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10th grade Common Core W.7.1 resources for Microsoft Word
Figurative Language Worksheets: 15 Picture Prompts with Writing Practice
Looking for a good creative writing practice using figurative language vocabulary?
Included in this 18 page document are picture prompts and instructions for students to create two examples of figurative language and to define which examples they have created. To assist students in their mastery of such terms as simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, irony, alliteration, allusion, symbolism, imagery, and oxymoron, unique pictures have been chosen to inspire creative answer
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6th - 12th
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Julia Alvarez ~ Before We Were Free MASTER PACKET (46 pages)
Aligned to the Common Core this is a 46-page packet of materials and tests (with KEY) over each chapter of the novel, Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez. This is all "stuff" I've used in classrooms for nearly a decade of teaching this coming of age novel.
The packet includes:
• Learning Essentials & Expectations
• Chapter Vocabulary
• Quizzes
• Study Guide for Every Chapter
• Essay Rubric
• Final Test with KEY
• Maps
• Character Guide
• Extras!!!
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7th - 12th
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Culture is an Iceberg: Printable Worksheets, Activities
This lesson introduces students to culture (their own and others) by comparing culture to an iceberg. Students will understand that culture is a combination of many different things, but that the most important qualities of culture are the aspects that cannot be seen (much like 90% of an iceberg is underwater).
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5th - 10th
Argumentative Persuasive Template Essay Examples Organize Test Prep 6 7 8 9 10
"What is a claim? What is a counterargument? How do I organize an argumentative or persuasive essay? How do I even start?" Students struggle with how to write a convincing argumentative or persuasive essay. Teach them how to organize it using all of the elements and classic structure. Give them a template to start!
This particular type of writing is typically on state tests, and can go very badly for students if not taught correctly. Students easily slip into just writing their opinions;
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6th - 12th
Writing an Extended Response Based on Two Different Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to write an extended response using two different, but related tests. First, students will look at sample student responses and are asked to use a scoring guide to critique these responses, specifically looking at what is right and what is missing from those student responses. Students are then given tow different, but related texts in which they will write their own extended response about. Students are expected to use the scoring guide, as well as their e
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5th - 10th
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Argumentative Essay Planning Sheet
This planning sheet helps students plan out content for their argumentative/persuasive essays. It follows a 5-6 paragraph form, including a counterclaim. It also has students choose high-level transitions before they start writing, as well.
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6th - 12th
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The BEST Grammar Worksheet (2-Day Lesson): Slaying Grammar Demons Forever!
I do this 4-page grammar packet every year with my students in the first month of school to eliminate the 18 worst writing errors I see over and over in my years of teaching. You can pair this worksheet with the FREE supplementary English lessons -- all with colorful illustrations -- at DrawingsOf.com.We call fixing grammatical errors "slaying grammar demons" to lighten the mood, and it works! You can even spice it up by having students draw pictures of what they think "grammar demons" would loo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” – 15 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart.” The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded extern
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6th - 10th
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Response to Literature Essay Outline - Worksheet (& Student Ex. Outline & Essay)
This one-page "Response to Literature Essay Outline" is for students to brainstorm and organize their ideas for an essay on the theme of a novel, short story, or poem. (Also, includes a student's completed example with their final response to lit. essay!) The outline includes sections for: Title, Author, Theme, Introduction (attention-grabber, thesis statement, summary), Body (examples, citations/quotes, commentary), and Conclusion (restate thesis, sum up examples, insightful ending). Studen
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5th - 10th
Argument Essay Rubric and Score Card
This rubric is aligned with the College and Career Readiness/ Common Core State Standards-- specifically for 7th grade writing. This is not a fast-paced grading rubric; instead, it should follow deep-level instruction in each of the areas it assesses. Feel free to shorten it to your liking, as some students may not find the information as accessible as others. Two of my classes used a less detailed rubric instead.
Note: 6th grade does not need to include the Counterargument & Rebuttal
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Informative Essay Outline
Use this fully editable outline to help your students organize research and writing for an informative essay, complete with sentence starters and scaffolded questioning to guide the process.
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5th - 10th
Humans of New York: Stories
This thematic unit plan explores Brandon Stanton's famous picture blog and New York Times bestseller Humans of New York. This unit focuses on his second published work called Humans of New York: Stories. The book is highly recommended as a resource; however, the HONY website and Facebook page can be used as a substitute.This unit will help explore the topic of humanity in a fun and meaningful way. Students will enjoy looking at the captivating and meaningful photos found throughout Stanton's boo
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Humans of New York: Bundle (3 Units)
How to Write an Extended Response & Paragraph: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
Students will be able to identify the different parts of an extended ASC response and will compare it to an ASC paragraph. Students will then identify the difference themselves. The comparison will be geared towards ensuring students know the difference and how much more information goes in to writing an extended response compared to an ASC paragraph. Students will eventually apply what they've learned about the structure of an extended ASC response and will create their own based on a question
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6th - 12th
Writing Rubric for a Single Paragraph
Make grading easier, and save paper, with this rubric for a single paragraph.
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3rd - 12th
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200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
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7th - 12th
McCarthyism/Cold War DBQ
This activity includes the use of 7 primary source texts (speech excerpts, photographs, and comic strip) to engage students and encourage them to interact with text and cite specific evidence. Each document comes with at least 3 questions. The questions build upon each other to help students see both sides of the issue with McCarthyism during America's Cold War Era. At the end, students will take the information they have gained while analyzing the documents and construct an argumentative essay.
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6th - 12th
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Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer with Notes
Use this organizer to model an argumentative essay in class for students. In the blank space provided, students can write the example produced in class and keep it in their notebook as a reference. No need to take notes on argument... notes are included in the margins!
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4th - 12th
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Alive or not Alive? Fire Essay - Life Science
This is an essay assignment I give to my 7th grade Life Science students after we have studied the 6 characteristics of life. Fire has several of the characteristics of Life; It breathes oxygen. It eats wood. It reproduces (sort of). It can grow bigger. It responds to change.
In this assignment students will write an essay explaining why fire is NOT alive, even though it can seem like a living thing. Includes a basic graphic organizer to organize their thoughts and ideas before they start wri
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4th - 10th
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The Monkey's Paw Worksheet
English Level: Grades 7-12, Advanced ESL (C1/C2)Skill Focus: Short-story analysis, Literary elements, Critical Discussion, Writing, VocabularyDescriptionExplore W. W. Jacobs' classic shot story with this worksheet designed for grades 7-12 and advanced ESL students. This worksheet contains pre- and post-reading activities about W. W. Jacob’s short story, The Monkey’s Paw. The pre-reading activities focus on vocabulary while the post-reading task aims to provoke a thoughtful discussion of the stor
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7th - 12th
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Historical Argument Essay Rubric
Lift your grading practices with this standards-based grading rubric for historical argument essays.
This comprehensive rubric doubles as a grading tool for teachers AND a revising and editing checklist for students! I use this Common Core-aligned rubric as a student-facing tool to help kids understand what I'm looking for in their analytical writing. I use it in writing conferences and small-groups with students throughout the writing process, ensuring that every young writer is on target for
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6th - 12th
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W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey's Paw” – 20 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for W. W. Jacobs’s short story, "The Monkey’s Paw." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external doc
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6th - 10th
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Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or The Tiger” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for Frank Stockton’s short story, "The Lady or The Tiger.” The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded exter
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6th - 10th
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Test and practice PARCC assessment for Where the Lilies Bloom by Cleaver
"He was afraid and I was afraid, for the PARCC in all its savage efficiency was upon us ... and our preparation for it had fallen some short of the planning."
My apologies for paraphrasing Mary Call's description of winter's arrival in Trial Valley: the dash of melodrama is intended to emphasize the value of this lesson in assessing student mastery of the novel Where the Lilies Bloom, by Vera and Bill Cleaver. In addition to a familiar unit test with multiple-choice and open response (essay)
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6th - 10th
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Santa and the Seriously Selfish Sneak - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4 students for Christmas. In the script, there is a very selfish and sneaky man who won’t even be good at Christmas and so Santa has decided to teach him a lesson. He offers him a box that has everything in it he needs to be happy for the rest of his life. Santa tells the man that, in order to earn it, for the next two weeks the Sneak must be nice, work hard, take turns, and not play any tricks. When the Selfish Sneak does everything Santa a
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