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GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES
- General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments for Writing Assignments
- General Grading Guidelines – Slides
BOOK REPORTS
- Collage on Common Book or Story – OVERVIEW
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (for two books)
- Historical Fiction (in-class writing)
- Narrative Poem
- Plot Line
- Summer Reading Oral Report Chart
- What’s a Mystery?
DRAMA – Study and Playwriting
- HAMLET –WRITING Hamlet in your own words
- HAMLET Writing About Hamlet w Rubric
- HAMLET- Hamlet Recitations w Grading Guidelines
- Myth Play – Nothing New under the Sun
- Oedipus Essay
- Oedipus Essay – Rubric
- Shakespeare Out Loud and in Color-slides
- Writing a One Act Play – A Two Week Unit
- Writing a Play – Two Week Unit
LITERATURE-STUDY AND ANALYSIS
- A Day No Pigs Would Die – Vocabulary with Academic Words Starred
- AUTHOR PROJECT on Nobel Prize Winners for Literature
- Elements of Fiction – Setting
- Essay Prompt for Bean Trees
- Geometric Character Analysis
- Handmaid’s Tale Essay Prompt
- Handmaid’s Tale Grading Rubric
- I, Juan de Pareja, Exploring Art (Slides in .pdf)
- Invisible Man – Unit Teaching Motifs
- Invisible Man – Getting to Know Harlem
- Invisible Man – Essay Prompt on Motifs
- Invisible Man – Final Motif Project– Sample Slides in .pdf
- JEOPARDY – literary-terms -2010 (in PPT)
- Literary Devices
- Literary Weaving Strip
- Nine Yardsticks of Value – Introduction
- Nine Yardsticks of Value – One Page Student Handout
- Nine Yardsticks of VALUE Slides-Roseboro
- Teaching Monkey Bridge-Article
- Teaching Monkey Bridge – Slides in pdf
News Article – Writing a Human Interest Story
POETRY
- HOLIDAY MEMORY in Verse
- Pantoum Poem Worksheet
- POETRY-AfricanAm History Month Project
- POETRY-Notebook
- POETRY- Project – B –Long Version
- POETRY DISCUSSION Questions
- POETRY – PATTERN POEM
SPEAKING
- Abstract Term Speech Assignment
- Abstract Term Speech – Self-Check Pre-Evaluation
- SPAR DEBATE can be a PREP FOR WRITING
- Speech of Personal Experience
- Speech to Convince or Persuade to SOLVE PROBLEM
WRITING