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High school writing-expository lectures for GATE
Argumentative Essay Writing, Argument Writing How to Guide, Topics, Rubric CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students win their written arguments with these easy-to-follow essay writing materials. This bundle of interactive, step-by-step materials inspires even my most reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements will guide your students as they learn to craft their own meaningful and effective argumentative essays. Easy prep for you; excellent growth for your students’ writing skills.Just print and teach!I
Grades:
8th - 11th
Logical Fallacies, Tools of Argument & Debate Logical Fallacy PDF & Google Drive
Help students identify logical fallacies with this 40-slide introductory lecture featuring definitions and modern examples relevant to their lives. Slides download as both Prezi and Google Slides versions.Use the optional guided notesheet to help students who need note-taking structure or assistance. Finally, reinforce the lecture content with an application/assessment handout that can be used as a solo or team in-class activity or a traditional quiz. Answer keys to both handouts are included, o
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8th - 11th
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Plagiarism Lecture, Game-Based Approach to Introduce/Reinforce Plagiarism Rules
You know you need to show your students the right way to handle sourced material to prevent plagiarism, but the subject matter can be so dry, causing teens to tune out during your lecture. To fix this, use a lecture disguised as a game to help cover the basics of proper MLA source citation and plagiarism rules.This product includes a projectable “game” of PDF slides (shh...it’s really a lecture – don’t tell our students) with concrete, real-world examples of how source citations should be handle
Grades:
8th - 11th, Higher Education
Embedding Quotations – How to Embed Quotes Pre-test, Lecture & Reference Sheet
Weary of students who slap quoted material into their essays without any framing or support? Fix this common mistake made by young writers with these interactive lesson materials.Begin with a “pre-test”/skill assessment of students’ knowledge regarding M.L.A. citation formatting and concrete detail/quote framing. Then, work through the answers to the skill assessment pre-test with a dynamic lecture (30 slides) that uses compelling examples and modern design to hold students’ interest. (Let's be
Grades:
8th - 11th
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist: Help your students craft the perfect thesis statement for their essay with this ready-to-use lesson. A thesis statement is the main point or argument that will serve as the guide map for your essay. Because the rest of the essay will support your thesis statement, the thesis statement is perhaps the single most important element of any essay. The included presentation, informative handout, and a practical checkl
Grades:
7th - 12th
Journalism Interviewing Techniques and Tools, Yearbook, Complete Teaching Pack
Interviewing is one of the most difficult aspects of the process for student journalists. Your yearbook or newspaper students, however, can be successful and can generate amazing content for your publications if they know how to draw out those stories. This no prep lecture along with tools for students be successful out in the field is just what you need for teaching and practicing interviewing skills. Student Experience: Students will take notes about the proper techniques for interviewing f
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
Annotated Bibliography Bundle- MLA Format- Research- Evaluating Sources- Summary
This is a bundle of my annotated bibliography presentation with guided notes and my annotated bibliography assignment sheets products. Annotated bibliographies are great stand alone assignments or as part of a larger research units. Students are asked to practice their MLA citation, source evaluation, and summarization skills. Require academic journal articles, websites, or even podcasts. Choose how many sources your students have to write and how much information they need to include in their a
Grades:
7th - 11th, Higher Education
Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Journalism Newspaper Basics 70-slide Powerpoint!
High School Journalism Newspaper Basics:70 slides!Teach your students all the basics of Newspaper writing by taking them through this powerpoint presentation that alternates between lecture/notes slides and student practice activities based on info given in notes slides. This slideshow provides notes and activities for the following:-Newspaper terms-Newspaper story types-Inverted Pyramid-What Makes News-Headline Do's and Dont's-Writing Breaking News Stories-Interviewing Basics-Quotations/Attrib
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9th - 12th
Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Annotated Bibliography Presentation and Guided Notes- Research- MLA format
Annotated bibliographies help students learn to summarize and paraphrase while also assessing the credibility of resources. This presentation provides an overview of annotated bibliographies. The presentation provides a definition for annotated bibliographies, reasons to write an annotated bibliography, how to write an annotated bibliography, and examples of poorly-written and well-written samples. The guided notes pages walk students through the presentation; three levels of guided notes are pr
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
Personal Narrative: Writing the Introduction PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can provide a much needed scaffolding tool for students, as they begin the process of writing their introduction. After choosing a topic and brainstorming their selected topic, students can often struggle with how to begin this personal writing piece. I have provided questions that will explicitly direct students with engaging their readers through a hook and/ or lead, as well as what belongs in the remainder of the introduction. Sample introductions are provided that allow st
Grades:
4th - 12th
Basic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis -AP Exam or General Essay PPT
Check out this PPT for writing a Literary AnalysisBasic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis Strategies for the AP ExamTo StartIdentify the author(s) and title(s) of the work(s) you are studying in the opening paragraph. Write in the present tense. EXAMPLE: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visit Emily Grierson's house because it smells bad.NOT: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visited Emily Grierson's house because it smelled bad.Write about literature in the pr
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Writing PowerPoints Bundle
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" Annotation Activity
William Wordsworth's famous poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is rich with nostalgia, nature and nuanced ideas. Students can hone their analytical skills with this gorgeous Romantic period English poem that expresses the poet's emotional response to a walk in the woods. This assignment is a fabulous formative assessment to see how students apply their knowledge of poetic devices and literary analysis.
For added enrichment, students may meet CCSS Speaking and Listening stand
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9th - 12th
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Thesis Statement Presentation
Thesis statements are hard to master. Help your students master the different types of thesis statements by using this presentation to introduce the concept.Included is a 20 page PDF presentation with examples embedded! Expository, Analytical, Evaluative, and Argumentative thesis statements are covered. Interested in Other Writing Resources?See all of them here:Writing Resources.Want to teach students how to write a whole research paper? But this bundle! Research Paper Writing Process Bundl
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Bibliography and Works Cited PowerPoint
MLA rules, MLA format and getting students to understand the many, many rules of setting up a Works Cited page can be frustrating. This PPT is designed to help teachers go other those many rules in a way that is visually appealing and will allow students to see a "hanging indent" and see source being used in a Works Cited page or bibliography.Please also consider viewing this larger, 81 slide version of the product that features many more elements of MLA formatting and research here: MLA Jumbo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Research Paper Bundle
Primary Sources Collection -- Complete Lessons with All You Need! 144 Pages
Best practices in history and 21st Century learning through primary sources, the Common Core, critical thinking, expository writing, public speaking, creative projects—they’re all here!THIS IS A VERY POPULAR, SOMEWHAT SMALLER, VERSION OF AN EVEN LARGER BUNDLE.You get five sets of bundled primary sources lessons—145 pages of lessons and materials in all—and a nice savings over buying the bundles individually. Each activity comes with explanations, guides, ready-to-print activity sheets, graphic
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4th - 12th
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Standards Based 6-Traits Writing Elements (revising/editing)
NEWLY UPDATED!!
An Interactive student Guide to build self-efficacy in 6-Trait Text Revising and Editing. Ready to use for lessons with printables for Students. The guides includes a process with steps that will guide students through each of the 6 traits of writing (i.e., ideas & content, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, voice, conventions) for 6-8th grade.
The new updated version includes both color and black and white pages, a fun design, and all the same helpful content!
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5th - 10th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Memoirs Family Heritage Project ~ Distance Learning ELA
Oral history is lost forever if not uncovered and recorded. This beautiful project engages students as historians - creating a family heirloom heritage collection box, doing comprehensive interviews of an older relative with a large given bank of intriguing questions, creating a newspaper full of various modes and forms of writing showcasing the research of family history. Finally, the student prepares and presents their findings in an engaging oral presentation - sharing snippets of best lear
Grades:
4th - 9th
SHOWING CHARACTERS--NOT TELLING ABOUT THEM--with Description, Action, & Dialogue
"Show, don't tell!" Those oft-repeated words drive detail-oriented writing in all genres. Not only is "showing" writing more memorable, but it also gives credit to one's readers that they have sufficient interpretive skills to figure out what the writer is implying via the chosen details--the kind of interpretive skills associated with CRITICAL THINKING. This lesson teaches student writers to think like their readers, to anticipate what their readers will infer from their descriptions, act
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6th - 10th
Assertion Journal Bundle #3: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains ten topical collections of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and bac
Grades:
9th - 12th
Basic Five Paragraph Expository Essay: Color-Coded PowerPoint
The basic components of the classic five paragraph essay: What it includes, how to put it together, laid out simply, and with many examples. > Step by step, this presentation walks students through how to write each paragraph. > Colorful, approachable layout. > Clearly ties elements of each paragraph together in a simple and understandable way. > Struggling learner modified> Color coding modifies this mini-lesson for struggling/special education students, and, reinforces for all l
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5th - 12th
Middle School Journalism Unit 2 Lessons
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNING JOURNALISTS. News writing can be difficult for the middle school student to apply. Introduce middle school students to journalism using four-lesson Unit 1. Then follow with this four-lesson unit that focuses on the basics of interviewing and the types of news articles in a newspaper. The lessons are based on a 45-50 minutes class period. As this is often an elective course and limits class sessions per week, most lessons are stand alone with little schedul
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Journalism Units 1-8 Semester 1 | Back to School Bundle
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