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National Boards Component 2: Wrapping Your Head Around It All!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Overwhelmed by the instructions for Component 2? Trying to piece through exactly WHAT you need from each student, in your additional documents, in your written commentary, and everything else? This guide through Component 2's instructions will help

Subjects:

Professional Development

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Graphic Organizers

$3.00

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West Side Story/ Romeo and Juliet Comparison Guide

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Did you read Romeo and Juliet with your students? Why not watch West Side Story (2021) and compare the two?!This guide has students compare the main characters from the text to the film and note their similarities and differences as well as look at

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.9

$4.00

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AP Human Geography Unit 2: Population Escape Room!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Teaching Geography? Human Geography? AP Human Geography? This Unit 2: Population Digital Escape Room is a fun, engaging way to help your students understand some of the critical elements of population!This fully digital escape room includes:TFR,

Subjects:

Geography

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities

CCSS:

RH.9-10.4, RH.9-10.7

$4.00

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Ethos Pathos Logos (Rhetorical Appeals) Advertisement Project

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Fun way to end a unit on ethos, pathos, logos (Rhetorical Appeals). This can be used for up to 4 class periods, but could also be shorted down into 2-3 class periods if needed. Students receive a project packet where they choose something to be

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$4.00

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Modern Broadway Musical Analysis - Theater/Drama class

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from modern musicals (2000-current) and analyze them. Students will analyze performances for set design, costumes, lighting, acting choices, choreography, and more. Some

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Other (Music), Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$2.50

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National Boards Component 4: Wrapping Your Head Around the Instructions!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Overwhelmed by the instructions for Component 4 - there are so many forms and questions and pieces! Trying to piece through exactly WHAT you need within each section, in your additional documents, in your written commentary, and everything else?This

Subjects:

Professional Development

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Graphic Organizers

$3.50

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Identifying and Analyzing Juxtaposition in (Film, Fiction, AND Photography)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a fun way to introduce the concept of juxtaposition using youtube clips (Up, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Wizard of Oz), pictures, and examples from literature. The top of the worksheet has a definition, two sentence frames so they understand

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Internet Activities

$4.00

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National Boards: Component 3 - Safe, Fair, Equitable, Challenging Questionaire

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This resource is intended to support teachers who are trying to get National Boards Certified. Specifically, this supports Component 3 and walks teachers through a series of questions related to how the lesson they video taped is "Safe, Fair,

Subjects:

Professional Development

Grades:

Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Professional Development

$3.50

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Analyze Ethos / Pathos / Logos with Commercials - Fun Rhetorical Appeal activity

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Great way to introduce the Rhetorical Appeals! Students learn how to identify ethos, pathos, and logos as they analyze commercials for premise, target audience, and the 3 appeals.This is editable, so you can adjust as necessary. It ALSO includes an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

$3.50

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A Muppet Christmas Carol Film / Movie Guide (Answer Key & Time Stamps)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a movie guide for the film A Muppet Christmas Carol starring Michael Caine (and of course the Muppets). Great for using in English class either as a film analysis or as a follow activity to reading the original story of A Christmas Carol by

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10

$3.00

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National Boards Component 2: Student Tracking Guide

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Are you overwhelmed at the thought of figuring out what to look at for your student analysis for component 2 of National Boards? Afraid you'll forget something important when trying to keep track of all the student work? Fear not!This Student

Subjects:

Professional Development

Grades:

Staff

Types:

Professional Development

$3.50

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Newsies Film / Movie Guide, Quiz, and One Pager

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Movie guide, quiz, and one pager for the movie musical My Fair Lady. This little mini unit has students following along with the movie, taking a short quiz to show they were paying attention, and then creating a One Pager to show understanding of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.10

$4.49

$4.00

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Much Ado About Nothing Movie / Film Guide, Quiz, and One Pager w/Rubrics

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Movie guide, quiz, and one pager for the 1993 movie adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This little mini unit has students following along with the movie, taking a short quiz to show they were paying attention, and then creating a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9

$6.00

$4.50

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Famous Musical (Broadway) Composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from to develop an understanding of the famous musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Students will analyze performances and lyrics for style, process, common musical

Subjects:

Music, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Homework

$3.50

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Digital Figurative Language Escape Room!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Want students to be able to spot the difference between similes and metaphors like a dog wants a bone? Are you anxiously anticipating aiding in academic understanding of assonance and alliteration? Are you buzzing for onomatopoeia? Well look no

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4

$3.00

Online Resource
Google Forms™

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AVID WICOR - Reading in all classes

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This resource is a hyperlinked set of strategies that all teachers can use to help deepen students reading with AVID strategies. There are general strategies that can be used in any class and content-specific strategies. Share this with your staff

Subjects:

Reading, Other (Math), Other (Science)

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Handouts, For Principals & Administrators, Professional Development

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (0.37 MB)

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A Christmas Carol Film / Movie Guide (2009 Jim Carrey) Answer Key & Time Stamps

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a movie guide for the film A Christmas Carol from 2009 starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, and Colin Firth. Great for using in English class either as a film analysis or as a follow activity to reading the original story of A Christmas Carol

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10

$3.00

Digital Download DOCX (0.03 MB)

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Famous Musical (Broadway) Composers - Stephen Sondheim

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from Youtube to develop an understanding of the famous musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim. Students will analyze performances and lyrics for style, process, common

Subjects:

Music, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$3.50

Digital Download DOCX (0.04 MB)

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Moneyball Movie / Film Guide, Quiz, and One Pager w/Rubrics

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Movie guide, quiz, and one pager for the movie Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Chris Pratt). This little mini unit has students following along with the movie, taking a short quiz to show they were paying attention, and then creating a One Pager

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Statistics

Grades:

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

Types:

Movie Guides

$6.00

$4.50

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Tone and Mood Analysis with Horror Films!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

*This is a zipped file*A fun and engaging lesson on tone and mood that students understand and enjoy!This lesson includes:A PowerPoint that includes a mini-lesson on tone and mood and a fun activity!A half-page mini-lesson notes pageA worksheet to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Halloween

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RI.8.6

$2.50

Digital Download ZIP (1.60 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Two National Boards Certified ELA teachers with 20 years of experience working at both the middle and high school levels. We share a passion for all things books, literature, and of course, Harry Potter!

MY TEACHING STYLE

Focused on engaging activities to encourage critical thinking and developing students self-motivation to be lifelong learners.

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National Boards Certification, National Boards MOC, District Teacher of the Year Nominee

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Specialty, Math, Other (Math), Science, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, Government, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Other (Art), Music, Music Composition, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Performing Arts), Physical Education, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, Career and Technical Education, ELA Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Professional Development, Statistics, Psychology, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Valentine's Day, For All Subjects, Informational Text, School Psychology, Close Reading