Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar

Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570622

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1608571823

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."

Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew

Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570711

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("If I be waspish, best beware my sting." "Where is the life that late I led?" "We will have rings and things and fine array." "There's small choice in rotten apples." "He that runs fastest gets the ring." "Being mad herself, she's madly mated." "First, kiss me Kate."). Onomatopoeia includes: "smack," "slish," "slash."

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857007X

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."

Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570231

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).

Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild

Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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 Hound of the Baskervilles

Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570452

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic crime novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery is used to create tone and suspense ("I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock . . ." ". . . the cold night wind beat in upon our faces." ". . . the dull moaning of the autumn wind and the rustle of falling leaves." "I heard the creak of a door and the crisp sound of boots upon gravel." "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water plants sent an odour of decay . . ." ". . . a dread cry echoed over the moor.").

Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570096

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She is a peacock in everything but beauty." "He becomes an echo of someone else's music." "Time is jealous of you." "like a third-rate wedding cake." Allusions to mythology, religion and literature include: Juliet, Tartuffe, Caliban, Dante, Adonis, Artemis, Athena, Sphinxes, Narcissus, Eve, Roman Catholic, "Lead us not into temptation," "seven deadly sins."

Grammardog Guide to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Grammardog Guide to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570878

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.").

Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables

Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570045

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.").