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Scatterbrained Soliloquies
Pupils reconstruct a famous soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet which the teacher has cut apart and scattered. They piece the soliloquy back together making sense of the passage.
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If I Wasn't Me, What Would I Be?
Students use their metacognitive skills to complete a self-worth and self-concept activity. In this self-worth instructional activity, students finish a sentence about what else they would like to be and then explain why they would want...
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From Page to Stage
Students, utilizing video clips and Web sites, compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, analyzing similarities and differences between them. They adapt literature into a...
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Punctuation
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
Orlando Shakes
West Side Story: Study Guide
Hey, enough frabbajabba about that stool pigeon, Daddy-O! Using the West Side Story study guide, scholars explore the language of the play and read about its historical associations and themes. Pupils also engage in a Spectrum of...
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Bookworm's Delight Challenge
In this books worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about popular children's books. Students complete 10 questions.
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Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
Take your class to the computer lab to give them some independent practice. Relative pronouns and adverbs are the focus here, so learners will grapple with when to use who, which, that, whose, and where. There are 19 multiple choice and...
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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on Tristam Shandy. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Films That Make A Difference in History Lesson Plans
Showing films or other types of media in the classroom is a great way to bring history lesson plans alive.
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Making Tutoring Sessions Work for Students
Here are some effective strategies to use when tutoring students.
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Literature: It's a Mad, Mad Macbeth
Students determine how the themes expressed in Macbeth are also applicable to contemporary society. They complete a series of written assignments demonstrating their comprehension of theme, content, and interpretation of the play....
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English Exercises Passive Voice
For this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 22 fill in the blank questions that require them to rewrite sentences in passive voice. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Literature Authors and Their Works
Pupils participate in completing a worksheet where they have to match the authors to the short story or book that they wrote. They have studied English Literature Authors, so this is an assessment piece type of instructional activity.
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Taking a Stand
Learners make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.