Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself
Title | Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2008-10 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570010 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.").
Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild
Title | Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2004-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570169 |
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.
Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf
Title | Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2009-01-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1608571831 |
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").
Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee
Title | Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2005-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570185 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language shows off Twain's skill at metaphor ("I was mere dirt," a nation of worms," "wide seas of memory," "he was but an extinct volcano"). Allusions include famous literary and historical adventures (Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Chaucer, Columbus, Northwest Passage).
Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories
Title | Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2005-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570193 |
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, The Veteran, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Blue Hotel.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Crane's skill as a poet shines in these tales of the Old West, American Civil War, and 19th century New York City. Poetic devices include assonance ("vast flats of green grass"), consonance ("struck him in the back of the neck"), alliteration ("he bent to bail out the boat"), rhyme ("free sea," "seen the sheen") and repetition ("There was no offer of fight - no offer of fight").
Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden
Title | Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570886 |
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."
Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories
Title | Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570177 |
At Cheniere Caminada, Athenaise, Desiree's Baby, The Story of an Hour, Wiser Than a God.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story collection. All sentences are from the stories. Language describes the culture and setting of the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the late 1800s where women characters begin to question traditional roles (Is "marriage a trap" or can it be "what story books promise?"). Figurative language reflects the conflict between religion, the expectations of the Southern culture and personal choice (Faust, Eve, Holy Ghost, Satan, Judgment Day, Terpsichore and goddess of Victory).