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Karen Brooks

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Researching the Decades: 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's

By Karen Brooks

This is an interesting and fun research project I do with my juniors during their American literature unit. It pulls together the history they are covering that year as well as the reserach paper. It combines many of the common core requirements

Subjects:

English Language Arts, English, Writing

Grades:

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

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ACT English Test Powerpoint

By Karen Brooks

Combining emojis and a boring topic like ACT review may seem like an odd idea unless you know high school students. I tried to entwine the mundane info with some fun emojis. I include practice questions broken down so the student has a chance to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Informational Text

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Shakespeare: The Man, The Myth, the Legend

By Karen Brooks

This power point is a basic intro to William Shakespeare. It contains actual pictures of places in London and Stratford that were important to Shakespeare.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Developing a good, solid paragraph.....and random puppies!

By Karen Brooks

Unity in a pargraph is crucial to good essay writing. I find that too many of my students think that if they fill a paragraph with a similar topic that they have done their job. This powerpoint illustrates this concept, as well as encourages

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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ACT Prep: Parallelism

By Karen Brooks

Such a simple idea once you get it! But some students need lots of examples to make the connection. This powerpoint is chock full of serious examples and funny ones too. Also incuded are samples questions from old ACT tests.

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English Language Arts

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Writing a Persuasive Paper

By Karen Brooks

Helping students narrow down their interests for a research paper is difficult at times. I created this worksheet to help them find a solid topic to research. I consider this a pre-writing exercise.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

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Researching the Decades 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's

By Karen Brooks

Similar to my earlier project on researching the decades, this project focuses on the latter part of the 20th century. This project includes a formal research paper and a group presentation. My students tend to jump into this project with enthusiasm

Subjects:

Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Research, PowerPoint Presentations, Internet Activities

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Combining with Prepositional Phrases Worksheet

By Karen Brooks

Here is a worksheet to accompany the powerpoint. I found the sentences from the web, but added in the writing component. I wanted to make sure the students saw this method as something they already use. However, I also wanted them to see how they

Subjects:

English Language Arts, English, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Homework, Lesson

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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

By Karen Brooks

I paired these two authors together because of their contrasting styles and subject matter. Dickinson and Whitman wrote during the same time period approximately.

Subjects:

Literature

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

$4.00

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Punctuation on the ACT powerpoint

By Karen Brooks

Nothing is more boring than reviewing punctuation! So I created this ppt on the basics of punctuation rules, but I also tried to make it fun with silly memes and cartoons interspersed throughout. At the end of the ppt., I left room for actual

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Art History

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

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ACT Prep: Fragments

By Karen Brooks

A step-by-step guide to understanding sentence fragments and using that knowledge on the ACT test! Examples from practice tests are used and explained at the end of the powerpoint!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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What is a research paper? (Accompanies Researching the Decades 60-90's

By Karen Brooks

This is an introductory powerpoint that goes along with the handout Researching the decades 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. It shows visuals of many of the hot issues that arose in each of these decades. It is helpful to show students an overview of

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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PowerPoint Presentations

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What is a research paper? (accompanies Researching the Decades)

By Karen Brooks

This is a powerpoint I show at the beginning of the unit. It explains the process of writing a research paper in a brief overview. Then it shows topics and pictures that accompany the different major events that took place in these decades. A

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing

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10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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PowerPoint Presentations

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The Crucible: a brief intro

By Karen Brooks

This powerpoint gives a brief background on Arthur Miller and the play The Crucible. It also overviews some of the literary terms needed to understand the deeper meanings behind this play. I think you will find this helpful as it doesn't overload

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

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Persuasive Paper: A worksheet to break down the steps

By Karen Brooks

Sometimes students just don't know where to start when it comes to persuasive writing. This worksheet takes them through the steps and helps them break it down into steps. This worksheet incorporates using sources to persuade.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History

Grades:

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

Types:

Study Guides, Handouts, Printables

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ACT Prep: Reading Test

By Karen Brooks

Practical notes on how to get through the ACT reading test. This test is quite a challenge to get through in the time proffered. This powerpoint provides easily remembered pointers.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Close Reading

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

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Nouns: The Common Core Way

By Karen Brooks

Identifying the parts of speech is crucial in helping students work on their sentences structure. But how do we do it the common core way? Here is an example of one method I used with my juniors in a review unit of parts of speech. It builds on

Subjects:

Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Assessment

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ACT English Test

By Karen Brooks

This is a practical powerpoint with a splash of color! It gives solid examples with good explanations.

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English Language Arts

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

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Catcher in the Rye Anticipation Guide

By Karen Brooks

I love to use these with my students because it leads to discussions of deeper ideas before they read the book! We always have a good discussion when the students bring these back to class! Also it prepares them for the reading and the "big ideas"

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Handouts

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Common Core: Writing from Non-fiction

By Karen Brooks

Our school is attempting to work in the new common core ideas a little bit at a time, so I created this project to help students have more exposure to non-fiction writing that would have some relevance to them. I was a bit leery of doing this, but

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Rubrics

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught high school English for 32 years, and I am still learning and growing as a teacher and person. I am always looking for ways to turn on the light bulb in my students' minds. Many of my ideas have been gathered from bits and pieces of others' works as well as my graduate studies in English. I hope you find something to help you connect with your students and challenge them at the same time!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I use a variety of methods in my classroom, some old school and some new. I like cooperative learning, student presentations, power points, videos..... Anything to get the point across!

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's Degree in English Education 1979 at Illinois State University Master's Degree in English 2005 at Western Illinois State University

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