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Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Text Based Evidence Writing Bundle
Text-based evidence writing step-by-step lessons and writing resources to guide students and teachers. This bundle includes RACES paragraph sentences starters, writing rubrics, and a step-by-step guide for writing an essay. Sentence StartersPut your brain in gear before you put your writing in motion! These sentence starters not only help students determine the type of evidence to locate but also help students to construct the evidence into a text-based paragraph.Perfect ParagraphsEach step of
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education
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Research Project Template Research Graphic Organizer Essay Outline High School
This is a research graphic organizer essay outline for any research topic with a grading rubric. The intention of this research project template was to give teachers an easy-to-use, tried, and true research essay outline that they could use over and over with any subject or grade level. :) This research project template is designed for high school students needing to practice expository research skills. The step-by-step structure of this essay provides 7th or 8th-grade classroom success with th
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Tupac- Conspiracy Theory- Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
My students are obsessed with conspiracy theories and with Tupac! In fact, I had one of my first truly magical moments in the classroom when I brought in Tupac lyrics. I was surprised that they even knew who he was, but the students' eyes lit up and they were engaged for the first time that year. The students loved Tupac so much that they bought me Tupac & Biggie figurines to sit on my desk. They were trying to tell me something more about this!!! While the assignment is high interest for y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Spanish Listening Activity: Presencia africana en América Latina afrolatinos
Comprensión auditiva: La presencia africana en América Latina - Para esta sección, podrás ver cinco videos que demuestran la presencia africana en Latinoamérica. Mientras ves los videos, circula la respuesta más adecuada, cierto (C) o falso (F), y responde de acuerdo a la información que aparece en el video. El segmento se reproducirá dos veces.There are approximately 4-5 questions per each of the following videos.Afromexicanos bailando hasta sus raíces (1:59 min)La herencia africana en América
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Afrolatinos | Actividades para el mes de la historia negra | en español
Princess and the Frog Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH | Chronological Order
26 Movie Guide Questions for the movie Princess and the Frog that includes pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Includes movie images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down. Perfect way to hold your students accountable for watching the film, test their interpretive listening skills and engaging in cla
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Winter Poetry Unit with Annotations, Sample Explication Essays, & MORE!
This unit includes TEN poems by classic authors that involve winter in some respect. Some poems use winter to symbolize absence, others age, and still others unity. Five of these poems have a more positive representation of winter while the remaining five have a more negative representation of winter-- however, this is debatable! And that is exactly what students are going to do! I was feeling inspired by the winter and started researching classic poems about the season. What I came to real
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hidden Figures Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH | Chronological order
Best movie guide out there! 27 Movie Guide Questions for the 2016 movie Harriet written in ENGLISH that include pre-listening/essential questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Includes movie images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down.This film highlights the importance themes of african american women, women in scie
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Critical Literary Theory: Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, New Historicism etc
Critical Literary Theory: lessons and assessments & key terms - Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Queer, Death of the Author and New Historicism Literary Theory, for AP English and adult learners. Examples of application in media and short stories as far ranging as anime, detective stories, video games, and fairy tales.The Nathaniel Hawthorne story "The Birthmark" is included for a reading upon which all critical lenses can be applied.==============Check out our other lessonsRace horror as
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Informational Writing Sample
Teaching informational writing? It is always helpful to share with the students a sample for what informational writing looks like. This is a sample of a 4 paragraph essay on Labrador Retrievers. This writing piece follows the format: introduction (hook & thesis), 2 body paragraphs (sub topics with facts and explanations), and a conclusion! *** Love this sample? In my store you can purchase the checklist to go with the format of this writing piece! ***
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech - Analysing Rhetorical Devices
This print-and-use lesson worksheet uses Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech (arguably the greatest and most important speech of all time) to introduce students to the defining characteristics and rhetorical devices of great speeches, as well as oratory skills. The worksheet includes:1) Introduction to great speeches with a definition of the three fundamental principles of rhetoric pathos, ethos, and logos. 2) Close-reading and analysis activity based on an extract from Martin Luther Ki
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Afrolatinos | Actividades para el mes de la historia negra | en español
Everything you need to teach a lesson on "Afrolatinos" such as research projects, presentation projects, songs, poems, listening activities, readings with multiple choice questions and open ended questions, film guides, email reply activities and more!Great for any unit on afrolatinos, la raiz africana en latinoamerica y EEUU, mes de la historia negra, mes de la historia africanoamericana y más!Estas actividades se relacionan a los siguientes temas de AP Spanish Language and Culture y AP Spanish
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Jason Reynolds' Stamped: Materials Bundle (Worksheets, Bell Ringers, and More!)
This is a fantastic book that everyone should read! This product, in addition to an EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation to accompany one section of the book (2 total in this bundle!), includes the following:WorksheetsThis product includes worksheets for every chapter of the book, divided into sections for your ease. Each section includes sections for students to make connections, check for their understanding, analyze, and discuss. Each worksheet also has answer notes. Bonus material includes an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Persuasive Writing
Common Core approach to Persuasive writing using step-by-step instructions for students. Includes 20 pages of:
Definition
Persuasive vs. Argumentative
Whole/small group and individual activities
Ethical Writers
Examples of Thesis/Topic Sentences/Details/Facts...
Using Figurative Language
Outlines
Peer Workshopping
Persuasive Scoring Rubric (Revision friendly to master skills)
Extra Resources: video presentations, handouts, and ESL links
Easy to follow and use with students in grades 4 and up.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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100 Point Essay Rubric Google Docs
100 Point Essay Rubric- Printable on One Page!100 Point essay rubric for easy grading! Students will understand their score. You can edit this rubric easily in Google Docs! This is printable on one page. Please preview the FULL rubric to see if it works for you!I use this rubric every year to grade research papers. It is an easy way to judge how well a student did. I usually put comments on the back and discuss the rubric as a full class.I hope you enjoy! Thank you!Sincerely,Digital Dan P.S. (
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Racism, Social Darwinism, and Eugenics: google assignment history of evil ideas
No excuse for racism is acceptable.This a google forms unit that is a self-guided assignment. This unit draws a lesson for the horrific history of eugenics.See the preview for view of the three-sectioned google form. This form automatically grades students.The answer key is hard-coded into the form.I also attached it as the preview to this resource.What questioned are addressed in this unit?Why were women of colour, and other minorities and low income individuals, subject to forced sterilization
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
"Tell Them We Are Rising" Question Sets
Questions and answers for the PBS's "Tell Them We Are Rising" . The first two sets of questions have the time stamp of when the the answer is revealed.
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"The rich history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) began before the end of slavery, flourished in the 20th century, and profoundly influenced the course of the nation for over 150 years — yet remains largely unknown. With Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, the latest
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Parts of Speech, Pre-Assessment
(answer key included)(FREE post assessment available too!)
** To increase contextual comprehension, the pre-assessment is written in narrative. The FREE post-assessment is the narrative conclusion to the story. It is highly recommended teachers use both the Pre and Post assessment.
Teaching Parts of Speech is so important as it creates common language for reading and writing between a teacher and student.
I've successfully used a pre/post assessment in my Parts of Speech unit that doesn't
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Macbeth Essay Packet Including Sample Essay, Outline, Brainstorming, & MORE!
This packet is designed to support the writing process for a Macbeth literary analysis essay. It includes documents and exercises to take students through the complete writing process on a Macbeth essay and includes a sample essay.Here's what's included in this assignment packet:Macbeth Topics & Themes ListBrainstorm GuideCommentary BrainstormingOutline FormSample OutlineSample EssayRubric Writing TaskTo write an essay analyzing how literary elements and techniques create thematic meaning i
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Day of Service Community Service Project: Digital Packet for Student Use
Gandhi said it well: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Educators, students, community members, parents, stakeholders---we may all take for granted the reciprocal nature of service. We may fail to realize how service not only benefits the communities in need but also those who do service. This Digital Packet is a great way to get students not only thinking about what kind of Community Service Project they can delve into but ALSO how that project will en
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Slavery in Canada- Beyond Underground Railroad- Listen, Short Ans., Conversation
Anti-black racism in Canada requires a more honest look at our past that includes slavery. This task starts with a 20 min podcast that grapples with why Canadians don't know beyond the Underground Railroad. The podcast, discussion questions, and answers within support your students on this difficult subject. Specifically, this podcast tells us slavery's cruel legacy compromises interracial relationships. I intend this task to be one small piece of a much larger, ongoing conversation, and it is
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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A People and a Nation_A History of the United States 11th Edition Jane TEST BANK
TEST BANK for A People and a Nation: A History of the United States 11th Editionby Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff and David W. Blight (COMPLETE 28 CHAPTERS)
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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Frederick Douglass' Self Made Men speech - mini unit
As teachers, we have the opportunity to impact lives and help students grow in character. This mini-unit will aid you in doing just that. This is a mini-unit I never skip over as it uses Douglass' speech to teach students the value of taking responsibility, not making excuses and working hard. Begin with introducing the man (discussion questions with key are included to facilitate discussion), then have students complete the packet that walks them through key excerpts of the speech (discussion q
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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