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Social Media Argumentative Essay and Sources

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This essay bundle is a great summative assessment for a non-fiction unit on Social Media. Students love engaging with this topic and they all come with an opinion! Resources are editable and can be used fully for students that need extra

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Social Media Impact Unit

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This is a FULL unit based on non-fiction texts concerning the growth of social media and it's impact on the world, people, mental health, etc. The entire unit is editable so you can adjust as needed for your classroom and pacing. This lasts

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, School Psychology

Grades:

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

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Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers, Webquests

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7, RI.9-10.8, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.9

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Essay Writing Workshop Bundle

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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

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5

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Minority Report Film AND Government Overreach Essay! (+Rubric & Answer Key)

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Your students will love Minority Report and will erupt in debate over whether or not government should punish people who think about committing a crime. Students can then follow up their thinking with an argumentative essay on Government Overreach.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Government, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.8, CCRA.W.9

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Blackfish Film Guide, One Pager, and Animals in Captivity Essay!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This bundle is entirely editable and INCLUDES:1. Blackfish Documentary Film/Movie Guide with answer key and time stamps. 2. Blackfish One Pager with rubric and reflection questions3. Wild Animals in Captivity Argumentative Essay and SourcesThis

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Movie Guides

$7.50

$6.00

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Counter Claim Practice Worksheet

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Quick Counter Claim practice for students!This is a great way to really bring home the idea of a counter claim for students. Students revise regular claim statements to include a counterclaim. This activity takes around 20 minutes and just

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b

$2.00

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Introduction & Conclusion Transition Sentences

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

It's often easy to help students learn how to write hooks and claims, but they get stuck on those transition sentences! This is an worksheet helps students to understand what goes in the middle of those pesky introduction and conclusion paragraphs.

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4

$2.00

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Practicing Commentary/Reasoning for Argument Essays

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This worksheet gives students practice at identifying errors in commentary and revising it to be better. It includes examples on how to identify and fix the problematic commentary, and then lets students practice the skills. This gives students the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5

$1.50

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Text Evidence: Choosing and Revising Quotes (Writing)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This worksheet gives students practice at identifying the best evidence for a specific claim. Students will analyze quotes and then practice revising them to include only pertinent information. They will also practice using ellipsis and brackets as

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Homework

$2.00

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Government Overreach Argumentative Essay

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This essay bundle is a great summative assessment for a non-fiction unit on Government Overreach (or one of the options in a choice unit). Students love engaging with this topic and they all come with an opinion! This is especially relevant today

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Government, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.9-10.1, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b, W.9-10.1c, W.9-10.1d, W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.2a, W.9-10.2b

$3.00

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House on Mango Street Literary Analysis Essay!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Sandra Cisneros' novel, The House on Mango Street, lends itself well to writing a literary analysis essay - and this resource includes EVERYTHING you need to guide students through the writing process. This fully-editable resource includes:Three

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Assessment

CCSS:

W.9-10.2, W.9-10.2a, W.9-10.2b, W.9-10.2c, W.9-10.2d, W.9-10.2e, W.9-10.2f, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.5, W.9-10.9, W.9-10.9a

$5.00

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Claim Practice with Prompts and Evidence (Essay Writing)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This worksheet supports students through the process of how to write a claim/thesis based on the evidence. There's clear instruction and an example at the top on the step by step process. This helps students to understand the relationship between

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Homework, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1

$2.00

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Evidence Workshop Bundle (Essay Writing)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This includes 3 progressive lessons where students practice how to embed evidence, select the best quote, and revise it for the pertinent information. There is a quiz that directly assesses the skills taught and practiced with the two worksheets. It

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Homework

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.9

$3.98

$3.50

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Wild Animals in Captivity Argumentative Essay and Sources

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This essay bundle is a great summative assessment for a non-fiction unit on Wild Animals in Captivity. Students love engaging with this topic and they all come with an opinion! Resources are editable and can be used fully for students that need

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.8, CCRA.W.9

$3.00

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Embedding Evidence Practice for Essay and CERER Writing

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This worksheet supports students through the process of how to correctly embed evidence. There's clear instruction and examples at the top of the worksheet. This gives students the opportunity to practice leading into quotes and other forms of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Homework, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.9

$2.00

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Creating a Strong Argument - Planning, Writing, Revising (Step by step Essay)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Struggling to get your middle schoolers to write arguments? This resource guides students step-by-step through the process of creating a strong argumentative writing. This can be used with any argumentative writing assignment - whether you choose

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Workbooks, Worksheets, Handouts

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1

$4.00

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Paragraph Structure Practice

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a standalone worksheet for students needing to practice the structure of the argument paragraph. Students start by analyzing 3 paragraph for structure errors. They highlight for:ClaimEvidenceCommentaryEvidence #2Commentary #2 Next they

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5

$2.00

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Essay Revision - Argument (Easy checklist process for students!)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

After having students write short argumentative essays - don't they need to revise? Of course they do! But getting middle school students to revise sometimes seems impossible - not anymore! Have students use this revision color-coding checklist to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

W.7.1, W.7.1a, W.7.1b, W.7.1c, W.7.1d, W.7.1e

$1.00

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Subject & Theme Practice Worksheet

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Great subject and theme practice for your students! Students often need just a little extra practice identifying theme. This worksheet takes them through excerpts of popular passages and texts and they identify the subject and theme They must also

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets

$1.00

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Introduction Writing (For Essays)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

A handout to incorporate with a lesson on teaching how to write strong introductions for essays. This handout has students analyze two introductory paragraphs about Alexander Hamilton, utilizing their high interest in the Broadway show. Students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

W.7.1, W.7.1a, W.7.1b, W.7.1c

$1.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Two National Boards Certified ELA teachers with 20 years of experience working at both the middle and high school levels. We share a passion for all things books, literature, and of course, Harry Potter!

MY TEACHING STYLE

Focused on engaging activities to encourage critical thinking and developing students self-motivation to be lifelong learners.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Boards Certification, National Boards MOC, District Teacher of the Year Nominee

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Specialty, Math, Other (Math), Science, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, Government, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Other (Art), Music, Music Composition, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Performing Arts), Physical Education, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, Career and Technical Education, ELA Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Professional Development, Statistics, Psychology, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Valentine's Day, For All Subjects, Informational Text, School Psychology, Close Reading