Pencils and Prologues is an online membership and community of high school English teachers that provides a library of engaging teaching tools for classrooms.

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.

Coming Spring 2024!
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
& more

**New content added each month!

Coming Late Fall 2024! 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
& so much more