As a busy teacher, you don't have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching. Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Secondary Solutions® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials. Everything you need has been done for you! Our Guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place! Secondary Solutions® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more. Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom. All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included!
Kristen Bowers (1974- ) is the founder and President of educational publishing company Secondary Solutions (www.4secondarysolutions.com). After becoming frustrated with the quality and content of teaching materials available to her when she was a new teacher in 2005, Mrs. Bowers decided to create them herself. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began shortly thereafter, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.
Mrs. Bowers has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Bud Not Buddy, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brave New World, and more. She has also written two essay writing guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect.
