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Tom Jones
Tom Jones
(Manchester - United States)

I am a retired high school principal in my 3rd year of post-retirement re-employment teaching high school English.

Andrea Chen

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Curriculum Collections

Writing How-To Resources
Includes graphic organizers and outlines for writing essays and constructed responses, handouts for how to write constructed responses, samples of constructed responses, handouts for how to write literary analysis essays, rubrics for constructed responses and essays, etc.
Poetry
A series of poetry lessons focusing on the writing and analysis of poetry. Each lesson focuses on a different literary element within several poems.

Lessons include:

Lesson 1: Vivid Language Lesson 2: Metaphor Lesson 3: Simile

Novel Unit: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
This is a complete unit plan for The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Includes assessments, reading guides, vocabulary activities, and essay topics.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: Novel Unit
This unit on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Includes prereading activities, supplementary materials, complete reading guides, vocabulary activities, analytical quesitons, and assessments.
Persuasion Unit
In this unit, below-grade level tenth graders who struggle with organization and style write a persuasive essay using humor.

Resources include a:

  • Persuasion Packet
  • Persuasion Unit
  • Persuasion Test
AndreaNOLA's Collection
AndreaNOLA's Collection includes reading guides for three short stories. These are:

  • "Hair" by Malcolm X (an excerpt from his autobiography)
  • "Life is Sweet in Kumansenu" by Abioseh Nicol
  • "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
Short Story Unit
A collection of reading guides (Road Maps) for a variety of short stories with vocabulary, vocabulary activities, assessments, activities, and analytical questions.

Short stories covered include:

  • "First Day" by Edward P. Jones
  • "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
  • "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
  • "There Was an Old Woman Who Had So Many Children" from House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Unit
A complete unit on Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man. Includes complete reading guides and activities, analyzing quotes activities, high-level comprehension questions, essay prompts, thematic questions, comprehensive assessments, reading quizses, supplementary enrichment materials, and prereading activities.

The prereading activity was an analysis of the movie, "Crash," and students were asked to tie in themes of invisibility, rebellion, and identity to the novel.

Death of a Salesman: Drama Unit
This unit is for Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. It includes prereading activities, complete vocabulary activities, complete reading guides, writing activities, target skills, supplementary reading, and assessments.
Drama Unit: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Includes prereading activities, essential questions, reading guide, quotes to analyze, vocabulary, vocabulary activities, quizzes, unit test, essay questions, etc.
Graduate Exit Exam Resources
These are some test-prep materials for the Graduate Education Exam, the tenth grade ELA high-stakes standardized exam in Louisiana.
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