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9th grade Common Core W.7.9 handouts
Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Earth Day Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage - Plastic Waste & Pollution
Perfect for Earth Day! This reading comprehension passage explores the harmful effects of plastic pollution on the environment and our health. Teach students to write a nonfiction summary using the graphic organizers provided. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Activity:✏️ 2-Page Informational Article - Colour & Grayscale“Why is Plastic Harmful?: The Effects of Plastic on the Environment and Your Heal
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5th - 10th
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Theme Essay - Literary Essay Writing for ANY Novel, Story, or Drama
Theme Essay writing will be a breeze with this motivating, step-by-step resource designed to lead your students through the entire process. Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs!Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A list of common theme topics and an invitin
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6th - 9th
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Dystopian Literature Unit - Civilization Creation - Create your own Dystopia
Dystopian Literature Unit - Create Your Own Dystopian Society! This Dystopia activity package is the perfect supplement to a Dystopian Literature Unit! Students research the meaning of the word Dystopia, and create Dystopian societies of their own. This Dystopia introduction ask students to practice their critical thinking and creative writing skills as they create a detailed project that describes all of the different aspects of their Dystopian societies.⭐This is an excellent final project or e
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6th - 9th
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Embedding Quotes
Teach your students about "Embedding Quotes with Context" with an easy-to-follow resource. This resource features three ways to integrate textual evidence into writing. In addition to the handout, there are fourteen example sentences using context, textual evidence, and MLA citation. Seven examples are for literary analysis, and seven examples are for informative and argumentative writing. This is a must-have resource for teaching essay writing in the secondary English classroom. NEW UPDATE: Col
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Posters Bundle
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
Literary Analysis Essay Writing Bundle for Middle School and High School ELA ESL
Teach your students how to write a 5 paragraph Literary Analysis Essay with this bundle! This is common-core aligned for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades and academic ESL. This no-prep tutorial will make it easy for you to teach students to write a literary analysis essay on any topic or text. This will save you so much time!Included in this Bundle:Tutorial with step-by-step explanations and instructions for writing an introduction, thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. Ex
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7th - 10th
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Writing Conference Forms: Conferring Questions and Notes - Middle & High School
Wanting to differentiate writing instruction for middle or high school students? Writing conferences are a great way to meet individual students' needs. By sitting and talking with writers one-on-one, we can help them embrace their strengths, identify areas for growth, and get to know them better as writers.These writing conference forms can be used outside of a writing workshop format. Included in this resource, you will find:Conferring Schedule: A chart to manage your conferring schedule...How
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7th - 10th
Literature Circles Unit - Middle School Social Justice - Literature Circle Roles
This 60 page Middle School Literature Circle Unit is perfect for Thematic Social Justice themed Book Clubs. Literature Circle units are engaging and effective methods of reading instruction that encourage students to engage in rich conversation surrounding text and take ownership of their learning. The ready to use activities included encourage inquiry and critical thinking about social justice issues, and help you to introduce, organize, facilitate, and manage this effective reading and discuss
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5th - 9th
Essay Writing Bundle: Narrative, Expository, and Argumentative/Persuasive
Prepare your students to succeed on writing assessment tests! These middle school graphic organizers and anchor charts make writing essays manageable (and less stressful!) for your students and you. These practice writing prompts, graphic organizers, and revision strategies will give your students confidence and help them succeed.Ideal for writing assessment tests and portfolios, these tools walk students through every step of the writing process.Notes on the basic elements of each mode of writi
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8th - 10th
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
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7th - 10th
Student SMART Goal Setting | Template | Worksheet | Graphic Organizer | SEL
Everyone says "work smarter, not harder." Use the SEOT Wheel of Success so students can independently reflect on whether they are working "harder" (effort alone) or working "smarter" (learning from mistakes.)Student SMART Goal Setting Lesson Slideshow (100 slides) explains to students how to set goals and fill out the Student Goal Setting worksheets. Student Goal Setting Graphic Organizer Students can visually see if they're working harder or working smarter.Student Goal Setting Template Student
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6th - 10th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts - 20 Topics for Persuasive Essay or Paragraph OLC4O
Practice persuasive writing with these 20 unique persuasive essay topics! These writing prompts can be used to practice persuasive paragraphs or essays and are appropriate for middle school and high school students. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Persuasive Writing Prompts:✏️ 20 Persuasive Essay Topics - Digital & PrintIndividual Worksheet for Each Prompt✏️ Engaging, school-appropriate persuasive writing topics including:Social mediaClimate changee-Spo
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7th - 10th
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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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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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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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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.
Assignment includes:
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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Literary Analysis Essay Mentor Text Pack
Use this pack of 6 exemplar essays to teach your students what strong literary analysis looks like. All essays are aligned to middle school-leveled texts (6th, 7th, and 8th grades), and the writing reflects strong middle-level 4- or 5-paragraph structured essay format. Yes, middle school students CAN write literary analysis essays! I have used these mentor texts with my 6th and 7th grade students to give them a vision of what strong writing looks like before they begin their own essays. Using th
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Literary Analysis Essay BUNDLE
Emergency Sub Plans High School English | Character Analysis ELA Sub Plans
High school emergency ELA sub plans: Engage students with character analysis, fostering critical thinking and textual evidence skills. Ready-made and effective!As teachers we never want to miss out on a day of instruction, but instruction with a substitute can be hard. This resource is a simple way to practice characterization and text analysis while you're away.What You Get:Template for worksheet on Google Slides- fully editableCharacter Analysis TableExtension ActivitiesDirections for substitu
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: First Week of School Bundle | Back to School Classroom Essentials Bundle
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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Outlines for Middle School Literary Analysis Essay
This product contains THREE scaffolded outlines for student use on 5-paragraph literary analysis essays. These resources will support your middle school students' analytical writing with structural support and high-quality sentence stems. Yes, middle schoolers CAN write literary analysis essays! I have used these outlines for years with my 6th and 7th graders to scaffold essay structure through multiple rounds of essay writing. With enough practice and a gradual release of the scaffolding, stude
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Literary Analysis Essay BUNDLE
Eleven by Sandra Cisneros - Lesson on Theme and Four Types of Conflict - Digital
Teach students to uncover themes in Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Eleven.” This lesson plan uses popular culture to help students differentiate between the four types of literary conflict in order to identify themes in literature. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Lesson on Theme for “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros:✏️ Types of Conflict Worksheet - Digital & Print✏️ Identifying Conflict in Movie Trailers Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Conflict and Theme Wor
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7th - 10th
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Land of the Cranes: Literature Unit
This 5-7 week unit for Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar includes the following items:Pre-reading activities in a station rotation formatThe 4 station rotations include an interview with the author, background on the major themes of the novel, background on the major events related to the novel, and an art activity. These stations are a combination of reading, videos, art, and creativity that fully engage all types of learners. Each station ranges from 20-25 minutes and can be completed over th
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6th - 9th
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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