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Sentence Explosion! AP Diction & Syntax Analysis

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A Sentence Explosion is a dynamite way to teach AP students to analyze style! Great for AP Language or Literature courses or other advanced English classes, this activity allows students to take any well-crafted sentence from a text and break down

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Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Planning Worksheet

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This AP Language and Composition worksheet can be used with any text students are analyzing. It guides them through analyzing the various rhetorical features of a text (context, exigence, rhetorical situation, appeals (including space for a

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Conjunction Guide Reference Sheet

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"The Conjunctyard" summarizes the three major ways of connecting clauses to build advanced sentences: coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs. This reference sheet is a great addition to any writing unit from

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AP English Language Final Essay Strategies Review Sheet

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This one-stop-shop handout reviews strategies for all three AP English Language essays in a concise format suited to last-minute, week-of preparation. Use it to recap what you've been teaching all year, or edit it to include strategies you

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AP Language Diction & Syntax Reference Sheet

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This two-sided reference page discusses "What We Talk About When We Talk About" diction and syntax. Both pages are full of examples of the various variables involved in making diction and syntax choices as a writer. Perfect for introducing diction

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AP English Language Synthesis Essay Peer Review Rubric

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This student rubric allows classmates to exchange feedback on synthesis essays for AP Language and Composition. Divided into the categories of "Thesis," "Invention," "Arrangement," and "Style," the rubric has students rate each aspect of the essay

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AP English Language Rhetorical Analysis Essay Peer Review

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This versatile peer review sheet allows students to trade papers after writing any AP-format rhetorical analysis essay and conduct a peer review targeting effective openings and closings, specific support, and meaningful organization. It also

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AP Language Intro to Rhetoric PowerPoint

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Take your students from rhetorical neophytes to old pros with this Intro to Rhetoric unit PowerPoint. The result of nine years of AP Language teaching experience, this comprehensive, 50-slide PowerPoint presentation serves as an introduction to

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Basic Poetry Scansion Worksheet

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This simple worksheet helps students practice finding stressed and unstressed syllables in single words after learning the basic metric feet of poetry (iamb, trochee, anapest, although the goal here is just to find the stress pattern, and not all

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Poetry

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th

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Homework

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AP English Language and Composition Argumentative Essay Peer Review

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This peer review sheet guides students toward the most important considerations in crafting an AP Argumentative essay. Also includes three questions important for every AP essay. Fully editable. (Thumbnails do not reflect actual product margins

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Writing-Essays, Test Preparation

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11^th, 12^th

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Activities

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Freakonomics Introduction Analysis for AP English Language

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CRITIQUONOMICS helps AP English Language and Composition students analyze rhetorical strategies in the introduction to Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt's FREAKONOMICS while focusing attention on the book's central themes. Key included.

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Reading

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11^th, 12^th

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Homework

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Quick & Easy Phrase & Clause Grammar Reference Chart

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This double-sided chart summarizes the four most common types of English phrases (plus dependent clauses) in terms of their structure and the "roles" they can play in a sentence (adjectival, adverbial, nominal). Simple design and brief, clear

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Ad Nauseam Satire Advertising Assignment for AP English Language

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This AP English Language and Composition assignment requires students to create a poster (also adaptable for iPad apps such as PicCollage) on which they advertise an undesirable product or service in a way that satirizes some aspect of contemporary

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Graphic Arts, Informational Text

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

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AP Grammar Worksheets (Sentence Slots, Phrases, & Clauses)

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This packet of grammar worksheets covers sentence "slots" (subject, action/linking verbs, direct/indirect object, subject complement, subordinating word) as well as prepositional, gerund, participial, and appositive phrases and the roles they can

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Grammar

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Worksheets

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Conversing in Verse Poetic Meter Group Activity for Poetry

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This activity allows students in small groups to write a brief skit using iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter and perform it for the class. It is designed for use in a computer lab, but the file is editable to suit your particular classroom's

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Poetry

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Activities

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Argumentative Context Group Activity for ACT and AP Argument Essays

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This activity splits classes into groups to brainstorm arguments in response to one of five prompts that resemble ACT Writing or AP Argumentative prompts. The goal is to expand the range of arguments students consider into realms they might not

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ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Test Preparation

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11^th, 12^th

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Hamlet AP Language Argumentative Essay

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In this essay prompt optimized for AP English Language and Composition, students choose one of four arguable propositions about William Shakespeare's HAMLET and write an essay with cited support from the play. A great way to harmonize the teaching

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Writing-Expository, Literature, Writing-Essays

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11^th, 12^th

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Dashes & Hyphens Mini-Unit

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Acquaint your students with every horizontal line in the English language with these efficient and fun teaching materials on dashes and hyphens. Includes PPTs, teaching handouts, and practice worksheets (with keys), as well as a 20-question

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Grammar, ELA Test Prep

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

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Intro to Poetry Unit PowerPoint Slides

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Get ready to teach your students more about poetry than they (or you) ever thought possible! This comprehensive, 51-slide PowerPoint is the result of nearly a decade of refinement in my 10th-grade classroom. It begins WAY at the beginning with an

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Poetry

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

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Julius Caesar Character Analysis Essay

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This complete essay project is tailored to William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR. Students choose from among four prompts, each of which follows the same five-paragraph structure, giving students the element of choice and diversifying your grading

Subjects:

Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th

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Projects, Rubrics

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RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b, W.9-10.1d, W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.5

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught English at a Catholic high school in the Chicago suburbs since 2008. In that time, I have taught sophomore English, junior American Literature, and AP English Language and Composition. I have also advised the school newspaper since 2009.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BA, Biological Sciences & Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry), Northwestern University, 2006; MSEd, Secondary English Teaching with Middle School Endorsement, Northwestern University, 2008

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