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Macbeth: Adjectives Describing Major Characters at the end of Act I
This worksheet helps students to understand the personalities of the major characters in Macbeth at the end of Act I. Students apply adjectives to each character by first changing a series of nouns into adjectives using certain suffixes. There are more variations and possibilities than my answer key addresses, but that makes for some interesting di...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Macbeth: Adjectives ending in "ful" or "less" to describe major characters
This is a variation on another worksheet I made describing characters at the end of Act I. Some of my students need to focus on a smaller amount of material. So I isolated two suffixes for them to focus on when turning nouns into adjectives; then they can also be responsible for knowing the definitions of these nouns/adjectives. The worksheet will ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Macbeth: Setting and Characters (Act I)
This activity allows students to learn about the geography and landscape of Scotland. This activity then asks students to reflect on the characters in Act I of Macbeth by describing their personality and goals. A graphic organizer models how they can create a sentence about each character using a descriptive adjective.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Symbolism in Poetry: Using e.e. cummings with ELL learners
If you are trying to teach a poetry lesson, or if you are trying to teach about symbolism, this activity allows a middle or high school ELL student to use both drawing and writing to demonstrate knowledge about possible symbols found at a beach. The activity is to be used with e.e. cummings� poem "maggie and millie and molly and may."
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Macbeth: Put the Act I events in chronological order/famous lines
Students are asked to put these events from Act I in chronological order. But by copying the last page of this document onto the back side of every events card before you cut them up, you can also require students to write down an important line from each event. Then I ask students to translate the Shakespearean line into their own words. I also te...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 8
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Lord of the Flies Chap. 1-2: Vocabulary and Imagery of War
This worksheet leads students to understand that the boys in Lord of the Flies are recreating war on the island that they are stranded on. The boys need to use the resources of the land to survive, but they are destroying them at the beginning of the novel. Students are asked to draw two pictures, one of a "peaceful" landscape as described in the n...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Create a Pamphlet on the Evacuation of World War II
My students are reading Lord of the Flies which follows a group of British boys who are stranded on a tropical island. The reason they are stranded is because they were part of the evacuation of children from Great Britain during World War II. Students are asked to visit a website and research information about the evacuation. Then they create a tr...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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American Sports Flashcards
I made these flashcards to help students new to a U.S. High School understand the different sports teams that may be at a school in the Northeast (notice skiing and hockey).
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 3
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Days of the Week and American Sports
This worksheet can be used with my "American Sports" flashcards. It asks students to label the days of the week at the top of a chart. Then students must construct sentences identifying the day of the week and the sport that is played on that day.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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