Essay Writing for Middle School | Full Year

Writing middle school essays has never been so much fun.

These fun, mysterious, and engaging writing prompts will spark debate and intrigue in your classroom.

This bundle includes 13 guided essays for your students to write, one step at a time.

True Crime Research Topics:

1. The Gardner Museum Heist

2. The Tylenol Murders Mystery

3. Fyre Festival

4. The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Silly Argument Topics:

1. Is pizza a vegetable?

2. What is the cringiest gift you can buy someone for $5.00 or less?

3. Which mythical creature would be most likely to survive in today's world?

4. Which letter of the alphabet would you get rid of if one just had to go?

Engaging Literary Analysis Topics:

1. Design a fun theme-park attraction that represents your book!

2.Build a signature sandwich that embodies the essence of your book character.

3. Invent a professional sport that reflects the book you just read.

4. Nominate a book character to be the world's next superhero.

Meaningful Descriptive Essay Topic:

1. Look beyond the surface to describe a classmate as they truly are.

But the super engaging topics are just the beginning.

These resources will help your students . . .

⭐️ Develop a thesis statement

⭐️ Write logical topic sentences

⭐️ Support their claims

⭐️ Find credible sources

⭐️ Build logically organized essays (5-8 paragraphs each)

⭐️ Self-assess their writing

⭐️ And more!

Rather than starting with an introduction and rambling their way through to the conclusion, your students will start with the most important building block of their essay: the thesis statement.

From there, they will build their topic sentences and move on to their support/evidence.

Finally, they will finish with an introduction and conclusion that complement the content of their essays.

Individual rubrics are included for each step of the process so your students can check their work as they go and YOU can grade their papers AS they're being written!

What's included in these resources?

⭐️ Teacher tips to guide you through the process

⭐️ 13 student handouts with engaging essay prompts

⭐️ 130+ Fillable student handouts that build 13 separate 5-8-paragraph research papers when put together

⭐️ Rubrics for each section of the papers (for student self-assessment and teacher grading)

⭐️ A put-it-all-together handout that shows students how to organize their esays

⭐️ Evidence tip sheets to help students get started with any needed research

⭐️ 13 sample essays for students to reference as they write

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