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High school writing-expository simulations for Microsoft OneDrive
WRITING - Narrative, Persuasive, & Descriptive Writing Bundle -DIGITAL VERSION
WRITING PACK - DIGITAL VERSION - An easy-to-use set of activities, graphic organizers and templates to help students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive and expository paragraphs digitally using online templates!Includes 5 of my digital writing activities with detailed assignment sheets, marking rubrics, brainstorming worksheets and more! Includes 54 slides to help students learn different styles of writing! Easily adapted to different ages and abilities.Can be used with Google™ Drive, Goog
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7th - 9th
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Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
Grades:
7th - 10th
Character Analysis for ANY Novel or Short Story - Google / Digital Version
DIGITAL CHARACTER ANALYSIS ACTIVITY - Help your students write a character study or character analysis with this ready-to-use resource. Works with any novel or short story! 17 Google slides to help your students dig deeper into a character's motivation and personality. Works with any novel or short story! This activity is easy to differentiate for students of varying abilities and ages. The resource leads students through the process of writing a paragraph or a full essay - choose which one w
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: DIGITAL Novel Study Bundle - Use with ANY NOVEL
Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version
Writing a Theme Essay will be motivating with this step-by-step digital resource designed to lead your students through the entire process! Great for classroom or remote teaching, easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs.Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A li
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6th - 9th
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Persuasive Writing - Digital organizers, planning pages, rubrics and more!
Persuasive Writing Digital Resource - Looking for a way to teach your students how to write a persuasive paragraph? or an essay? Everything you need to guide students through the process from brainstorming, planning, revising, peer-editing and more!Great for those teachers working in a 1:1 classroom this writing activity can be shared via Google™ Drive or MS OneDrive! Students can then work directly with the document on a computer, laptop or tablet. They can then print their work or share it
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6th - 9th
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ELA TEST PREP Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint
Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint for ELA test prep. Taking a state writing test or preparing for the writing portion of a state test? This digital resource helps students prepare for state tests by learning how to understand what type of essay they are expected to write. Students need to understand how to answer constructed response questions and make their argument with support from a text. Learn the differences between what is expected for a persuasive and expository w
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
Lowell Mill Girls Document Base Question and Lesson
The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with life at Lowell Mills and the causes and effects of the strike. Students will use primary sources to compare and contrast accounts of life at Lowell. Students will examine documents from the Lowell Mill and also documents about the strike. Then students will analyze the documents to determine if the accounts are exaggerated. Finally, students will evaluate the strike's impact on the labor union movement and the women's rights moveme
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8th - 11th
New Year's Goal Essay for Google Drive - Distance Learning
Have your students write about their New Year's goals with this digital interactive writing activity. It's a Google resource!SMARTePlans are digital, Google-based, interactive lessons for the technology-driven classroom.Why Choose SMARTePlans?- Create a digital, paperless classroom- Incorporate technology into the classroom- Compatible with Chromebooks, Tablets, Desktops, and Smart Devices- Prepares students for 21st Century Tech Demands- Engaging- Interactive- FUN!This digital interactive ePlan
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6th - 9th
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Heart Transplant Debate - Argument, Persuasion, Line of Reasoning, Team Building
The Heart Transplant debate is a great entry to a unit on persuasion/argumentation. It's also a fantastic tool to teach Line of Reasoning through experiential learning. This activity provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge of general debate skills as well as locating and citing appropriate evidence. Two articles are linked as sources and pre-reading to this debate. My students loved arguing for their "client" and this debate got them out of their seats. I used this as an opportun
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Outsiders - Digital Newspaper Project
OUTSIDERS - DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT - Google Version - Your students will have fun creating a newspaper about the conflict between the Socs and the Greasers in the classic teen novel, The Outsiders. Working with templates online this digital activity is a great way to engage your students!Includes creative and unique assignment page with clear instructions / expectations. Also includes a detailed rubric, two assignment-specific brainstorming sheets and three newspaper templates. Students wo
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6th - 10th
Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study Bundle - DIGITAL VERSION
Expository Writing - Digital Activity
Expository Writing Newspaper Project - In this fun and engaging activity students will create the front page of a newspaper themed around a topic of their choice! Great for those teachers working in a 1:1 classroom this expository writing activity can be shared via Google Documents or MS OneDrive! Students can then work directly with the document on a computer or device. They can then print their work or share it with you digitally. Easy way to go paperless and encourage technology in the clas
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6th - 9th
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Writing with Main Idea, Supporting Details and Transition Words PowerPoint
A writing PowerPoint on supporting the main idea with details to help students understand the importance of providing evidence. Explains main idea, supporting details, and the use of transition words to link ideas together. Includes examples of major and minor supporting details, lists of transition words for various types of organization, and a paragraph writing graphic organizer that you can use digitally for students to type in their answers, along with a printer friendly version for students
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6th - 9th
The Giver by Lowry Ceremony of Twelve Simulation Lesson and Writing
This lesson is for Chapter 7/8 of The Giver by Lois Lowry. It is a simulation of the Ceremony of Twelve. This will help students understand the gravity and meaning of this ceremony in the book, aiding in their comprehension of what Jonas is undergoing. The simulation includes everything from what you should say in the beginning; mock tests for disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests - the four components of the "testing period" for the community members; it also includes labels
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6th - 9th
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Free Response Essay Workbook
Free Response Question Writing Process Notebook is a resource to guide students during the writing process for a prompt-based essay. This resource guides students through four major progressions of FRQ essay writing: understanding the prompt, developing your thesis, organizing your points, and citing your evidence. It is versatile because it can be printed and used as a hardcopy source, or it can be used digitally! Directions for Google Classroom and Microsoft OneDrive are included. Students can
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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SMARTePlans Thanksgiving Writing for Google Drive
Thanksgiving expository essay for Google Drive. Engage your students digitally with this Thanksgiving writing assignment. This resource includes a Google compatible file with brainstorming and outlining materials and the original PDF files.SMARTePlans are digital, Google-based, interactive lessons for the technology-driven classroom.Why Choose SMARTePlans?- Create a digital, paperless classroom- Incorporate technology into the classroom- Compatible with Chromebooks, Tablets, Desktops, and Smart
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: SMARTePlans 2016 Growing Bundle Membership for Google Drive
Back to School Writing Strategies PowerPoint with Prompts and Activities
Back to School Writing Strategies for School Success PowerPoint. Includes writing prompts and activities that can be used all year long. Gives students easy to follow instructions for success on school written assignments. How to use effective sentences, an editing checklist, and how to go about writing an assortment of different writing situations, including: comparison/contrast paragraphs, book reports, friendly letters, business letters, expository text giving directions or explanations, sele
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6th - 9th
Lincoln Assassination Trial of Mary Surratt: The Conspirator
This is a simulation of the trial of Mary Surratt. Your students will be assigned a key figure in the case. The students will research their character and their characters connection to the events and the trial. The students will simulate the trial and come to their own conclusion as to whether Mary Surratt was guilty.
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4th - 12th
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Would You Rather Freewrite
This uses the Would You Rather scenario as a basis for freewriting and eventually thesis development. This short activity can be used as a standalone introduction to thesis-based freewriting or modified to start a scaffolded multi-part theme lesson.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argue A Supreme Court Case Using Precedents!
Use this project to get your students researching and analyzing important federal court decisions involving precedents in education!Students are provided with 4 fictional court cases involving student rights in schools. They are to read the facts of the case and then form an argument that they could present to the Supreme Court by doing the following:-Provide a case summary-Identify the constitutional issue(s)-Declare which side of the case they will argue-State their argument-Find and summarize
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8th - 12th
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Civil Rights Movement PowerPoint - Black History Month MLK Writing Prompts
This Black History Month PowerPoint has 20 Civil Rights Movement journal writing prompts to enrich your unit of study. The twenty writing prompts encourage critical thinking about social injustice and strategies for change and provide you with journal writing activities for a full month. This digital resource has references to historical figures like Nelson Mandela, Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Johnson students can research. Use in January after winter break in conjunction with preparing
Grades:
7th - 10th
Sample College Application Essay
I wrote this sample college application essay as an example of how to be concrete and descriptive while also explicating key elements of personality. It is meant to model the necessary balance between establishing one's credentials as a skilled descriptive writer and as a thoughtful, reflective individual.
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Sample Introduction of Expository or Informative essay
Provided here is a model or sample introduction of an informative essay. Writing Whiz uses a sample introduction to outline, demonstrate, and explain how students should create the introduction to an informative essay; start with a catchy first line. This leads into an anecdote or examples, statements on the importance of the topic, and a final thesis statement or specific topic sentence. The introduction sets up the entire rest of the essay. Of note are the strong verbs, transitions (no repeati
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6th - 9th
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Essay Writing - Open-Ended Introductions PowerPoint
Essay Writing - Open-Ended Introductions PowerPoint. How to start writing expository and persuasive essays. Writing essays with a starter. Students will learn how to write an interesting anecdote to introduce their essay and engage their reader. The introductory anecdote is made to be open-ended so it is not dependent on the topic of an essay prompt, so students can create a unique and personal hook to use on a state writing assessment. An example anecdote and how it can be related to different
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6th - 9th
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