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Irony in "The Cask of Amontillado"
This is a handout meant for advanced students studying the short story "The Cask of Amontillado." It deals with the three types of irony found in the story.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 12
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Alliteration
I use this handout to teach my 9th graders alliteration. Poetic terms are on our End of Course Test from the State of Georgia and on our English Language Arts Graduation Test, so we are always looking for a way to teach them. I hope that it helps someone else, too.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Oxymoron Lesson
This is an oxymoron lesson. It includes a definition, several pictures, and a chart that the students must complete. There is also an answer sheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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"The Cask of Amontillado" Illustrated Voc. for Advanced Students Page 2-3
This is pages 2-3 of the illustrated vocabulary for "The Cask of Amontillado."
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 10
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The Klondike Gold Rush: 3rd Pre-Reading for The Call of The Wild
This ws contains some basic information on the gold rush, Jack London, dog sleds, and the positions of the dogs for the sled.
This is the 3rd pre-reading before The Call of The Wild.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Icebreaker: Draw Your Name
This activity is for the beginning of the school year. It is a way for the teacher and students to introduce themselves. You can also incorporate the spelling of the objects if your students are at that level. I hope you find it fun.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-14
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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"The Cask of Amontillado" Illustrated Voc. for Advanced Students Page 1
This is Page 1 of a list of an illustrated vocabulary word list for "The Cask of Amontillado."
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 14
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Geometric Shapes
This is a sponge or short activity that can be done the last few minutes of class. It focuses on recognizing triangles, diamonds, and rectangles and writing the numbers as words. You could also have the students color the shaped different colors.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Table Place Setting: Informal
This is a worksheet for explaining the place setting in a nice, informal restaurant.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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The Rhyme Scheme in "Eldorado" by Poe
This worksheet could go along with the online exercise about "Eldorado." This sheet defines rhyme, rhyme scheme, stanza, and it has a table with the rhyme scheme for "Eldorado." Finally, there are two short exercises for students to practice finding rhyme schemes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Adjectives and Questions for Elementary Students
This power point features Coco, a black American cocker spaniel, explaining the questions that adjectives answer about nouns and pronouns. There is also a link to a video of the song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?" Carla Horne
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 11
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Adjectives
This is my version an adjective ppt for older students who are intermediate learners. It also explains the questions that adjectives answer.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 12
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"Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe Lesson
This is another poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "Eldorado." It is a short poem, and I begin this lesson with some vocabulary words and note. I then have the poem and one illustration. The choose-the-correct-answer sentences are easy, and so is the wordsearch. I end with one final illustration. I hope that ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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The Family Wants a Pet
This is a short exercise about animals that can be pets. The student needs to know how to correctly spell the animal�s name and what it looks like.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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"There Will Come Soft Rain" Lesson
This is a lesson based on Sara Teasdale�s poem "There Will Come Soft Rain." Alliteration, peronification, imagery, and the theme are explained. There is also a wordsearch, questions, and some pictures.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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My computer has a problem
This poem is a sentence poem by William Carlos Williams. I have defined imagism and sentence poems. I also have quotations from Williams and a link to Wordle for students to try. I end with some choose the correct answer questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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Dinosaur Vocabulary
This is a wordssearch and fill-in-the-blank sentences focusing on nine vocabulary words.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
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The World Calendar
It has been proposed that we need a calendar for the entire world. I found this to be a very interesting concept, so I used the information from the site to create an exercise. There are also several pictures to show our relationship with the environment. The pictures mainly focus on females, the la...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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The Blue Crab Wordsearch
There is a short definition and description of the blue crab.
I have also created 4 reading worksheets with questions for the blue crab.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
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"Annabel Lee" Online Lesson
This exercise goes with my ws. Again it has the poem, a note about who Annabel Lee was, three comprehension questions, and a wordsearch. I tried to put a Youtube video in, but it just didn�t work. Sorry!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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"The Face in the Trees" Lesson
This is a poem about polluting the environment and how nature is personified as a face in the trees. I have defined "illusion" and "sigh," and I created a small wordsearch. (There is a hyperlimk to a dictionary.)This lesson is to make us more aware of the environment and how poetry can be a vehicle ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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"A Dinosaur for Christmas" by Kenn Nesbitt
This is a cute poem that I illustrated, but not as much as I wanted to because the site had problems. I added a few questions. (12-17-09 I just added more pictures because the site finally started working correctly.) Sorry.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
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