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PIXAR Movie Shorts and Narrative Writing:Preparing for Narrative Writing Prompts

By YBSolutions

Students analyse high interest movie shorts from Pixar to help them see how a story can be told: where it can begin, what can be done to create points of emphasis and focus, and what can make for a memorable and impactful element within a well-told

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities

$1.20

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Easy Guide and Practice to Writing Bibliographies

By YBSolutions

Are you looking for an easy and memorable way to teach students how to write a basic bibliography sans Easybib or Bibme? This may be the tool for you. The first page of this package offers a quick and easy way to teach and have students learn how to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Research, Activities, Bibliographies

$1.50

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Romeo and Juliet: A Flip Book Review

By YBSolutions

Looking for a flexible gateway to a variety of activities with Romeo and Juliet? This Flip Book Review opens doors for you. I first created a series of transparencies during my first year of teaching. Those transparencies have been recreated here

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Printables, Lesson

$15.00

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Chicken Lightning, Clock Sentence Variation and Revision Practice

By YBSolutions

Looking for an exercise to go along with your Chicken Lightning, Clock, lesson? Have your students try their hand at revising these twelve sentences using the Chicken Lightning, Clock method. It's a fun and engaging way to get them to practice the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

$1.00

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Frankenstein: Using Recursion as an Approach to Understanding

By YBSolutions

Recursion is a powerful concept used in computer science. The general idea behind recursion is to break down the problem into smaller versions of the same problem and then, by repeated application of the smaller versions, the solution to the bigger

Subjects:

Literature, Writing, Close Reading

Grades:

11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Centers

$4.00

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Connecting Poetry to Art:A Mini-Unit on Close Reading to Build Critical Thinking

By YBSolutions

A frontispiece is a drawing or illustration or art work facing the title page of a book or before a section of a larger work. It’s purpose is to inform the reader either of a thematic possibility in the text that follows or of some other aspect of

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, W.9-10.2d, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.6, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2

$5.00

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Positive/Negative Comments Chart

By YBSolutions

When working with student writing, it is important to recognize drafting as a learning process. Writing can be targeted for improvement but it should also be honored for quality. Here's a simple method when working with responding to student essays.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Handouts, Assessment

$1.30

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Deep Thinking for AP Students by Moving Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Approach

By YBSolutions

Physics in the ELA classroom or Why Newton Matters to the English Teacher How do we foster deeper thinking? We can’t simply run skill based activities and expect to have kids make genuine progress in deeper thinking. Grokking, as Robert Heinlein

Subjects:

Physics, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Literature Circles

$7.00

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Connecting Poetry to Art: My Papa's Waltz

By YBSolutions

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

$1.25

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Connecting Poetry to Art: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By YBSolutions

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

$1.25

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Rewriting for Greater Clarity: Fixing Passive Voice Sentences

By YBSolutions

Students often struggle with passive voice sentences. This is a fun little exercise which asks students to rewrite sentences that are thumping because of passive voice. Often on state tests students are asked to be able to revise a sentence to make

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing, Test Preparation

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

$1.00

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Poetry and Film: Taking a Closer Look at the Opening Lines of a Poem

By YBSolutions

Text comes in many forms--among them is film. Consider how important the opening lines of a poem are and weigh this importance against the establishing shot of a film. Both serve to set up the rest of the experience for the "reader". This exercise

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Visual Arts

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities

$2.00

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Using Art to Discover Power and Focus in Student Writing

By YBSolutions

Students gain an understanding and appreciation of the tools an artist uses to create emphasis and effect a response from their audience. By practicing recreating an established piece of art in order to shift focus and emphasis, students have the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Independent Work Packet

$4.00

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Character Qualities Ranking: Working Toward Literary Comparison

By YBSolutions

Here’s a challenging thought experiment: How would a specific literary character fare if taken outside of the plot of their own novel and placed into the plot of another work? Imagine Hamlet captaining the steamboat in Heart of Darkness, or

Subjects:

Literature, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

$3.70

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Values Periodic Table: Identifying the Foundation of Any Argument

By YBSolutions

If your students struggle with argumentation, here's a helpful organizational chart to help them identify basic core values which are at the root of any argument. Formatted as a Periodic Table, this tool is a recognizable cross-disciplinary approach

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

$2.95

Digital Download PDF (0.11 MB)

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SEE Strategy: Students Strengthen Their Writing by Reading Like a Writer

By YBSolutions

Are you looking for an on-going method to help student integrate and use punctuation effectively and correctly? The SEE strategy can help. The SEE strategy can become a regular feature of your classroom and serves as an excellent warm-up or

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$2.00

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In a World Movie Trailer Intro Contest

By YBSolutions

If you're looking for an engaging writing activity that can be turned into a class or even school wide contest, this is the one for you. Inspired by those over-dramatic movie trailers we watch while waiting for the main feature, this assignment is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities

$2.40

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Inference and Art: Getting Students to Read the Text of a Painting

By YBSolutions

If you're looking for a starting place to get students to engage with close reading by using multi-media forms of text, a good place to start is with art. This is a simple exercise which can be used repeatedly with a variety of art or pictures or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Arts & Music, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Cultural Activities, Lesson

$1.20

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Using the Haiku as and Introduction to Thinking

By YBSolutions

To possess or rather be possessed by a poem is to allow yourself, through choice, to be carried along and confront and connect to the unimagined. To be swept along the current of words holding new possibilities of knowing, new possibilities of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$3.50

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Connecting Poetry to Art: Ozymandias

By YBSolutions

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

$1.25

Digital Download PDF (0.33 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

35 years in public education teaching grades 9-12-- struggling to advanced learners, Advanced Placement certified, Adjunct Professor working at local Community College

MY TEACHING STYLE

innovative, creative, student-centered

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Selected school district Teacher of the Year 6 times Numerous local, State and National presentations

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelors of Science Texas A&M University 1987 Masters of Liberal Arts Houston Baptist University 1992

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Co-founder Elite Literary Book Group https://www.eliteliterarybookgroup.com/