 Task Cards
Assessment - 30-question test with answer key
Here’s how it works:
You TEACH the skill with an easy-to-understand, comprehensive instructional PowerPoint.
Students PRACTICE the skill as they review the content with high yield Task Cards that generate active engagement.
You ASSESS the skill with a Common Core-aligned assessment that will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic.
Teaching George Orwell’s Animal Farm? This 40-slide all-inclusive Animal Farm PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned unit. Slide deck includes author information on Orwell, anticipation questions, allegorical background, craft/structure, rigorous discussion questions/answers that reflect depth of knowledge, and engaging writing activities.
Teaching Langston Hughes’ “Madam and the Rent Man”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Madam and the Rent Man TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 30 slides including complete text, text dependent-questions, writing challenge, and in-depth step-by-step instructions of the TPCASTT analysis protocol that supports students’ response to poetry, specifically - title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude/tone, shift, title (revisited), and theme. This research-based, best practice will ensure your students grasp the important concepts of poetry while amplifying their literary analytical skills.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Sonnet 134 TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 27 slides including complete text, text dependent-questions, writing challenge, and in-depth step-by-step instructions of the TPCASTT analysis protocol that supports students’ response to poetry, specifically - title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude/tone, shift, title (revisited), and theme. This research-based, best practice will ensure your students grasp the important concepts of poetry while amplifying their literary analytical skills.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching poetry? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the Poetry PowerPoint Bundle (Over 150 slides). This no-prep, ready-to-teach unit includes (5) exemplary PowerPoint lessons on the following:
Edgar Allan Poe - The Haunted Palace
Langston Hughes - Dreams
Langston Hughes - Madam and the Rent Man
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 134
Each PowerPoint is grounded in the TPCASTT analysis protocol that supports students’ response to poetry, specifically - title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude/tone, shift, title (revisited), and theme. This research-based, best practice will ensure your students grasp the important concepts of poetry while amplifying their literary analytical skills.
Teaching Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”? This 30-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Frost, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion questions, and engaging writing activities. Your students will be making real life connections to this classic poem as they practice their literary analysis skills. Easy for you - engaging for them!
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Teaching Emily Dickinson and her poetry? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Emily Dickinson Poetry PowerPoint Bundle.
Product includes 100 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions/answers, and writing challenge and complete lessons on the following poems:
“Hope Is a Thing With Feathers”
“Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 23 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, vocabulary, symbols, theme, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions/answers, and writing challenge.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching topic, theme, and thesis? Demystify these easily confused literary concepts with this informative, student-friendly 27-Slide PowerPoint.
Presentation provides definitions, literary examples, and a tried and true formula for writing a literary thesis statement that ANY student can understand.
Before you know it, your students will be T.T.T. certified and ready to analyze any work of literature.
Teaching Lord of the Flies? Kick off this riveting classic about good versus evil with a comprehensive, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on William Golding, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and captivating scenes from film adaptations.
Presentation will last for the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities that are sure to foster rich discussion and debate.
Idioms are everywhere! Teach the universal concept of idioms with this engaging, interactive 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept with humorous examples and kid-friendly pictures. Check for understanding as your students analyze popular idioms, write sentences, and illustrate both the literal and figurative meaning.
Great for English Learning students, too!!
Kids love Halloween! Amp up the chills and thrills factor with the Halloween Haiku PowerPoint as students learn to brainstorm, write, and edit poetry. Product includes 30 slides on the background of haikus, fun Halloween facts, the haiku structure, Halloween haiku writing tips, examples, editing techniques, and tasks. You and your students will love this!
This Common Core-aligned lesson is perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching fact and opinion? Help your students reach proficiency with the interactive, instructional 21-slide PowerPoint: “Fact and Opinion.” Presentation addresses each concept along with important signal words to look for on standardized tests. Assess your students with a formative/summative review that will let you know their comprehension level. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Teaching theme? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with (40) Fable Theme Task Cards. Student can read the fun, pithy fables and analyze the theme in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. An effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Answer key included.
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching characterization? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Characterization Task Cards where traits are revealed through S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, and Looks). Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly.
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? This literary bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 33-slide PowerPoint, Scrooge’ Diary 6-Traits Writing Assignment, and a 9-page exam test with answer key!
Each product is aligned to Common Core reading and writing standards, so that you can be assured your students are learning as they are charmed by this Dickensian classic.
Teaching O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this unit test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.