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Connotation-Denotation – Video to Spark Discussion

October 29, 2011September 17, 2013 by admin

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Connotation-Denotation It sometimes is difficult to explain in words the concept of connotation and denotation. However, it is critical for us to get these concepts across to our students, especially when teaching lessons on the significance of precise word choice. Just in time! Here's a video than can help to…

YA Science Fiction Novel about Skateboarding

October 28, 2011February 11, 2014 by admin

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Mark Mattison’s novel may be just what you’re looking for to recommend to your sci-fi buffs who may want to expand their reading beyond that about vampires and wizards. See movie trailer. “After a young skateboarder named Chris is accidentally transformed by a lab experiment, he is warped to a…

Monkey Bridge – Create Background Knowledge

October 28, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Background Knowledge Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao is an autobiographical novel that I enjoyed teaching to high school students because it introduced them to life in Vietnam before, during, and after the Vietnamese War when a twelve year old girl immigrates to the United States in 1975. I found, however,…

Literary Weaving Strip – Art to Explore and Explain

October 28, 2011May 16, 2018 by admin

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Critical Thinking using Art Here's a multi-purpose activity for students grades 7-12 that can be used to assess student understanding of literature, as a book report assignment, or as a pre-writing assignment before writing college application essays. On a 2 inch, 2 foot strip of adding machine tape, students use…

Literary Devices – A Handout with Definitions

October 28, 2011October 30, 2013 by admin

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Writers use various strategies to create suspense or to provide background information to round out the characterization or to increase the complications the in the rising action. Some of these strategies include irony (dramatic, situational, or verbal), foreshadowing, and flashback. (Handout for students.) [download_box]Literary Devices: A Handout with Definitions[/download_box]

JEOPARDY – literary-terms -2010 (in PPT)

October 28, 2011October 28, 2011 by admin

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[download_box] jeopardy-literary-terms-20101 [/download_box]

Invisible Man – Final Motif Project- Sample Slides in .pdf

October 28, 2011 by admin

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[download_box]Invisible Man - Final Motif Project- Sample Slides in .pdf[/download_box]

Invisible Man – Essay Prompt on Motifs

October 28, 2011November 8, 2011 by admin

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[download_box]Invisible Man - Essay Prompt on Motifs[/download_box]

A Day No Pigs Would Die

October 27, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Young Adult Novel A Day No Pigs Would Die Vocabulary with Academic Words Included A Day No Pigs Would Die VOC w Definitions

Summer Reading Oral Report

October 20, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Book Report: Oral Presentation Chart A chart to take notes on oral presentations [download_box]Click here to view/download full document summer-reading-oral-report-chart[1] [/download_box]

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