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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Introduction PPT
An introductory slide presentation giving background on Mark Twain and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer before students read the novel.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets - Irish Dances
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing practice built around a nonfiction passage about the history, styles (step, set, ceili), and cultural significance of Irish dance, paired with comprehension questions, vocabulary/definition work, true/false reasoning, and comparison/promotional-writing essay prompts about cultural traditions.
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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘The Man he Killed’ by Thomas Hardy
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy.
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Mapping Skills with Google Earth Gr. 6-8
The full GRADES 6-8 'Mapping Skills with Google Earth' compilation (Classroom Complete Press, written by Paul Bramley) - a multi-chapter book teaching progressive map-reading skills, each chapter built around a reading passage with embedded Google Earth activities, reproducible worksheets, and assessment tools.
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CURRENT: Today's Music in the Classroom V2 N2
A music-education teaching unit (Volume 2, Number 2) that uses the song 'Good Time' by Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen to teach music vocabulary, listening/analysis skills, and curriculum-aligned music concepts.
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GCSE Literature: (4) Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scenes 1 and 2
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2 (Romeo evading Mercutio and Benvolio to find Juliet, and the balcony scene), framed around the theme of marriage in the modern world versus 16th-century Europe.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets - Eton College
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing practice built around a nonfiction passage about the history, structure, and daily life of Eton College in England, paired with comprehension questions, vocabulary work, true/false reasoning, and personal-opinion/comparison essay prompts about elite education.
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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Sonnet 29: I Think of Thee’ by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Sonnet 29: I Think of Thee' by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.
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The Civil War | Social Studies Unit
A large multi-component U.S. history unit covering the causes, events, and aftermath of the American Civil War, combining lectures, activities, quizzes, tests, evaluation/essay options, and multimedia extension tasks.
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GCSE English Literature: (8) Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scenes 4 and 5
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scenes 2 and 3 (see internal_notes: the catalog title/slug claims Scenes 4 and 5), framed around the theme of sexism/gender inequality.
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GCSE Literature: (2) Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scenes 3 and 4
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson guiding students through a close reading and analysis of Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scenes 3 and 4 (Lady Capulet raising marriage with Juliet, and Romeo/Mercutio/Benvolio en route to the Capulet feast), framed around the theme of innocence.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Essay Worksheet - How to train your Dragon
Give ESL/EFL students an informational reading passage about the How to Train Your Dragon film franchise paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and essay-writing practice.
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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Climbing my Grandfather’ by Andrew Waterhouse
A poetry-analysis lesson deck exploring 'Climbing my Grandfather' by Andrew Waterhouse, covering meaning, language and structure, using an extended climbing metaphor for a grandfather-grandchild relationship.
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Country Study Presentation - Panama - Geography - Central America
Introduces students to Panama's role as a land bridge between the Americas and the history and economic importance of the Panama Canal, presented as an illustrated country-study slideshow covering Panama's location, quick facts, language, history, geography, economy, cities, and culture.
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GCSE Literature: (17) ‘An Inspector Calls’ – The Characterisation of Inspector Goole
A GCSE English Literature PowerPoint lesson on the characterisation of Inspector Goole in 'An Inspector Calls', teaching direct vs indirect characterisation and applying it to his stage entrance, working-class-coded authority, and his role in challenging capitalism, class, arrogance of youth, sexual exploitation, lack of responsibility,…
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Ghost Novel Study Unit
A comprehensive 90-page comprehension, vocabulary, and assessment novel study unit for Ghost by Jason Reynolds, built for grades 6-8, covering all chapters with worksheets, quizzes, a summative test, and answer keys.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Essay - Weasleys' Magic Jokes Shop
Give ESL/EFL students an informational/narrative reading passage about the Harry Potter joke shop Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and essay-writing practice.
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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell
An eighteen-slide GCSE poetry lesson on Vernon Scannell's 'Nettles' opens with author-context biography before two starter discussion slides on over-protective parenting prime students for a first reading of the full poem text. Students then annotate the poem in three line-groups, identifying tone and language devices such as the extended 'regiment of spite' and 'funeral pyre' metaphors, before answering dedicated content and structure questions about the poem's narrative and stanza form. A PETAL (Point, Evidence, Technique, Analysis, Link) framework, paired with a PROOFREAD self-assessment checklist, scaffolds a formal analytical paragraph, and the lesson closes with an extension task, a genre/form homework assignment, and plenary reflection questions. Teachers building a GCSE poetry scheme of work can pair this with the same PETAL-based approach applied to a different set text in the Half-Past Two poem analysis lesson .
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Country Study Presentation - Kenya - Africa - Geography
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Kenya, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.
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U.S. Constitution Escape Room
A five-station classroom escape-room activity that has student groups solve puzzles tied to U.S. Constitution content (the Constitutional Convention, the Bill of Rights, the Preamble, amendments) to earn codes and complete an online breakout.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Aretha Franklin
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet for teen/adult English learners, using a short nonfiction-style article about Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul" to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and essay-writing skills.
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GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' by John Keats, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around a knight bewitched and…
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Country Study Presentation on Liberia - Geography - West Africa
Introduces students to Liberia's founding by freed African Americans, its 19th-century republic history, civil war era, and recovery, presented as an illustrated country-study slideshow covering Liberia's location, quick facts, language, history, geography, economy, cities, and culture.
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Research Organizer & Essay Assignment: John F. Kennedy
Guides students through independent biographical research on John F. Kennedy and a structured 5-paragraph research-essay assignment (thesis-driven introduction, early-life paragraph, exploring Kennedy’s achievements while president, analyzing Kennedy’s historical legacy, conclusion, and works cited page).
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