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By Stapleton
This file contains a detailed set of discussion questions for Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." In addition, you'll find an essay/paper assignment, along with a rubric to evaluate that essay.
Subjects:
Reading, Literature, Short Stories
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Homework, Rubrics
$3.00
19
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By Stapleton
This is an activity centered around students viewing the 14th episode of the 9th seasons of The Simpsons - "Das Bus" - which is a parody of Golding's Lord of the Flies. Essentially students are asked to identify specific characteristics of Piggy,
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Handouts
$1.50
31
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By Stapleton
On the subject of his novel, Grendel, John Gardner once said in an interview that he �wanted to go through the main ideas of Western Civilization � which seemed to me about� twelve? � and go
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
11th, 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Handouts
$4.00
18
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By Stapleton
This project was originally designed for students reading Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, but would be good for any unit on World War I or propaganda in general. Students first work on a guided analyze different pieces of WWI propaganda
Subjects:
English Language Arts, World History, Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Projects, Activities
$2.50
11
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By Stapleton
This is a set of questions for each chapter in Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner. My goal was to create a set of questions for use in group discussion - specifically, I wanted them to be challenging - as in requiring textual specificity, for the most
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Literature
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Literature Circles
$8.00
3
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By Stapleton
This assignment is an after-reading activity for Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. It provides a detailed structure for having a class debate over the issue of euthanasia. The assignment is structured to be research-based; I use it to introduce
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Literature
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Assessment
$3.50
8
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By Stapleton
Contained in this zip file are a series of higher-level discussion questions for each chapter of George Orwell's. The questions are broken down by chapter and by book. I use them for group discussions with high school seniors.
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Short Stories
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Handouts, Assessment, Homework
$6.00
6
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By Stapleton
This is a PowerPoint I give on five act tragedies prior to my class reading Macbeth. During the presentation: -Students discuss the nature of what is tragic (now versus in Shakespeare's day). -They are exposed to the structure of a five act
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
PowerPoint Presentations
$2.50
6
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By Stapleton
Contained in this zip file are a series of higher-level discussion questions for each chapter of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The questions are broken down by chapter; after the final chapter, there are some more abstract thematic questions dealing
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Short Stories
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Handouts, Assessment, Homework
$6.00
3
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By Stapleton
This project gelled when I realized that every semester that I teach Elie Weisel's Night, at least one student asks very sincerely something to the effect of 'why is it that Jews are so relelentlessly persecuted?' Such a simple question but with a
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Other (ELA)
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Internet Activities
$3.00
2
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By Stapleton
Contained are two verions of 16 separate vocabulary quizzes, as well as a PowerPoint document with the words broken down by week. These quizzes - ten words a piece - follow the same format as the preview document. First they match the word to
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Assessment
$5.00
8
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By Stapleton
This assignment centers on the importance of boasting to Anglo-saxon culture. After students have started Beowulf and have discussed the various components of Anglo-Saxon culture - in particular comitatus, wyrd and wergild - they identify
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Literature
Grades:
11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Handouts
$2.50
8
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By Stapleton
This is a quick little assignment that provides a change of pace while getting through Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. It's a set of discussion questions (which can be used as a worksheet) comparing elements of AQWF - especially the
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Internet Activities
$1.50
6
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By Stapleton
This assignment is meant to serve as an alternative to an essay test. Students work in small groups and using their notes and the text of the play itself, they discuss the questions on the test. The questions themselves are comprehensive, big
Subjects:
Reading, Literature, Tools for Common Core
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Assessment
$5.00
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By Stapleton
I use T.C. Boyle's short story "Greasy Lake" (which makes heavy use of contemporary allusions) in a mini-unit on how allusions in literature can be a path to a deeper understanding of/appreciation for whatever it is that we're reading. The
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories
Grades:
11th, 12th
Types:
Projects
$2.00
7
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By Stapleton
This is an three page paper assignment where students are to analyze the ways in which Roman Polanski takes Shakespeare's Macbeth, which is a dark play, and turns it into a much more dark, pessimistic, and misanthropic film.
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Literature
Grades:
11th, 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Assessment
$2.00
1
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By Stapleton
Tobias Wolff's modern short story "A Bullet In the Brain" is a brief, effective rendering of an individual's final moments as he reflects back on his life, having somehow lost the passion he once had for language as a young man. Contained in this
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Short Stories
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Handouts, Assessment, Homework
$3.00
2
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By Stapleton
This is an in class group assignment I came up with that was designed to aid students in asking better questions as they read novels (in particular John Gardner's Grendel, though it could be modified for any novel, really). It was a way attempting
Subjects:
Reading, Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities
$2.00
4
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By Stapleton
For this assignment, instead of keeping a reading journal, students are asked to create individual Blog entires for each chapter of Golding's Lord of the Flies. Included is an overview of expectations and directions for creating a blog using
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities, Internet Activities
$1.50
2
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By Stapleton
This zip file contains a detailed assignment sheet for a group project where students modernize The Canterbury Tales. Also included is a rubric for grading the in class performance (or video project). Essentially, for this project students must
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Literature
Grades:
10th, 11th, 12th
Types:
Activities
$2.00
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I'm currently in my fourth year teaching; prior to this profession I worked for six years as a magazine and newspaper journalist, as both both a writer and editor.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I tend towards student-directed, discussion-based instruction where I act as facilitator. That having been said, I inevitably give the occasional lecture here and there.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Yet to be added

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I received my masters in teaching high school English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.