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Common Core L.11-12.5 research
Media Literacy: Fact, Opinion, and Bias
This 2-3 day, editable Word document mini-unit is geared toward high school students, specifically in language arts, but also for any class in which students will be researching. We assume that older students can easily distinguish between fact and opinion and detect bias in sources, but that is not necessarily the case, especially in today's confusing multimedia landscape. This unit includes a pre-assessment to introduce students to the subtleties of distinguishing fact from opinion and determi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Media Literacy Complete, No-Prep Unit Bundle
Research Projects- Questions and Guided Organization Worksheets
This file includes the following documents:
#1- Explanation of what a Research Paper is about: 8 page paper that is based on the answer to a question. The students are required to read through the directions, then read through 50 dynamic, interesting questions and highlight 5 that seem interesting to them. The topics range from changing the draft age, to mandatory recycling, to the transition from pagan celebrations into Christian holidays. These are not your typical Research topics!
Once stu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Feed by M.T. Anderson Bundle of Quizzes, Worksheets, Research Project, and Keys
This low-prep bundle covering Feed by M.T. Anderson contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, facilitate student research on a range of relevant topics, and greatly reduce take-home lesson planning responsibilities. Included are four multiple choice quizzes; four short answer alternate quiz options; four close reading worksheets covering fifteen substantive novel passages;
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9th - 12th
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Slave Narratives Federal Writers Project
From 1920-1930, the Library of Congress dispatched writers to record authentic slave narrative stories from the last remaining Americans who were enslaved before the Civil War. Hundreds of these true slave narrative stories are available online for students to read and research! This is a great project to add to any slave narrative unit!The Slave Narratives Federal Writers Project provides a curated list of 53 slave narrative stories for your students to choose from to create a research presenta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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32 Research and Informational Text Task Cards / Print and Digital
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction.The 32 cards are available in a .pdf but also as a Google Slides presentation (which means that all the text is editable) for those teachers interested in going paperless. Since this resource contains a Google tool, TPT
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Research Project and Speech Materials
This low-prep, standards-based project helps high school students investigate topics and deliver informative speeches related to Michael Crichton's science fiction novel Jurassic Park. It also helps students contextualize the events of the novel by calling attention to 30 relevant topics—from scientific advancements (such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the sequencing of human genes) to scientific theories (such as those involving efforts to achieve de-extinction and those seeking to under
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9th - 12th
Inspiration - Reading, Writing and Jotting down Ideas.
These activities and lessons help students to see the important place reading and researching has in helping develop imaginative ideas for creative writing projects. The work involves mixing and matching the names of important authors with the first or last sentences of important works showing that the writer's style is contingent on context and immediate audience; there is also work on creating a premise for a story based on or in opposition to a premise of a work they have read or watched. R
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Creative Writing Workshops - Inspiration
Literary Analysis Essay Instructions for The Outsiders
These essay instructions are meant to be used in conjunction with your textbook and other supplemental materials to teach research, MLA style citation, and the techniques of literary analysis. The students are instructed to write a literary analysis of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Example thesis statements, paragraph topic sentences, and examples of incorrect and correct ways of integrating source material are given along with in text citation examples and one Works Cited citation exa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Reading and Writing Unit on The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Hamlet Research Assignments
This is two different projects that go with Hamlet. 1) Students are given a choice of 3 topics: Rhetoric of Madness; Film Pitch; Social Critique. Culminates in a presentation of project. Includes rubrics. 2) Mini-research essay assignment. Students are given a choice of 4 topics: Function of madness; Soliloquies; Humor; Ophelia. Includes rubric.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Hamlet Complete Unit
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Bundle: Common Core Aligned Unit Starter Pack!
Description:This bundle contains resources for use as part of a unit on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis in which you will teach standards-based skills related to reading literature, argumentative writing, and research. Consider it to be a starter pack! This graphic novel is a gripping read for high school students (grades 11-12). The parent letter, sent at the beginning of the unit, is a classroom management tool that can ease any concerns about content in a proactive rather than reactive way. Late
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11th - 12th
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Creating a Newspaper on the 1920's
To capture the excitement and tensions of the1920's, students work in groups to create newspapers reflecting events and life during the twenties.
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9th - 12th
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