This is a 14-page PDF article concerning audience analysis for a persuasive speech. It includes the importance of understanding your audience, methods used to analyze a specific audience, and the five layer of any given audience alalysis.

AP Human Geography course unit on Agricultural Geography discusses industrial farming, global agriculture and the green revolution.

AP European History course on the development of a European union with downlodable handouts, assignments, text video and other resources.

Through videos, interactive activities, and readings, students explore the future of food production and sustainability of our current agricultural system.

This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...

This is a 17-page excerpt from The Sword in the Stone by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; this is The Legend of Arthur and Excalibur.

This is a 700-page PDF of the complete novel Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, the Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions, 2004.

This is a 16-page PDF Glossary for Volume One of Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory from The Pennsylvania State University.

This is a five-page PDF of the short story "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka.

This is a five-page PDF about editing and proofreading from The Writing Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides tips and strategies for editing and proofreading and links to extra resources on the subject.

This is a two-page PDF of "Gawain's Dream" and it's interpretation from The Quest for the Holy Grail translated by E. Jane Burns.

This is a five-page PDF handout on how to write strong thesis statements for argumentative essays with examples.

This is a complete unit on rhetoric and persuasion including key words, what to expect, handouts, lessons, self-quizzes, audio and speaking assignments, and an in-depth final assessment using JFK's Inaugural Address with a grading...

This is a PDF file of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to aid the cause of women's rights. Each line is numbered for easy reference.

This two-page PDF is a list of 15 drama terms with definitions; the list includes: dramatic conventions, concealment, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, tragedy, tragic flaw, harartia, and others.

This is a five-page PDF of the short story "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov.

This is a two-page PDF of a rubric to use in the evaluation of websites in the quest for credible websites for research purposes. RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format

This is a six-page PDF of the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a story about a conflict between a Chinese-American daughter and a Chinese immigrant mother.

This is a four-page PDF of six photos to inspire descriptive writing: Children playing on a slide in Brazil, Factory Sunset, Family Dinner, Oil Spill, Red Palace Room, and War Prayer. A list of picture credits with web links is provided...

This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...

This two-page PDF is a list of poetic devices and their definitions compiled by the Undergraduate Writing Center, of The University of Texas at Austin.

This is a one-page PDF of a list of 48 of the most common prepositions.

This lesson focuses on capitalization and punctuation including links to practices and quizzes on capitalization, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.

Students investigate hazards to human health that are found where we live, work, and play, and begin to understand the risk analysis and system of evaluation that was developed to protect us from potential environmental dangers.