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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Elevate your class with an amazing Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 36-slide Socratic Seminar PowerPoint has everything you need including text ideas for each content area, best practice tips and tricks, Before/During/After the Seminar, and model seminar questions.
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 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”? This product is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned week-long unit. “The Cask of Amontillado Short Story Bundle” includes a 37-slide PowerPoint, a 14-page test with full-text and answer key, (40) Edgar Allen Poe Task Cards and a 30-slide PowerPoint on Irony, which will help support craft and structure comprehension.
Each product is aligned to Common Core reading and writing standards, so that you can be assured your students are learning as they are transfixed by this classic short story of revenge and suspense.
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.
Research shows that student feedback is essential to the learning process! With an effect size of .79, the practice of giving students feedback enhances successful learning through all phases of instruction.
With the Student Feedback Jumbo Bundle, you and your team will have everything you need to leverage student feedback for optimal growth! 200-slide Product includes:
The Art of Giving Student Feedback PowerPoint
The Art of the Student Data Chat PowerPoint
Formative and Summative Assessments PowerPoint
(100) Exit Tickets PowerPoint
Improve your practice of giving quality feedback, and watch your student growth grow exponentially. Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!
If you are a teacher who wants to see growth, student data chats are essential! With The Art of the Student Data Chat PowerPoint, it couldn’t be more simple or effective. This (29) slide product has everything you need including research facts, tips and tricks, materials, step-by-step guide, data wall inspo., and (10) data chat discussion slides to help you facilitate effective and inspiring data chats with your students. You and your students will love this academic game changer! Need to get your colleagues on the same page? Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!
Five Benefits to Facilitating Student Data Chats:
Data chats help students learn to take ownership of their own progress and set appropriate goals.
Students who participate in data chats show marked increased levels of motivation.
Students who engage in data chats learn to organize information and graphically represent the information.
Students who engage in data chats share a common language with their teacher and peers.
Students who consistently track their performance through data chats are better informed about how they’re doing, hold themselves accountable to do better, and prove to be more confident learners.
Research shows that student feedback is one of the most important parts of the learning process! With an effect size of .79, the practice of giving students feedback enhances successful learning through all phases of instruction. But we all know that not all feedback is effective…
The Art if Giving Student Feedback PowerPoint (34 Slides), you and your team can learn about The Feedback Four, Formative/Summative Feedback, the Compliment Sandwich, Feedback Stems, Giving Feedback Tips and Tricks, and practice with “Your Turn” Real-Classroom scenarios.
Improve your practice of giving quality feedback, and watch your student growth grow exponetially. Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!