About Teachers' Toolbox

Usage Policy

The guides and activities listed here are free for teachers to use. Please print pfd files for classroom use and link to web files. It is not permitted to copy and paste any works linked here into other websites.

No answer keys
are provided

© All materials written
by Dawn Hogue

A

Animal Farm Unit Plans
A Rose for Emily Study Guide
A Noiseless Flash (for the excerpt in Elements of Literature)

C

Creative Nonfiction (a unit plan for this genre)

D

Dulce et Decorum Est (part of an analysis of three poems on war)

H

Harlem Renaissance Webquest

J

Jurassic Park Poetic Justice Activity
Jurassic Park Study Guide

M

My Antonia (test)

O

Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea Study Guide

R

A Rose for Emily Study Guide

S

Sea Biscuit Study Guide
Speak Unit Plans

T

The Old Man and the Sea Study Guide
To Kill a Mockingbird (new 12/3/08)
Three Poems on War (a study of imagery and tone)

U

Under The Lion's Paw by Hamlin Garland, a dramatic reading
Under The Lion's Paw Activity

Y

The Yellow Wallpaper Study Guide

—In the summer of 2007 I began publishing units and lessons from my digital file cabinet in a new feature called Teachers' Toolbox. The impetus was to share what I have created with others. I know that new teachers, especially, are always struggling to find good lessons. And these are units and lessons that have been successful with my students.

Some of the things published here I no longer use in my classroom for one reason or another, but it seemed to make no sense letting them age in a file and remain useless. Many of the links are to pdf files. All work is copyrighted by me.

I do not provide answer keys, but it is not that I don't have them. I do. I simply believe that to really teach with a tool one has to know that tool well, so any set of questions must be filtered through the teacher's own mind before giving them to students. As a result, each teacher will create his or her own answer key.