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High school writing-expository simulations for administrators
Lowell Mill Girls Document Base Question and Lesson
The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with life at Lowell Mills and the causes and effects of the strike. Students will use primary sources to compare and contrast accounts of life at Lowell. Students will examine documents from the Lowell Mill and also documents about the strike. Then students will analyze the documents to determine if the accounts are exaggerated. Finally, students will evaluate the strike's impact on the labor union movement and the women's rights moveme
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8th - 11th
Heart Transplant Debate - Argument, Persuasion, Line of Reasoning, Team Building
The Heart Transplant debate is a great entry to a unit on persuasion/argumentation. It's also a fantastic tool to teach Line of Reasoning through experiential learning. This activity provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge of general debate skills as well as locating and citing appropriate evidence. Two articles are linked as sources and pre-reading to this debate. My students loved arguing for their "client" and this debate got them out of their seats. I used this as an opportun
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Debate Bundle - Debates, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Templates, Scaffolds
The Giver by Lowry Ceremony of Twelve Simulation Lesson and Writing
This lesson is for Chapter 7/8 of The Giver by Lois Lowry. It is a simulation of the Ceremony of Twelve. This will help students understand the gravity and meaning of this ceremony in the book, aiding in their comprehension of what Jonas is undergoing. The simulation includes everything from what you should say in the beginning; mock tests for disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests - the four components of the "testing period" for the community members; it also includes labels
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6th - 9th
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Lincoln Assassination Trial of Mary Surratt: The Conspirator
This is a simulation of the trial of Mary Surratt. Your students will be assigned a key figure in the case. The students will research their character and their characters connection to the events and the trial. The students will simulate the trial and come to their own conclusion as to whether Mary Surratt was guilty.
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4th - 12th
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Would You Rather Freewrite
This uses the Would You Rather scenario as a basis for freewriting and eventually thesis development. This short activity can be used as a standalone introduction to thesis-based freewriting or modified to start a scaffolded multi-part theme lesson.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argue A Supreme Court Case Using Precedents!
Use this project to get your students researching and analyzing important federal court decisions involving precedents in education!Students are provided with 4 fictional court cases involving student rights in schools. They are to read the facts of the case and then form an argument that they could present to the Supreme Court by doing the following:-Provide a case summary-Identify the constitutional issue(s)-Declare which side of the case they will argue-State their argument-Find and summarize
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8th - 12th
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Sample College Application Essay
I wrote this sample college application essay as an example of how to be concrete and descriptive while also explicating key elements of personality. It is meant to model the necessary balance between establishing one's credentials as a skilled descriptive writer and as a thoughtful, reflective individual.
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Sample Introduction of Expository or Informative essay
Provided here is a model or sample introduction of an informative essay. Writing Whiz uses a sample introduction to outline, demonstrate, and explain how students should create the introduction to an informative essay; start with a catchy first line. This leads into an anecdote or examples, statements on the importance of the topic, and a final thesis statement or specific topic sentence. The introduction sets up the entire rest of the essay. Of note are the strong verbs, transitions (no repeati
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6th - 9th
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Essay Writing Unit
Scrambling to construct instructions for essays? Tired of reading the same generic papers over and over? Well, the students find that frustrating, too! Purchase this bundle for differentiated and individualized content to promote skilled writers. Once purchased, you will have access to instruction and assessment in all three writing content areas: informative, persuasive, and narrative. Educators will be able to use the prompts effectively as the creative content will be certain to build rappor
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8th - 11th
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Writing Revisions: Amazing Race
Revisions: Are you looking for a fun way for your students to revise their writing beyond the basics? This is a writing event your students will remember FOREVER! Students will race around to 7 different stations by using the location clues provided (route info). At the station students will complete a revision task (road block) and a team challenge (detour)! This activity was created based on the infamous TV series, The Amazing Race. Please note: set-up is required, BUT totally worth it!
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4th - 12th
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Rhetoric - SOAPS, RAFTS chart for writing
This chart can help students write in different modes as they consider the "SOAPS" elements of writing: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Subject.
Use this to guide students as far as "Role/Speaker" and "Format/Purpose" when coming up with writing prompts.
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8th - 12th
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Digital Citizenship Safety Drills Pack #1
We all do fire drills? Safety drills? Why are we not taking 5 minutes a month to conduct digital safety drills?? With these simple to use drill cards the teacher in any classroom can use grade-level appropriate scenarios to discuss how best to handle digital dilemmas our students face each and every day. Each scenario comes with teacher talking points. One drill per grade band and teacher talking points. Grades K-12 represented. It's time we start doing digital drills as much as we do fire dril
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K - 12th, Staff
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ROMEO AND JULIET PARTNERED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
RAFT your way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Transform your classroom into a newsroom with this assignment! Students take turns composing and responding to Dear Abby-style questions from members of the town of Verona.
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8th - 10th
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Sustainability in Schools Simulation/Card Game
Sustainability in Schools Simulation/Card Game
for school administrators and teachers
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Are you looking for something interesting to do during staff meetings or in-service training?
Learn which sustainability-related projects have the best cost/benefit and
discover how to use these as teaching opportunities.
The Sustainability in Schools game is a powerful learning tool to help your school:
Understand what sustainability looks like in a school
Identify sustainabili
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Timed or Speed Writing: Informative or Expository
Writing Whiz has created a complete guide to administering a timed or speed writing exercise focusing on informative writing. Included are instructions on how to administer timed writing in your classroom, a model of what you want your student to accomplish, a rubric that the students and teachers will use to grade the timed writing, and three prompts that can be used. The rubric asks students to increase their word count, vary their transitional words and phrases, improve their weak verbs, and
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6th - 9th
Game of Concrete Nouns
The students play with the differences between abstractions and concrete nouns. Writing concretely is an important step toward writing vividly. See my Atlantic article on the subject. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-secret-to-good-writing-its-about-objects-not-ideas/263113/
This game helps train students to be vivid and specific and keeps them from floating away on a tide of abstract ideas.It requires a white board and an actively listening instructor.
You do it after
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Lightning Decision Jam for School Leaders
The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a shortened version of the Decision Sprint (from Google's Jake Knapp) with the purpose of moving leadership teams (or even individual teachers) from problem to testable solution in 90 minutes. The LDJ was developed by Berlin-based design firm AJ and Smart to help teams get unstuck and start to get things done. This version of LDJ has been tested with multiple leadership teams and includes examples of how school leaders can apply this approach. I rewrote the
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Real World Student testimonial from a career ready education classroom.
**ALL COMMON CORE ALIGNED**** This student testimonial describes learning in a career ready classroom 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. The entire career ready curriculum guides, Volumes 1-4 were used to teach what this student is referring to. *****DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW US*****
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5th - 12th
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