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Amanda Funk

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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge., Albert Einstein".

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Tim Burton Inspired Self Portraits

By Amanda Funk

This product is everything you need for a 1-2 week long art project! Students will learn about Tim Burton, brainstorm ways to represent their own identities through art, and practice showing value through shading.The PDF includes a link to a

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Other (Arts)

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Lesson

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Weekly Behavior Chart for a Clipboard

By Amanda Funk

Use this chart to consistently reinforce classroom rules while keeping accurate behavior records. Write your students' names in the left column. Your rules or report card behavior indicators are in the right column. For any given day of the week,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Printables, Classroom Forms, For Principals & Administrators

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Artist Statement Worksheet

By Amanda Funk

This straightforward artist statement will get students to reflect on their art making process. Students complete the sheet when finishing a project. Uses: display next to the students' art as a portfolio artifact as an assessment tool.

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Assessment, Printables

$1.50

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Note Taking and Organization for High School

By Amanda Funk

This zip file is everything you need to teach note taking and organization, something that many new high schoolers struggle with. This file includes:-student facing PowerPoint-student facing Guided Notes-student facing text on note taking

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Study Skills

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Unit Plans, Lesson

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Rhetorical Analysis and Persuasive Writing Using "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

By Amanda Funk

This lesson comes with everything you need to teach rhetoric and persuasive writing through Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". In this lesson, students are introduced to the topics of Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and Kairos. Students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Critical Thinking

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Interventions for RTI

By Amanda Funk

A comprehensive list of easy to implement interventions. A great resource when completing RTI packets. Use these supports to help scaffold and differentiate instruction to meet all of your students' needs.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, For All Subjects

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Professional Documents, Printables, For Principals & Administrators

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Street Art MYP Art Unit

By Amanda Funk

This is a zipped folder that includes:Unit plan, written in the MYP unit format. It is in an editable Word document, so you can tweak as you'd like. Rubric for all strands of all four MYP Arts criterion, with task specific clarifications for each

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Visual Arts, International Baccalaureate

Grades:

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

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Projects, Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans

$5.00

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MLA Citation Activity

By Amanda Funk

This worksheet is an excellent tool to reinforce MLA citation rules. Students have to decide on the correct order for each source type using MLA citations. Source types included are: book, website, online article, and database article. This is an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Library Skills, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Assessment, Homework

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Journal Rubric

By Amanda Funk

This rubric is perfect to use with any student interactive journal. There are three rubrics on one sheet to cut down on copies. Just cut out the rubric, do your quick journal check, and staple into the students' journals. There is also a space

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Science

Grades:

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

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Assessment, Printables, Rubrics

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Questions to Ask During Guided Reading

By Amanda Funk

The questions are broken into comprehension strategies. Ask them during guided reading to promote student understanding. This is a very comprehensive list and is a great tool to keep at your guided reading table.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Literature

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Printables

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First Day PowerPoint for the Art Room

By Amanda Funk

This is the exact PowerPoint I use on this first day of school in each of my middle school classes. It is editable, so you can change it and adapt to your specific classes. It includes:Warm up activityRules and consequencesRewardsGeneral

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Annotation Power Point

By Amanda Funk

Use this Power Point to introduce your students to the power of text annotation. Includes a section on the benefits of annotation, materials needed, and a how-to. Concludes with an example of annotated poetry, which invites students to investigate

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Decodable Poem Long o, a

By Amanda Funk

Use this decodable poem to teach long o and long a. Comes complete with a set of word cards to use in a word sort.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Guided Reading Books, Printables

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Art Critique Bell Work

By Amanda Funk

Integrate art criticism with this bell ringer activity. When students enter the room, I have a work of art projected on the board. They answer one set of questions per day. Each day follows the art criticism process

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Handouts, Lesson

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Project Based Learning Log

By Amanda Funk

Use this template to accompany any Project Based Learning unit. Students keep track of their learning tasks and the outcome. There is a space for the teacher to add a score for each date. The second page contains a student reflection which you

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

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Projects, Printables, Service Learning

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Holiday Art Project

By Amanda Funk

Low stress, holiday art project. All you need is paper and colored pencils to create these beautiful gifts.Includes:A Google Slides show with example, materials list, and link to a video demo showing the steps in creating the project (run time 5

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Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Other (Arts)

Grades:

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

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Projects, Activities, Lesson

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Reading Lesson using "The Popcorn Book" by Tomie Depaola

By Amanda Funk

A complete guided reading lesson with pre reading and extension activity to use with the book "The Popcorn Book" which is commonly found in guided reading sets.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Literature Circles, Lesson

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Super Hero Art Project

By Amanda Funk

I used this project with my middle schoolers, and they loved it! It works great to motivate reluctant artists. This listing is for the complete PowerPoint I created while teaching this unit. It includes daily slides with teacher notes on how to

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Projects, Lesson

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Grid Portraits

By Amanda Funk

This is a complete PowerPoint that will guide students through creating a self portrait using the grid method. Chuck Close is the artist inspiration for this project. My middle school students loved learning more about his life and how he

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Projects, Lesson

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Art Project Student Choice

By Amanda Funk

This template helps students to plan a self-chosen project. I used it to guide students in creating their pieces for the performance task portion of our semester exam. It is a great resource in helping students to plan and will guide them through

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Assessment, Lesson

$1.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching: 2-9th grades Leadership: Reading Specialist, mentor, Director of Arts and Humanities

MY TEACHING STYLE

I have experience in the IB program and believe in the importance of teaching students how to ask their own questions while teaching them how to search for answers and make connections.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. in Education and the University of West Florida with an M.Ed in Educational Leadership

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