Be your best English teacher self
and
Save time for your home life
You can begin class with an amazing bell ringer EVERY SINGLE day.
❌ No more scrambling to start class with a useful activity
❌ No more lost time
✔️ Decide once and then pull from a library of ready to use materials
✔️ Include sneaky test prep
✔️ Do regular formative assessments
✔️ Get students right to work (well, with a little prompting–who are we fooling if we say otherwise)
What is the Pencils and Prologues Society?
We are a library of ready to use bell ringers consisting of close reading, vocabulary, literature analysis and writing activities for use in high school English classes.
Get Full Access to 100s of Bell Ringers
100s of quick activities that can be used as bell ringers, exit tickets, early finisher and sub plans.
- Poem of the Week
- Prose Passage of the Week
- Rhetorical Analysis of the Week
- Allusion of the Week
- Greek and Latin Roots
- Argument Response
- Text Specific
- For Any Text
- Lessons in Close Reading
- Quarterly Mini Courses on teaching things like characterization, symbolism, writing and more
- monthly bonuses
- & more
**New content added weekly!
Coming Winter 2025 Level Up to Access to the Content Library
More than 50 anchor charts and resources for short stories, poetry, novels and plays. Designed specifically for use with junior and seniors, especially students in AP® Literature and AP® Language classes.
- AP® Literature Writing Anchor Charts
- terms and devices anchor charts
- 20+ short stories
- 20+ poems
- literature circle units
- task cards
- Quarterly Mini Courses on teaching things like characterization, symbolism, writing and more
- & so much more
**New content added each month!
Free Resources for High School English Teachers
Bring enthusiasm back to your classes with these lessons for high school English.
Get ready to use bell ringers, lessons plans, courses and more!