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Durango Street: Chapter Nine
In this Durango Street comprehension check worksheet, students define 2 vocabulary words and respond to 5 short answer questions pertaining to chapter 9 of Durango Street in order to help them better understand the novel and the author's...
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Build Complex Sentences
Learners practice building complex sentences in this sentence combining-like exercise. Two simple sentences are given; your writers must make one reasonable complex sentence out of each pair using the conjunction provided. Ten examples...
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Winter Olympics Decoding
In this Winter Olympics worksheet, students complete a decoding puzzles with the help of a word box at the bottom of the page. All words written "in code" are related to the Winter Olympics.
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How to Integrate Quotations
Quotations add validity to an argument or an analysis, but how do you integrate them into your writing? Several examples are provided, and your emerging writers will surely benefit from looking at different ways to add quotations....
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The Carpet-Fitter: Exercise on Gerunds and Infinitives
In this gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students type in the correct form of a given verb to fit given sentences. Students may check their answers.
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SAT Editing in Context Practice Test 01
Middle schoolers edit a draft of an essay, correct grammatical mistakes, and edit for unity and coherence. They answer 12 questions in 12 minutes in this SAT practice activity.
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Lesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
I love Faulkner, his experimental style and stream of consciousness are so exciting. Your learners can analyze William Faulkner and his novel, The Sound and the Fury by defining his place in American literary history and exploring his...
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1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry
Using Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Hart Crane's The Bridge as models, class groups first craft their own epic poems for 1900 and, using primary sources, create a multi-media presentation that captures the sights and sounds of life...
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Crossing the Delaware with Historic, Cultural, and Personal Interpretations
Sixth graders discover the importance of information sources by researching the United States History. In this research gathering lesson plan, 6th graders examine a historical painting of George Washington and analyze what it means,...
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In The Words of Abraham Lincoln...
Young scholars explore the words of Abraham Lincoln. In this Abraham Lincoln activity, students analyze segments of "The Gettysburg Address," his annual address to Congress in 1862, and his letter to Mrs. Bixby. Young scholars conduct...
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Marking Sentences
To complete this worksheet, your class needs to know how to find the subject, verb, prepositional phrase, and infinitive in basic sentences. While the sentences themselves are short, most learners will need to read through each sentence...
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Marking Sentences
Test the identification skills of your class! Learners are required to mark 18 sentences for the prepositional phrases, infinitives, subjects, and verbs used in each. Some of the sentences are a little confusing with all of these parts...
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Firebird
Elementary schoolers read the Firebird reading list of fantasy and complete discussion questions about fantasy. In this fantasy books lesson plan, students read a list of books and pick one to read.
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Humor in Business and Advertising
Introduce your students to humor in the workplace with this thorough presentation, which provides numerous examples of why humor in business is beneficial - and even profitable. A good resource for a semantics class or beginning business...
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Characters in The Grapes of Wrath: Fun Trivia Quiz
Get the characters in The Grapes of Wrath straight with this quiz. Readers respond to ten multiple choice questions about the characters, identifying the correct answer by choosing one bubble of four on this online interactive quiz....
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Fun Trivia Quiz
This quiz for To Kill a Mockingbird tests basic reading comprehension of the novel. The multiple choice questions focus on characters and plot. Make sure you look over the content carefully to be sure that these are the questions you...
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Dashes and Hyphens
Review the use of dashes and hyphens. This presentation comes with a series of examples to make the concept understandable. While a useful resource, it could be augmented with a greater number of examples.
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Writing Scripts
Create a classroom full of writers using this innovative technique. The presentation walks learners through the process of writing a script, including identifying the setting, characters, and major events in the story. After reviewing...
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Writing a Literary Analysis
What makes writing literary? What comprises analysis? A 15-slide PowerPoint presentation, created by the Purdue University Writing Lab, tackles these questions. The explanations of what makes writing literary and what comprises analysis...
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The Death of a Salesman Act I: the Lowman Family & their American/Capitalist Dreams
This thirty-slide presentation, designed to accompany a lecture on the first act of Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman, would be appropriate for a college-level American literature class or perhaps as a teacher resource.
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Poetry: Basic Elements of a Poem
People who pen poetry positively need to know basic tenets and terms of poetry, like alliteration and consonance, for example. These and other terms are define and illustrated. Then viewers are given an object and asked to craft a...
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Present Perfect Tense Practice
Intended simply for practice, this set of ten sentence frames requires a verb conjugation for each. In this case, all verbs must be translated to the present perfect tense. The sentences, although nothing exciting, are simple and provide...
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Identify the Homographs
To conduct an orchestra, a conductor’s conduct must be above reproach. What fun! Light a match under your readers by having them read a series of definitions and find the homograph that matches. If students don’t contest, you could...
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Measure for Measure Act II, Scene 2 Vocabulary Magic Squares
Readers of Measure for Measure use words from Act II, scene 2 to complete a magic squares vocabulary exercise. An answer sheet is included.