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Writing-expository Common Core SL.9-10.3 resources
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates: Elevate your classroom debates with this ready-to-use resource that has absolutely everything you need to set up and implement formal debates in your classroom. Debates are an excellent tool to enhance your students' research, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This resource provides a complete package, featuring slides, organizers, worksheets, handouts, and a selection of engaging debate topics. You will
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Steve Jobs & Real World Rhetoric Analysis, Grad Speech, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Show your students a real-world application of the tools of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos) as they examine the 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address given by Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs. The speech, which is filled with warmth, humor, and meaning, is a high-interest way to add the non-fiction analysis skills emphasized by the Common Core to your classroom.Students will learn the components of Aristotle’s rhetorical devices, view Jobs’ speech via a 14-minute video clip, and use a ful
Grades:
8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Class Research Games
Need a fun way to get your students practicing their research skills? This set of 10 games will take your class from thesis statements all the way to references all while having fun.This set of games covers research skills like:Building 3-prong thesis statementsUsing specific search termsAssessing the credibility of sourcesExpanding on relevant evidenceChecking the efficacy of research paragraphsCreating accurate APA citationsChecking APA formattingYou'll get fun class games like:Thesis SwapSour
Grades:
6th - 12th
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The Ron Clark Story: Expository Essay, Movie Viewing Quiz, Nonfiction Text Task
The Ron Clark Story is based on the true story of an amazing educator from North Carolina who moved to N.Y. because he heard there was a need for good teachers in Harlem. While there, he did an amazing job turning around difficult students and giving them hope for their futures. Students really enjoy this movie! The movie can even be found on YouTube. This lesson helps students delve into non-print text to determine characterization. This unit has been crafted so that each component has scaffo
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Martin Luther King VS Malcolm X
Students read excerpts from two speeches. "The Ballot or the Bullet" and "I Have a Dream." While reading the speeches, students work on context clues, tone, and writing a comparative essay. I like to have students listen to Malcolm X's speech. The excerpt of Malcom X is a summary, so that students will be encouraged to listen to the speech. I then have students listen to Martin Luther King's speech. The excerpt from MLK is word for word. Then students compare the two. This was designed to be l
Grades:
9th - 10th
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Analyzing Author’s Use of Irony in Commercials and Political Cartoons
This PARCC-style assessment merges commercials, political cartoons, and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. Students will analyze 2 modern commercials and 2 political cartoons that use situational and verbal irony and analyze. In the second section of the performance task, students will analyze the development of irony in a literary text and discuss similarities and differences between the author’s approache
Grades:
6th - 10th
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DEARMAN Writing- 2-Day Argumentative Writing/Speaking w/ Lesson Plan, PPT, WS...
This is a one or two-day lesson on arguing/speaking/debating/writing with DEARMAN, a DBT strategy that defines the outline of a good argument. This lesson includes everything you need - - A PowerPoint - Guided Notes- An in-class assignment- A homework sheet- Crossword Puzzles, one with a word bank, and one without (with answer keys)- Lesson Plans for both daysThis is everything you need for a last minute English assignment useful for a debate, for Social-Emotional Learning Lessons, or to introd
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Exposition Composition unit
This comprehensive composition unit focuses on exposition - the synthesis and analysis of informatory texts. The unit includes a instructional PDF powerpoint demonstrating the primary components of expository writing, several graphic organizers for research and writing, and an original outline and essay for analysis. This expository unit is cross-curricular interweaving writing and research skills, with a scientific essay. The skills developed from this unit are transferrable throughout the c
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Inquiry Unit English 10 Myths, Fairy Tales, and Legends
Students will explore myths, legends, and fairy tales to study how these stories influence communities/cultures.
Students will be able to research myths, legends, and fairy tales from different cultures in order to make a connection with their own culture.
Students will work in groups to research different cultures so that they may understand how and why different stories are carried on through generations. Students will write a summative essay describing their own family culture and stories.
Grades:
10th
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Non-fiction Writing Analysis and Review
Students collect at least 10 articles (from editorials or photos w/captions to deep coverage stories) on a single topic from a variety of sources. In preparation for writing on their own, they should analyze each author’s writing for tone and style then summarize/synthesize and discuss the quality of the writing in small groups. Peers comment on the analysis and offer suggestions for writing on the topic researched. Includes rubrics for peer and self-evaluations.
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9th - 12th
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