Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice

Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2005-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570657

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").

Grammardog Guide to Gulliver's Travels

Grammardog Guide to Gulliver's Travels
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570819

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sentences satirize government, laws and moral virtues (Reward and punishment are "the two hinges upon which all government turns." "Ingratitude is among them a capital crime." "It is the maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again." "The question to be debated was whether the yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth.").

Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance

Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570827

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("To be great is to be misunderstood." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . ." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.").

Grammardog Guide to Little Women

Grammardog Guide to Little Women
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857086X

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "Fortune suddenly smiled on Jo," "Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature," "like a fly in the web of a very strict spider." Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Orpheus, Hercules, Cyclops, Pilgrim's Progress, Cinderella, Keats, Dickens, Shakespeare, elves, evil spell, lucky star, ghost, fairy, Ten Commandments, Madonna and child, Eve, Noah's ark).

Grammardog Guide to Treasure Island

Grammardog Guide to Treasure Island
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570576

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery includes: "a strong smell of tobacco and tar" "a jingle of broken glass" "the windows had neat red curtains" "the swish of the sea" "we had eaten our pork" "wiping the sweat from his brow." Alliteration includes: "The supervisor stood up straight and stiff and told his story" "daylight dwindled and disappeared" "He was the flower of the flock, was Flint." Allusions include: Noah, Davy Jones, Jolly Roger.

Grammardog Guide to Richard III

Grammardog Guide to Richard III
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857069X

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York." "Conscience is but a word that cowards use devised at first to keep the strong in awe." "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?" "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." "Why grow the branches when the root is gone?" "I had a Harry, till a Richard killed him." "Who builds his hope in air of your good looks lives like a drunken sailor on a mast." "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!").

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570509

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "The smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song." "I have made a coffin of my heart and sealed it up." "There is no chord in your heart that I can touch." "Providence must sleep." Sensory imagery includes: "the key grated in the lock," "garden flowers perfumed the air," "his eyes were bloodshot," "a slice of bread and butter," "a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose."

Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno

Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570142

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this mystery thriller at sea. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language creates a dark tone, suspicion and suspense (The ship was a "slumbering volcano." The slaves sat "sphinx-like" while chanting low like "bag-pipers playing a funeral march."). Allusions support the theme of mystery and secrecy ("Gordian knots," "Guy-Fawkes," "freemason" "and dark satyr in a mask").

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 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.