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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.
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The Landlady Bundle
Teaching “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl? This short story bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 39-slide PowerPoint, 40 Mystery/Suspense Story Task Cards, and a 10-page exam test with answer key! Bundle is super sub friendly! Keep them learning - even when you’re not there.
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 thrilling short story.
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Task Cards
Teaching persuasion and modes of rhetoric? Make sure your students understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with these (40) engaging task cards. Common Core-aligned product includes (20) Q/A task cards with examples of each mode of rhetoric and (20) writing tasks where students will need to determine the best argumentation strategy. 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!
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Bundle
Teaching ethos, pathos, and logos? Teach, practice, and assess these important argumentative devices with the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice these rhetorical skills.
The Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 60 slides
Task Cards - 40 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.
Fun With Puns PowerPoint
Tickle your students’ funny bones as you teach the universal concept of puns with this engaging, interactive 50-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept of wordplay and has tons of humorous examples with kid-friendly pictures. Students will analyze the puns as they discuss or write out their double meaning. Your students will love this!!
Puns are everywhere in our society. Great for English Language Learners, too.
Southern Gothic Literature PowerPoint
Teaching Southern Gothic literature? This 31-slide PowerPoint is a perfect introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying, or Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Product includes information on the tropes of Southern Gothic literature, authors, themes, and engaging writing tasks incorporating this genre’s distinctive motifs.
The Elevator - Suspense Lesson PowerPoint
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint “The Elevator.” Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion.
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
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Annabel Lee Bundle
Teaching “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe? This 68-page product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 46-slide PowerPoint, 40 Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Task Cards, and a 11-page close reading 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 transfixed by this mystical poem.
This bundle is super sub friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!
Main Idea PowerPoint
Teaching how to identify the main or central idea of a text? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students this comprehensive, instructional 32-slide PowerPoint: “Finding the Main Idea.” Presentation addresses direct versus implied main ideas and how to identify each, with a focus on expository, nonfiction text.
Assess your students with a formative/summative review that will let you know their comprehension level. Easy for you - engaging for them!
The Raven PowerPoint
“Nevermore” has there been a more engaging PowerPoint for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Presentation hits Common Core objectives as students engage in building background, vocabulary review, deep thinking comprehension questions, and a culminating activity where students make their own symbol crest. PowerPoint contains built-in differentiation for remedial or ELL classes.* A perfect presentation for an upcoming evaluation as you and your students will perform like literary stars.
*Text in red shows differentiation for lower-level classes.
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.
Scattergories PowerPoint
Students love games, so combine word work into word fun with the Scattergories PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher!” Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 41-slide, no-prep product includes rules/directions for easy scoring.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find PowerPoint
Teaching Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”? This 31-slide PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned unit. Slides include background information on O’Connor, Southern gothic conventions, symbols, irony, discussion questions, and an engaging writing activity. Perfect for American or AP Literature.
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.
Cause and Effect PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching cause and effect? Students will automatically become better readers and writers if they understand cause and effect text structure. This comprehensive, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint will do the trick! Presentation addresses signal words, examples, and cause and effect textual practice as a formative assessment to check for comprehension. This is a perfect resource to use throughout the year or before any standardized reading or writing exam.
Text Features PowerPoint
Teaching text features? Ensure your students know the basics of this important literary skill with the 32-slide Text Features PowerPoint. Product includes the purposes of text features, (16) text features with visual examples, the N.E.A.T. Strategy, and a Check For Understanding Quiz. You and your students will love this!
Text Features Addressed in This Product:
Table of Contents
Index
Headings/Subheadings
Captions
Bold Words/Italics
Illustrations
Photographs
Glossary
Labels
Graphs/Table/Chart/Diagram
Maps
Sidebars
Bullet Points
Title
Inset
Footnote
Hamlet PowerPoint
Kick off Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a comprehensive, student-friendly 58-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.
Animal Farm PowerPoint
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.
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!