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"Speed-dating" for AP Language Synthesis Essays

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This "speed dating" activity is designed to help students simply unpack and plan a synthesis essay from Part II of the AP English Language and Composition exam. This "speed-dating" activity can be done in class or for homework but is intended to be

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Test Preparation

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts

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Study Guide for "The Rabbits"

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This study guide was created for a low-level (Cambridge A2) class of Year 11 Chinese students at an Australian-curriculum international school. These students studied this book as part of a unit on the "stolen generation" and the injustices that

Subjects:

Reading, Australian History, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

Types:

Literature Circles, Lesson

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Study Guide for "The Burnt Stick"

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Subjects:

Reading, Australian History, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

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Redlining and Restrictive Covenants: Housing Practices and "A Raisin in the Sun"

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This lesson plans was designed to give students important social and political context for Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun." This lesson explores housing segregation in the United States in the 20th-century, specifically focusing on

Subjects:

Reading, U.S. History, Writing

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson

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Viewing Guide for "Persepolis"

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This viewing guide accompanies the animated biopic "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. This was used as part of a unit on memoir for a tenth-grade ELA class.

Subjects:

Other (ELA)

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Movie Guides

$1.79

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Viewing Guide for "Whale Rider"

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This viewing guide accompanies Nikki Caro's film "Whale Rider," which I use in conjunction with our classroom study of Sophocles's "Antigone."

Subjects:

Other (ELA), Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Movie Guides

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George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" Mini-Unit

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Originally designed for an AP English Language and Composition class, this mini-unit takes Orwell's famous essay and applies it to contemporary American politics.

Subjects:

Other (ELA), Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$3.99

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Latin and Greek Root Word Quizzes

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This bundle includes a list of all the Latin and Greek root words assessed in the unit, as well as nine quizzes (because the first and second sets of Greek roots were tested in a single quiz). In these quizzes, students must demonstrate

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Test Preparation

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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Vocabulary Quizzes for the High School English Classroom

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

The 120 vocabulary words assessed in these quizzes are those that most commonly appear on the verbal section of the SAT exam. These quizzes were designed for the English 11 classroom, but could be used in any high school course. The quizzes are

Subjects:

Vocabulary, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment

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"Who was Shakespeare?" Read-Write Activity

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

Students simply read the article and answer the questions, hence the name "read-write"! This is a great activity when you need an easy lesson plan for a substitute, or simply to supplement your study of any of Shakespeare's works.

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

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Teaching Guide for "The Glass Castle"

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This teaching guide provides 22 reading, writing, and/or discussion prompts for learning around Jeannette Walls's memoir "The Glass Castle." Each of the 22 activities could be levelled up or down, depending on the age, skill, and maturity of your

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Homework

$4.99

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"Speed-dating" for AP Language Argument/Construction Essays

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This "speed dating" activity is designed to help students simply unpack and plan an argument/construction essay from Part II of the AP English Language and Composition exam. This "speed-dating" activity can be done in class or for homework but is

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Test Preparation

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts

$1.29

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Easy *Differentiated* Substitute Lesson Plan

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

When you're deathly ill or have had a personal emergency and do not have time to create a substitute lesson plan from scratch, use this read-write activity! There are two versions of both the reading passage and the comprehension questions, for a

Subjects:

Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

RI.9-10.2, RI.11-12.1

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"My Beloved Leader" Lesson Plan

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This lesson plan was designed for Walt Whitman's "O Captain, O Captain." In it, students examine the rhetoric of a primary source historical artifact (the "Wanted" poster for John Wilkes Booth) to better understand the sentiments of Lincoln admirers

Subjects:

U.S. History, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson

$0.99

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Writing Activity for "Gallipoli": Preparations for War

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This writing activity was used as an in-class viewing and discussion activity for Peter Weir's 1981 film "Gallipoli," although it could also be assigned as homework. Students closely analyzed each of the five listed scenes, then extrapolated from

Subjects:

World History, Australian History, Writing-Essays

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Movie Guides

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Food and Culture: Lesson plan for Amy Tan's "Fish Cheeks"

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This lesson plan was designed as part of a unit on memoir for tenth-graders, but could be adapted in any ELA or EFL classroom in the middle or high school years.

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Lesson

$0.99

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Lesson Plan: Migrant Workers during the Great Depression

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This lesson plan was written to accompany the study of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" but could also be adapted to the study of other novels of the period (i.e. "The Grapes of Wrath) or for use in a U.S. History class. In this lesson, students listen

Subjects:

U.S. History, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson

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Study Guide for Youssef Daoudi's "Monk!"

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This study guide for Youssef Daoudi’s Monk, a graphic biography of the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, was created for two primary purposes: 1) to serve as an introduction to visual semiotics, and 2) to allow students to practice their critical

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Visual Arts

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Study Guides

$4.99

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"Speed-dating" for AP Language Analysis/Deconstruction Essays

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

This "speed dating" activity is designed to help students simply unpack and plan an analysis/deconstruction essay from Part II of the AP English Language and Composition exam. This "speed-dating" activity can be done in class or for homework but is

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Test Preparation

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Outlines

CCSS:

W.11-12.1

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Writing Prompt for "Gallipoli": What are Frank's motives for joining the army?

By Peace and Justice Maven Educational Products

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, World History, Australian History

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Movie Guides

$0.99

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Over the past 13 years, I have taught English Language Arts to native and non-native speakers at the middle school, high school, and college levels. I began my career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania and have taught overseas in Qatar and Honduras, as well as in the high-needs public schools of Washington, D.C. I also work as the dean of Concordia Language Villages' Collegetown and Collegetown Prep programs, which are immersion English language summer camps for high school and college students.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have an undergraduate degree in English and art history from Boston University. Later, I earned my teaching certification and Master of Arts in Teaching secondary English degree from American University in Washington, D.C. I also have a master's degree in international peace and conflict resolution.

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When I'm not writing lesson plans and grading papers, I paint and draw. You can see more of my artwork at http://fergussonlutzart.blogspot.com.