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8th grade writing-essays homeschool curricula for Easel Activities
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft ChecklistThis Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist is the perfect writing checklist for ANY grade! Students check for capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling, and more! This checklist also requires students to...Read their essay out loud to make sure it makes sense ✓Take out any words or phrases that don't sound right ✓Replace boring adjectives with more exciting ones ✓Check for subject-verb agreement
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Grades:
K - 12th
Finding Good Sources How to Research Using Reliable Sources for Print or Easel
Teach your students essential research skills! Use this before any of your research projects! Finding Good Sources teaches grades 6-8 how to research using credible sources on the internet and beyond. This printable or 'Made-for-Easel' activity walks your students through finding reliable sources and reinforces that with fun, interactive activities, multiple choice, and short response questions. The answer key and rubric make it fast and easy for you to give a meaningful grade.For a Google Slide
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Finding Good Sources both PDF and Google Slides™ versions
The Persuader! A Comic Adventure in Persuasive Writing. Activities Included!
A comic book about a serious subject like persuasive writing? And one that’s actually amusing? It can be done! Award-winning cartoonist David Rickert and award-winning author Cheryl Miller Thurston have joined forces to create an entertaining and instructive comic book that teaches the basics about persuasive writing.It features a female superhero known as “The Persuader” and her sidekick “Bud,” who swoop in to give practical help to two struggling students. The 16 page full color comic also inc
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4th - 9th
Black History Essay Questions (Plus Easel Activity)
Challenge your students to go deeper in their studies of these fifteen influential African Americans. A short bio of each individual is given as well as essay questions to encourage reflection. Notebooking pages are also included. Study the lives of Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Samuel Morris, Amanda Berry Smith, Charles Albert Tindley, George Washington Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thomas A. Dorsey, Eliza Davis George, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson,
Grades:
6th - 9th
Conflict Summarizing Worksheets | Tough Questions | Notice and Note
Notice and note tough questions to summarize conflict in literature. Go beyond "somebody wanted...but...so." Develop more succinct and sophisticated summary statements. Great for GATE, reluctant writers, and ELD! Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Make them feel brilliant.This product features...complex sentence frames with embedded vocabularyextensive word banksgraphic organizers3 differentiated versionsprintable optiondigital, student-editable option (Google Slides link on PDF)teacher
Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: Notice and Note Signposts: Mini-Lessons and Posters Bundle
Dreams. What is their larger meaning? Video. Writing. Free Writing. ELA. ESL.
Students watch a video about common dream types and their associated "larger" meaning. They match the dream with the meaning. Before watching discuss the larger question of if dreams mean anything in real life. Then get students to match the dream types to the meaning. Then watch and correct answers. Or watch and students complete while watching. After, get students to use the template to write about a dream they had and what its higher meaning could be. ESL, EFL, ESOL, worksheets, video les
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Monkey's Paw classic story used to teach Literary Analysis Essay
"The Monkey's Paw" is a classic suspense short story. It can also be used as a vehicle to begin teaching Literary Analysis writing to high school freshmen or upper junior high students.This lesson contains:* a link to the classic horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (public domain)* a one-paragraph introduction to the story and setting* short introduction to literary-analysis writing *explanations of thesis statement and text evidence *a prompt based on the short story *suggestions on how to brainst
Grades:
7th - 9th
Fahrenheit 451 Project Choice of 7 plus EDITABLE rubric Distance Learning
Provide student choice for your end of unit project on Fahrenheit 451 with ease with this set of 7 projects including one-pagers, essays, short answer, mixed bag and more. EDITABLE rubric included. Ready-to-use projects that students can do on their own at school or at home. Great for Distance Learning.This resource includes:Teacher guidelines7 ready-to use end of unit assessmentsOptions within each assessment to provide additional choice for studentsAdd due date, points, etc. to any of the p
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Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Novel Project Bundle 10 Books Included
Cake Paragraph Essay: 5 Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer for Writing
The Cake Paragraph Essay is an incredibly helpful graphic organizer for supporting students with planning and organizing their writing for the 5 paragraph essay format (also available as part of the Awakening Potential for Writing Success program). All of the elements of each paragraph correspond to different parts of the cake (which makes it a wonderful transition from the Cake Paragraph organizer. Students can use this organizer for planning out their ideas before writing their rough draft.
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4th - 9th, Staff
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Project Choice of 7 plus rubric Distance Learning
Provide student choice for your end of unit project on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with ease with this set of 7 projects including one-pagers, essays, short answer, mixed bag and more. EDITABLE rubric included.This resource includes:Teacher guidelines7 ready-to use end of unit assessmentsOptions within each assessment to provide additional choice for studentsAdd due date, points, etc. to any of the pages.EDITABLE rubric This purchase is for one teacher only. This resource is not to be shared with
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: Novel Project Bundle 10 Books Included
Essay Writing: Short Stories/Space Travel
Compare and Contrast! The student will read two short stories about space travel, written in the 1950’s (included). A list of relevant themes for a ‘compare and contrast’ essay is included. The student will choose three themes that they feel are interesting, and write an essay in which they briefly address how those themes are important to each story. Detailed guidelines are given. This assignment will take at least one week to complete.Stories:. . . So They Baked A CakeA bitter, hardened journa
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Grades:
7th - 12th
To Kill a Mockingbird Project Choice of 7 Distance Learning
Provide student choice for a To Kill a Mockingbird novel project with ease with this set of 7 projects including one-pagers, essays, short answer, newspaper and more. EDITABLE rubric for the first 6 projects PLUS a second editable rubric that is specific to the newspaper project. Ideal for distance or at home learning!This resource includes:Teacher guidelines7 ready-to use end of unit assessmentsOptions within each assessment to provide additional choice for studentsEditable rubric applicable
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Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Novel Project Bundle 10 Books Included
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