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The Elevator William Sleator Short Story Unit, Analysis, Activity, Plot, Quiz

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“The Elevator" by William Sleator is a fun and creepy short story that is a particularly wonderful tool to teach and discuss characterization, mood/tone, theme and motif. This short story unit for "The Elevator" is fully print and teach ready, the

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Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

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The Elevator, Click-clack the Rattlebag & The Feather Pillow Short Story Bundle

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Looking to teach a creepy and eerie unit with students? This BUNDLE contains units for The Feather Pillow, The Elevator and Click-clack the Rattlebag! Three creepy stories to engage students all while working their critical thinking skills and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

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Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Lion King Comparison Analysis Answer Key Rubrics

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Use this lesson for Shakespeare's Hamlet to get students thinking critically, creatively and outside of the box! This lesson compares Disney’s The Lion King to Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Hamlet. Disney's animated film has a number of clearly

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English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.8, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.SL.2...

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Julius Caesar and Mean Girls Comparison Analysis Activity Answers Keys Rubric

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There are some clear parallels between Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and 2004's hit Mean Girls. Though Mean Girls is not an adaptation of Julius Caesar, it is an excellent way to engage students and get them thinking critically by connecting themes,

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English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

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Projects, Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Click-clack the Rattlebag Neil Gaiman Short Story Unit Analysis Lesson Activity

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Click-Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman is a simple and delightfully eerie short story. Click-clack the Rattlebag an excellent story for students to dig deeper into, and this unit is great to hone skills such as mood and tone, since students

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Short Stories

Grades:

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

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Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.4, CCRA.L.5

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Trifles Susan Glaspell Unit Analysis Lesson Plans Questions Answer Keys Rubric

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Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a wonderful one act play that helps students learn about gender roles and stereotypes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Trifles, first produced in 1916, themes and topics are still just as applicable as they

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Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.6, SL.11-12.1, SL.11-12.1a, L.11-12.1, L.11-12.2

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William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Short Story Unit Questions Activities Quiz

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William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily is a great short story lesson to use to discuss inferences, characterization, foreshadow, theme, point of view and more!This short story analysis includes the following:-Pre-reading vocabulary-Historical context

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Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.6, RL.11-12.10, W.11-12.3, W.11-12.3a, W.11-12.4, L.11-12.1, L.11-12.2...

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Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Short Story Unit Lesson Questions Activities

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a great short story to get students speaking thoughtfully and thinking critically. This unit for Flowers for Algernon is comprehensive, thorough and detailed. Students will practice their inference skills

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Unit Plans, Activities

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.SL.1, CCRA.SL.2, CCRA.SL.3, CCRA.SL.4...

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Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Guided Annotation and Analysis Unit Plan Context Clues

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Strengthen students in the skill of context clues and analysis with this comprehensive and fun unit for Lewis Carroll’s classic, Jabberwocky! This lesson for Jabberwocky has students think critically while categorizing all of Carroll’s nonsense

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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CCRA.R.4, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.4, CCRA.L.5, CCRA.L.6

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Dystopian Literature Web Quest Activity for Unit Introduction Answer Key

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Introduce students to the disconcerting genre of dystopian short stories and novels with this quick and comprehensive web quest! This dystopian web quest lesson and activity is three pages of graphic organizers to help guide students into research

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Webquests

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CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.SL.1

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Short Story Literary Device Unit Bundle Analysis, Activities, Lessons, Quizzes

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This short story unit bundle contains lesson plans, vocabulary, activities, comprehension analysis questions, quizzes and more! This short story bundle contains everything needed for 9 short stories, 1 web quest and 10 literary device lessons with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

$63.00

$43.75

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8 Parts of Speech EDITABLE Quiz Summative Assessment with Answer Key

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Assess students on the 8 parts of speech with this completely EDITABLE and CUSTOMIZABLE comprehensive quiz, This parts of speech quiz assesses students on all 8 parts: Noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

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

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Handouts, Assessment

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Reading Skill Analysis JUXTAPOSITION Device Lesson Activity Practice Short Films

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Teach students about juxtaposition with this fun and engaging lesson plan that requires students to identify and hone their juxtaposition literary skills with animated short films! This juxtaposition activity is perfect to use as supplemental

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.L.5

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Roald Dahl Story Bundle The Landlady Man From the South Lamb to the Slaughter

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This short-story bundle for The Landlady, Man From the South and Lamb to the Slaughter, three of Roald Dahl's great short stories, helps make literary analysis easy! The thought of analyzing can be daunting for many students, so why not make it fun

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.9...

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Sweat Zora Neale Hurston Short Story Analysis Unit Lesson Activities Rubric

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Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston is a great short story to use to expose students to dialect in writing, and it's great to use to teach characterization and various literary elements such as simile, metaphor, allusion, foreshadow and irony. It's also an

Subjects:

Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, W.9-10.1, W.9-10.4, L.9-10.1, L.9-10.2, L.9-10.4, L.9-10.5

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The Landlady Roald Dahl Short Story Close Read Analysis Unit & Lesson

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The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a fantastic short story to use to to help teach foreshadowing and characterization! This unit for The Landlady includes an activating activity, pre-read vocabulary, during reading questions, post reading foreshadow and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Rubrics, Lesson

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4

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A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit Questions Activities Quiz & Key

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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is a great story with all the beautiful figurative language that this classic dystopian author is so well known and loved for. A Sound of Thunder is particularly useful to teach irony and indirect character

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Unit Plans, Activities

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RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, W.9-10.3b, W.9-10.3d, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4c, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

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Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl Complete Short Story Unit Activities, Keys

By Reading the Rapids

Roald Dahl's short story Lamb to the Slaughter is great for students to practice and hone their analysis skills. Dahl is a loved author and well renowned for his creativity and resilient characters, and Lamb to the Slaughter is no exception. With

Subjects:

Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Rubrics, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.4, W.9-10.4, SL.9-10.1d, L.9-10.1, L.9-10.2, L.9-10.4c, L.9-10.5

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The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, Cask of Amontillado, Web Quest Edgar Allan Poe Unit

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Usher students into the macabre and eerie world of Edgar Allan Poe with this UNIT BUNDLE of THREE lessons for Poe's most CLASSIC WORKS: The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. SAVE 30% on activities, analysis questions, quizzes

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3...

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The Raven Edgar Allan Poe Lesson Plan, Analysis Activities - Poetry Unit

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a great way to get students engaged with poetry. The Raven's easy to read rhythm and rhyme, plus the eerie nature of the poem, easily keeps students' attention. However, those three things also make it easy for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2...

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught English for grades 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. I have also taught Intensive Reading for 9 and 10 as well as Creative Writing. Last school year (2017/18) I moved to the ESE Department and now provide additional support for teachers and students in the sophomore English classroom! Tenth grade is by far my favorite grade because you are able to see maturity in them from their Freshman year. Additionally, at this time students are also really beginning to hone their critical thinking skills and begin asking some tougher, outside of the box, questions.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I like to mix independent work with group collaboration. There is a time where brainstorming and bouncing ideas off of each other is invaluable, but then, as we gradually release, the students need to each fly on their own. I try to make everything relevant to their lives, no matter if it's an informative writing assignment or reading Shakespeare, it all can all apply to them in some way.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Watching students wrestle with, conquer, and grow from challenging material is the best reward! When I self-published my novel, a former student drew the cover illustration--a decade after I had her for Creative Writing her Senior year! I love that I am able to keep in touch with some of my students; watching them blossom into responsible adults is a blessing

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I graduated from Hillsborough Community College with my AA in 2003 and then went onto the University of South Florida Tampa to earn my Bachelor's in English with a concentration in creative writing. I graduated with my Bachelor's in 2005. I am a lifelong learner and reader and am always seeking out new bits of information.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a lifelong bibliophile and find no past time more enjoyable! Born and raised in Florida, I enjoy beaches, rivers and warm weather. I recently (Feb. 2022) checked off one major personal goal when I self-published my fiction novel, The Tale of the Starbreather's Realm. It is available on Amazon as a paperback and a Kindle ebook! You can find me online at mdsaintswrites.com, or on Instagram @mdsaintswrites. :)