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Documentary Film Rhetorical Analysis Project

By Frank Bascombe

This assignment applies rhetorical analysis to a documentary film. I use it in AP Language & Composition, but it could also be useful for film study. It's a group powerpoint project, though students are primarily graded for only their own

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Visual Arts, Informational Text

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10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Nonfiction Independent Reading Project

By Frank Bascombe

An independent reading journal that's easy to grade. This assignment focuses on textual analysis and response. Students respond to specific quotes from the text to ensure that journal entries are directly related to the material and involve thought

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English Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies - History

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10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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"The Odyssey" Journal Prompts

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Includes at least one prompt for each of the episodes excerpted in Holt's "Elements of Literature": Calypso, the Cicones, the Lotus Eaters, Polyphemus the Cyclops, Circe, the Land of the Dead, the Sirens and Scylla/Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun

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Writing-Expository, Reading, Literature

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Final Test for "The Odyssey"

By Frank Bascombe

Here is a basic forty-question final test for "The Odyssey." The first ten questions are related to background material, while the next thirty deal with major characters and plot twists. This test is not meant to be comprehensive. It has been

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Reading, Literature, Poetry

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Sample College Application Essay

By Frank Bascombe

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

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Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

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11^th, 12^th, Adult Education

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Basic Concepts for Sentence Writing

By Frank Bascombe

This document presents basic concepts related to sentence writing: basic parts of speech, advanced parts of speech, types of complete sentences, types of incomplete sentences, additional parts of speech (phrases), sentence improvements (modifiers,

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Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD, Writing

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6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Odyssey Final Essay

By Frank Bascombe

This assignment sheet presents six topic choices for a final essay related to "The Odyssey." It then details each step in the writing process. This enables the teacher to easily break up the assignment into steps with individual assignments and due

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Reading, Literature, Writing-Essays

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Trojan War Powerpoint

By Frank Bascombe

A nineteen-slide overview of the Trojan War. Can be used for teaching The Iliad or The Odyssey. It does not contain visuals. Instead it is meant as a useful condensation of the story, a way to tell the story as background in a class period. (It

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Ancient History, Literature

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Evaluating Sources for Credibility

By Frank Bascombe

This document provides questions that can be used to teach students to evaluate the credibility of a research source. It is organized around six criteria: author, publication, date of publication, structure of argument, use of evidence, and tone. It

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Informational Text

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Recycled AP Language Prompt Sample

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This is an example of how to take an AP Language & Composition open argument prompt and recycle it as an introduction to an open argument essay, whether on the AP test or for a more developed non-timed essay in the course.

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English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Peer Editing Guidelines

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A handy one-page document that lists key peer editing rules and their accompanying rationales. I use this page to set a framework for peer editing in AP Language & Composition. It helps to unify student understanding and to target our purpose

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Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Essays

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Personal and Narrative Essay

By Frank Bascombe

This assignment sheet models the format and process of a personal or narrative essay. It provides step by step instructions for developing and completing the essay. It also provides a brief example of descriptive language to help with developing

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Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

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Expository Writing Rubric

By Frank Bascombe

This is a simple holistic rubric for expository writing. It involves three criteria--content, organization, mechanics. For each criterion, the rubric provides four levels--advanced, competent, developing, and beginning. Each criterion provides a

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Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

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Poetry List

By Frank Bascombe

This document lists poems by subject matter. It is useful as a guide to create poetry units based on particular strategies and subjects; for example, poems based on specific memories/experiences, poems based on the natural world, poems of grief and

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Creative Writing, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Unit Plans, Syllabi, Bibliographies

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

10 years of high school teaching experience with a specialty in Advanced Placement Language & Composition.

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B.A. from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; M.Ed. from the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Social Studies, Ancient History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Literature, Writing, Writing-Essays, Poetry, Informational Text