Grammardog Guide To The Outcasts Of Poker Flat

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570072

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Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570720

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Grammardog Guide to The Tempest by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("O, brave new world that has such people in it." "What's past is prologue." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." "Full fathom five thy father lies." "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." "Good wombs have borne bad sons.").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570881

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Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: ". . . the wide bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean . . ." ". . . the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain . . ." "The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished." Sensory imagery includes: "Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow." "She . . . rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand . . ." "soft rustling flight of wings," "the fresh scent of the damp earth," "Mary drank some tea and ate a little toast and some marmalade."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570225

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Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this humorous travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the tourist experience ("great guns frown out upon sea and town," "a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs," "The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow."). Allusions include mythology, religion, literature, history and folklore (Columbus, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Romulus, Aladdin, Shylock, Othello, Agamemnon, St. Mark, Eve, Garden of Eden).

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608571833

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Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this early horror novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery establishes the iconic components of a vampire tale ("rattling chains," "sharp white teeth," "a deathly sickly odor," "garlic smell," "red light," "hinges creaked," "sulphurous fume," "howl of wolves").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570652

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Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Hath not a Jew eyes?" "If you prick us do we not bleed?" "If you tickle us do we not laugh?" "The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." "a pound of flesh").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608571826

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Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow" "the inner chamber of my dread" "the grey dawn admonished us to separate" "We lived in a cloud of music and affection and success and private theatricals" "The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance - all strewn with crumpled playbills."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570294

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Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "the forest of legs," "Hunger is pride's master," "busy as ants," "He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow and got struck by lightning." Alliteration includes: "The high hedge hid him," "He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook," "After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was at last deserted . . ."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570232

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Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this famous short story. All sentences are from the story. Alliteration includes ("Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," "women's hearts were wooed and won," "ready for either a fight or a frolic," "suitable for such a steed"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, chivalry and folklore (Sabbath, psalm, ghosts, goblins, omens, magic, castle keep, knight-errant, Hercules, Achilles, Mercury).

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570164

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Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this adventure story. All sentences are from the novel. The main character is a dog which makes for interesting sentences that describe human behavior and the snowy Yukon wilderness from a dog's point of view. Allusions reflect the conflict in the story between civilized dog versus uncivilized dog and laws of civilization versus primordial instinct and lawlessness.

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570874

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Grammardog Guide to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" "Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide, wide sea; and never a saint took pity on my soul in agony." "And a thousand, thousand slimy things lived on and so did I." "Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung." "He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570041

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Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language establishes the mood of Gothic Romantic gloom (". . . the opaque puddle of obscurity . . ." "Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime . . . " ". . . the smile was sunshine under a thundercloud." "The vapor of the broiled fish arose like incense from the shrine of a barbarian." "The shadow creeps and creeps and is always looking over the shoulder of sunshine.").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608571888

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The Grammardog Guide to The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570126

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Grammardog Guide to The Awakening by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this landmark feminist classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use language that describes the romantic settings of the Louisiana Gulf coast and New Orleans. Naturalism is reflected in figurative language and lush descriptions of "hot breath of the Southern night," "the voice of the sea is seductive," and "the touch of the sea is sensuous." Allusions blend Creole folklore, classical myths, Catholicism and classical music. Feminism is poetically expressed ("The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings").

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570492

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Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes examples of Naturalism ("his lie had been the last desperate throw of a gamester," "you are the door through which wrong has come to me," "Time, the magician, had wrought much here"). Allusions include history, mythology, religion, literature and Naturalism (Hadrian, Constantine, Calpurnia, Faust, Romeo, Robinson Crusoe, Ovid, Aphrodite, Achilles, Jacob, Cain, Saul, sheer luck, malignant star, the hands of Time).