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High school creative writing ebooks
Write Awake ebook (EPUB)
Are you AWAKE yet? Do you want to help raise the vibration of the Planet? Do you want to use (and choose) your words to encourage Wellness, Peace, and Positivity? Do you want to heighten your creativity and intuition? Conscious writers are visionaries. They are in tune with the rhythms of nature and the struggles for a better world. They write responsibly and pay it forward. When author Eleyne-Mari Sharp began writing professionally in 1980, she had no idea she would someday become a novelist,
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lessons 10-12: Commas, Goofs, and the end of Passive Voice
As in the previous lessons, the past participle often suffers from commas and misplaced modifiers. But the rules are pretty much the same, and should be easy to master after these few lessons.Again, making up silly sentences will lead to accurate ones. Combine the two units to go on a treasure hunt to find examples in the books they are reading. Have them even take a look at books in other classes, especially History or Science. Our Teacher's Guide also has some fun suggestions.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 5-8: How not to Mess Up
As with any new adventure, there will be some cautions that must be applied. Confidence can turn into overconfidence, as the students discover these new elements of writing and are eager to try them out all over the place. These four lessons explain how to avoid mistakes. Let them have some fun by intentionally writing misplaced modifiers, and then fixing them. They will learn quickly to get it right, and they will want to share their successes as well.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lesson 13: Noun Phrase
We know about appositives, but they can feel like a pair of handcuffs, locking the writer into a brief brush stroke of simplified information. "His brother, a magician," "The mayor, an immigrant." Feeble.In this lesson, a whole new world awaits. Noun phrases have a noun, a nucleus, which attracts its own colorful, descriptive elements of richness that give depth and satisfaction to the reader. The samples that you see here testify to the opportunities that invite, as multiple noun phrases become
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 14-15: The secret of the indefinite pronoun
"I have something in my pocket." That's a magnificent conversation starter, as people want to know what that thing is. They want details, specifics, answers.The secret is the indefinite pronoun: something. And I have made a nice little chart to show them all. Just choose one and put it into the Level 1, then move to one or more Level 2s to describe the object using beautiful, powerful noun phrases. When students hear that they can be rewarded for being vague, they get all excited. The exercises
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 21-22: Master those Commas
These lessons are brief, but they explain the differences of meaning when commas are incorrectly added to or omitted from a sentence. There can be ambiguity, silly modifying, or even valid lawsuits. Perhaps the best way to reinforce these rules is to be playful with it. Have the students make up ambiguous or silly sentences, or threatening ones. By intentionally making mistakes, they become aware and cautious.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Scary Stories for English Class EPUB ebook
Looking for short stories to get your class in the Halloween spirit?Want to introduce your ESL students to some great American urban legends?Looking for quick and easy reads for the horror lover in your class?This collection of 16 classic creepy stories or urban legends are just the thing! Don't worry, they're classroom-safe with minimal gore or blood and maximum suspense and twist. A few are even funny or a bit touching. Introduce your class to:The Hook - two friends drive off ripping the hook
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8th - 12th
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The 48 Laws of Power
In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness
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12th, Higher Education
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