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Writing-expository Common Core SL.9-10.2 resources
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates: Elevate your classroom debates with this ready-to-use resource that has absolutely everything you need to set up and implement formal debates in your classroom. Debates are an excellent tool to enhance your students' research, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This resource provides a complete package, featuring slides, organizers, worksheets, handouts, and a selection of engaging debate topics. You will
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8th - 12th
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Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle - Types of Plagiarism Worksheets, Lessons, Activities
This bundle of lessons and activities will support your students in avoiding plagiarism in their writing. Explore different types of plagiarism and develop a classroom plagiarism policy using these informational handouts, worksheets, and activities! Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different Types of Plagiarism Informa
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6th - 12th
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Research Paper Extension Project - Real-World Resource Assignment - End of Year
This authentic assessment has students create a “real-world resource” as an extension of their research paper! Students can publish an infographic, pamphlet, brochure, documentary, or any other medium of their choice. This project is a great end of the year activity for English Language Arts!Included with this Research Paper Extension Project:✏️ “Real-World Resource” Assignment Instructions✏️ 4-Level Rubric - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Student Example - “Let’s Talk about Domestic Abuse”✏️ T
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9th - 12th
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Family Tree Research Project - Independent Assessment
The Family Tree Research Project includes instructions for each activity, 20 family history interview research questions, individual Family Member Fact Cards, and a student reflection paper assignment. The project includes plan sheets for the visual display projects and reflection paper featuring guiding questions for student success.The Family Tree Research Project features informational writing, speaking and listening, and active research in order for students to apply their skills and invest
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7th - 12th
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Graphic Organizer for Research Essay - Digital Writing Template for Google Drive
Keep students motivated during the writing process using this digital graphic organizer for research writing! Use this template for research essays or persuasive writing. Suitable for online learning and formatted for Google Docs®! How to use this Graphic Organizer for Research Writing:This graphic organizer will encourage students to adopt an objective approach to their research writing. They will be prompted to go beyond evaluating whether or not an author's opinion agrees with their own in o
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9th - 12th
Essay Writing Unit | How to Write an essay - 5 paragraph essay format
Teach your students how to write an essay! Writing a five-paragraph essay: outline; write an introduction with a hook & thesis statement; body paragraphs & transition phrases; write a conclusion with a summary and concluding statement. Revise from rough to final draft. A whole unit on essays and expository writing using a 5-paragraph essay format:*Lesson in Powerpoint and PDF format* Student Activity Workbook* Teacher lesson plans and objectives covered, alternate examples, assessments,
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: Highschool ELA Bundle: Writing, Research, and Argumentation
Research Projects- Questions and Guided Organization Worksheets
This file includes the following documents:
#1- Explanation of what a Research Paper is about: 8 page paper that is based on the answer to a question. The students are required to read through the directions, then read through 50 dynamic, interesting questions and highlight 5 that seem interesting to them. The topics range from changing the draft age, to mandatory recycling, to the transition from pagan celebrations into Christian holidays. These are not your typical Research topics!
Once stu
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Editable Plagiarism Policy - Plagiarism Questions, Worksheets, 4-Corner Activity
Avoid plagiarism with this editable plagiarism policy template and plagiarism questionnaire worksheet! This resource facilitates a 4-corner activity to measure students’ views and understanding of plagiarism and establishes classroom guidelines for handling plagiarism.Included with this Plagiarism Lesson:✏️ Plagiarism Questionnaire - Digital & Print✏️ Plagiarism Likert Scale Posters for 4-Corners Activity - Print✏️ Editable Plagiarism Policy Template - Google Docs® and Microsoft Word®✏️ Tea
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7th - 10th
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Persuasive & argument writing, rhetorical devices & appeal
Argumentative Writing with Rhetorical Appeals: An easy to understand unit on Persuasive Writing using ethos, pathos, and logos from the rhetorical triangle to understand debate. Includes a powerpoint presentation with in class discussions and activities, assignments and assessments with answer keys provided, and many examples of realia from advertisements, speeches, and pop culture to demonstrate persuasive writing techniques all around us.Includes Rhetorical Appeals printable poster!* What is t
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Highschool ELA Bundle: Writing, Research, and Argumentation
MLA Format Works Cited: Citations, Citing Text Evidence, Paraphrasing, Ellipses
MLA Format Works Cited Unit: citations, citing text evidence, paraphrasing, & ellipses. Lessons, activities, and assessments with answer key included. Bonus: includes both how and why to reverse image search using Google Lens for research. The unit comes with a Powerpoint presentation, handouts for student note taking, in-class activities, take home assessments, and fun memes of the day related to the topic to foster relationship building.==============Check out our other lessonsWhen is a Wo
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: Highschool ELA Bundle: Writing, Research, and Argumentation
60 High-Interest Persuasive Essay and Research Paper Topics
Each of these topics comes in the form of a question that students can react to immediately; hence they make excellent prompts for on-demand, in-class, timed essays. At the same time, any of them could be used as a springboard for a fully developed research paper, one requiring time spent exploring--and documenting--support for the writer's position. They also make excellent topics for informative or persuasive speeches that you might assign.One of the guiding criteria for this list is that it b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Class Research Games
Need a fun way to get your students practicing their research skills? This set of 10 games will take your class from thesis statements all the way to references all while having fun.This set of games covers research skills like:Building 3-prong thesis statementsUsing specific search termsAssessing the credibility of sourcesExpanding on relevant evidenceChecking the efficacy of research paragraphsCreating accurate APA citationsChecking APA formattingYou'll get fun class games like:Thesis SwapSour
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6th - 12th
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Distance Learning Google Slides for research projects
Use this template after students conduct research. Students use this file to present their information using this google slides template. This is a great alternative to writing a traditional research paper. A title slideA slide for students to place their research questionSlide for whatSlide for when Slide for whereSlide for howSlide for whySlide for summarySlide for implications titled "So What". Sections and slides to allow students to add images.Owners can add/subtract and change the slides t
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Not Grade Specific
Printable Countries Around the World - Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates 9-12
Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Country Research Project! Students will create a trifold or float, and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills. Students gain and apply skills by working on a long project. They complete an in-depth inquiry into a specific topic. Students love the choice option! This engaging project has been modified from the original version for differentiated instruction. This No PREP project also inv
Grades:
9th - 12th
Puritanism: Group Assignment
From Electric English...
This is a group-based project designed to familiarize students with several Puritan figures and writers at once. They will gain knowledge of the lives, accomplishments, and works of:
• John Winthrop
• William Bradford
• Anne Hutchinson
• Metacomet
• William Penn
• Mary Rowlandson
• Thomas Hooker
• Tomochichi
• Roger Williams
• James Oglethorpe
The students will take one of the above individuals and create a lesson, which they will then present to the class. This is a g
Grades:
10th - 11th
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Writing Module #4 | Cause-Effect Informative Essay | Concussions | Grades 7-12
Your 7th through 12th graders got this! Got what? A final product they will create in no time with step-by-step guidance: A Cause-and-Effect Informative Essay (also known as explanatory and expository essay) about the causes and effects of sustaining a concussion.KIDS LOVE THIS TOPIC - AND THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE!Students read two scientific sources, watch two super short educational videos, and critically think about a very relevant, very important issue - what causes a concussion, what happens
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Modules | Grades 7-12 Growing Bundle | Write in Every Genre
To Kill a Mockingbird Group Research Project
Before we read To Kill a Mockingbird in class, I have students do a research project. The goal of the research project is for students to understand what life was like during the time period of the novel. The assignment is broken into groups of eight. Each group will have a different topic to research. In groups, students will research and prepare a slide show. I usually give two class periods to research and create their slides. Presentations are done on the third day. Research Topics are
Grades:
8th - 12th
John Steinbeck: Video Questions
From Electric English...
Here, you have questions that align with the biography produced by A and E, "John Steinbeck" An American Experience". If you do not own a copy, you may be able to find this particular film on-line or check it out from your local library branch. The library, I find, always has a great selection of educational materials. The questions will stand on their own too; after all, the information is similar no matter what :) This documentary is a small part of a bigger unit I hav
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9th - 11th
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Farewell to Manzanar Research Project
This Common Core-aligned research project requires students to conduct background research on Farewell to Manzanar and work collaboratively with their peers to conduct collegial discussions and create research questions and source cards. Students will have to evaluate the credibility and accuracy of each source that they use in their research. In the final stage of the project, students will create an 8-10 minute digital presentation that showcases the information that they researched.
Farewe
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9th - 12th
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John Steinbeck: Video Questions Key
From Electric English...
This is the key that accompanies the questions for the biography described below...
The questions align with the biography produced by A and E, "John Steinbeck" An American Experience". If you do not own a copy, you may be able to find this particular film on-line or check it out from your local library branch. The library, I find, always has a great selection of educational materials. The questions will stand on their own too; after all, the information is similar no
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9th - 11th
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Inquiry Unit English 10 Myths, Fairy Tales, and Legends
Students will explore myths, legends, and fairy tales to study how these stories influence communities/cultures.
Students will be able to research myths, legends, and fairy tales from different cultures in order to make a connection with their own culture.
Students will work in groups to research different cultures so that they may understand how and why different stories are carried on through generations. Students will write a summative essay describing their own family culture and stories.
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10th
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Breaking News Informative Writing Project
This is a an editable step-by-step project guide packed with resources and scaffolds for students, including links to a grading rubric, a grade recording sheet, and a student exemplar video. Students will create a breaking news segment answering the question, “Which of these developments had the biggest impact on the changing American society of the 20th century: atomic energy, the Civil Rights movement, environmentalism, increasing diversity, or another trend or development?” You could also
Grades:
9th - 12th
Mark Twain: Biography Assessment
From Electric English...
This is an assessment for the A & E Biography, "Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventures". It asks students to make inferences from their reading, from Twain's life experiences, and from their class discussions, then apply that knowledge to the questions on the assessment. The questions for this assessment are more rudimentary than I normally like to ask, but hey, every once and a while, it's nice to throw the kids a bone. And, I mean that idiom in the best way :)
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10th - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe: Video (Two Column Notes)
From Electric English...
Here, you have a two-column note template that includes prompts on the left-hand side. Two-column notes are not for everyone; I get that... However, this models for the students one way to disseminate information and organize it in an effective manner. This will help the kids find their own way to deconstruct material, find what works best for them. It might involve two column notes, then again, it might not!! :) This particular template covers A and E Biography's, "Edga
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10th - 12th
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