GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou.
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A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
GCSE Poetry: ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ by Lord Byron ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ by Lord Byron is a complex poem that explores the historical battle and fall of Sennacherib.
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.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'The War Photographer' by Carole Satyamurti.
A GCSE English Literature poetry lesson (PowerPoint) analyzing Imtiaz Dharker's poem 'Tissue', covering author context, tone, content/narrative, and stanza-by-stanza language analysis.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Walking Away' by C Day-Lewis.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'What Were They Like?' by Denise Levertov.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'When We Two Parted' by Lord Byron.
A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis lesson presentation that guides students through close reading and critical analysis of 'Winter Swans' by Owen Sheers.
A 200-page, 4th/5th/6th-grade novel study unit for the book "George Washington's Socks" by Elvira Woodruff, covering comprehension, vocabulary, writing, assessment, and social-studies connections across all 23 chapters.
A scaffolded research-essay guide leading students through selecting a significant historical Georgia figure, researching, outlining, drafting and citing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay.
A Day 1 lesson plan for a back-to-school/first-week unit in which students think, share, and begin writing about their dream job while getting to know classmates.
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
Mini-unit on setting ('Poetry of Place: Searching for Setting'), using Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts as mentor text; the PDF itself is a 2-page description/link page directing to an editable Google Doc version of the resource.
A multi-novel reading comprehension unit built around five short, high-interest/low-vocabulary ghost-themed novels, giving teachers flexible whole-class, individualized, small-group, or listening-test approaches with comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities plus answer keys for each title.
A cross-curricular unit built around a nonfiction reading passage on glaciers, combining reading comprehension, creative writing, figurative-language vocabulary, and math word-problem practice.
Golf Biography Writing Research Guide Designed for middle and high school language arts or physical education classes, this 6-page research project guides students through selecting a famous golfer, gathering facts, and writing a properly…
An emergency/substitute lesson plan built around a nonfiction reading passage on the history of peanuts, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, math, and word-search activities.
A speech-language and early-literacy book companion packet built around the book Gorgonzola, designed for speech-language pathologists and teachers working with emergent readers or students with language delays/disorders.
A full-day emergency substitute teacher lesson plan packet for K-1 classrooms built around a GR-words theme (grasshopper, grizzly, groundhog, etc.), covering reading, writing, math, and science activities.
36-week yearlong Grade 1 reading comprehension curriculum with weekly passages, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and writing prompts.
Build Grade 10 financial literacy through a year-long sequence of 180 daily nonfiction reading passages combining economics/personal-finance content with reading comprehension, vocabulary, and analytical writing practice.
Prepare Grade 11 students for financial independence through a year-long sequence of 180 daily nonfiction passages on practical personal-finance topics (e.g. what money is, needs vs. wants) paired with vocabulary, comprehension, and writing practice.