Tom Richey
Tom richey.net: The French Revolution and Napoleon
Four videos on the French Revolution (from 8 to 14 min. long), a slideshow, and a students' unit guide with primary resources.
Tom Richey
Tom richey.net: Historical Writing: Writing Resources for Students
Resources for helping students to write historical essays. Includes a movie trailer to demonstrate the traits of a good introduction, tips for writing a paragraph, tips for formal writing, and guidelines for citing sources.
Tom Richey
Slideshare: Introduction to the Elements of Fiction
A slide show with twenty-two slides about story elements. Includes definitions, information, and examples of character terms, setting terms, plot terms, conflict terms, and more
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Discovering an Author's Point of View
A slide show with twenty-eight slides with information on how to determine an author's purpose to entertain, to inform, or to persuade his/her audience.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Claim Evidence and Reasoning
A slideshow with twelve slides about reading or writing an argument, analyzing the claim and looking at how it is supported with observation, evidence, and reasoning.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Main Idea and Supporting Details
A slide show with seventeen slides teaching about main ideas and supporting details within a text.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Making Connections
A slide show with thirty-two slides explaining how to use text to self, text to text, and text to world connections to improve reading comprehension.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Argument and Persuasion
A slide show with fourteen slides with notes, tips, and examples on how to write a persuasive essay.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Why Do Writers Write?
A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Main Idea & Supporting Detail
Ten slides explaining how to identify main ideas and details within a text.
Tom Richey
Ethos3: Wake Up Brain!
This slideshow provides 5 innovative ways to brainstorm. Because our brains tend to be overstimulated and tired, it is best to warm them up before diving into a project.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Text Structures: Analyze Organizational Methods
This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Nonfiction
This downloadable slideshow focuses on nonfiction including definitions, types of nonfiction, perspective and bias, and objective vs. subjective.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Television Performance Techniques Module 6
A slideshow based on Herbert Zettl's "Television Production Handbook" that explains techniques that one needs to be aware of when performing in front of a television camera. Discusses questions to ask the director regarding how the...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Cognitive Learning Theory
This presentation deals with the factors that impact on the learning process as posited by Piaget, Bloom, Bruner, and Ausubel.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Applied Media Aesthetics: Gestalts
Explains how the media artist can apply the aesthetics principles developed by Herbert Zettl in order to convey an effective message.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Webb's Depth of Knowledge
This slideshow presentation is designed to provide basic information concerning Webb's Depth of Knowledge.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Finding Themes in Literature
A slide show with forty slides with explanations, examples, and information on how to determine the theme of a text. RL.9-10.2 and RL.11-12.2 Analyzing Theme.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Nativism in Antebellum America
A comprehensive slideshow illustrates the history of nativism in North America. Understand the role nativism plays in immigration as well as the Native Americans who were here long before the settlers come to the nation.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Martin Luther's Doctrines
Recognize and understand the three basic doctrines of Martin Luther. This slideshow is a useful study tool when studying the Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: The Civil War 1861 1865
An extensive collection of slides enhance study of the Civil War in North America. Find illustrated details of the key parts of the war: secession, limited war, turning point, and total war. Consider the probing essay questions also...
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Tom Richey: The Emancipation Proclamation
An engaging PowerPoint presentation provides insight into the events which led to ending slavery in the United States. The slideshow illustrates President Lincoln's approach to the Emancipation Proclamation.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Slideshare: The Rise of Hitler
History teacher, Tom Richey, provides a comprehensive overview of the Hitler's rise to power in this 77 slide presentation.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Information Literacy Models
This slideshow, created by Mary May Porto, provides a comprehensive look at 3 major informational literacy models.