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Evaluating Sources Effective Research Skills - Media Literacy Bias Activity

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The ability to evaluate source credibility and identify media bias are essential media literacy skills. This resource will teach your students how to locate reliable sources and how to evaluate websites for accuracy and source credibility. This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.W.8

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Dystopian Literature Introduction Short Story Unit Activity - Dystopia Theme

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The Introduction to Dystopian Literature provides the critical lens students need to analyze elements of dystopia! The riveting materials and thought-provoking activities support the analysis of any dystopian short story or novel. The 40 engaging

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

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Element of Suspense | Short Story Unit | Horror Genre | Suspenseful

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The Elements of Suspense Introduction and Application Activities will teach students the writing techniques and literary elements used by authors to create a suspenseful story setting with a dark atmosphere or mood.Help your students to become

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.4

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Identity Theft Prevention Research Project - Fraud - Financial Literacy Consumer

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Create a research-based Identity Theft Prevention Guide while teaching your students financial literacy skills! This resource includes activities and a research project on the topics of identity theft, scams, and online fraud. Students will research

Subjects:

Life Skills, Economics , Family Consumer Sciences

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Projects, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.W.7, RH.9-10.9, RH.11-12.7

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Credible Sources and Research Skills Task Cards | Source Evaluation Activities

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Teach students to select credible and reliable sources with the Source Evaluation Task Cards and website evaluation activities! The task card prompts help students identify quality indicators, along with red flag warnings, located in websites and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Task Cards, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.8

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Theme: Teaching Theme, Short Story Literary Elements, Elements of Fiction

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Analyze and Infer: Identifying Theme for Google DriveTeach and review the literary element of theme with your students! This teaching resource includes access to an attractive, modern Google Slides presentation about the literary element theme and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.2

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High School and Middle School Learning Disabilities Research Project

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Provide your students with a meaningful opportunity to learn more about learning disabilities, teach them the importance of compassion, and empower them with the knowledge that having a learning disability does not prevent their ABILITY to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Worksheets, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.8.8, W.9-10.7, W.11-12.7

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Urban Legends | Modern Folklore | Cautionary Tales | Folktales

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This resource examines our fascination with urban legends and analyzes these types of stories as examples of contemporary folklore. Your students will be engaged while learning about classic and modern urban legends - including urban legends that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.6, RL.11-12.1

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Text Features Activities (Nonfiction Text Features Lessons), Test Prep Review

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Teach students to navigate nonfiction while using text features to increase their understanding! This nonfiction mini-unit includes 45 slides identifying, defining, and presenting 20 types of text features with real-life examples.Using text

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.7.1, RI.8.1, RI.9-10.5, RI.11-12.1

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Connotation and Denotation Google Slides Presentation Author's Tone Word Choice

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The Connotation and Denotation Google Slides Presentation includes 16 modern, high-interest, and informative Google Slides on denotation and connotation with view and respond questions and an application activity for your students.Use the slides to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.4

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The Crucible Introduction Salem Witch Trials Research with 30 Task Cards

By Teen Tech University

Help your students connect with Puritan society and early American literature, such as The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, with this modern, engaging Salem Witch Trials Research Activity. This teaching resource includes 30 inquiry-based research

Subjects:

English Language Arts, U.S. History

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Task Cards, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.W.7

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The Elizabethan Era, Shakespeare's World, and British Literature Activities

By Teen Tech University

This introduction to Shakespeare explores the Elizabethan Era, Tudor monarchy, impact of the Black Plague, and the history of the famous playwright! Provide students with a deeper understanding of the historical references in Shakespeare's plays.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.10, RI.11-12.7

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Reference Materials - Reference Sources Text Features - Using Academic Sources

By Teen Tech University

The Reference Materials Mastered teaching bundle provides students with the opportunity to identify and define a variety of reference materials, describe what type of information various print and digital sources can provide, how the information is

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Library Skills, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

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The Outsiders Project | Novel Characterization Activity | Middle School ELA

By Teen Tech University

Enhance your novel study of The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton with this creative Characterization Word Art Project! Students will select a major character from The Outsiders, generate a character trait list, and choose an image, symbolic shape, or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.7.1, RL.8.1, RL.9-10.1

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Dramatic, Verbal, and Situational Irony Activity - Irony Types Literary Elements

By Teen Tech University

This resource includes an Irony Types Literary Element slides presentation featuring 30 ironic images and three embedded YouTube videos defining verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. After viewing the videos, students will then note on their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

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

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Women's History Month Research Project Notable Women Throughout Our World

By Teen Tech University

Celebrate the bravery, heroism, and determination of international women trailblazers during Women's History Month or any time during the year! This resource includes a short-term research project and features 33 remarkable and influential women

Subjects:

English Language Arts, World History, Other (Social Studies - History)

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Projects, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.W.7

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Digital Note-Taking Templates Notetaking Graphic Organizers - Cornell Notes

By Teen Tech University

Use these digital note-taking templates to provide additional structure while your students take notes! Learning how to effectively take notes using a device is challenging. These note-taking templates will provide the help your students need! Each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.9-10.1c, W.9-10.6, W.9-10.10, W.11-12.1c, W.11-12.6, W.11-12.10

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Thanksgiving Activities Middle School ELA and High School - Gratitude Lesson

By Teen Tech University

Are you searching for Thanksgiving activities to implement with your students that also hold academic value? Engage and motivate with this nonfiction text and media analysis mini-unit! The materials focus on the theme of gratitude and feature

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Thanksgiving, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.10, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.10, RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.10

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Middle English Literature Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Middle Ages King Arthur

By Teen Tech University

Analyze characters from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D’Arthur, or with this Middle Period Character Word Art Project! Use this creative medieval character analysis activity with any story from the Middle Ages.Students use word art,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.7

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Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit Activity Assessment Project Grades 8-11

By Teen Tech University

This Edgar Allan Poe interactive short story project offers your students a creative assessment by using a great motivating tool – technology! This interactive project is designed to be used with any of Poe’s short stories - including "The Tell-Tale

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.7.2, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.1

$4.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Thank you for visiting my store! I am a Nationally Board Certified Educator with 27 years experience in public education. Since I began teaching, I've taught High School English, worked as a middle and high school Media Specialist, and currently serve as my school's Technology Instructional Specialist. I am still as passionate about education today as the day I first started! I enjoy creating high-interest curriculum materials for my teachers and utilizing educational technology to enhance both teaching and student learning!

MY TEACHING STYLE

21st Century Learners: Put students in the driver's seat by teaching with technology!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

2002 - National Board Certified Teacher in Young Adult and Adolescent Literature 2012 - National Board Certification Renewal

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

1995 - Erskine College, Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude BA English, minor secondary education 2004- MA+30 in Library and Information Science from University of South Carolina Teaching Certification - Secondary English Teaching Certification - Library Media Specialist National Board Certification

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Reading and educational technology are my passions! I love teaching students and conducting workshops for educators about the latest tech apps/tools and showing teachers how they can utilize technology in order to motivate and reinforce student learning.

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Vocabulary, Specialty, Science, Other (Science), Social Studies, Civics, Government, U.S. History, European History, World History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Computer Science, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, Career and Technical Education, ELA Test Prep, British History, Geography, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Life Skills, For All Subjects, Literature, Business, Psychology, Economics , Character Education, Family Consumer Sciences, Instructional Technology, Library Skills, Criminal Justice - Law, Short Stories, Writing, Robotics, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, The New Year, Dance, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Vocational Education, Test Preparation, End of Year, Close Reading, African History, Classroom Community, Hispanic Heritage Month, Social Emotional Learning