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The Landlady by Roald Dahl Assessment Test
Teaching Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this 10-page 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.
Shakespeare Sonnet 130 PowerPoint
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? This 30-slide PowerPoint is all you need for a comprehensive, all-inclusive lesson. Product includes background information on Shakespeare, the sonnet form and structure, Petrarchan conventions, satirical thematic message, discussion questions, and writing activity. You will love this product and so will your students!
Perfect for an upcoming evolution and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint
Kick off your literature class with The Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint (40 Slides) based on Christopher Booker’s renowned book used in college classrooms across the country. Product addresses each plot archetype with the meta-plot, examples from literature, and summary. Plot archetypes include the following:
1 - Overcoming the Monster
2 - Rags to Riches
3 - The Quest
4 - Voyage and Return
5 - Comedy
6 - Tragedy
7 - Rebirth
Your students will be discussing and writing about literature like college professors in no time! Perfect for an introduction to AP English or American/English literature, this is the reference no serious English teacher should be without!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PowerPoint
Teaching Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Mark Twain, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Fables and Theme PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching theme? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with Identifying Theme With Fables PowerPoint. This 32-slide product features characteristics of fables, theme, guided practice with ten of Aesop’s fables, and a “Your Turn” writing activity. Answers included for a formative/summative assessment and instructional progress monitoring.
Flowers for Algernon PowerPoint
Teaching “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes? Introduce the riveting short story with this engaging 50-slide PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product includes facts on Daniel Keyes, anticipation questions, vocabulary review, literary elements, discussion questions, and writing activities that enhance analysis of this thematically rich text.
Antigone PowerPoint
Teaching Antigone? Introduce this archetypal Greek tragedy with a comprehensive, engaging 38-slide PowerPoint. Product includes informative facts on Sophocles, Ancient Greek theater, the dramatic structure, characters, setting, themes, and Common Core aligned text-dependent discussion questions. You and your students will love this!
Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint
Teaching the Unreliable Narrator as a plot device? Turn your students into literary scholars with this comprehensive 54-slide Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses types of unreliable narrators, literary tropes, feminism theory of the unreliable narrator, and a direct instruction activity with Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
The Pearl PowerPoint
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.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening PowerPoint
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!
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint
Teaching how to write a thesis to students? It can be daunting - but with the How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint, you have everything you need for an exemplary lesson! Common Core-aligned Product includes 34 slides on what makes a strong thesis statement, steps for writing a thesis statement, tips and tricks, multiple CFU’s (Checks for Understanding), and a Bridge to Practice Formative Assessment. Your students will be ready to get their research on in no time!
The Crucible PowerPoint
Teaching Arthur Miller’s The Crucible? This 43-slide The Crucible PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned unit. Slide deck includes author information on Arthur Miller, anticipation questions, historical background on the Salem Witch Trials, craft/structure analysis, and rigorous discussion questions/answers that reflect depth of knowledge.
The Sick Rose by William Blake PowerPoint
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.
Dreams by Langston Hughes PowerPoint Lesson
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.
I'm Nobody! Who Are You? PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who Are You”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 24 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, satire, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions, and writing challenge.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! PowerPoint
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 27 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, 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!
Scrooge's Diary - A Christmas Carol
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension and writing with A Christmas Carol: Scrooge’s Diary Assignment. Product includes a rigorous, engaging assignment where students write from the perspective a Scrooge after his spiritual transformation. The fun challenge is students must include (10) words from Victorian England (list included). Product also includes a ready-to-go writing rubric and self-editing checklist based on the research-based Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions. Perfect for a summative assessment yet fun enough for the holidays!
A Christmas Carol Test
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills no this classic with A Christmas Carol Final Exam Test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.
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Foreshadowing and Flashback Bundle
Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Teach, practice, and assess this important narrative device with the Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice close reading using classic and contemporary literary passages.
The Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 32 slides
Task Cards - 32 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.
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The Lottery Bundle
Teaching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”? This short story bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. “The Lottery Short Story Bundle” includes a 31-slide PowerPoint, (40) Mystery and Suspense Task Cards, and a 17-page exam test with full text and 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 transfixed by this poignant short story on blind conformity.