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10th grade writing-expository dbqs under $5
Sentence Starters: Introducing Evidence / Elaboration Techniques - Printable
Are you tired of reading the same generic responses from your students? This useful charts helps students improve on their argumentative writing skills by adding variation to their sentences/transitions. It displays different sentence starters (and verbs) to help students introduce and elaborate on evidence when writing their essays (great way to add syntactic variety to formulaic written responses!). ► These charts may be printed out and laminated for students to use in the classroom/at home (T
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5th - 12th
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Kingdoms of West Africa (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai) DBQ Document Based Question
This Document Based Question has 8 documents for students to examine that are about Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. I have my students answer the questions, "How wealthy was West Africa during the kingdoms period of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai? What was the outside perception of the region and the leaders like Mansa Musa?" by using the documents. I have a grading checklist on the last page that is based on the AP grading system. I also have a box for each document for students to take notes in.This co
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9th - 12th
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Article of the Week: Implicit Bias
This Article of the Week follows Kelly Gallagher's protocol of multiple scaffolded reads of one informational text to increase comprehension. Students are asked to:infer meaning of complex vocabularyannotate for meaning while readinganswer questions varying in Bloom's Taxonomy depthThis article can be used to compliment a novel or can work alongside other short texts about bias.
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7th - 10th
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Age of European Exploration DBQ - Document Based Question: Print & Digital
This DBQ contains 8 documents for the students to write an essay on. It was created for an AP European History course. There is a checklist and grading list for the students to follow for assistance. I also left an area for the students to write notes in to assist them as they get use to the process. There is no official key as essays will slightly vary, but the documents are straight-forward and easy to understand.Rubric Included.Multiple Editable Formats: I have it in multiple formats so y
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9th - 12th
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American Imperialism in Hawaii Modified DBQ
This is a great reading and writing skill builder for either US History or US History AP. First, the documents ask students to engage in active reading using a "thoughts, questions, epiphanies" reading strategies. Next, the lesson builds expository essay writing skills in the "DBQ" format. Through the lesson students will be asked to to group documents and explain the groupings. The lesson finishes by asking students to write a sample thesis using what they have learned. The lesson teaches stud
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9th - 11th
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Due Process: Primary Source and QuickWrite
Students will be given a cartoon about Miranda Rights, as well as a definition of the term due process. After evaluating the source, students will be asked to answer a short writing prompt dealing with the due process amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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7th - 12th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Guide
This resource is a guide, with an example, for students to write a position paper, logical argument, or summary after a class debate. I have used it to write a response to a news article, to summarize the work we have done on a controversial topic, even for a short research summary. It gives students a very clear, yet versatile framework. **All pictures, graphics, and artwork in our lessons are either purchased legally for use or are created by Science in the City**Terms of Use:• Purchase of t
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9th - 12th
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Women of the Scientific Revolution DBQ (Document Based Question)
This DBQ on the Women of the Scientific Revolution contains 8 documents for the students to write an essay on. It was created for an AP European History course. There is a checklist and grading list for the students to follow for assistance and a one page organizer for the students to utilize. I also left an area for the students to write notes in to assist them as they get use to the process. There is no official key as essays will slightly vary, but the documents are straight-forward and easy
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9th - 12th
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180 days of Journal Prompts: Writing that Everyone Loves!
I've never done anything in my class that provoked the same reactions from my students! This packet includes 180 days of journal prompts. That's one for each day of the school year! If done properly, students will be able to use this as bellwork (a quick five minute activity) or as an exit activity. Students will be so excited to see what their next journal entry will be that they'll come in asking for more.
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5th - 10th
Outline for Expository Essay or DBQ Essay
This product is jam packed with information to help scaffold essay writing for struggling writers or students who are right on track. This DBQ outline include information for the DBQ on the Salem Witch Trials. However, you can delete that information (or use it as an example!) to help support your writers. This outline also includes sentences starters for each chunk of an expository body paragraph. It also details how to write an effective introduction and conclusion! Great Formative Assessment
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5th - 12th
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19th Century Nationalism DBQ: 9 Documents & an Essay Organizer
This DBQ analyzes the various reactions to 19th century nationalism and the push for independence or unifications that occurred. It contains 9 documents for the students to write an essay on. It was created for an AP European History and I also sometimes use it in my AP Modern World History course. There is a checklist and grading list for the students to follow for assistance and a one-page organizer for the students to utilize. I also left an area for the students to write notes in to assist t
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: 19th Century Nationalism & Nation-States in Europe Unit
MLA Format with Google Docs Guide
This guide can be a handout or online guide to MLA Format in Google Docs. The side information helps to guide students step-by-step on how to create an essay in MLA format. There is also a YouTube video linked at the bottom to give multiple methods for understanding how to set a paper up in MLA format. This is part of the "WICOR" resource collection.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Death of Salesman DBQ - Diagnose Willy
Prior to Willy Loman committing suicide, students will read five documents about mental health and diagnose him with a disorder. Next they are to write a detailed letter about the diagnosis citing evidence from both the play and the mental health research. The assignment includes detail directions, graphic organizers, sample outline and introduction, mental health articles, guiding questions, and scoring rubric,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Document-Based Essay 8 "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
Students read a poem - Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" - and are given an FSA-style explanatory prompt wherein they are asked to use the poem given and provide textual evidence within their essay.
Check out the rest of the DBE's! There's one for each of the nine weeks!
I had my students complete these for homework, giving them one week to complete each. Students graded each other's essays in their groups using the FSA rubric.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Steps for Paraphrasing Bundle
For students who benefit from graphic organizers, checklists, and direct instruction on writing skills when putting information into their own words. This tool includes:
• A graphic organizer for key words and ideas in a document or quotation
• A graphic organizer to organize the clauses or thoughts and ideas in a sentence
• Directions to guide students in writing their own sentence.
• A how-to handout listing four steps to a “perfect paraphrase”
• A checklist for students to help them reflect
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6th - 12th
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"The Great Gatsby" PreReading Activity
Use these 10 thought-provoking statements to get your students thinking about the themes seen in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby! Students will be prompted to read a statement and choose whether they agree, disagree or are undecided in how they feel; either way they provide a response as to why they answer how they do!
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9th - 12th
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Standardized Test Prep Essay- Therapy Dogs and Soldiers
This article and writing prompt pair requires students to read and respond. They must be able to define "stigma" with examples taken from the text and their own prior knowledge. The text is an article from Tween Tribune Smithsonian. It is a 940L text.
This could be an essay or a short constructed response. Formatted similar to a sit-down, standardized-essay test.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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7th - 10th
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Synthesis Source Evaluations and Creative Conversations
You can access all of my material for free by going here: GardenofEnglishresources.weebly.com I do ask, however, that you consider donating. There you can donate as you see fit. This is a graphic organizer for students intended to help them evaluate sources and their credibility. It forces students to focus on potential biases of source speakers and audiences, in conjunction with prompting them to look at sources as being different perspectives in a larger conversation. Students are also
Grades:
9th - 12th
Historical Thinking Skills Points of View at Little Big Horn
Historical thinking requires seeing events from different perspectives and to do this, historians must examine primary sources of all types and groups. This lesson will guide students through this process and also help them synthesize information into an expository paragraph. The lesson provides different types of primary sources for students to examine (videos, letters, newspaper articles, artwork, and photographs), a chart for guided note-taking, and a scaffolding paragraph to synthesize inf
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10th - 11th
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Article of the Week: Children's Rights
This Article of the Week follows Kelly Gallagher's protocol of multiple scaffolded reads of one informational text to increase comprehension. Students are asked to:infer meaning of complex vocabularyannotate for meaning while readinganswer questions varying in Bloom's Taxonomy depthThis article can be used to compliment a novel or can work alongside other short texts about children's rights.
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7th - 10th
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Paraphrasing and Citation Checklist
For students who need a list of steps to help them paraphrase an idea or statement in open ended questions, DBQ’s, and essay writing.
This product includes:
• A checklist including steps to paraphrasing
• A checklist including steps to using citation information appropriately
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7th - 11th
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Document Based Essay Product and Process Rubric
When I give my students a final essay, we work on it i class for a minimum of 5 class periods. The steps that we take to reach the final product are as important as the final product itself. In order to reinforce this to my students, I give them two grades. One on the final product and one on the process. The steps in the process include the outline (thesis/assertion/evidence sheets), the first draft, peer review sheets which the fill out after reviewing one another's papers, editing checkli
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7th - 12th
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Lupita Manana: Document Based Essay Assignment
At the conclusion of our unit on immigration and after reading Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty my students wrote this persuasive essay pertaining to illegal immigration. It is formatted to match the format of the document based essay on the New York State History Regents Exam. The documents that they use are the book and articles that we read as a class.
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7th - 10th
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DBQ Flash Cards
Do your students need a refresher activity before their next DBQ Essay? The DBQ Flashcards are a simple, yet effective way to reinforce the skills of organizing and writing an essay without the hassle of spending countless hours grading essays writing the same comments over and over in regards with the format of their essay. Using the cards helps stimulate discussion about the mechanics of essay writing, provide repetition and transfer into working memory while increasing the confidence level
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5th - 12th
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