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Fahrenheit 451 Prereading WebQuest

By Rich English

Give your students some prereading information with a fun WebQuest. This is designed to be a digital scavenger hunt where the students are given (5) main topics that they will become familiar with while reading Fahrenheit 451 (F451) by Ray Bradbury.

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English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

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Research Paper - Auto Outline

By Rich English

Do your students also need a lot of help organizing their arguments for a research paper? This is a basic format in Google Sheets that can autofill an outline in a basic outline format, just by having students answer their basic questions. How it

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English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

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Outlines, Excel Spreadsheets, Google Apps

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Transcendentalism Socratic Seminar

By Rich English

This is a complete set-up for an inner-circle/outer-circle Socratic seminar for a Transcendentalism unit. This includes 10 different questions for 2 days of discussion. This is an amazing way to get students engaged in the class discussion, and the

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Reading, Literature, Informational Text

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Rhetorical Break-Up Letter

By Rich English

Teach your students how to construct a rhetorical argument by having them develop a fun/silly break-up letter between peanut butter and jelly. This is more of an introductory lesson to using ethos, pathos, and logos in context.My students love this

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

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Google Apps

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The Hero's Journey Template PDF

By Rich English

This template corresponds with the TEDEd video on youtube by Matthew Winkler called "What makes a hero?".The material discussed comes from the book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. If you like my products please be sure to follow

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English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

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Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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Tupac/2pac Mystery poet

By Rich English

This is a collection of poems from Tupac's book of poetry called "The Rose that Grew from Concrete". This is a fun lesson to do with students because it gets them out of the mindset that poetry is not important in modern day. It's also a lot of fun

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Poetry

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PowerPoint Presentations

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The Great Gatsby Color Symbolism Chart

By Rich English

The green light. The yellow coupe. The blue eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Color references are everywhere throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Being an active reader and interacting with a text means analyzing the different

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Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies

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Handouts, Homework

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Rhetoric within Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair, and Memory" Speech

By Rich English

Best-selling author Elie Wiesel was selected to receive the Nobel Prize in 1986 for his humanitarian efforts and for advocating for those affected by the Holocaust during World War 2. In his acceptance speech titled "Hope, Despair, and Memory" (full

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English Language Arts, Reading, World History

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Worksheets, Handouts, Google Apps

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"Fahrenheit 451" - Faber vs. Beatty Argument Analysis PDF (dark & Light Theme)

By Rich English

Walk your students through analyzing the two biggest arguments made within the famous novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Help students look deep into how Guy Montage struggles with his existential crisis of how to view the world in which he

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English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

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Parts of speech practice test

By Rich English

This is a practice test that I used to identify how well my students were able to define the 8 parts of speech, but also be able to identify them within a sentence. This is a great pre-grammar unit, or beginning of year review, assignment.

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English Language Arts, Reading, Grammar

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Analyzing Rhetoric within Media Bias

By Rich English

Help students learn where their news information is coming from, as well as any bias that goes along with it. Students are asked to find a similar story on three different news platforms (liberal, conservative, and neutral) and analyze how those

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English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

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Research, PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

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Analyzing Rhetorical Appeals and Devices with "In Defense of Technology" Article

By Rich English

The assignment goes along with an article in the New York Times by Andrew O’Hagan (original article linked on the instruction page). After a reading of the article, students are asked to identify the claim that's being made in the piece, as well as

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English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

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PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Huck Finn Annotation Quiz

By Rich English

This is a quiz given to students to test their annotation skills for Chapter 31 of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". This is the chapter when Huck writes/tears up the letter to Miss. Watson about Jim being at the Phelps' farm. This is a great

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English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

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Worksheets

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Gatsby - Who is responsible?

By Rich English

This is a fun activity for students to complete after reading "The Great Gatsby" students have to determine who is responsible for Gatsby's death and designate why they feel that way. It works well to generate discussion, and brainstorm before

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English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

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

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Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Great Gatsby Socratic seminar & thematic essay

By Rich English

This is a final assessment for the novel "The Great Gatsby". It combines a speaking grade for the Socratic seminar (pilot/co-pilot format) with a short essay. The whole project is based around three of the themes within the novel.

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Reading, Literature, Writing-Essays

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10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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TKAM - Walking in someone else's shoes

By Rich English

This is a fun partner activity for partners to discuss stereotypes and prejudice while reading "To Kill a Mockingbird". It focuses around the major quote from Atticus about walking around in someone else's skin (or shoes). I print out about 15 very

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Literature

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Annotate - Twitter format

By Rich English

Teach your students annotation skills using a format that most of them are familiar with: Twitter. This handout explains the benefits of annotating and even has a coding system for items so students can maintain their reading speed (fluency).

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English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

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American Lit Theme Research essay

By Rich English

These are all the documents that I have used for both a regular and honors level American Literature class for their research papers. They ask the students to write about common themes that we have studied throughout the year, showing their

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English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

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Huck Finn Character Analysis

By Rich English

This is a prompt for a character analysis essay for the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". This includes a long list of topics that students can consider writing about, and look for while annotating their text. The students get to choose to

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English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

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Chuck Norris common punctuation review

By Rich English

This is a powerpoint review of common punctuation and grammar "presented" by Chuck Norris. My students love this because there are also jokes built into the slides that illustrate the punctuation rules.

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English Language Arts, Grammar

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught for 7 and a half years in northern Illinois as a high school English teacher. I have worked with numerous remedial classes, in addition to regular education, and honors levels. I student taught in a classroom where the majority of my junior students were reading at elementary grade levels.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I like to have very interactive student based lessons that expose students to multiple different resources. I really like to incorporate pop culture into my lessons so students can experience English in real world application. I also love to tie history into my lessons because the two are inseparable in order to understand the works that we study.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.A. In English Education (Middle and Secondary levels) from Illinois State University

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Aside from teaching English in the high school level, I am also certified to teach Language Arts and Social Studies in the middle grade levels as well. Furthermore, I also have experience coaching athletics as well.