Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Elevate your class with an amazing Romeo and Juliet Gallery Walk, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 16-page ready-to-go lesson incorporates everything you need, including Gallery Walk Guidelines, (12) Eye-Catching Gallery Walk Posters with significant quotations, Note Catcher, and a comprehensive answer key for a formative/summative assessment.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans! Common Core-aligned.
Seven Benefits of the Gallery Walk:
Gallery Walks enhance critical thinking and collaboration.
Gallery Walks improve speaking and listening skills.
Gallery Walks increase student engagement and motivation.
Gallery Walks enhance reading comprehension
Gallery Walks encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
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Teaching William Golding’s Lord of the Flies? Elevate your class with an amazing Lord of the Flies Gallery Walk, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 16-page ready-to-go lesson incorporates everything you need, including Gallery Walk Guidelines, (12) Eye-Catching Gallery Walk Posters with significant quotations, Note Catcher, and a comprehensive answer key for a formative/summative assessment.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans! Common Core-aligned.
Seven Benefits of the Gallery Walk:
Gallery Walks enhance critical thinking and collaboration.
Gallery Walks improve speaking and listening skills.
Gallery Walks increase student engagement and motivation.
Gallery Walks enhance reading comprehension
Gallery Walks encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Gallery Walks build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”? This 38-slide all-inclusive Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 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!
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Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”? Elevate your class with an amazing “The Raven” Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 15-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including the complete text, text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”? Elevate your class with an amazing “The Tell-Tale Heart” Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 13-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including the complete text, text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee”? Elevate your class with an amazing Annabel Lee Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 12-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including full text, specific text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Elevate your class with an amazing Macbeth Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 22-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including relevant play excerpts, text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Elevate your class with an amazing Hamlet Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 12-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including the “To Be, Or Not To Be” Soliloquy, specific text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Elevate your class with an amazing Romeo and Juliet Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 16-page ready-to-go Socratic Seminar packet incorporates everything you need, including the Balcony Scene, text-dependent seminar questions, student guidelines, Socratic Seminar Tips and Tricks, annotation symbols guide, note-taking/talking points guide, reflective writing questions, and student rubric.
Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans!
Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar:
Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking.
Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills.
Socratic Seminars increase student engagement.
Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension
Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy.
Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.
Teaching Poe’s “The Black Cat?” Kick off this suspenseful classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 38-slide The Black Cat PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Edgar Allan Poe, anticipatory questions, themes, vocabulary, symbols, discussion questions/answers, and writing challenge. This product is Common Core-aligned and perfect for an upcoming evaluation.
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe or gothic literature? This comprehensive 40-slide PowerPoint on Poe’s poem “The Haunted Palace” is all you need for a perfect lesson that can last 2-5 days. Product includes background information on Poe, gothicism, complete text, discussion questions (and answers), TPCASTT analysis, and student writing challenge.
Teaching Langston Hughes’ “Dreams”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Dreams 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.
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 Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “We Real Cool” TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 28 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 William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” or gothic poetry? This comprehensive 36-slide PowerPoint on Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose” is all you need for a perfect lesson that can last several days. Product includes background information on Blake, gothicism, complete text, discussion questions (and answers), TPCASTT analysis, and student writing challenge for a formative/summative assessment.
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 John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl? This engaging, student-friendly 33-slide PowerPoint will carry your students through the entire unit with informative facts on Steinbeck, themes, symbols, character descriptions, parable/allegory analysis, discussion questions on each chapter, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Teaching Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with “The Cask of Amontillado” Assessment Test. Close-read questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the author’s style of suspense, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key and full text included. Perfect for EOC or semester exam. 14-pages.
Full text and answer key included.
Teaching rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, and logos? Hold your students accountable with the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Rhetorical Appeals Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in identifying rhetorical devices, an important ELA argumentative literary skill. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or department and is super sub-friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!
About Assessments:
Assessment is the engine that drives student learning! Frequent assessment and feedback are crucial for helping students learn. When assessment works best, it does the following:
• Provides diagnostic feedback
• Helps educators set standards
• Evaluates progress
• Relates to a student’s progress
• Motivates performance
• Helps teachers and students self-evaluate
Tip: Save trees and time! Make one class set of the tests and have students use a multiple choice answer sheet that can be scanned.
Happy Assessing!
Teaching sequencing in reading and writing? This is a literacy skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are test-ready with this comprehensive, interactive 35-slide Sequencing PowerPoint that includes sequencing signal words, examples, multiple checks for understanding, and a sequencing writing opportunity for a complete lesson. Easy for you - engaging for them!