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Letter From Birmingham Jail: Introduction to Argument

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This is a PowerPoint I use to help explain ethos, pathos, logos. All the examples are from Martin Luther King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

Subjects:

Martin Luther King Day, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Song of Roland: Presentation of Select Portions of the Epic

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This unit covers basic information about the early Middle Ages. Activities include research assignments and creative writing. Students present groups of Laisses as sportscasters calling a football game, a 60 Minutes newscast, a comic book, and a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, World History, Critical Thinking

Grades:

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

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Activities, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7...

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Civil Disobedience "I Think, He Thinks, We Think"

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This is a short, 1-2 day lesson that examines the views Thoreau expressed in his famous "Civil Disobedience" essay. Students must respond individually, in partners, and groups. My students really get into this one, and often the discussions end only

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Critical Thinking, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Handouts, Printables, Literature Circles

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Informed Consent: The Questionable Ethics in "Flowers For Algernon"

By TyraTeaching

Do Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss behave ethically? Is Charlie Gordon capable of giving informed consent? In this short unit, students read and annotate an article from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defining Informed Consent. Then students

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Activities, Graphic Organizers, Literature Circles

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Transcendentalism in Popular Culture

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This is an assignment for students to choose ten quotes from a list of more than 80 Emerson, Thoreau, and Longfellow quotes and create a unique presentation. I purposefully leave the format vague; students may create a movie, PowerPoint, Prezi,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, U.S. History, Critical Thinking

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities

CCSS:

RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.9, SL.11-12.4, SL.11-12.5

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Rise of American Realism

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This PowerPoint is an introduction for a unit over Realism. Thirty slides help students understand the progression from Romanticism to Realism and Naturalism.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, U.S. History, Literature

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Huck Finn: What's the Big Deal?

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UPDATED! I've added more analysis and better instructions. If you have already bought this unit and have trouble downloading the update, contact me through TpT and I'll send it to you. This unit delves into the heart of why we study literature.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Literature

Grades:

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

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Handouts

$5.00

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Walk Two Moons: Critical Thinking Activities

By TyraTeaching

Activities included are Comparing & Contrasting Characters Venn diagram, Vocab War, Theme Statement Generator and Themes Around the Room, ASTDC paragraphs and a unit test.

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Critical Thinking, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles

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Jim Crow

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This is a PowerPoint I used as part of the introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird. It contains haunting photos and text of actual laws passed in several states with the purpose of ensuring segration of the races.

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History, Black History Month

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.9

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The Holocaust: Creating a Museum At Your School

By TyraTeaching

Each spring, my seventh graders turned our school library in our rural, isolated town into their own “museum” filled with exhibits that displayed what they had learned in their research of the Holocaust. Popular with students, faculty, and parents,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Critical Thinking

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Projects, Activities

CCSS:

RI.7.3, RI.7.7, RI.7.8, RI.7.9, W.7.2, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.6, W.7.7, W.7.8, W.7.9...

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Literature Circles & Book Clubs: Facilitating Student Choice & Discussions

By TyraTeaching

This packet contains a graphic organizer to facilitate student choice after a Book Pass. It also contains a booklet with pages that guide students through discussions, NOT forms with "gotcha" questions for the students to complete that stifle

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Literature Circles, Centers

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Level Questions: Teaching Students to ASK the Questions

By TyraTeaching

This is always one of the first lessons in my classes; it lets students know that we do things differently in my class and that their thinking is valued. Teaching students to ASK questions as opposed to having them provide answers is the best way

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Critical Thinking

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

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Visual Literacy: Migrant Mother

By TyraTeaching

This resource provides aids to help students examine and analyze Dorothea Lang's famous Migrant Mother series. A comprehensive list of on-line resources for class-appropriate visuals is also provided.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Visual Arts

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

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Visual Literacy: John Henry's Hand

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This is much more than an analysis of a visual. In addition to the art analysis worksheet to go along with Frederick Gerhard Becker's wood carving "John Henry's Hand," the unit contains a drawing assignment and a fill-in-the-blank writing assignment

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.6.7, RI.7.7, RI.8.7, RI.9-10.7, RH.6-8.7, RH.9-10.3

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ASTDC: Embedding Quotes From the Text

By TyraTeaching

This PowerPoint presentation gives students a basic formula for inserting text correctly and smoothly in their writing. I tell my students that they may never begin a body paragraph with a quote. I’ve used this formula with seventh, eighth, ninth,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

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Dust Bowl & Depression: The Dirty Thirties

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A 2:45 movie that is a slide show of 45 classic Depression era photographs set to Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home."

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

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

Types:

Songs, Video Files

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How To Annotate Text

By TyraTeaching

This product contains a handout for my students that provides some guidance on what one could or should mark while annotating. I provide this to them on colored paper, which indicates to them that it’s a “keeper,” and must be kept in their binders.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Study Skills

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Printables

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T. Tyra's Groovy Grammar Cards Template

By TyraTeaching

Use this template to print cards on card stock, or hand-print on construction paper. Laminate the cards and use Vis-a-Vis markers to print the elements of a sentence. These cards are color-coded and are a great tool for hands-on instruction. Stretch

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.3.1

$10.00

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The Secret Life of Bees: Response and Evidence Activities

By TyraTeaching

This is a packet of five activities (including two writing assignments) for The Secret Life of Bees, but the activities could easily be adapted to any piece of literature. Although unnecessary for these activities, my QRQ PowerPoint might be helpful

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles

$4.00

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Literary Terms by Examples 4: Dramatic Irony - Figurative Language

By TyraTeaching

Students must match the literary term (or rhetorical device) with the example or description given. I allow my students to use their phones or dictionaries to look up the definitions of the terms in the word bank. I also like to let them work with a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$3.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I am a 31-year veteran educator. I have taught English to grades seven through eleven, college-level Composition I and II, Survival Reading for College, eighth grade and high school U.S. History, honors Oklahoma History and adult basic education/GED preparation. I served as a Literacy Instruction Coach for three years. I was a College Board Pre-AP consultant from 2003 until 2018 and have presented at several summer institutes and one- and two-day conferences.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I LOVE working with teachers, helping them reach their full potential and providing resources and collaborating on units across the curriculum. I believe learning should be fun! I rarely use textbooks and love challenging my students and myself. My main goal as a teacher is to be a Facilitator of Learning. I believe that too often, in their misguided efforts at reform, people who are not teachers use the science of education (test data) to destroy the art of teaching and the love of learning. We should be celebrating and nurturing our students' natural gifts of curiosity and expression, not filling-in irrelevant blanks in a grammar book.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I hold a B.S. in Education (language arts and social studies) and a Master’s in Liberal Studies from the University of Oklahoma.

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