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Comparing Poetry: Tupac and Langston Hughes

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Show your students that poetry is all around us by comparing Tupac's Dear Mama lyrics to Langston Hughes Mother to Son poem. This lesson can be taught in a variety of ways to meet all learners. This lesson includes a slide show to present both the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Music, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Scaffolded Notes

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Google Slides™

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Middle School Poetry "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser: Teacher Guide

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This powerful poem is an amazing resource to cover a variety of elements. In the teacher notes you'll receive questions to facilitate your class discussions, answers, and prompts for student annotating. These teacher notes also make a great scaffold

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

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

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Lectures, Study Guides, Scaffolded Notes

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Comparing Tupac Lyrics and Langston Hughes: Teacher Guides Venn Diagram

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This guide walks you through how to question your students while comparing Tupac's lyrics for "Dear Momma” and Langston Hughes' Mother to Son. Both texts work well to analyze purpose, message, and mood/tone. Students enjoy the comparison, especially

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Music, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Outlines, Scaffolded Notes

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Civil Rights Poetry: "I Heard it on the Bus One Day” Teacher Notes

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This poem is amazing to teach POV, tone, mood, and message. It's the perfect poem to make comparisons by only using one text. These teacher notes should make it easier to guide your discussion or scaffold for various learners.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Black History Month

Grades:

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

Types:

Lectures, Handouts, Scaffolded Notes

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Christmas Writing Activity: Christmas Quilt

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These quilting squares can be used to create a paper quilt for any writing task. Each quilting 'rectangle' contains a coloring square and a lined writing portion. There are 4 different designs and they alternate directions so that they will create a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

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

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Activities, Cultural Activities

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Holocaust Paired Passages: Informational Text on Holocaust Survivor and Poetry

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This resource is great for analyzing paired passages, especially if you're already doing a unit with a similar topic or theme. I used this in conjunction with our novel study for Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. We identified persecution and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers

$2.00

Online Resource
Google Docs™

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Frayer Model: Graphic Organizer for Argumentative Text/Debates

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A perfect resource to have students show their understanding of argumentative texts, like debates, while supporting their position with logical fallacies. This is great for Middle School and High School students and uses the Frayer Model in either a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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Poetry Analysis and Illustration-6 Sided Star Graphic Organizer

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Have your students analyze explicit and implicit meanings of a poem, identify figurative language, describe tone and mood, identify speaker and intended audience, and describe the poem's theme. Students will do this by completing a 6-sided star. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Graphic Organizers, Cultural Activities

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Google Slides™

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Argumentative Text/Debate Graphic Organizers

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These digital slides include two sets of graphic organizers with teacher instructions, student instructions, and complete examples. This is great for any grade level that is diving into argumentative text and identifying claims, counter arguments,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Assessment, Graphic Organizers

$4.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Veteran's Day Poetry: Two Speaker Poem "We are Soldiers"

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This two speaker poem is an amazing resource to compare different perspectives of a shared experience. It's simple, yet powerful, and really shows student's how author's use point of view to send a message.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, U.S. History, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Study Guides, Printables, Scaffolded Notes

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Digital Download PDF (0.60 MB)

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Context Clue Interactive Journal Tabs

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This interactive "foldable" is designed for interactive journals. The tab that says "Types of Context Clues" is to be glued down in the journal and the tabs cut. I wrote the definition of the context clue on the backside of the tab and wrote an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks

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Digital Download PDF (0.10 MB)

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Novel Reflection One Pager: Any Novel, Any Grade!

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This one page novel reflection can be used with a wide range of grade levels and with any novel, whether the students have completed it or not. Using google docs (pageless), students are walked through the steps of this one pager. However, this

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Reflective Journals for Teachers, Graphic Organizers

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Google Drive™ folder

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Neutral & Boho: Editable Good Morning/Welcome Slides

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These 4 good morning/welcome slides are editable and hand designed. I created 4 different slides that stray from the usual bright colors and use neutral tones. Each slide includes different ideas for each category, but feel free to edit to match

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Spring, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers

$2.50

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Christmas Poetry: "Little Tree"by E.E Cummings Teacher Notes

By Teaching with Thomas

This magical and fun Christmas poem is an amazing resource to teach for, tone, mood, message, and use of figurative language. These teacher notes should facilitate the class discussion by having pre written questions this is also a great tool for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Study Guides, Outlines, Scaffolded Notes

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Digital Download PDF (0.81 MB)

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Fall Poetry Analysis and Illustration

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Perfect Fall/Halloween poetry assignment that is fun, engaging, and so versatile! Use this resource with a variety of grades, levels, and even different texts! I have provided two different leveled poems, 5 different layouts, an example, and

Subjects:

Poetry, Autumn, Halloween

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.8.4, RL.8.10

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Community Activist Nipsey Hussle: Exploring Informational Texts and Synthesizing

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This resource is perfect for exploring informational text and having students synthesize new information about a familiar topic. Nipsey Hussle was a popular rapper who was killed in front of his clothing store. Students normally only know him as a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Music, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

$1.00

Digital Download PDF (1.97 MB)

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Interactive Plot Diagram: Google Slides

By Teaching with Thomas

This is an easy and simple plot diagram. Each dot will take you to the corresponding slide so students can easily write what each component of the plot is. This is easy to use for distance learning and applicable for any story.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$1.50

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Holocaust Poetry: Anne Frank Huis by Andrew Motion

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Anne Frank Huis is a poem by Andrew Motion and is great for students to read after learning who Anne Frank was and how they hid for years in Amsterdam. It describes how someone would feel visiting the house decades later and even compares their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$2.00

Online Resource
Google Docs™

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Editable Synthesizing Target: Google Slides

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This resources uses Google Slides to have students digitally complete a synthesizing target. The first slide shows students a visual of how synthesizing builds your knowledge after reading text on a specific topic. Each circle is linked to the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$1.50

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Middle School STAAR Poetry: "I Heard it on the Bus One Day” STAAR Formatted Quiz

By Teaching with Thomas

If you're using "I Heard it on the Bus One Day" with your class, this is a quick quiz to assess their understanding. It specifically covers the mood, point of view, and message of the poem. This poem is free use with a google search, but I have a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Black History Month

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Printables

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Digital Download PDF (0.09 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I taught for 3 years in 4th grade ELA, moved up to Junior High and taught 6th and 8th grade for a year, then moved into a full time 8th grade position. I love that middle school age and enjoyed finding new ways to keep them engaged, when it sometimes proved challenging. I currently live in Alabama and teach 8th grade ELA virtually for Texas.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I don't like busy work or time filling work sheets. I like to teach everything within the context of a text and have students work with topics of their interests. I try to give lots of options, grace, and time!

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I attended Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas...GO BULLDOGS! I am an Army Brat, so I've lived all over the states. I was born in Louisiana and call that home.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a wife and Mom of two young children. My son is 4 and my daughter is 2. I live a blessed life and am very thankful for the opportunity to share some of my resources to help fellow teachers out!