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Writing-expository Common Core WHST.9-10.1 resources
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!). â–ş 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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The 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
What's Included?This is a 4-point, proficiency-based scoring guide for grading middle-school level, five-paragraph essays. This is a complete, holistic essay rubric that follows from the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Body Paragraphs and the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Intro Paragraphs.Pair this rubric with the Five-Paragraph Essay Scoring Sheet to provide students with a clear and easy-to-read peer grading sheet that makes grading for teachers and students a breeze. Easily convert the 4-poin
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5th - 12th
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Poe's, "The Cask of Amontillado": A Short Story Unit Focused on Pre-AP Skills!
Written to meet the demands of the new Common Core and PARCC test, this one week unit includes engaging and challenging lessons to teach pre-AP skills to your students. You'll find 16 pages of original handouts, including a words and phrases scavenger hunt to teach connotation and mood, an interactive anticipation guide to introduce major thematic elements, an introduction to paraphrasing Poe, engaging lessons on irony, close reading, and annotation, and two key writing assignments. The first
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8th - 11th
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Argument Essay Body Paragraph Frames | Academic Vocabulary | Debate | CCSS | MLA
Warning--you may regret honing their powers of persuasion. Apologize to parents in advance! Great for GATE, reluctant writers, and ELD. This elaborate scaffold provides students with structure, complex sentence frames, MLA format, and sophisticated academic vocabulary to sharpen their argumentative skills. Benefit from years and years of revision. One teacher deemed it "writing on steroids." Use for debate, argumentative essays, town hall meetings, small groups, guided writing, independent writi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions Bundle
Genghis Khan: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents deciding whether Genghis Khan is a hero or a villain or a mix of both by reviewing his record.Their mission? To go back in time to get to know the real Genghis Khan and speak to his advisors and citizens. Is his reputation as a brutal dicta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult 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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Age of Exploration Research Paper (Essay)
This research paper comes with 20 questions or prompts for the students to chose from when writing an essay on the European Age of Exploration. There is a grading checklist to help students know what they have to include. There is an outline organizer to assist the students with writing a thesis and then laying out the evidence to support it. There is also a rubric. Finally, in case you have students write in Chicago-Style, I included a checklist to have them get use to that style.I have it in m
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Age of Exploration Unit: PPT, Test, Activities, & Projects! Multiple Formats
Unit 12 - 1798-1806
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Alien and Sedition Acts to the causes of the First Barbary War. (The original text of this unit can be found at nomadicprofessor.com in US2: The Noise of Democracy.)Sessions 12.1-12.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperl
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writing Reflections with GMOs in Our Food Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Enzyme Lab with Student Writen Procedure and Lab Analysis- Common Core and NGSS
This lab uses amylase enzyme isolated from soaking pinto beans in water to allow students to investigate the function of enzymes. The teacher will demonstrate a sample set-up of the lab, but students are responsible for picking an independent variable they think will effect the function of amylase and writing a procedure to test that variable, and then performing the experiment.
I have included my lab analysis writing instructions and rubric, but even more common core standards can be addresse
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9th - 12th
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Expository essay writing - content area middle school writing lesson
Head off badly-organized, meandering essays at the beginning of the year. This one day lesson clarifies the expectations for a well-organized essay, including the perpetually difficult introductory and concluding paragraphs. If you have ever had to review with your middle or high school students what a topic sentence is, or have read 25 essays that all start "have you ever wondered", you'll want to set the record straight early on that there is a better way.
This lesson includes standards for g
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7th - 10th
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French Revolution & Age of Napoleon Research Paper
This essay packet comes with 20 prompts for the students to help them write an essay on the French Revolution or Napoleon. There are questions relating to both areas of French history. A grading checklist, a rubric, a guide on Chicago-Style (if you use that), a sheet to help the students organize their essay, and a quick description of what their essay should include. I use this in my European History course, but it could be used in other courses. It is also a doc so you can make changes to meet
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8th - 12th
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Writing Reflections, with 4 Sample Lessons, Rubrics Included
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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William Henry Harrison, Ninth President in the Presidential Series
Social Studies is the academic bedrock of our democracy, and the lives and careers of the Presidents clearly reflect the state of the nation and it policies and problems during each Commander-in-Chief's tenure, yet reading about the lives of the Presidents has been about as interesting as watching grass grow, until now. The Presidential Series accurately presents each President's life, career, tenure in the White House, problems, policies and challenges in an engaging faux-autobiography written
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7th - 10th
Demystifying the Research Paper - Activity Set
This sequence of activities has three overarching goals: To provide any individual with a formal approach to research-writing that is easily-grasped, easily-practiced, and effective.To help reluctant students actually appreciate the value of using other people’s sources when making a case.To help reluctant students perceive for themselves that a research paper need not feel alien nor onerous.
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9th - 12th
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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
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9th - 12th
Writing Reflections with "Food Lab" Biomolecule/O Chem Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Reflections with Hominid Evoluion Reflection Assignment, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10 Nonfiction Essay Writing Prompts
These writing prompts are created to be versatile among many age groups, asking broad questions for which teachers can adjust requirements based on student level. These prompts are diverse and presented on a lined page for students to write on.They cover the four major types of essays:2 Narrative Prompts2 Descriptive Prompts3 Expository Prompts3 Persuasive PromptsSome prompts require a small amount of research, but most can be done with or without the use of outside sources, making this perfect
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5th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Writing Bundle
Argument Unit | Expert Opinion Lesson | Practice | Game | Posters | Word Search
Teach students to evaluate expertise and assess credibility. Perfect for argument and research units! Packed with engaging slides, definitions, practice, and paperless, self-grading game/quiz, colorful posters, word search, and teacher tour. I teach this as part of my Argument Unit on screen time and technology; however, you can use it for any argument or debate unit. Follow me to build your teacher and tutor toolbox. Thanks for visiting. Happy teaching!For Google Slides, scroll to the end of th
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Argument Bundle | Argument Unit | For or Against Screen Time
Thomas Jefferson: Third President in the Presidential Series
Though the lives of the Presidents are inextricably related to the history of any given period, presidential biographies are difficult to find, and those that are available are often so dry and boring that reading them is sheer torture, resulting in students many times not reading at all. However, this faux autobiography of President Jefferson is narrated in real time, is engaging, easily accessible, relevant and historically correct (I double checked dates and spellings, but the text is all ori
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8th - 11th
John Quincy Adams: Sixth President in the Presidential Series
The history of America in the early 19th Century, and the life, times and administration of President John Quincy Adams, come vividly to life and engage the readers with this faux-autobiography, written in real time. History can be so dry and lifeless, and yet it is perhaps one of our most important school subjects. so, this passage, written in the first person as a letter, gives students the feeling that the President is speaking directly to them! 25 professionally written, evidence based mult
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7th - 10th
Andrew Jackson: Seventh President in the Presidential Series
Torn between the power of the rich and greedy and the issue of slavery, America in the 1820's and 1830's was in political and social turmoil, but then came Andrew Jackson, unlettered, unrefined, but a man and President of the people. In this faux-autobiography the President speaks to your students in real time in the form of a letter. Engaging and accessible yet challenging and historically accurate (I double checked my dates and spellings, but the text is all original), the passage acquaints st
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7th - 11th
Ancient China Dynasties Project | Distance Learning
Research-Based Information Writing: Fact-Finding Activity & the Art of Persuasion Essential Question: What role did the dynasties of ancient China play in this being one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations?Google Classroom® Ready!This activity is designed to accompany any unit of study related to Ancient China. Students research four dynasties: Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han. There is no prescribed curriculum. Students are encouraged to reference a variety of resources in order to coll
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6th - 9th
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