Authors of American Literature Magic Portrait Videos and PowerPoint

Attention English teachers! I just finished up an very cool to set of "Magic Portrait" videos of great American Authors! This download includes amazing, moving images of 10 classic American writers set into a PowerPoint for your author study or lesson!

Each author portrait comes alive by blinking, smiling, looking around your classroom, laughing, and more! This is always a great surprise for students and will definitely capture their attention immediately. Once I started using these, my students were more engaged in every presentation as they studied every slide to see if it was moving!

A short preview can be seen here in this Instagram post:

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Note that this is likely not a complete resource to use on its own. This PowerPoint includes 10 videos and PowerPoint slides that can be used as an overview of American authors or for Back-to-School night to really impress parents as you review some of the authors their children will learn about.

However, I imagine most ELA teachers would take these slides and insert them into your own author studies as you cover an individual author far more in depth. Authors included in this download are:

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Frederick Douglass
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner

You can download this resource today by clicking here!

If there happens to be another author you would like please let me know! I am currently working on a British Author set next so stay tuned!

New Age of Discovery Explorers Magic Portrait PowerPoint

This amazing, magical lesson includes a PowerPoint of leading explorers of the Age of Discovery, including Da Gama, Columbus, Magellan, Cartier, Zheng He, and more - all brought to life through amazing "Harry Potter" style magical portraits.

Each slide includes essential information about each explorer, as well as the magic portraits in which the faces blink, smile, laugh, and look around the room.

Your students will be AMAZED at these visuals and will not take their eyes off of your screen!

Also included is an exit ticket based on what students learned from the PowerPoint as well as a directions page on how to easily get your lesson to play perfectly.

This is a truly amazing, dynamic activity that will engage your visual learners and have your students gasping when they see Hernan Cortes smile and wink at them! I promise they will be howling with delight!

If you like this lesson and are looking for more, click here for more cool Magic Portrait lessons.

Thanks for looking!

New Magic Motion PowerPoint on the Good and Bad Emperors of Rome

This amazing download brings the good, bad, and downright crazy Roman Emperors to life in your classroom! It features 8 moving, blinking, smiling Roman Emperors that will look around your room and absolutely enthrall your students.

Each slide includes information about the emperor as an embedded  video of their marble bust plays to hold your students rapt attention. The slides cover the 5 Good Emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pious, Marcus Aurelius) and 3 of the worst (Caligula, Nero, and Commodus). After analyzing the notes, student determine on which side of a graphic organizer the information should go.

This can definitely be one of your students' most memorable lessons. The preview pictures definitely do not do it justice. Everything you need is included along with an easy to follow directions page, the PowerPoint, 8 videos, and graphic organizer!

 

You can download this amazing lesson for your classes today just by clicking here. You can also see many additional Magic Portrait lessons by clicking here including free previews!

Thanks for looking!