Sarah Sansbury

Teaching Materials

  • I love having my students be active versus passive.
  • I love having them work together to problem-solve and create.
  • I love being creative with lesson-planning, and I love having my students come up with their own ideas.

Each year and each class produces a different flavor of learning. A lone document doesn’t accurately convey the active learning or interaction in my classroom. This collection, a sampling of materials that I have used in my teaching, moreso shows the range of curriculum I have taught.

If you want to know more about how I engage students in learning, contact me and let’s have a conversation!

Beginning of the Year

Syllabus and Parent Letter

Formative Assessment

One of many Kahoot!s: King Arthur Book 1, Chapter 2

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Activboard FlipChart

Grammar and Writing

Grammar Olympics

Grammar and Writing Mad Lib

Indefinite Pronoun Writing Exercise

Black History Month Journal PowerPoint

Poetry and Poetry Terms

Poetry Choice Board

Art and Literature Integration: Shakespeare Sonnets

Katy Perry’s “Firework” Poetry Activity

Onomatopoeia Comic Strip Activity

Non-Fiction

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland STEM Curriculum

“Life Without Gravity” PowerPoint

Short Stories

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” PowerPoint

Novels

Surviving the Applegates Noun Activity

The Giver STEM Integration

And Then There Were None Life-Size Character Analysis Project

King Arthur and the Kinghts of the Round Table Character Analysis Mandala

Arthurian Character Analysis Essay (can be combined with mandala project above)

A Wrinkle In Time PowerPoint

A Separate Peace Scavenger Hunt

Drama

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Creative Projects

Romeo and Juliet Act I

Greek Mythology

The Odyssey Writing Assignment