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Grammar Puzzle Lockdown: Nouns, Verbs, Prepositional Phrases, and Sentence Type

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This is the most fun your kids will have with grammar: an escape room! They must complete puzzles to get the "key" to leave the room. Fed up by lazy, terrible grammar, a crazy English teacher has locked up all of her students. They've taken her

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English Language Arts, Grammar, Close Reading

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RI.6.4, RI.6.5, RI.6.10, SL.6.1, L.6.1

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Internet Research Basics: Testing for Reliability and Searching Effectively

By MC Grammar

This is a PowerPoint and guided notes that help teachers walk through the basics of Internet research with students. It shows students ways to test for the reliability or a website in a fairly straight-forward manner. The teacher and students work

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English Language Arts

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Research, PowerPoint Presentations, Handouts

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Constitution Lockdown: Puzzles for a Constitution Review

By MC Grammar

This is the way to make history a living experience: an escape room! They must complete puzzles to free the constitution. Someone has locked up the constitution, and your students have to save it! This lets students practice their knowledge of the

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Social Studies - History, Government, U.S. History

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Brian's Winter (by Gary Paulson) Smart Phone

By MC Grammar

As students read Brian's Winter, they will create the apps they would find on Brian's phone. There are 4 apps in total: a song, a contact (with text conversation), a game, and a photo app. There is a smart phone to collect the app's icons. For

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English Language Arts, Writing, Close Reading

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RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.6.5, W.6.4, W.6.9

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Teaching Terrific Transitions: Practice for Sophisticated Transitions

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This allows students to see some good, sophisticated transitions. Then, they get to practice transitioning between different main points with some fun paragraphs. There are some possible answers to the three practice transitions.

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English Language Arts, Writing-Essays

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PARCC Writing Preparation and Steps: Getting Pumped Through Parody

By MC Grammar

Students learn the underdog story of Rocky Balboa (from the movie Rocky) to get pumped about PARCC! They sing a parody to "Eye of the Tiger," only these lyrics actually teach the students the different parts of a good essay. There is also a

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English Language Arts, Writing-Essays

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PowerPoint Presentations, Songs

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A Novel Way to Study a Novel: Smart Phone Apps to Analyze the Story

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As students read the book, they will create the apps they would find on the main character's phone. There are 4 apps in total: a song, a contact (with text conversation), a game, and a photo app. There is a smart phone to collect the app's icons.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

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Reading Strategies and Foreshadowing: Reading Like a Detective

By MC Grammar

This is a fun way to go through some reading strategies with your students and to introduce foreshadowing. It starts with a detective quiz, where students can test their skills and rate themselves. Then, students learn 4 reading strategies and the

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

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Romeo and Juliet: Tweet to Track the Tale

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This assignment allows students to think about the events of the story from the perspective of a single character. It provides great critical thinking as the students must tweet by the 140-character rule (limiting themselves to the most important

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English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

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Activities, Rubrics

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Antigone's Hamartia: An Artistic Depiction

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Review hamartia and discuss some famous examples of other tragic heroes through some artistic depictions of the tragic flaw. Then, students have to create their own artistic depictions of the hamartias of either Antigone or Creon while using an MLA

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

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

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What NOT to Do PowerPoint: Introducing Digital Visual Aids for Presentations

By MC Grammar

Use this PowerPoint as a comical sample of what NOT to do to your presentation's visual aid. The PowerPoint uses many of students' common mistakes. In the note sections, you will see many of the common mistakes that you will want to point out to

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English Language Arts, Oral Communication

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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PowerPoint Presentations, Projects

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SL.6.5

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

My undergraduate degree is in English with teacher certification, and I have my master's degree from the University of Illinois in library and information science. I am certified in Language Arts 6-12 and library science k-12. I have taught English to grades 6-12, and in my current role as a media specialist, I work with middle school and high school both. This school year, I have taught lessons in technology, English, math, science, and social studies.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I strongly believe in using technology in the classroom and appealing to multiple learning styles while bringing fun into the classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Yet to be added

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's in English with Teacher Certification from Eastern Illinois University Master's in Library Science from University of Illinois

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a teacher balancing motherhood with two happy and fabulous little boys.

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English Language Arts, Reading, Grammar, Specialty, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Literature, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Close Reading