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Memoir Writing: Using Mentor Texts for Student Voice and Assessment in ELA

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Reading and writing memoir are powerful ways to have students experiment with narrative writing and have a chance to explore some groundbreaking nonfiction reading. Whether your students are in the midst of a literature circles unit or wrapping up

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.9

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Be the Change: A Service Learning Research Project for Grades 7-12

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Our students CAN make a difference in their own lives, their school, and their community, so why not challenge them to do so with a new project?BE THE CHANGE is your solution! Designed with the Genius Hour methodology in mind, Be the Change is an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Service Learning

$9.00

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Get to Know You Activities Vol. 1 : Letter to Your Teacher, Partner Interviews

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Back to school in ELA can be incredibly stressful, but also so much fun! Take some of the planning pressure off by using this great bundle of six lesson plans/activities for the first week of school. This bundle includes my SIX FAVORITES. Did you

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Back to School

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2

$6.50

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Get to Know You Activities Vol. 2 : My Happy Place, Wilderness Survival, Poetry

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Getting to know your students during the back to school rush can seem overwhelming, but I've got you covered. These six lessons will get you started back in building relationships, setting expectations, and creating an environment of academic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Classroom Community

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$6.50

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Argument and Rhetoric Practice: The Spare Change Gameshow {Grades 8-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Practicing argument, counteragrument, rhetoric, and claim statements can now be one of the most FUN things you do in your classroom! The Spare Change Gameshow gives students current, funny, and engaging topics to debate either whole-class or in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA)

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$5.00

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Black History Month: Digital Choice Board Activity {7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating Black History Month in February or incorporating more Black voices to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems, and stories.The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Black History Month, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

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Person of the Year: Writing a Journalistic Profile Project Using Mentor Texts

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you’re interested in having students doing some more personal writing, but not always the same personal narrative or memoir, profiling a person that they care about or admire is a great way to switch the task up and give them another angle. This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.W.10

$8.00

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Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook: Using Google Classroom {Design Pack 1}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

For my entire teaching career, I have been using some form of "bell ringers" as my class warm up. For this section of class to go smoothly, the students need a place to respond to the bell ringer and for years I've been using spiral-bound

Subjects:

English Language Arts, EFL - ESL - ELD, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$5.00

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Gothic Fiction Mini Unit for Secondary ELA

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Teaching students about gothic fiction sometimes falls short when we only study one short story. In this mini-unit, put the power of inquiry into your student's hands as they explore the question: to what extent does gothic fiction capture the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Halloween

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$5.00

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Close Reading Lesson & Assessment Templates {Digital & Distance Learning}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Close reading might very well be the most used strategy in my secondary ELA classroom. No matter the novel, no matter the poem, no matter the rhetorical analysis passage, students need regular practice with close reading texts and analyzing their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

$9.00

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The Great Gatsby: Chapter 1, 2, and 3 Lessons & Activities {EDITABLE}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

When it's time to start The Great Gatsby, you'll need some lessons to get you going at the beginning of the novel. I like to start the unit focusing on both color symbolism and the way Fitzgerald establishes the gender roles in Chapter 1. Next, we

Subjects:

Literature, Writing-Essays, Close Reading

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

$6.00

Digital Download PDF (2.35 MB)

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Independent Reading Project Unit Plans {for Secondary ELA}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Need something to fill in time between units or at the end of the year? Try this independent reading project unit to keep kids engaged and interacting with books they care about. This unit should keep your kids busy (in a GOOD way) for at least

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Literature Circles

$5.00

Digital Download PDF (0.68 MB)

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Time Capsule End of Year Project: Reflection and Synthesis for High School ELA

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you need an end of the year activity to help your students make sense of the school year both personally and academically, then I've got you covered. In this time capsule synthesis final project, students combine reflections from what they've

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Assessment, Google Apps

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Romeo & Juliet: Act Two Activities, Close Reading, Balcony Scene

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you're overwhelmed with ideas or intimidated to jump into Shakespeare's play Romeo & Juliet, this set of lessons for Act 2 and the balcony scene will ensure the critical thinking that they need to tackle the play with confidence. This series

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$8.00

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Google Jamboard™ & Slides™ Templates for Discussion & Engagement {BUNDLE}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Google Jamboard™ templates are tools to help improve engagement and structure class discussions in the classroom. This product contains fifteen templates that can be inserted into a Jamboard™ or Slide™, projected in a virtual meeting or on an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Classroom Community

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

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$6.00

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Synthesis and Argument Writing: Does a #hashtag create real social change?

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Lesson

$5.00

Digital Download PDF (0.65 MB)

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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Digital Choice Board Activity

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May or are incorporating more poetry and poets to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Asian Studies, For All Subjects

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.10

$5.00

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Write 30 Poems in 30 Days {A Poetry Writing Challenge 7-12th Grade ELA}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Take your students on an unforgettable journey through poetry this time around. Ditch the cheesy acrostic poems and goofy poems of their childhood and take the challenge to teach your students 30 different kinds of poems, and to make things even

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Posters

$6.00

104

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Vocabulary Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook {Grades 7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you are looking for a productive, efficient, and independent way to get class started with bell work, then a vocabulary digital notebook is the way to go. This digital notebook can be assigned once per unit and students have bell work every day!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Back to School

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$6.00

124

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Dystopia Common Core Bell Ringers: 16 Writing Prompts for Any Novel

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Dystopia is one of the most powerful genres to share with secondary ELA students and getting them engaged with critical thinking from the start of the period is essential. Bell work offers us that exact opportunity. This product is a ready-to-go

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10

$6.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been discovering the amazing mysteries and joys of language arts with 10th and 12th grade students in West Chicago for the past five years. Teaching has been my passion since I was a little girl playing school in my basement.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My teaching style would best be described as "discovery in the making". I approach each day with my students with an open mind and a hope to get side tracked into great, authentic discussion about literature, writing, and the world we live in. To learn more about my classroom, visit my blog! http://mudandink.blogspot.com/

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I am a 2004 Golden Apple Scholar award winner and two time speaker at the National Character Education Forum. I am passionate about raising curious, driven, worldly, and caring young men and women!

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I attended Illinois Wesleyan University from 2004-2008 and received a bachelor's degree in English. I later attended Concordia University Chicago from 2010-2012 and received my ESL certification and a Master's in Curriculum & Instruction.

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I am happy to create custom products for you! Please inbox me for any ideas or projects that you have in mind and I'd be happy to work with you to create something challenging, creative, and linked to the Core!

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Social Studies, U.S. History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Study Skills, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Asian Studies, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Spring, Products For TpT Sellers, For All Subjects, Informational Text, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community, Hispanic Heritage Month