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Middle School Grammar Cheat Sheet
This is a one page sheet that reviews various grammar concepts for middle school students.
Topics covered on this one page sheet include the following:
-Parts of Speech- with definitions and examples
-Types of Sentences- Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory.
-Sentence Form- Simple, Compound, Complex
-Types of Adverbs- Affirmation, Degree, Manner, Place, Time- with descriptions
-Clause, independent clause, dependent clause
-First person, second person and third person pronouns
-Coo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Tone Words in Categories - Mood Words in Categories - Tone vs. Mood
Do your students have trouble getting past "positive" and "negative" in describing tone? Do they understand the difference between mood and tone?These two lists, grouped into categories, will help your students find the perfect word to describe what the author or artist is feeling and what the reader or audience is feeling.Contents:Tone Words in Categories (Color)Tone Words in Categories (Grayscale)Mood Words in Categories (Color)Mood Words in Categories (Grayscale)Print and Digital VersionsSugg
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
SAT Test Prep MEGA Bundle
This bag is packed with TWELVE different resources; topics include SAT Basics, Writing & Language, Math, and Reading. Slides, scaffolded notes, card sorts, task cards, foldables, and more instructional strategies will engage your students as they prepare for every section of the SAT test. These engaging and hands-on manipulatives will ensure to prepare students for their SAT testing experience. Learning what is on the test and what is expected will help prepare students for a testing exper
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Cornell Notes Templates (AVID)
Cornell Notes are an excellent way for students to take notes and create their own study guides.
I created this version of Cornell Notes for two reasons- I found that my students needed larger lines to write in and I felt that students might also benefit from an unlined template.
This download contains these two versions- the lined version uses grey lines (a lot easier on the eyes!) as well as a blank version.
Using Cornell Notes or not, students will all take notes in their own unique way, a
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Introduction to Sketchnotes
This lesson introduces what sketchnotes are and how to create them to students. This lesson is designed for self-paced learning, which means students can learn on their own watching the lessons on a device. After every video is a 'challenge' or assignment related to the video is given. This lesson can also be given to a class in a group setting. Teachers can project the Google Slide presentation to their class, play each video and give the challenge after. The class can work as a team if that
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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8 Parts of Speech Packet
This comprehensive packet gives detailed descriptions of the 8 Parts of Speech in a way that is easy for students to read and understand. Use this to introduce the 8 Parts of Speech and then use it for review and study as your students become fluent in their grammar usage.Also check out my FREE 8 Parts of Speech Activity!Also check out my 8 Parts of Speech Fill-in-the-Blank Stories!Follows Common-Core!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Parts of Speech & Syntactic Literacy | Breakout / Pull-out BUNDLE | AP
Ready to level up your language skills? Want to dive deep into specific parts of speech? Let's break it down and conquer each element one by one! Ready to take your writing skills to the next level? Level-up language skills with our Parts of Speech BREAKOUT Bundle. We're happy to launch a collection of handouts designed to help students of all ages learn and practice the fundamentals of language. The Breakout Bundle includes a variety of activities, exercises, and writing prompts that make learn
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
COMPLETE UNIT ON LOGIC!
Help your students discover that there is more to arguing than rage and shouting!
This unit is the product of 3 years of writing, revising, experimenting, and more revising. It is a complete unit covering logical syllogisms, fallacies, turning syllogisms into arguments/persuasive essays, refutations, helpful starters and quizzes and notes, and a fun activity with bumper stickers. This is my all-time favorite unit to teach, and it really pushes students to add complexity to their views and to o
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The DATA DETECTIVE by Tim Harford READING JOURNAL for Adult Learners/College/AP!
The Data Detective* by Tim Harford is a fantastic book published in early 2021 and revised a year later to integrate some statistics involving COVID19. Not for the faint of heart or for most high-school students, it most easily fits into university classes related to critical thinking, data analysis, marketing, psychology, economics, statistics, and rhetoric, and may work for AP Lang/Stats/Psych/or Micro/Macroeconomics, or in classes with adult learners. It is so incredibly useful that I devoure
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RI.10.8 Logical Fallacies Slidedeck minilesson guided notes EOC digital resource
Teach your students critical thinking with my comprehensive introduction to logical fallacies! This educational resource offers a thorough review of 17 common types of logical fallacies, providing clarity on how these errors in reasoning can impact everyday arguments and discussions. Includes an application project at the end requiring students to pick a logical fallacy, find examples, and create a presentation for the class. Student example included! Comes with a rubric and a graphic organize
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Syntax Literacy: Nouns, Phrases & Guided Practice MINI-BUNDLE | (*AP)
Have you been studying the parts of speech and syntactic literacy, sentence patterns, phrases and clauses? Here's the newest MINI-BUNDLE: Nouns, Phrases & Guided Practice MINI-BUNDLE. Have you been using Martha Kolln, Nora Bacon, or a favorite, Virginia Tufte, in the classroom? Perhaps you study grammar and syntax and you're diving into sentence types? By layering what might be gained with this analysis into other rhetorical choices, close readers and careful writers can raise thei
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Compound-Complex Sentence with a Review of the Other Sentences & Comma Rules
Hello Fellow Teachers?This 17-page PDF provided color-coded explanations and examples of the following items:main clausescoordinating conjunctionscompound sentencessubordinate conjunctionssubordinate clausescomplex sentencescompound-comples sentencescomma rules for compound sentence and complex sentencespractice activity for complex sentencespractice activity for compound-complex sentencesYou can use this in one setting, or over the course of several days. It is set up and designed to show stude
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Romantic Era - Early American Literary Movement Series, part III
This literature unit on the Romantic era is the third in a series of the American Literary movements which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Following the the Age of Reason, which instituted a rationalism that sometimes went beyond its own boundaries, the Romantic writers rebirthed the ideals of: intuition, imagination, individuality and nature as a source of inspiration. Invoking the pas
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9th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Compound-Complex Sentences with Review of Main & Subordinate Clauses & More
Hello Fellow Teacher, This introduction to compound-complex sentences includes a review of the following items: main clausescompound sentencessubordinate (dependent) clausescomplex sentencestwo comma rulescoordinating conjunctionssubjectsverbsThis 15-pgae PDF includes easy-to-follow instructions for identifying and creating subordinate (dependent) clauses and conjunctions, and how we use them in our writing to create a varied sentence structure and flow. This complete lesson includes a list of c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Introduction to Social Justice - Notes Slides
Give your students a brief introduction to social justice - what it is, how to recognize it, and why we care. This lesson takes an entire 45 minute class period and can be edited to fit your needs.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Intro to Transformative Resistance Lesson Materials
This lesson is excellent at the beginning of the year for building classroom culture and for teaching students resistance from a critical perspective. The Transformative Resistance framework lists four modes of resistant behaviors students display throughout the school year: Self-Defeating, Reactionary, Conformist, and Transformative Resistance. The framework allows you and your students to norm on language to describe oppositional behavior. It's also a great lens into understanding how oppresse
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Scaffolding for Rhetorical Analysis Essay Writing: Thesis and Body Paragraphs
Using a speech delivered in the film Remember the Titans, students will work through the steps to develop a thesis, look at an example body paragraph, and attempt a body paragraph of their own for a rhetorical analysis essay. This resource is a Google Doc, so you can share it directly with students and/or make any adjustments to match the language and focus on your own course. Great for an AP English Language and Composition course or a CCP Composition and Rhetoric course.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Praxis 5002 Study Guide
Resource Guide on concepts for Reading and Language Arts Praxis subject test 5002!
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Higher Education, Not Grade Specific
Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Assessment Test Prep: Scaffolded Notes & Slides
This bag is packed with a scaffolded student note-taking sheet and correlating slide presentation to prepare students for the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Assessment. Designed to help students with the math, reading, writing, and essay TSI basics, and it includes information about the TSI and test taking strategies specific to a computer based test. Before your students take the TSI, have them “explore” the TSI. Learning what is on the test and what is expected will help prepare students fo
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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"Tower" Documentary (2016): Guided Discussion on School Shooting & Gun Violence
This is an excellent film for Secondary students as it builds understanding, empathy and critical thinking about school shootings. It is also beautiful, poetic and serious. "Tower" (2016), an animated documentary, tells the story of a sniper attack that took place in a clock tower on August 1st, 1966 at the University of Texas of Austin. The film recreates the events through real footage, survivor reports and dramatized scenes. The genre is inventive and surprising.The event at the University of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Harlem Renaissance - American Literary Movement Series, part VI
This literature unit on the Harlem Renaissance is the sixth in the American Literary movement series which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Between 1915 and 1970 over six million African Americans migrated from the southern states to northern cities like Philadelphia, New York and Chicago to seek out a new life. Concentrated in specific neighborhoods, such as Harlem, some members of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Introductory Paragraphs
This common core composition mini-unit provides instruction materials, as well as scaffolded activities teaching how to write an introductory paragraph. This mini-unit is one of four which also include: thesis statements, body paragraphs and conclusion paragraphs. All of the paragraph lessons apply the classic story "Three Skeleton Key" as the model. The materials include: the lesson plan, a PDF powerpoint for instruction, guided notes, and a scaffolded worksheet for practice.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Post-Modernism - American Literary Movement Series, part VIII
This literature unit on the Post-Modern era is the eighth and final unit in the American Literary movement series which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Following modernism, the post-modern movement emerged within the genetic codes of modern thinking, where the world had been broken off from more permanent concepts of truth. Post-modernism is akin to structuralism which states that trut
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Language Argument Essay--All the Resources using the NEW 2020 rubrics
This bundle of resources is a perfect jumping off point for success on the AP Argument Essay! Student will understand how to qualify their arguments, and then will use two resources to collaborate: the best ideas collaborative activity, as well as the Critical Friends Protocol. They will also be provided with two resources to self-assess their own work and a final checklist of all the things they've learned in the unit to use as a study guide.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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