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Heart of Darkness AP Lit Complete Unit Lesson Plan
With a focus on critical thinking skills, this complete unit plan for Heart of Darkness includes a historical overview, a guided reading instruction for the novella, Essential Questions with a poem pairing, discussion questions for the entire novella broken down into 7 sections, passage analysis prompts, an in-class partner essay assignment and a formal essay assignment with rubrics, and Socratic-style final discussion questions with a video link. The unit encourages student-led inquiry with tea
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10th - 12th
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How to Write a Great College Admissions Essay - Works with Common Application
I have been teaching 11th graders to write a college admissions essay for the past ten years and this system really works! It's especially great if you have a wide variety of writing abilities within the same class.My favorite part of the packet is the "student" writing samples that help students understand what a finished product is going to look like. I've also included a brainstorming activity, an essay organizer, a rubric, and brief explanation of how to effectively use these materials.
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10th - 12th
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Biography Mini-Research Paper Teaching Guide with Student Handouts and Samples
This file includes a fully editable Word document featuring a complete Mini-Research Teaching Unit with lesson plans, activity templates, student handouts, accountability documentation, and a rubric for grading. Additionally, this guide comes with sample notes from two sources, a sample draft paper, and a sample final paper to teach students all parts of the research process.
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Water Wings Writing Templates for AP English Literature & Pre-AP English
In teaching ESOL, Gifted language arts, and seven years of teaching AP English Literature, I have discovered that students even in advanced classes frequently do not have the building blocking to write strong analytical timed essays.
I order to aid students in developing their writing skills I have broken down various approaches to the poetry, prose, and open question prompts of the AP English Literature Exam into templates – “Water Wings” to aid them in “breaking the surface” of analytical wr
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11th - 12th
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AICE General Paper Start-Ups: 16 Weeks to Better Writing
This document includes 16 projectable start-ups for AICE English General Paper students as well as sixteen corresponding follow-ups (grammar/writing based) and a quiz. There are also sample responses. (I typically do the first draft as our Monday start-up and the final draft as our Friday start-up.) On Monday, students individually revise the mini-paragraph (3-5 sentences) for grammar, personal language, and weak wording. In the process, students learn a bit about an important aspect of hist
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9th - 12th
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AICE English General Paper: PAPER 1 Notes and Sample Classic Essay Analysis
This printable document includes a note section as teachers first introduce the AICE English General Paper 1 exam and a classic argumentative essay. This format includes giving the opposition and refutation its own paragraph. After taking notes, the worksheet outlines the format for this essay. Finally, a high-scoring, sample AICE English General Paper essay written in the classic format is included with analysis questions. This is a structured way to introduce what the Paper 1 Exam, and bas
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9th - 12th
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PARCC Literary Analysis Teacher Model (Example Essay)
This is an example essay for students to analyze. It responds to the following prompt from the 8th grade PARCC practice test, but it could also be used for other grades as an example of format.
In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.
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4th - 10th
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Essay Writing Workshop Bundle
Your students' writing will improve with leaps and bounds with these clear practice worksheets where students target specific writing skills! Each comes with examples for the students to see how the skill is done correctly, then they identify errors in a piece of writing, and finally they fix it to show mastery of the skills. This is 5 progressive lessons where students practice how to write a claim, embed evidence, select the best quote, and revise it for the pertinent information, write and re
"The Diary of Anne Frank" Analytical Essay Writing Prompt
This is an excellent writing prompt for a "Diary of Anne Frank" and Holocaust unit. More than just a prompt, this is an entire packet that takes students through the entire planning process. It includes the prompt itself, an outline of what should be included in each of the five paragraphs, as well as planning pages for every paragraph except the conclusion. I use this in 8th grade with multiple sources - "The Diary of Anne Frank" the play and movie and a Holocaust documentary we view in clas
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8th - 12th
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Writing Sentences: Teach Variety! 13 Different Kinds
This unit includes worksheets that explain and illustrate THIRTEEN different kinds of topic sentences. Gives students a real advantage for exciting ways to begin a writing assignment. Room on each sheet for ample practice, and teacher can review them daily for instant feedback before proceeding! One mini-lesson per day for a few weeks, and your students will have a WIDE variety of interesting sentence styles to use in their writing. NO more boring sentences allowed! 13 worksheets plus intro page
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7th - 10th
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Analyzing Literary Elements with P.E.E.: A mildly inappropriate AICE technique
This format for analyzing literary elements is designed for use with AICE English Language and AP Language. However, it works well with advanced high school students in a variety of courses. The P.E.E. format involves making a Point about a literary aspect or device by using a quote, Explaining the evidence / quote, and then analyzing the Effect of that device. This last portion is the most crucial on both exams.Students label two examples of the PEE formula at work and take note of ways the
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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American History Research Papers Collection
This lesson plan packet contains six different history themed research paper topics. Each lesson plan is designed to be used individually for grades 7-12. However, each lesson can be easily modified to fit the needs of your students. The following research papers are included in this lesson plan collection.American Revolution Research PaperCivil War Research PaperWorld War II Research PaperCivil Rights Research PaperCold War Research PaperAmerican Women Research PaperStudents will research a k
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7th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Argumentative Essay Prompts and Examples
Need an argumentative essay assignment that is easily placed into your curriculum? Look no further. This summative lesson gives 4 prompts in which students can choose from. I also provide you with the directions, an exemplary example and three non-exemplary examples. Using this, you have the tools students need to write great argumentative essays. Students enjoy having the choice of prompts and teachers enjoy not having to read the same paper over and over. It also engages the students and
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9th - 12th
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Descriptive Essay Packet
This descriptive essay assignment includes the prompt, pre-writing activities, planning pages, an editing checklist, a rubric, and an example essay. This assignment packet is ready-to-go! Teachers could easily use this right away. It is perfect for students to do independently or as a class. This assignment is easily adaptable for almost any middle school or high school ELA class.
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8th - 11th
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Quoting, Paraphrasing & Quote Sandwich -- Best Practices lessons and exercises
Research-based informative and argumentative essays require proper and appropriate quoting and paraphrasing to support the thesis. In my years of teaching composition, I have found students struggle with these two skill sets. Here are lessons, exercises, and a power point presentation on the art of the Quote Sandwich. 18 pages of materials.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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UNIT PLAN First Amendment and Student Press Rights and Responsibilities
This UNIT PLAN is designed for use in an advanced high school course for students of applied journalism or an introductory course for journalism majors at the university level. This series of lesson plans is designed to be delivered over 3 class periods, 90-minutes each in duration, or, its multi-part activities could be delivered over 6 class periods of 45 minutes each. This 22-page document includes:• Detailed instructor lecture notes and discussion questions, with option to customize.• Annot
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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"Tell-Tale Heart" Assessment (Performance Based)
Students will take on the role of psychiatrists to evaluate the mental state of the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart". They will analyze the text in order to document his psychotic behavior and then compare it with criteria for five different mental disorders. Once the students have come up with a clinical diagnosis, they will write a letter to the narrator's defense attorney stating the results of the psychotic-analysis in an effort to assist him/her in obtaining the insanity plea.
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7th - 10th
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Breaking Texts and Human Experiences down into bite size chunks
This small booklet has been designed to assist students in breaking down the Rubric for Texts and Human Experiences into bite size chunks. It includes a break down of the rubric into a series of questions which they then use to extract the most relevant information from their prescribed texts. This scaffold may be used as the foundation of analysis for any of the texts in the Common Module and is invaluable in allowing the students to not only understand WHAT they need to know, but why and HOW t
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Narrative Writing for High School: Memory Triggers
Memory Triggers are an amazing way to engage high school students in creating personal narratives. Personal narrative writing is becoming a lost art due to state mandated tests that focus strictly on exposition, persuasive, and analytical writing. This activity involves 20 tangible objects that students peruse, record their memories, and choose one special memory for their personal narrative. Both student and teacher will take an emotional journey using Memory Triggers. This is also a great
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9th - 12th
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Narrative Writing Unit
One thing that I have learned in my experience with working with young adults is that they love to write about themselves and what inspires them. In this unit, included is a guide of how to teach narrative writing effectively. I have created a step-by-step manual to teach this unit, which includes: an interactive foldable, brainstorming, partner shares, building supporting details, adding effective transition words, creating a hook to capture the reader, and a fun way to publish this beautifu
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4th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Research Paper Unit (AP Lit.)
For AP, students need research writing skills, but need to also stay focused on the AP exam essays. This is a bundle of all the resources I use to teach my AP Literature students how to plan and write the Poetry Analysis Research Paper, which addresses both skills. This unit goes all the way from the beginning steps of learning about literary criticism to the the grading rubric at the end. This unit focuses on daily checks of progress, with teacher giving detailed daily "quick check" feedback (
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Interview with an Elder Essay Project
Would you like your students to learn the skill of interviewing while also learning about a past generation's culture? This project informs students on how to interview another person, practices that skills, and then allows the students to interview an elder in order to learn about that elder's life. The culminating assessment is an expository/narrative essay that helps the students connect to both the past and the present through their elder.
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8th - 10th
History of Ghost Stories with 3 Fictional Ghost Stories- Expository/Fiction
This lesson combines an expository lesson, fiction lesson, and a creative writing lesson.
It begins with an expository piece that includes 4 different sections about history of Ghost Stories. This first section also has a corresponding Graphic Organizer ensuring the students maintain involvement in the activity by taking notes.
The second part of the lesson is fictional reading including 3 ghost stories for children. The post reading activity for the ghost stories is an activity which ask
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7th - 12th
Writing Unit - The Writing Process
This is Unit 3 of a four-unit Analytical Writing Student Review and Exercise Guide. This guide is designed for a first-year college composition or advanced High School writing course. This unit provides an overview of the writing process from brainstorming to revision and editing, with detailed instructions, tips, and practice exercises to help students master the academic writing process.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Analytical Writing - Student Review and Practice Guide
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