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Comprehension Questions for "The Cask of Amontillado"
The questions go with the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. The text can now be found on several sites for free.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Icebreaker: Draw Your Name
This activity is for the beginning of the school year. It is a way for the teacher and students to introduce themselves. You can also incorporate the spelling of the objects if your students are at that level. I hope you find it fun.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-14
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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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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Conjunction Reference Sheet
This is a reference sheet for advanced students who are ready to concentrate on writing. I give this out as a reference sheet for their notebooks. (For 9th grade I just give out the first sheet.) I then teach each conjunction type individually. As we write sentences with conjunctions, I look to see if they are punctuating their sentences correctly....
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 13
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"Only Naughty Children See Spooks on Halloween"
This is a Halloween poem with illustrations. I explain synonyms and antonyms, and there are five questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Coat of Arms Project
This is a project that could be done in middle school or high school. I like to do this when I teach about knights in British literature. It contains definitions, clip art of animals, colors and their symbols that were used in creating a blazon. Finally, there is a template that can be printed.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 20
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Punctuating Titles
This sheet tells you when to underline or when to use quotation marks with a title. There are 15 sentences to punctuate correctly, and there is an answer sheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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The Epiphany of the Haiku
This lesson focuses on the haiku and the more symbolic meanings they have. Basho is the featured poet, and there are two exercises for writing haiku poems. There are also websites for more information.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 1
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Earth and Mars
Before I taught The War of the Worlds, I did some nonfiction activities about Earth and Mars. There are two charts of information. A picture of the two planets, questions, fill-in-the-blank sentences with a word bank, and an interesting picture of what NASA believes to be a Martian fossil. Also, there is an answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Dinosaur Acrostic Poem
This is a sheet that teaches how to create an acrostic poem, I use the word DINOSAUR,and I give some word suggestions at the bottom of the page. I hope that the students can have fun as they learn.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Adjectives
This is my version an adjective ppt for older students who are intermediate learners. It also explains the questions that adjectives answer.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 12
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Adjectives and Questions for Elementary Students
This power point features Coco, a black American cocker spaniel, explaining the questions that adjectives answer about nouns and pronouns. There is also a link to a video of the song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?" Carla Horne
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 11
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The Family Wants a Pet
This is a short exercise about animals that can be pets. The student needs to know how to correctly spell the animal�s name and what it looks like.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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The Call of the Wild Vocabulary Exercise
This exercise explains the difference between personification and anthropomorphism. It has 10 beginning vocabulary words with their definitions, an exercise, and a wordsearch.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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Thanksgiving Poem and Activities
This ia a short Thanksgiving poem that I illustrated and created a few questions. There is also a fact about our President and a wordsearch. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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"A Dinosaur for Christmas" by Kenn Nesbitt
This is a cute poem that I illustrated, but not as much as I wanted to because the site had problems. I added a few questions. (12-17-09 I just added more pictures because the site finally started working correctly.) Sorry.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
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"Heart! We Will Forget Him" by Emily Dickinson
This is a short poem by Emily Dickinson. It is simple to understand once the students understand the vocabulary, which I have provided the definitions and a link to the free online dictionary.com. There are also a few choose the answer questions and a wordsearch. I hope it is useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
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Dinosaur Lesson: Myths
This lesson begins with popular myths about dinosaurs. Next, there is an article about a recent find in Argentina. There is also a link to some dinosaur podcasts. Finally, I have choose the correct answer questions and a small wordsearch. I hope it is enjoyable.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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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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"Autumn Fires" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Activities
This is a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. I illustrated and defined a couple of the words, explained alliteration, and explained that it was contrasting summer and fall. Finally, I have a few questions and a wordsearch. Happy Thanksgiving!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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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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Halloween poem
This is a Halloween poem that explains couplets, synonyms, and antonyms. It has some illustrations, questions, and a wordsearch.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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