This blog features free materials that I used for a "teenage experience" choice book unit.

These are poetry materials that I used with my Pre-AP and Pre-IB students. There are timed essays, handouts, and activities.

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This post has a lot of free resources to teach Catcher in the Rye, including prereading activities, reading quizzes, and analysis packets.

These are resources I used the first time I tried to teach AP Language & Comp mixed with the American literature. PowerPoints and analysis.

These are general essay writing materials that I used to help my kids learn how to write the 5-paragraph essay.

These are some books that I would have kids read at the end of the year to give them some choice and/or build on the classics we had read.

These are handouts that I used while trying to walk kids through research papers. More to come.

These are materials I would use when I wanted kids to write about a topic of their choice.

These are materials that I used to teach American Literature to grade-level 11th graders. There are handouts, PowerPoints, and a few quizzes

This blog has some resources I used with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde as well as a few small reading quizzes for other books.

These are materials that I have used to try and track and assess independent reading in my classroom.

This blog features grammar handouts and PowerPoints for grades 8-12. There are handouts for parts of speech, grammar, commas, colons.

In this blog, I discuss and share some of the materials I used with my 8th graders when I had to teach persuasion for the first time.

This blog has an assignment sheet and a rubric for an activity I did called "Living History."

Free resources for Romeo and Juliet. Reader's Theater directions, rubric, and scene charts. Scene summary charts. Small review activities.

Free reading questions and handouts for "The Most Dangerous Game," "The Cask of Amontillado, "The Scarlet Ibis," and "The Gift of the Magi".

Free resources for Tears of a Tiger. Reading guides. Reading questions. Vocabulary list. Foreshadowing lesson. Figurative language lesson.

Free resources for The House on Mango Street. Free handouts for The House on Mango Street. Books connected to The House on Mango Street.

This blog post discusses a good book pairing for Stuck in Neutral: Laughing At My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw.