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The Great Gatsby COLOR SYMBOLISM Worksheets | Four Handouts | QUOTATION ANALYSIS

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 8-page EDITABLE document will invite your students to analyze the symbolic significance of colors in The Great Gatsby. This activity promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students

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Othello Complete Unit | Colorful Workbooks | Editable Worksheets for Every Scene

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This 180-page complete unit has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly engaging lessons on William Shakespeare’s Othello. The colorful workbooks will enable you to capture and hold the attention of modern-day students. The higher-order

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Figurative Language CENTERS: 8 Stations, 3 Quizzes, 1 Glossary | All SHAKESPEARE

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Hoping to deepen your students' knowledge of figurative language? Eager to equip your students with the tools and techniques for analyzing figurative language in Shakespeare's plays? This FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STATIONS activity is a fun and effective

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"A Temporary Matter" by Jhumpa Lahiri | 20-page Editable Lesson Plan + Writing!

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 20-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter"!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven

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The Great Gatsby SLIDESHOW: Over 40 Slides on Fitzgerald & the Roaring Twenties

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This EDITABLE slideshow will kindle a fascination with Fitzgerald's novel before your students even crack the cover of The Great Gatsby. Open your unit on Fitzgerald's masterpiece with this

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Elizabeth Bishop's 10 BEST Poems | "The Fish," "In the Waiting Room," "One Art"!

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NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-Based! This 40-page EDITABLE mini-unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, quizzes on poetic devices, and

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Gwendolyn Brooks's 10 BEST Poems | Discussion Questions, Writing Assignment, Key

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NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-Based! This 35-page EDITABLE mini-unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, quizzes on poetic devices, and

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Thematic Introduction (Pre-Reading Handout)

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This four-page handout introduces students to the themes which are most prominent in Mary Shelley's literary masterpiece, Frankenstein (1818). By having your students read and discuss this thematic introduction together, you will have them

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LOVE POETRY: Discussion Questions, Literary Devices, & Writing | Valentine's Day

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!... This 40-page EDITABLE unit focuses on the most beautiful and compelling love poems in the history of love poetry! The unit on promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising

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The Great Gatsby SOCIAL CLASS WORKSHEETS | "Old Money" vs. "New Money"

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 5-page EDITABLE document helps your students to analyze the hierarchy of social classes and then to decode the signs of social status in The Great Gatsby. This activity promises to elicit

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The Great Gatsby WRITING ASSIGNMENTS | Creative AND Analytical Writing | AP LIT!

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 10-page EDITABLE document will set your students up to write both creatively and critically about Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The three writing assignments promise to elicit thoughtful

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African-American Literature Syllabus | High School English | Course or Elective

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This is a syllabus for course on African-American Literature. Should you choose to purchase, the syllabus will come to you in the form of a 6-page editable Word document.At some point in the future, I will probably bundle together the various units

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10th-Grade English Syllabus | Monsters of Modern Literature | Full-Year Plan

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This is a syllabus for 10th-grade English course called "Monsters of Modern Literature." Should you choose to purchase, the syllabus will come to you in the form of an editable 5-page Word document.At some point in the future, I will probably

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The Great Gatsby DISCUSSION QUESTIONS | All 9 Chapters | DETAILED + RIGOROUS!!!

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 130-page EDITABLE document features discussion question and answer keys for all 9 chapters of The Great Gatsby. This discussion-based curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement

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FAMILY DYNAMICS IN POETRY: Poems on Parent-Child Relationships | 3-Day Lesson

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This 45-page EDITABLE poetry curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The 12 poems in this mini-unit all focus on the complex nature of family dynamics and parent-child

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English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

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8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Sonnets: Poem Analysis, Quizzes, Writing | Shakespeare to the Harlem Renaissance

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This 45-page EDITABLE unit tracks the development of the sonnet from Shakespeare's day through by Harlem Renaissance. How are traditional sonnets written by English poets like Shakespeare and Keats similar to and/or different from modern sonnets

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Literature, Poetry, Close Reading

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The Great Gatsby SLIDESHOW LECTURE | A 9-page Lecture to Accompany the Slideshow

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This EDITABLE lecture was created to accopmany a pre-reading slideshow on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the culture of 1920s America. What you'll get is an 9-page lecture created to

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Their Eyes Were Watching God DISCUSSION QUESTIONS | 90 Pages of Questions + Key!

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NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 90-page EDITABLE document features discussion questions for every chapter of Zora Neale Hurston's literary masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This discussion-based curriculum

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Figurative Language POSTERS: Metaphor, Simile, Paradox, Oxymoron, Hyperbole, etc

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Figurative language POSTERS for the high-school classroom! This product includes 24 colorful posters focused on 8 types of figurative language. Each poster features a different inspirational quotation by a famous literary author. The size of each

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary

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7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Posters

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First-Day Lesson Plan for American Literature: Poems about "America"

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This lesson was designed to be used on the first day of a year-long 11th-grade American Literature course. The lesson includes a poetry packet with 7 poems by diverse American authors. Each of the poems raises important questions about what

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Literature, Back to School, Poetry

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adam Jernigan has been teaching English in high schools and universities for 25 years. After earning a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he taught English courses at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. But because his real passion is for working with adolescents, he has devoted the last 15 years to teaching at top-ranked high schools. He has taught English courses in grades 9-12 and especially enjoys designing curricula for honors courses, specialized electives, and Advanced Placement courses such as AP Literature.

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Adam holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. Trained as a specialist in American literature, he has published essays on American fiction and poetry in a range of scholarly and popular journals. He won the Margaret Church Award for the best academic essay published in the journal Modern Fiction Studies in 2014.

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