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Common Core W.11-12.4 dbqs
Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
School Dress Code: An Evidence-Based Argumentative Writing Unit - Google Drive
This argumentative writing unit focuses on utilizing a popular and controversial topic, school dress codes, to spark informal dialogue and debate as well as claim/counterclaim development and evidence-based writing through article and video study. Examining students’ school dress code experiences, students are given many opportunities throughout this unit to discuss their positions with peers. These conversations and informal writings combined with an analysis of the differing viewpoints present
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6th - 12th
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Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Save 30% and get access to all four digital and print interactive notebooks for primary source analysis!This bundle includes:Primary Source Document Analysis Interactive NotebookAnalyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student NotebookHistory with Maps Interactive NotebookArtifact Analysis Interactive NotebookEach of these interactive student notebooks have been carefully designed to unlock source analysis for students while building higher level academic literacy. The pages can be
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9th - 12th
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Current Event Analysis and Summary (Honors and AP)
In this current event activity students will document the following:APA or MLA citationissue or problemperspectives presented and their connectionscredibility/validity of sourcesproposed solutions and students generated solutionsauthor's reasoningAfter completing the template, students will write a summary and analysis of the article. This can be used in high school honors and AP classes for weekly current event analysis and discussion.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Evidence Based Claims in AP English Language and Composition
In order to write an effective essay, students must first be able to write evidence based claims. This handout is designed to be used with my AP Language students early in the year. While it provides some scaffolding for close reading and evidence gathering, students should be competent at these shills already. This lesson asks students to:Analyze the Rhetorical SituationWrite within a Particular SituationWrite Arguable ClaimsThe product comes with introductory handout, graphic organizer for w
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9th - 12th
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Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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Document Based Argumentative Writing Unit: Can Child Criminals Be Saved
This is a high interest step-by-step unit for students using provided documents to write an argumentative paper about the idea of child criminals and the punishments/consequences they deserve. The unit includes answer key, teaching notes, planning organizers, and a rubric.
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9th - 12th
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Essay Speedgrader
This is by far my favorite and most-used tool now. Give lots of feedback AND do it quickly--simply check the right boxes and watch the feedback automatically compile for you.The hardest part of grading is that we never have enough time to say everything we want to. This solves that issue. With the Speedgrader, I give far more feedback than ever before, AND I grade faster than ever. This takes much of the dread out of grading essays.The Speedgrader features two columns: one with all the pre-writt
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Fahrenheit 451 DBQ Essay
Directions to Student: The following performance task requires you to construct a coherent literary analysis essay that integrates interpretation of Documents A-E and your knowledge of the novel’s plot, theme, setting, characters, conflict, and narration. To cite the documents displayed below, use the letter shown (i.e. A) as within text citations at the end of your sentence. To cite an example from the novel, give the appropriate page number (Bradbury 68). Essays that both cite key pieces of e
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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DBQ outline/ 4 Square **EDITABLE**
My first TpT seller!! This aids my students in organizing and outlining their answers for DBQ questions. It is editable so you can tailor the prompts to match your own writing topic. Enjoy!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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