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End of Year Games and Reflection Activities

By Carla McLeod

END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FREEBIE!!!! Ugh. What to do with those last few days of school when the material is covered, the tests are graded, and your students are jumping off the walls? This packet will help you end the year on the high note by

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, End of Year

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Games

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Determining Theme: FREE Activity & Handout

By Carla McLeod

Determining theme and its development is central to Common Core literature skills. This FREE activity enables students to employ a variety of strategies to identify themes and how they develop over the course of a text. It also adds a modern

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

FREE

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"Isn't It Ironic?" FREEBIE--Fun, Creative Irony Activity

By Carla McLeod

IRONY PURISTS, YOUR DAY HAS COME! Alanis Morissette’s 1995 classic song, “Ironic,” has long been used as a teaching tool for irony. However, this has been much to the dismay of many English teachers and irony purists who point out (perhaps in the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

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Student Reading Log {FREEBIE!}

By Carla McLeod

A great tool for independent reading both within and outside the classroom, this reading log enables students to set weekly reading goals, chronicle reading time and pages, record new vocabulary words and their definitions, summarize weekly reading,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

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Logical Fallacies FREE Close Reading Activity: Old Major's Speech, Animal Farm

By Carla McLeod

Each year, while teaching my high schoolers about logical fallacies, I struggle to find a text they can work with to identify and analyze examples. After all, a speech filled with logical fallacies is hardly one to be remembered in the history

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.6

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Context Clues Graphic Organizer FREEBIE (Vocabulary and Pre-reading Activity)

By Carla McLeod

Learning how to use context clues to decipher unfamiliar words is an important skill for reading comprehension. Readers are able to use other words in a sentence in order to decode an unknown word and better understand the text. This free

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Pass Packet: Hall Passes, Restroom Passes, Homework Passes & More

By Carla McLeod

A pass for every purpose! Simply print and cut these attractive, ready-to-use passes enabling students to move around school grounds while encouraging them with humor to hurry back to class. This package includes: • Hall passes • Restroom

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables, Classroom Forms

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Pride and Prejudice: Fun Characterization and Textual Evidence Activity

By Carla McLeod

This is a fun, Common Core-aligned activity to help your high school students more deeply understand and appreciate the characters and their relationships within Pride and Prejudice. Students analyze main and supporting characters based on a “Date,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.14 MB)

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Open House PowerPoint [FREE & FULLY EDITABLE!]

By Carla McLeod

Strike the right chord with parents from the start with this fully editable Open House PowerPoint created for secondary ELA. From teacher background, course overview, required materials, and grading procedures, to ways to stay informed and get

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Syllabi, For Parents

FREE

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Persuasive Speech Planners [FREEBIE!]

By Carla McLeod

Planning a persuasive speech can seem like a daunting task for students. Provide them with choice—whether your students prefer a graphic organizer, visual map, or a more linear approach. Or use the planner that works best for your lesson! This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Outlines, Graphic Organizers

FREE

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Essay Planning Outline & Template - FREE PowerPoint & Essay Planners

By Carla McLeod

Creating an essay outline is essential to an interesting, well-constructed, well-supported essay. This essay planning resource provides an easy 4-step process to creating an outline that will result in an organized, logical essay along with a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

W.9-10.1, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.4, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4

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Syllabus & Kahoot Review Game for Secondary ELA [FULLY EDITABLE & FREE!]

By Carla McLeod

Cross one more item off the ever-growing back-to-school list with this FULLY EDITABLE syllabus created for secondary ELA. From the course overview to required materials, grading procedures, late work policies and more, it outlines everything

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

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

Types:

Syllabi, Printables

FREE

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New Year's Web Quest Activity FREEBIE!

By Carla McLeod

Those first few days back after winter break, when sleepy students can barely keep their heads off their desks, can be challenging to say the least! This freebie is intended to help ease your classes back into their routines, while providing an

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Holidays/Seasonal, The New Year

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.78 MB)

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FREE Open House Sign-Up Sheet

By Carla McLeod

Work as a team with your students’ parents right from the start. This attractive, FREE open house sign-up sheet will allow you to capture parent contact information so that you can keep them informed and connected all year long. You may also

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Handouts, Classroom Forms, For Parents

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Digital Download PDF (2.84 MB)

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Back to School Activities: 5 Fun and FREE Activities for Secondary Students

By Carla McLeod

Get to know your students and build classroom community all while having some fun along the way! This FREE resource will help you kick off the year right, with icebreakers and games your students will love!Like this resource? You can find TONS of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Games

FREE

Digital Download PDF (20.43 MB)

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ELA Test Prep: Making it Effective & Fun--a FREEBIE!

By Carla McLeod

Test prep. Two words that can suck the very life out of any classroom. But a little friendly competition can make any lesson more fun—even during the dreaded testing season! Using the plan and materials in this resource, classes compete against

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables

FREE

Digital Download ZIP (1.21 MB)

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Animal Farm Unit Pacing Guide: FREE Daily Calendar for 6-Week Unit

By Carla McLeod

This resource includes a suggested 6-week pacing guide for George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm. You can find all the lessons, activities and assessments featured in this guide within my Animal Farm Full Unit Mega-Bundle.Of course, depending

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (7.30 MB)

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Annotation Guide & Poster - Easy Annotation & Close Reading Guide

By Carla McLeod

Close reading is more than just the process of reading a text closely. Central to the Common Core ELA standards, close reading is a thoughtful, purposeful analysis in which the student reads and annotates a short, complex text, focusing on certain

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

FREE

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Peer Review Checklist Activity: FREE Informative & Argumentative Essay Revision

By Carla McLeod

Struggling to make peer review days actually productive?This free resource includes peer review checklists for informative and argumentative essays along with instructional slides to walk students through the process. Intended for high school and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.9-10.1, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.5

FREE

Digital Download ZIP (1.21 MB)

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ELA Curriculum Map Pacing Guide for 9th & 10th English Quarter 1 of Full Year

By Carla McLeod

This curriculum map resource includes a suggested pacing guide for 9-weeks of ELA curriculum for grades 9-10. You can use it to help plan your own year of ELA lessons and/or get a better sense of the materials included in my ELA Quarter 1 Curriculum

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2...

FREE

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching high school language arts for twelve years. It is the most rewarding job I could have ever hoped for. Previously, I had spent nearly twenty years in marketing and advertising. I find great joy in writing, and have been lucky enough to have some of my work published in Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Modern Bride. But of all my career choices, nothing compares to the passion I feel for teaching.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My goal is to make learning fun while empowering students to think for themselves. I try to employ creative, collaborative, interactive learning activities in the classroom whenever possible.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

My students' learning is the greatest reward, better than any award or accolade.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.A. English, SUNY Geneseo. Minors: Secondary Education and Public Relations.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Mom of two adorable boys who are the center of my universe. Currently, I live in Florida, though it's sometimes hard to get the New York City out of the girl.