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11th grade Common Core W.7.1b handouts
Review ANY movie or film (Digital & Print)
Have students write and publish their own original movie reviews!This scaffolded review package allows student to review ANY movie and includes an exemplar, analysis tasks and rubric.Use as a DIGITAL resource with Google Slides or as a PRINT resource in-class.Film reviews are a fantastic way for students to practice the skills of persuasive and non-fiction writing. With an editable rubric this pack is perfect to use as an assessment or folio piece.I hope this pack is as useful, engaging and fun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Review Writing BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. ESL Beginner Unit.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also pri
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Argumentative Essays - Complete Unit
Argumentative Essays - Complete Unit. Writing an argumentative essay is an essential skill for secondary students. This unit is CCSS aligned, with grading rubrics for each grade level 7 - 12 that reflect the standards. This unit has everything you need, in a logical order, with teacher notes, handouts, assignments, instruction, grading rubrics, and supplemental material to support more advanced instruction. There are examples for each concept, and a full sample student essay. Includes updated ML
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle
Tell Tale Heart. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. Full Unit for ELA ESL Sp. Ed.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. See preview for details.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instruction.Unit includes:An illustrated adapted text of The Tell-Tale Heart by Po
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
CODE ORANGE by Caroline Cooney, Novel Study CCSS Aligned
Though it's hard to tear kids away from this story, this Novel Unit for Code Orange has focus questions, vocabulary puzzles and worksheets, poetry connections, point of view- perspective lesson, and a quiz and novel test. This product has two versions of the chapter questions handouts: one version requires students to answer on their own paper and the other version has lines for students to write their responses on the handout.Answer key included for the quiz and test, and vocabulary chart only.
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6th - 12th
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SBAC CAASPP ELA Performance Task Simplified Writing Rubrics + Checklists
Empower your secondary ELA students to dominate the SBAC (or CAASPP) Performance Task like never before! Say goodbye to mystery and hello to mastery with this simplified rubric guide, showcasing exactly how those precious points are earned across all three writing types: Narrative, Explanatory, and Argumentative!Each rubric comes fully equipped with handy checklists, empowering students to become their own writing champions by checking their work like seasoned pros!As an added bonus: everything
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6th - 11th
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ChatGPT: 64 Pages of Engaging Lessons for Using It to Improve Student Writing
ChatGPT is a powerful new tool. Much has already been made of its potential pitfalls, but what about how it can be harnessed in the classroom to actually improve student writing and encourage kids to become more thoughtful and engaged authors?This set of lesson plans is designed to achieve just that. It views ChatGPT as an opportunity to push students to become better writers by leveraging the strengths of ChatGPT and better understanding its weaknesses.Here are the sections you will find in the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rank the Frank: Charles Martel / Pepin / Charlemagne
Looking to engaging your students in the process of determining historical significance? Use "Rank the Frank" to help your students read for evidence, craft persuasive paragraphs, and understand how historians determine historical significance.
Through an investigation of three background briefs on Charlemagne, Charles Martel, and Pepin, students will glean pieces of evidence from which they can make a persuasive case as to which Frankish leader had the greatest impact, on the greatest amount
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7th - 12th
Criminal Mock Trial Attorney Scripts
These mock trial templates are designed for middle and high school students that are either enrolled in a law class or are participating in criminal mock trials. These templates not only explain how to write an opening statement, direct examination, cross examination, and closing argument, but they also provide a template for writing each of them. Moreover, the opening and closing sections include templates for both the prosecution and the defense. These templates are designed for criminal mo
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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Ultimate Argumentative Essay Bundle
Save big with this mega bundle that includes everything students need to know to write argumentative essays:Writing IntroductionsHelp students craft strong introductions for their essays by mastering the hook, transition, and thesis statement. Students will take notes on each and then color code an example introduction on the use of similes in the Odyssey. Multiple examples and explanations are included throughout, as well as links to additional video support.Writing Body ParagraphsStudents will
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6th - 12th
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Argument Writing Toolkit -Templates, Worksheets
This Argument Writing Toolkit is the perfect addition to your writing unit. These argument worksheets, templates, exemplar essays, and practice argument materials will help your students in their argument writing abilities!It is so important for students to know how to properly argue a topic they feel strongly about, and secondly, they need to know how to produce and argue a strong debate. The key to being able to do this is understanding the writing technique for the argument.This product is p
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Argument Writing Bundle
Revision Task Cards for Argumentative Writing
Use these task cards to guide students through the revision of their argument essays for ideas, organization, word choice, voice, fluency, conventions, presentation, and academic integrity. Revision is often one of the most challenging steps in the writing process, but this resource makes the task interactive, collaborative, differentiated, and reflective.Depending on how you choose to incorporate them, these task cards can be used for modeling with exemplars, working with partners, working in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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It's a Wonderful Life - Literary Essay Writing (Christmas Activity)
This 10 page, Christmas themed assignment offers students the opportunity to practice the Literary Essay based on their response to the critically acclaimed film, "It's a wonderful Life". This assignment requires no prep and is a fantastic student led assignment which, after initial class discussion, should require very little prompting from teacher.
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1. A brief introduction to the movie
2. A note-taking form to use while watching the movie
3. Instruction about literary th
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5th - 12th
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Why Do We Write? Introduction to Writing Lesson
Start your year off by putting meaning behind writing. This lesson focuses on why we write, what we write, and what we need to do in order to write successfully. Students will be engaged in small group discussion, whole class discussion, guided notes, and will be assessed with a 3-2-1 Exit Slip at the end of the lesson. Please contact me on TpT if you have any questions!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:1. Google Slides to use while teaching the lesson2. Guided Notes Interactive Notebook Templates3. Lesson
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5th - 12th
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Literary Essay Writing Unit - Instruction and Practice (COMMON CORE ALIGNED)
Fantastic for the beginning of the year, this unit instructs the Literary Essay creatively, through informative template graphics and step by step prompts. Upon completion, students will feel confident in their understanding of the importance, applicability and necessity of the literary essay.
What you can expect in The Literary Essay:
- Instructional sections followed by engaging practice opportunities for each component taught.
- A clear and simplistically designed instructional resource th
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Animal Farm Unit - lessons, activities, assessments, review game
An entire unit on Animal Farm with powerpoint lessons providing historical context, explanations of allegory, and monuments as meaning. Also includes videos providing further context and scaffolding, lesson outlines, handouts and assessments (inclulding tests and essay prompts), Socratic Seminar, and a review game. Also includes the full "Connotation vs Denotation" lesson.* What makes a good leader?* Animal Farm as Allegory: Fiction vs History* Quizzes* How do monuments and memorials communicate
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8th - 11th
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ESSAY on the THEME OF A STORY: Two Templates - Basic and Advanced
This file is aimed at teaching students through modeling, to write about the theme of a story or novel. It uses templates that supply ideas for starting sentences, and instructions for each paragraph that give students guidance for organizing their ideas.
There are two templates here: a basic matrix for writing an essay about the theme of a piece of literature, and a more advanced version that extends the essay somewhat.
The basic template is two pages, and produces a four paragraph essay.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conversation Starters Package on Fears and Phobias
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on fears and phobias. What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of fears and phobiasActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expr
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Argument Writing Prompt - Abolish Homework? - 2 Articles Included
This is a practice argument writing prompt on the topic of homework in school. The file contains a prompt as well as two unique articles with information on the topic.Excellent practice for state writing assessments.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Argument Writing - 5 Prompts & 10 Articles
Conversation Starters Package on Productivity
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on productivity. What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of productivityActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starter Package on Bullying
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on bullying.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of bullyingActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transit
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
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Body Paragraph Writing, Writing a Stellar Paragraph!
Writing a body paragraph and formulating a topic sentence is sometimes tricky for our students! This video teaches your students how to write an awesome topic sentence, claim, cite textual evidence, and write with elaboration. Here is a step-by-step 8-minute tutorial to take your students' paragraphs to the next level and change their writing, using the acronym TALES/RACER.*This will be so helpful to your classroom, as I use this with my students every year!☆How would you like 5 English Languag
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5th - 11th
CHRISTMAS WRITING PROMPTS | Winter Bulletin Board Narrative Informative Opinion
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 25-page Christmas and Winter Holidays Writing Prompts! It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read about American Christmas traditions, and write responses to what they’ve read, Revising and editing checklists and 13 holiday-themed writing papers are also included. All CCSS writing standards are addressed. The following resources a
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3rd - 12th
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