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A Separate Peace Digital Escape Room for Honors SAT AP Prep (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Bring A Separate Peace to life with this engaging digital escape room. Use this resource as a culminating review activity (pre-quiz/test/essay), supplemental activity, or extra credit assignment. In this activity, students will review: Characters,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Internet Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4

$8.97

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British Literature AP English Growing Bundle Digital Escape Rooms Shakespeare

By Innovative English Instruction

New to teaching British literature? Know the ropes, but need some fresh inspiration? This growing bundle of resources supports British literature for English students in grades 9-12 (with some resources appropriate for grade 8, as well). It

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

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RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, W.9-10.1, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.7, W.9-10.10

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The Odyssey Book 1 Invocation Analysis Scavenger Hunt Intro Activity (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Engage your students in the invocation of The Odyssey with this scavenger hunt activity. More involved that merely locating details, it requires student to respond to follow-up questions once they have located 10 significant features of the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1

$2.97

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Growing Bundle Back to School Halloween Thanksgiving Fall English Digital

By Innovative English Instruction

Feel supported with all things fall in your high school English classes with this growing bundle that is packed with skill-building back-to-school, Halloween, and Thanksgiving themed materials!You'll get:For Back-to-School:A framework for writing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Google Apps

$48.66

$34.97

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The Scarlet Letter Digital Escape Room for Honors SAT AP Prep Review Activity

By Innovative English Instruction

Bring The Scarlet Letter to life with this engaging digital escape room (5-star rated in its bundle). Use this resource as a culminating review activity (pre-quiz/test/essay), supplemental activity, or extra credit assignment. In this activity,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Internet Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4

$8.97

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Macbeth Final Project Writing Directing Acting Reenactment Scene Adaptation

By Innovative English Instruction

In this engaging final Macbeth project, students select a time and place outside of medieval Scotland and contemporary times to set a 5 minute scene (or combination of smaller scenes) of Macbeth in. They write a script consistent with this setting,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Assessment

CCSS:

RL.9-10.4, W.9-10.3d, W.9-10.4, SL.9-10.1b, SL.9-10.6

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Shakespeare Activities for Any Play Intro Lost Years Informational Texts Digital

By Innovative English Instruction

Teaching Shakespeare? This growing bundle of resources will add fun, variety, and critical thinking to the next Shakespeare play you teach through Shakespeare-themed daily agenda slides, a digital introductory activity which challenges students to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.8, W.9-10.1, W.9-10.4, SL.9-10.4

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The Cask of Amontillado Hexagonal Thinking Review Activity Edgar Allan Poe

By Innovative English Instruction

Challenge students to generate new connections between and among characters, events, locations, and themes with this hexagonal thinking activity for Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." This critical thinking exercise offers students a great chance to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.10

$2.49

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A Christmas Carol Bundle Honors AP Language Digital Escape Film Questions

By Innovative English Instruction

Tired of basic plot questions? Challenge your Honors and AP students to approach Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with these higher-order thinking assignments. This growing resource currently contains: an engaging digital escape room which

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9

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Poe Themed Daily Agenda Template Google Slides Editable Text Boxes (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Immediately engage your students in your Edgar Allan Poe lessons (and easily streamline your materials!) with these user-friendly Poe-themed Google slides templates! This resource includes 4 slides for daily bell ringer/objective/agenda/homework

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Classroom Management

Grades:

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

Types:

Google Apps

$3.97

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Greek Mythology Informational Text Lake Natron Medusa Test Prep Digital

By Innovative English Instruction

Did you know that there is a lake in Tanzania that acts like Medusa? This 5-star rated informational text is your answer to boring science-based passages that are for SAT/AP prep! This 3-page informational text is packed with fascinating details

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.4

$3.97

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Macbeth Act 3 Scene 5 Hecate Scene SAT AP Prep Questions (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Need a short Act 3 Scene 5 activity for Macbeth that is SAT/AP practice? Look no further!In this resource, you will find:7 SAT/AP-style questions based on Hecate's speech in Act 3 Scene 5. These questions can be included on an assessment or used

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3

$1.97

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Growing Bundle I Am Malala Reading Quiz Film Analysis Yousafzai Digital

By Innovative English Instruction

Challenge your students to reflect on key moments in Malala Yousafzai's memoir, I Am Malala, and documentary, He Named Me Malala, in this growing bundle of resources.Note that this resource supports the regular version of her memoir (rather than the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.SL.2, CCRA.SL.3

$8.95

$7.49

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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories Review Lesson Narrator Trial for Crimes Digital

By Innovative English Instruction

Want a great review activity disguised as a character trial? Engage students in this short story lesson based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Hop Frog" in which

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.1

$3.97

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Google Slides™

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The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 25 Chapter 29 SAT AP Multiple Choice Questions

By Innovative English Instruction

Challenge your Honors/Pre-AP/AP students with these 5-star rated inference-based SAT/AP questions about Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.You'll get:2 inference-based assessments based on Chapters 25 and 29the passages with line numbers for easy

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4

$5.94

$4.97

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A Christmas Carol Digital Escape Room for Honors SAT AP Prep Review Activity

By Innovative English Instruction

Struggling to find an engaging review activity for A Christmas Carol? This 5-star rated digital escape room is the perfect culminating review activity (pre-quiz/test/essay), supplemental activity, or extra credit assignment. With this resource,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Internet Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4

$8.99

Digital Download PDF (11.94 MB)

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The Odyssey Quiz Book 11 The Land of the Dead (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Assess your students' understandings of Book 11 of The Odyssey, The Land of the Dead, with this 10 question quiz. Containing 8 short answer responses and 2 multiple choice questions, it challenges your students to not only recall key ideas from

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4

$2.97

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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The Fall of the House of Usher Hexagonal Thinking Review Activity Edgar A Poe

By Innovative English Instruction

Challenge students to generate new connections between and among characters, events, locations, and themes with this 5-star rated hexagonal thinking activity for Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." This critical thinking exercise offers

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.10

$2.49

Digital Download PDF (7.09 MB)

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The Odyssey Growing BUNDLE AP Prep Reenactment Daily Google Slide Templates

By Innovative English Instruction

Engage your students in this growing bundle of resources for teaching The Odyssey (many of which 5-star rated)! (Even a quiz has been described as "engaging"!)You'll get:an engaging scavenger hunt analysis activity for the invocation in Book 1 20

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.9

$27.32

$21.97

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Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Prologue Sonnet Line Ordering Activity (Digital)

By Innovative English Instruction

Encourage your students to apply the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet to correctly order the lines of the prologue to Act 2 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This fully digital activity is easy to assign to students and includes an answer

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Internet Activities, Google Apps

$2.49

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Greetings! An English teacher for over 15 years, I have taught a range of courses including: 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, American Literature, A.P. English Language and Composition, A.P. English Literature and Composition, Advanced Composition, Advanced Literature, Creative Writing, Adaptations of Great Books, and Mythology.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Keenly aware that students learn best by doing, my hands-on assignments task them with closely engaging in what they learn. I am also a proud English nerd, and infuse my lessons with artifacts from treks I make to the real and romanticized literary haunts of the world. Please visit my blog, Innovative English Instruction, to learn more about my teaching style and resources!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

District-wide Teacher of the Year Nominee; Presenter at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Masters and Bachelors of English, A.P. English Language and Literature Certified, Adjunct Professor, TEAM Certified Cooperating Teacher

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I live in Connecticut with my husband, 2 sons, and 4 heron-proof goldfish.

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

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Science, Social Studies, World History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Music, Other (Performing Arts), Drama, ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Close Reading