Mark Antony’s oration from Julius Caesar is the focus of this worksheet for determining the purpose of the text.
Paradox and Oxymoron Activity
Can your student identify the paradoxes and oxymorons?
Paradox in Literature
This worksheet features some paradoxes in literature.
Paradox: Quotations and Sayings
In this worksheet your student will analyze some famous paradoxical statements.
Paragraph: Proofing and Editing
Use this “Printable Writing Worksheet” to help get in the routine of proofing and editing.
Poe: A Valentine
The master of mystery, Edgar Allan Poe, challenges your student to solve a riddle in this poetry worksheet.
Poetic Words:Discover the Meaning
Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” can help your student understand word meanings with context clues.
Prepositional Phrases: Adding Interest, Meaning, and Variety
It’s time to spice up a paragraph with some prepositional phrases!
Quotation Marks: Quotations Within Quotations
This worksheet features punctuating a quotation inside a quotation.
Reading Comprehension: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In this activity, students read an excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and answer related questions.
Semi-Colons and Independent Clauses
This worksheet spotlights semi-colons used with independent clauses.
Semicolon and Independent Clauses
Let’s substitute a semicolon for a coordinating conjunction!
Semicolons and Commas with Conjunctive Adverbs
Here’s some semicolon practice with using them with conjunctive adverbs.
Setting the Scene: Great Expectations
In this worksheet, your student will analyze the setting in a scene from Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”
Shakespeare’s Henry V: Once More Unto the Breach
In this activity, your students will read an excerpt from “Shakespeare’s Henry V” and answer questions related to the topic.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth Reading Comprehension
Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this “Shakespeare’s Macbeth” activity.
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: Portia’s Speech
Encourage your students in their reading comprehension skills with this “Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice” printable activity.
Simplifying Washington’s Language: Historic to Modern
Students read from the first State of The Union address and re-write a portion using modren language.
Slavery in the Constitution
Your student can compare different parts of the Constitution that relate to slavery.
Tension in The Pit and the Pendulum
Here’s a worksheet on how Poe’s uses structure to create tension in “The Pit and the Pendulum.”