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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!
Ethos Logos Pathos PowerPoint
Teaching argumentation and persuasive rhetoric? Make sure your student understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with this comprehensive 60-slide PowerPoint.
Common Core-aligned product provides information on each mode of rhetoric with definition, examples, and the effect on audience along with a formative assessment and engaging student writing tasks.
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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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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.
Department Meeting PowerPoint
Holding a department meeting but not sure where to start? The 24-slide Department Meeting PowerPoint is all you need to facilitate a productive and engaging meeting that will impress both your administrators and colleagues. Product includes agenda, norms, roles, goals, ice-breaker, best practice/article study, students of concern and commendation, student work task analysis, PD opportunities, and teacher spotlight. Just fill in with your own particulars and you’ll be showcasing your leadership skills in no time!
Irony PowerPoint
Teaching the concept of irony? Help your students understand this literary device with the 30-slide PowerPoint: Isn’t It Ironic? Presentation addresses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony with examples and kid-friendly pictures. Students will have an opportunity to show what they have learned as they analyze Shel Silverstein’s ironic poem, “Smart.” A wonderful review for standardized test prep. You and your students will love this!
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!
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!
Foreshadowing and Flashback PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Ensure that your students understand these two important narrative devices with a comprehensive 32-slide Foreshadowing and Flashback PowerPoint. Product includes definitions, examples using classic and contemporary literary passages, interactive answers, and an opportunity to write their own foreshadowing/flashback paragraphs as a formative/summative assessment.
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Best Practice Professional Development Bundle
Leading Professional Development? Teaching adult learners? This 125-slide Best Practice Professional Development Bundle includes three comprehensive Optimal Learning PowerPoints:
Best Practice Strategies and Activities Featuring Marzano’s Nine
Differentiation
Formative and Summative Assessments
Product includes Teaching Tips, Practical Classroom Ideas, and Problems of Practice Assessments. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint
Students love brain teasers, so combine word work into word fun with the Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking skills. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 52-slide product includes rules/directions and answer key slides.
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.
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.
Questioning Students PowerPoint
Do you coach, lead, or inspire teachers? Research shows that Questioning is the foundation to optimal instruction. Now you can help teachers polish their questioning skills and techniques with the Questioning Strategies to Engage Students PD PowerPoint. Product includes 38-slide PowerPoint that address research-based strategies, Checks for Understanding, Questioning Stem Bank, Questioning Strategies, and a teacher deliverable. You and your teachers will love this classroom-changing tool.
Perfect for administration, department heads, and instructional coaches!
Brain Break Bank PowerPoint
Every brain needs a Brain Break! Now you can have a bank of Movement and Silent Brain Breaks at your finger tips with the 55-Slide Brain Break Bank PowerPoint - including a Dance Party, Would You Rather, Human Knot, Snowball Fight, and Invisible Ball Toss. Perfect for grades 5-12.
Best practice research shows giving students Brain Breaks can:
Increase creativity
Improve mood and motivation
Restore energy and support learning
Reduce boredom, stress, anxiety
Help kids focus and be more productive
Ancient Greek Theater PowerPoint
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.
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.
Socratic Seminar PowerPoint
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.
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.