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Hyphen Rules Lesson
This is a worksheet stating the rules for using hyphens. It includes how to tell if adjectives are compound and thirty-two sentences to practice using hyphens.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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Second Part of the Pre-reading Information for The Call of the Wild
This is the second part of pre-reading for The Call of the Wild unit. There is a short biography of London, information on the genres, topics,list of character, and different settings the novel employs. There is a small map and a picture of what Buck could look like. There are questions and a KWL chart to complete. The Klondike Gold Rush will be ad...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Review for Vocabulary Chapters 1-3 The War of the Worlds
This is a gap exercise for vocabulary words from Dover Publishing�s Children�s adaptation of The War of the Worlds. I use this with my 10th grade class because it is only a little over a hundred pages, and we can read it before Halloween. I have also included a puzzle with a hidden message and an answer key. In my worksheets, I have two more handou...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Recycling Christmas Cards
This is a craft my sister-in-law taught me twenty years ago. It is a lesson about not only recycling Christmas cards but also reading and following directions. The photos at the end are the Christmas card ball ornament she made for us many years ago. On the last page, there are a few questions to answer about the main purpose of the lesson.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 6
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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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Jack London and the Naturalism Genre
This is an introduction to naturalism, Jack London�s writing style, and his book THE CALL OF THE WILD. Allegories are defined, and there is a cloze activity to go with the reading. Plus, I have a word bank.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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"Autumn Fires"
This is a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. It contains alliteration and is a good poem to discuss the use of the five senses in figurative language.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Symbolism and Motifs in The War of the Worlds
This is a ws about the symbols and motif in Dover�s The War of the Worlds. I explain and illustrate three different symbols, and the motif of good vs. evil. There are 11 questions after the reading. Please let me know if you have any questions. Carla Horne
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Essay Notes for Comparing/Contrasting The War of the Worlds Novel and Movie
My students had too much trouble trying to understand all the differences and similarities between the book and the movie, so I put together a handout of notes. I also added some different types of graphic organizers. Carla Horne
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 6
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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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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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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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"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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"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 Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
I put a link for students to go to read the poem because it is so long. They also have a wordsearch and five questions to answer about the poem. I hope it is useful.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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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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Spelling Words Found at School
This exercise is for elementary students.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-12
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A Christmas Song/Poem
This is a cute little song from the 1950�s. I have defined some words and illustrated others. There is a short exercise to go with it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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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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Help Save the Blue Crab
This is a reading comprehension exercise about the blue crab which lives from New England to Florida in the U.S. Students learn about why it is important to try to save the blue crab and what else could endanger them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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