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How to teach grammar in context with The Secret Garden – a one sentence warmup

How to teach grammar in context with The Secret...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

How to teach grammar in context with The Secret...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

How to teach grammar in context with The Call of the Wild - a one sentence warmup

How to teach grammar in context with The Call o...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

How to teach grammar in context with The Call o...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

How to teach grammar in context with The Red Badge of Courage - a one sentence warmup

How to teach grammar in context with The Red Ba...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

How to teach grammar in context with The Red Ba...

Choose a sentence to put under the microscope. Look for a sentence that contains some of the following: figurative language, sensory imagery, alliteration, allusion, clauses, prepositional, infinitive, gerund or appositive...

Why Teach The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?

Why Teach The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?

What’s at the core of human nature? The Horror! The Horror! The story is told in three frames. The first frame begins with an unnamed narrator sitting with friends on...

Why Teach The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?

What’s at the core of human nature? The Horror! The Horror! The story is told in three frames. The first frame begins with an unnamed narrator sitting with friends on...

Why Teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?

Why Teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by...

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. The narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a 12-year-old boy living in a small Missouri town on the Mississippi River in...

Why Teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by...

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. The narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a 12-year-old boy living in a small Missouri town on the Mississippi River in...

Why Teach Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?

Why Teach Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?

Can man create a human being? The novel published in 1818 marks the beginning of science fiction. The structure of the novel is a frame story with three narrators: Robert Walton,...

Why Teach Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?

Can man create a human being? The novel published in 1818 marks the beginning of science fiction. The structure of the novel is a frame story with three narrators: Robert Walton,...