- Their Eyes Were Watching God Unit Plan
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Handouts
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocabulary
- Read Like a Writer.docx
- I remember my mother calling my name.docx
- Calvin and Hobbes Group Work 1
- Checklist Literary Style
- Imagine by John Lennon
Music Lyrics - Objective Point of View
Poster - Question Types 1
Poster - Question Types 2
Poster - Question Types 3
Poster - Question Types 4
Poster - Types of Point of View
Overhead - Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
Music Lyrics - Yes, Looks Do Matter
- 2009 - 2010 Disclosure Document
- Calvin and Hobbes Group Work 2
- Active and Passive Voice
Blue Sheet - Convert the Following from Passive to Active
Exercise - Don't Be Passive
- Pronoun Antecedent Exercise 1
- Pronoun Antecedent Exercise 2
- Pronoun Antecedent Exercise 3
- Pronoun Antecedent Rules
Blue Sheet - Relative Pronouns - All You Need to Know
Blue Sheet - Relative Pronouns Exercise
- Dealing with Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-On Sentences
Blue Sheet - Clauses - Taking Away the Mystery
Blue Sheet - Parentheses, Colons, and Dashes Overhead
- Parentheses, Colons, and Dashes
Blue Sheet - Comma Usage With Dependent Clauses
- Commas After Introductions
Blue Sheet - Commas and Dependent Clauses Exercise
- Introductory Comma Worksheet 1
- Introductory Comma Worksheet 2
- Introductory Comma Worksheet 3
- Study Guide for Quiz on Introductory Phrases, Clauses, and Commas
- Sentence Combining Exercise 1
- SENTENCE COMBINING
- Combining Sentences for Variety and Clarity
Blue Sheet - Using Modifiers Exercise
- The Modifier
Blue Sheet - Subject Verb Overheads 2
- Subject Verb Overheads 1
- Pronoun Reference Exercise 1
- Beginner Crochet Block
- How to Garnish
- How to Write a Really Bad Essay
- Learn to Moonwalk like Michael Jackson
- How to Carve a Turkey
- Cat Bathing as a Martial Art
- Washing the Cat
- How to Look like a Zombie
- The Poet
Poem - Selecting a Reader
Poem - Introduction to Poetry
Poem - Don't Be Afraid
Poem - American Transcendentalism
Use when getting into Thoreau, Emerson, et al. - Archetypal Hero Similarities
Use to show hero's journey taken by various different characters: Moses, King Arthur, Simba, William Wallace, Luke Skywalker - Art from the Harlem Renaissance
I use this to show how much of the art from the Harlem Renaissance also reflects the genres of music and dance. - BBBreak it Down
Use this to teach analysis and synthesis of various genres, ie., photography and art. - Beowulf and Old English
- Beowulf Translations
- Body Biography Examples
I give this as an assignment or sometimes a test - these examples are for my students so they know what I am looking for (Thanks to EC Ning, where I got the pictures.) - Byronic Hero
Use with the Hero's Quest - Celebrity Pitches
I use the example of Michael Phelps and Wheaties/Corn Flakes and Cybil Shepherd/The Beef Council to illustrate how we need to separate the voice from the message. - Chaucer and Middle English
- Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Constructing Effective Conclusions
Help for finishing a paper with style - Grecian Urn
I use this with Ode to a Grecian Urn and Vincent to help students get inspired to create poetry from art. - Museum Exhibit Harlem Renaissance
- Organizing Your Research - Six Easy Steps for the Computer Age
- Road Sign Poetry
I use this with the .ppt "Slow Children at Play" - Romanticism
- Romeo and Juliet - Cellphone
I use this with a modern communication lesson where we talk about how modern immediate communication would change so many texts (Macbeth, TIOBE, etc.) - Sentence Clarity and Combining
- Seven Deadly Sins
Use to explain seven deadly sins / with Chaucer unit - Slow Children at Play
(Use with Road Sign Poetry PowerPoint) - Tess of the d'Urbervilles Country
Used with a Tess Unit, obviously. Good for background. - The Age of Reason and Enlightenment
- The Age of Reason and Enlightenment (Shorter)
- The Puritans
Use to give background before "The Devil and Tom Walker," "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," and "The Crucible." - The Tragic Hero
I use this before getting into Macbeth to distinguish the tragic hero from the Byronic and classic heroes we have already looked at. - The Trickster Archetype
Use with Native American literature. - The World of Shakespeare 1
- The World of Shakespeare 2
- The World of Shakespeare 3
- Victorian Nightly News - A Webquest
Use before TIOBE - Winter Images
I use this to teach personification, simile, and metaphor. I describe winter as Jim Carrey - it is amusing for a while, but it gets old pretty darn quick. - Exploring Points of View and Voice through Monologue
- Exploring Points of View and Voice through Monologue
- Puritan PowerPoint
- World Literature Reading List
- Ways of Responding to Literature
- Smart Readers
Poster - Semester Two Reading Log
- Reading a Web Site
- Ozymandias
- Ozymandias Thinking Aloud
- My Litspaces
- Just What In the Book Makes You Say That?
Poster - How to Read a Short Story
- How to Read a Poem
- British Literature Reading List
- American Literature Reading List
- One Pagers
- Script Writing with Tom and the Devil
- Using Quotes to Support Statements
- American Puritanism
- Dialogue Punctuation Made Simple
Blue Sheet - Calvin and Hobbes 1
Cartoon - Calvin and Hobbes 2
Cartoon - Calvin and Hobbes 3
Cartoon - Elements of Transcendentalism Chart
- Emerson Overhead
- Henry David Thoreau Picture
Poster - Ralph Waldo Emerson Picture
Poster - The Road Not Taken
Poem - Transcendentalism Free Writes
Overhead - Music and Transcendentalism Poster
- Wide Open Spaces by The Dixie Chicks
- My Way by Frank Sinatra
- I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack
- Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley
- Different Drum by Linda Ronstadt
- BELLWORK-Ben Franklin
Overhead - Ben Franklin A to Z
Overhead - Ben Franklin Overhead
- Explanations for Franklin A to Z
- Franklin Funnies
- Introduction to Poor Richard's Almanack
- Motto for Life Assignment
- The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
- Atmosphere - Vivid Introduction
Assignment - American Gothic
- Hop-Frog
- Epitaphs
- Edgar Allen Poe Short Biography
- MC Lars Raven Rap
- Vivid Introductions
- On The Rainy River
- The Black Eye of the Month Club
- Write a Vivid One-Page Introduction
- How to Write a Set of Directions
- The October Game
- Fear
- Analysis and Synthesis
- The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band
- I Enjoy Watching People
- Grey Street by Dave Matthews Band
- Fame is a fickle food
- Fame is a fickle food - Liquid Poetry
- Literary Circle Guide Dickinson
- Harlem Renaissance Museum Exhibit Group Project
- Lindy Hop in Harlem
- Museum Exhibit Rubric
- Note on Commercial Theatre
- Overview of the Harlem Renaissance
- REFLECTIONS ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- She of the Dancing Feet Sings (and other poems)
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
- We Wear the Mask
- A Dream Deferred
- Money, Money
- AMERICA
- Money, Money, Money
- What is the American Dream?
- Speakeasy Party Planning Assignment
- How Did This Happen?
- A leader of the CIA team
- Are words really stronger than fists?
- Demosthenes
- Do the ends always justify the means?
- Locke
- Safe Blogging Tips
- What does it take/mean to be a good leader?
- Ender's Game Final Assignment
Goldenrod - Anglo Saxon Background
- Archetypes, Myths, and Characters
- Benjamin Bagby
- Beowulf Essential Questions
- Beowulf Shrinklit Translation
- Beowulf Translations Handout
- Beowulf: Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
- Film Suggestions for Heroic Quest
- Grendel's Dog: A Fragment from Beocat
- Hero Response Paper
- Independent Film Viewing Assignment
- Kenning and Alliteration Assignment
Classroom Set - Lament for Beowulf
- Modern English Beowulf Passage Handout
- My Personal Hero Essay Assignment
- Old English Beowulf Passage Handout
- The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
- The Earlier Epic Battles of Grendel's Mother
- The Funny Side of Beowulf
- The Hero's Journey
- The Heroic Journey - Joseph Campbell
- Basic Code of Chivalry
- Essential Question 1
- Essential Question 2
- Groupwork Self Evaluation
- Narrative Poetry
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Tabloid Article
- Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
- A Hard Rain
- About the 1963 Birmingham Bombing
- Ballad Group Assignment
- Ballad of Birmingham
- Checklist for Ballads
- Coward of the County
- Dreadful Wind And Rain
- Edmund Fitzgerald Headlines
- In the Jailhouse Now
- Mary of the Wild Moor
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- The Cruel Mother
- The Lincolnshire Farmer
- The Story Behind The Ballad of Birmingham
- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
- You Never Can Tell
- End of Unit Assignment for The Canterbury Tales
Snowbound Storytelling - Here Begynneth Your Canterbury Pilgrim Assignment
- Middle English Phonology
- Pilgrims
- Pronunciation Help
- Talk Like a Pilgrim: Reading Chaucer Aloud
- The Pronunciation of Chaucer
- The Bait
Poem - Carpe Diem
Poster - AMND End of Unit Project
- Your Reply to the Shepherd
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Poem - Shovvet
- Reading Maketh a Full Man
Poster - The Logical Song by Supertramp
Music Lyrics for Test - Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.
Music Lyrics for Test - She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby
Music Lyrics for Test - Stuck To You by Josh Ritter
Music Lyrics for Test - Cool An' Green An' Shady by John Denver
Music Lyrics for Test - Academy for Women - Defoe
Assignment - Born in the U.S.A - Bruce Springsteen
Music Lyrics - Irony Overhead
- Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal Response
Assignment - Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends by Phil Otts
Music Lyrics - Rights of Women Connections
Assignment - Rockin' In The Free World by Neil Young
Music Lyrics - The Unknown Citizen by W H Auden
Poem - The Tyger
Poem - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Poem - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Poem - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Poem - The Chimney Sweeper (Both)
Poem - Anticipation Guide - Earnest
- Do You Hold the Same Standards of Honesty?
Poster - Earnest - Background Notes
- Earnest - Tasks for Act I
- Earnest - Tasks for Act II
- Earnest - Tasks for Act III
- Generic Victorian Background Research Assignment
- Nineteenth Century Decadent Literature
- Take Home Essay Test for The Importance of Being Earnest
- "Dorian" The Picture of Dorian Gray
- "Duchess of Berwick" Oscar Wilde
- "Hairs" The House on Mango Street
- "Mabel Chiltern" Oscar Wilde
- "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning
- "My Name" The House on Mango Street
- "Porphyria's Lover" Robert Browning
- "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Abigail Williams The Crucible
- Crucible Monologues
- Elizabeth Proctor The Crucible
- John Proctor The Crucible
- Kim from Seedfolks
- Macbeth Monologue 1
Act I, scene 5, line 1 - Macbeth Monologue 2
Act I, scene 7, line 35 - Macbeth Monologue 3
Act I, scene 5, line 31 - Macbeth Monologue 4
Act II, scene 1, line 41 - Marlow Heart of Darkness
- Mary Warren The Crucible
- Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby
- Student Examples Monologues
- Wilde Monologue 1 - Lady Bracknell
- Exploring Handout
- Exploring Points of View and Voice through Monologue
- Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
- On The Rainy River - Tim O'Brien
- The Black Eye of the Month Club - Sherman Alexie
- The Trickster Archetype
- Native American Poetry
- i hated tonto
- Trickster Tale Group Presentation
- Trickster Signup
- Essential Questions - Alexie
- Father Coming Home
- How Do We Forgive Our Fathers?
- In the Shadows
- Journey Assignment
- Open All Night
- Smoke Signals Parent Letter
- The Toughest Indian in the World
- What Sacagawea Means to Me
- Time Somebody Told Me
- Interview Guide and Introduce Yourself
- The Interview Guide
- Interview Project
- The Gentle Giant
- My Name from The House On Mango Street
- "Because it is my name" Poster
- Name Story Assignment
- Crucible Character List
- Crucible Grammar
- First They Came
Poem - Found Poems
- Good Witch Hunt
Cartoon - Half Hanged Mary
Poem - History Clashes with Commercialism
- How To Spot a Witch
- Spot Quotes from The Crucible
- Study Guide for Test on The Crucible
- The Crucible Context
- Witchy Woman by The Eagles
Music Lyrics - 6 Word Memoirs
- Greek and Latin Roots
- Group Latin Root Assignment
- Literary Terms
- Lay or Lie
- Editing and Proofreading Checklist
- Exploring Plot Structure
Assignment - Formal Letter Writing Assignment
- Four Ways of Responding to Literature
- How to Avoid Plagiarism
Blue Sheet - How to Create a Good Thesis Statement
Blue Sheet - How to Write a Response/Reaction Paper
Assignment - In Order to Write Well, Revision is Essential
Blue Sheet - Mask Writing Assignment
- MLA Works Cited Basic Format
Blue Sheet - Organizing and Connecting Main Ideas
Blue Sheet - Prewriting Strategies
Blue Sheet - Pr?cis Writing Assignment
- Thesis for Writing About Literature
Blue Sheet - Tips for Making Your Essay "Flow"
Blue Sheet - Transition Exercise
- Transitional Devices and Signal Words
Blue Sheet - Transitional Word Exercise
- What Goes into a Plot?
Overhead - What is a Well Written Answer to an Essay Question?
Blue Sheet - Writing an Approach Paper
Assignment - Story Map for Fractured Fairy Tale
- Story Map Alternate for Fractured Fairy Tale
- Elements of a Story Arc
- Inheritance
- Occasional Paper Assignment
- Tone Words
- Gothic Story Starters
- Compare Contrast Term Paper # 1
Goldenrod - Compare and Contrast Thesis
Blue Sheet - Organizing and Connecting Main Ideas
Blue Sheet - MLA Works Cited Basic Format
Blue Sheet - Thesis Building Exercise
- How to Write a Compare and Contrast Paper
Blue Sheet - A Brief Guide to Writing Descriptive Essays
Blue Sheet - Descriptive Essay Plannng Think Sheet
- Descriptive Essay Term Paper # 2
Goldenrod - How to Create a Good Thesis Statement
Blue Sheet - Lemon Writing Brainstorm Sheet
- Organizing a Descriptive Essay
Blue Sheet - Planning a Descriptive Essay
- Prewriting Strategies
Blue Sheet - Thinking Exercise
- Why are you writing your descriptive essay?
Poster - Basics of the Research Paper
Blue Sheet - Boolean Searches
Blue Sheet - Cite a Book
Poster - Cite a Web Site
Poster - Homework Survey Question Ideas
- How to Paraphrase Effectively
Blue Sheet - How to Write a Research Paper
- MLA Works Cited Basic Format
Blue Sheet - Narrow Your Topic
Exercise - Persuasive Research Term Paper # 3
Goldenrod - Personal Essay Term Paper # 4
Goldenrod - Writing College Application Essays
Blue Sheet - Writing Assignment - Personal Reading
- Sample Personal Reading Writing Assignment
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