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Writing-expository Common Core WHST.9-10.9 resources
The 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
What's Included?This is a 4-point, proficiency-based scoring guide for grading middle-school level, five-paragraph essays. This is a complete, holistic essay rubric that follows from the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Body Paragraphs and the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Intro Paragraphs.Pair this rubric with the Five-Paragraph Essay Scoring Sheet to provide students with a clear and easy-to-read peer grading sheet that makes grading for teachers and students a breeze. Easily convert the 4-poin
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5th - 12th
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Genghis Khan: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents deciding whether Genghis Khan is a hero or a villain or a mix of both by reviewing his record.Their mission? To go back in time to get to know the real Genghis Khan and speak to his advisors and citizens. Is his reputation as a brutal dicta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Wax Museum, State, & Country Research Projects with Travel Brochures BUNDLE 9-12
Get your students excited about research reports with these fun and engaging social studies history research projects! This ready-to-go EDITABLE Biography Wax Museum, Ancient History Wax Museum, State Fair, EDITABLE Countries Around the World, and an EDITABLE (city, state, country, and continent) Travel Brochure bundle is for the entire year! Students can write a 9 paragraph research report or the graphic organizer can be used in place of the report for differentiated instruction. There are man
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9th - 12th
Printable Countries Around the World - Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates 9-12
Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Country Research Project! Students will create a trifold or float, and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills. Students gain and apply skills by working on a long project. They complete an in-depth inquiry into a specific topic. Students love the choice option! This engaging project has been modified from the original version for differentiated instruction. This No PREP project also inv
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9th - 12th
Argue A Supreme Court Case Using Precedents!
Use this project to get your students researching and analyzing important federal court decisions involving precedents in education!Students are provided with 4 fictional court cases involving student rights in schools. They are to read the facts of the case and then form an argument that they could present to the Supreme Court by doing the following:-Provide a case summary-Identify the constitutional issue(s)-Declare which side of the case they will argue-State their argument-Find and summarize
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8th - 12th
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The Count of Monte Cristo Writing Prompts
Even though The Count of Monte Cristo was written more than 150 years ago, the story is just as thrilling as it ever was. Your high school students will be engrossed in the Count's schemes of revenge and will be shocked by all the twists and turns along the way. This novel is an excellent choice for introducing your students to the literature of the 19th century; eliminating the stigma that sometimes exists among young readers that classic literature requires that it be boring. The Count of M
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9th - 12th
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Unit 12 - 1798-1806
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Alien and Sedition Acts to the causes of the First Barbary War. (The original text of this unit can be found at nomadicprofessor.com in US2: The Noise of Democracy.)Sessions 12.1-12.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperl
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Career Research Project
This resource is a simple lesson plan for an end of year Career project. It provides guidelines for completion and includes the following:A list of 20 careers, Website links to suggested resourcesQuestions & instructions for the slidesInstructions for studentsAnd a rubric. Best BargainPurchase the Google Slides presentation and get this lesson plan FREE:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Career-Project-Google-Slides-3847503
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5th - 12th
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Writing Reflections with GMOs in Our Food Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Demystifying the Research Paper - Activity Set
This sequence of activities has three overarching goals: To provide any individual with a formal approach to research-writing that is easily-grasped, easily-practiced, and effective.To help reluctant students actually appreciate the value of using other people’s sources when making a case.To help reluctant students perceive for themselves that a research paper need not feel alien nor onerous.
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9th - 12th
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Enzyme Lab with Student Writen Procedure and Lab Analysis- Common Core and NGSS
This lab uses amylase enzyme isolated from soaking pinto beans in water to allow students to investigate the function of enzymes. The teacher will demonstrate a sample set-up of the lab, but students are responsible for picking an independent variable they think will effect the function of amylase and writing a procedure to test that variable, and then performing the experiment.
I have included my lab analysis writing instructions and rubric, but even more common core standards can be addresse
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9th - 12th
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Expository essay writing - content area middle school writing lesson
Head off badly-organized, meandering essays at the beginning of the year. This one day lesson clarifies the expectations for a well-organized essay, including the perpetually difficult introductory and concluding paragraphs. If you have ever had to review with your middle or high school students what a topic sentence is, or have read 25 essays that all start "have you ever wondered", you'll want to set the record straight early on that there is a better way.
This lesson includes standards for g
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7th - 10th
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Writing Reflections, with 4 Sample Lessons, Rubrics Included
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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William Henry Harrison, Ninth President in the Presidential Series
Social Studies is the academic bedrock of our democracy, and the lives and careers of the Presidents clearly reflect the state of the nation and it policies and problems during each Commander-in-Chief's tenure, yet reading about the lives of the Presidents has been about as interesting as watching grass grow, until now. The Presidential Series accurately presents each President's life, career, tenure in the White House, problems, policies and challenges in an engaging faux-autobiography written
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7th - 10th
Breaking News Informative Writing Project
This is a an editable step-by-step project guide packed with resources and scaffolds for students, including links to a grading rubric, a grade recording sheet, and a student exemplar video. Students will create a breaking news segment answering the question, “Which of these developments had the biggest impact on the changing American society of the 20th century: atomic energy, the Civil Rights movement, environmentalism, increasing diversity, or another trend or development?” You could also
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9th - 12th
Writing Reflections with "Food Lab" Biomolecule/O Chem Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Reflections with Hominid Evoluion Reflection Assignment, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Reflections, Aligned with Common Core Standards, Rubric Included
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10 Nonfiction Essay Writing Prompts
These writing prompts are created to be versatile among many age groups, asking broad questions for which teachers can adjust requirements based on student level. These prompts are diverse and presented on a lined page for students to write on.They cover the four major types of essays:2 Narrative Prompts2 Descriptive Prompts3 Expository Prompts3 Persuasive PromptsSome prompts require a small amount of research, but most can be done with or without the use of outside sources, making this perfect
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: Writing Bundle
Argument Unit | Expert Opinion Lesson | Practice | Game | Posters | Word Search
Teach students to evaluate expertise and assess credibility. Perfect for argument and research units! Packed with engaging slides, definitions, practice, and paperless, self-grading game/quiz, colorful posters, word search, and teacher tour. I teach this as part of my Argument Unit on screen time and technology; however, you can use it for any argument or debate unit. Follow me to build your teacher and tutor toolbox. Thanks for visiting. Happy teaching!For Google Slides, scroll to the end of th
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Argument Bundle | Argument Unit | For or Against Screen Time
Fun Facts & Further Research Class Starter Activity
This PowerPoint Presentation offers 8 weeks of fun facts to prompt further research and discussion at the start of class. This would work well during a research unit, to promote inquiry, investigation, analysis of sources, and further discussion of topics beyond what is first found. Each slide shows a fun fact (about animals, the human body, science, history, food, etc.), and the procedure is for students to read the fact and then to do further research, finding a new related fact and analyzing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Ancient China Dynasties Project | Distance Learning
Research-Based Information Writing: Fact-Finding Activity & the Art of Persuasion Essential Question: What role did the dynasties of ancient China play in this being one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations?Google Classroom® Ready!This activity is designed to accompany any unit of study related to Ancient China. Students research four dynasties: Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han. There is no prescribed curriculum. Students are encouraged to reference a variety of resources in order to coll
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6th - 9th
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Writing Reflections with DNA for Idenification Purposes Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Jigsaw Anticipatory Set The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Are you looking for a student centered activity that will encourage your students to work together and utilize higher order thinking skills? Try jigsaw!- Student centered rather than teacher directed- Fosters inquiry learning- Increases enjoyment of the learning experience- Requires very little teacher preparation. - Allows for larger coverage of curriculum material- Holds each student accountable!Description: Using jigsaw in a multi-layered anticipatory set for The Crucible, students will be ab
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9th - 12th
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