In Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap a group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm. The Mousetrap is a murder mystery. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Other potential su more

I took a lesson from GradPoint called Literary Response Essay that listed the different parts of a literary response essay. I created this easy to follow template to help my students pre-write their essays and to break down the different parts.

This PowerPoint presentation explores the difference between similes and metaphors. The presentation includes examples of similes and metaphors with accompanying visuals and contains an activity for students to create their own similes and metaphors.

This is a document listing the various jobs needed to be completed to set up a Family Fun Night focusing on Makerspace.

This is a unit lesson on learning how to use simile to write poetry using the Spanish language. This can be used for any second year students. This lesson contains a reading by a famous Spanish writer Juan Simon Jimenez along with practice tests. It also contains assessments for the unit and a rubri more

According to TechedUpTeacher, "Newsela is a site that not only takes current events and aligns them with common core, but also allows you to increase or decrease the difficulty of the article. If that wasn’t enough, they have quick quizzes your students can take while they read!"

This resource includes a link to a textbook page on identifying and fixing run-on sentences, followed by practice exercises created by this contributor.

Coppélia is a comic ballet based upon two stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann (The Sandman) and Die Puppe (The Doll). Dr. Coppélius is an inventor who has made a life-size dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Franz, a village youth, becomes infatuated with it and sets aside his true heart's more

This lesson plan, designed by writer Louis Porter II Ed. D., introduces students to the artistic achievements of J. Otis Powell and his mentor, Amiri Baraka. This is a fun and interesting way to introduce students to the Black Arts Movement. This plan also provides instructions for guiding students more

This resource links to a Khan Academy video that answers the questions, "What is a sentence?" Students are then led through a video and a corresponding practice on types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory).