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Adult education writing-expository assessments
Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Text Based Evidence Writing Bundle
Text-based evidence writing step-by-step lessons and writing resources to guide students and teachers. This bundle includes RACES paragraph sentences starters, writing rubrics, and a step-by-step guide for writing an essay. Sentence StartersPut your brain in gear before you put your writing in motion! These sentence starters not only help students determine the type of evidence to locate but also help students to construct the evidence into a text-based paragraph.Perfect ParagraphsEach step of
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education
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Research Project Template Research Graphic Organizer Essay Outline High School
This is a research graphic organizer essay outline for any research topic with a grading rubric. The intention of this research project template was to give teachers an easy-to-use, tried, and true research essay outline that they could use over and over with any subject or grade level. :) This research project template is designed for high school students needing to practice expository research skills. The step-by-step structure of this essay provides 7th or 8th-grade classroom success with th
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Winter Poetry Unit with Annotations, Sample Explication Essays, & MORE!
This unit includes TEN poems by classic authors that involve winter in some respect. Some poems use winter to symbolize absence, others age, and still others unity. Five of these poems have a more positive representation of winter while the remaining five have a more negative representation of winter-- however, this is debatable! And that is exactly what students are going to do! I was feeling inspired by the winter and started researching classic poems about the season. What I came to real
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Informational Writing Sample
Teaching informational writing? It is always helpful to share with the students a sample for what informational writing looks like. This is a sample of a 4 paragraph essay on Labrador Retrievers. This writing piece follows the format: introduction (hook & thesis), 2 body paragraphs (sub topics with facts and explanations), and a conclusion! *** Love this sample? In my store you can purchase the checklist to go with the format of this writing piece! ***
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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100 Point Essay Rubric Google Docs
100 Point Essay Rubric- Printable on One Page!100 Point essay rubric for easy grading! Students will understand their score. You can edit this rubric easily in Google Docs! This is printable on one page. Please preview the FULL rubric to see if it works for you!I use this rubric every year to grade research papers. It is an easy way to judge how well a student did. I usually put comments on the back and discuss the rubric as a full class.I hope you enjoy! Thank you!Sincerely,Digital Dan P.S. (
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Persuasive Writing
Common Core approach to Persuasive writing using step-by-step instructions for students. Includes 20 pages of:
Definition
Persuasive vs. Argumentative
Whole/small group and individual activities
Ethical Writers
Examples of Thesis/Topic Sentences/Details/Facts...
Using Figurative Language
Outlines
Peer Workshopping
Persuasive Scoring Rubric (Revision friendly to master skills)
Extra Resources: video presentations, handouts, and ESL links
Easy to follow and use with students in grades 4 and up.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Parts of Speech, Pre-Assessment
(answer key included)(FREE post assessment available too!)
** To increase contextual comprehension, the pre-assessment is written in narrative. The FREE post-assessment is the narrative conclusion to the story. It is highly recommended teachers use both the Pre and Post assessment.
Teaching Parts of Speech is so important as it creates common language for reading and writing between a teacher and student.
I've successfully used a pre/post assessment in my Parts of Speech unit that doesn't
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Macbeth Essay Packet Including Sample Essay, Outline, Brainstorming, & MORE!
This packet is designed to support the writing process for a Macbeth literary analysis essay. It includes documents and exercises to take students through the complete writing process on a Macbeth essay and includes a sample essay.Here's what's included in this assignment packet:Macbeth Topics & Themes ListBrainstorm GuideCommentary BrainstormingOutline FormSample OutlineSample EssayRubric Writing TaskTo write an essay analyzing how literary elements and techniques create thematic meaning i
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Day of Service Community Service Project: Digital Packet for Student Use
Gandhi said it well: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Educators, students, community members, parents, stakeholders---we may all take for granted the reciprocal nature of service. We may fail to realize how service not only benefits the communities in need but also those who do service. This Digital Packet is a great way to get students not only thinking about what kind of Community Service Project they can delve into but ALSO how that project will en
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
60 High-Interest Persuasive Essay and Research Paper Topics
Each of these topics comes in the form of a question that students can react to immediately; hence they make excellent prompts for on-demand, in-class, timed essays. At the same time, any of them could be used as a springboard for a fully developed research paper, one requiring time spent exploring--and documenting--support for the writer's position. They also make excellent topics for informative or persuasive speeches that you might assign.One of the guiding criteria for this list is that it b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"The Odyssey" Unit Test
This Unit Test contains character matching, setting matching, plot mutliple choice, short answer questions on literary elements, hero, and hero quest, as well as an essay on the comparison of "The Odyssey" to O Brother Where Art Thou? The packet you download also includes the student answer sheets for easy grading.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Revision Checklist Worksheet - Six Traits of Writing
English teachers are often frustrated to discover that students' final drafts look similar (or identical) to their rough drafts. Sadly, students give little attention to revision -- perhaps the most crucial phase of the writing process. This comprehensive worksheet, focused on the six traits of writing (ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions), encourages students to focus on details they tend to overlook.
Require your students to complete and submit this work
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Giver by Lois Lowry Final Test, Novel Assessment, Book Exam
This is a final test for Lois Lowry's The Giver, including multiple choice, true false, quote matching, and short answer essay questions with an ANSWER KEY included. Possible key point examples for each short answer essay prompts are also included. I use the essay prompts for essay choice questions they can use for their expository essay at the end of the term as well.This assessment delves into the rich tapestry of themes, characters, and literary elements within the novel, offering an insightf
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Language Arts Comprehension Check:Ten Sentence Format CCSS
Should educators tweet, "Good Bye" to proper paragraphs? Are these backbones of formal and informal writing becoming an endangered specie? Do students need to reinforce their basic understanding of the elements of a good paragraph in order to write and develop more in-depth essays? Do students need to learn how to write about the literature that they are reading?This Ten Sentence Format will accomplish all of that. It is perfect for clarifying and reinforcing the parts of an essay, for using a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Scarlet Letter Test: Editable, 2 Versions with Scrambled Answers
Need a ready-made test on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? Here you go!What's included . . .►30 multiple-choice questions, 10 True/False, 5 Explanatory Writing (which are questions that require an explanation rather than a short answer), and an essay option.►2 versions with scrambled answers to deter cheaters. ►Answer key►Editable PowerPoint in case you wish to make changes, delete the essay option, add something else, etc. Just save as a PDF and print.►Variety of question types - com
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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100 Point Essay Rubric PDF
100 Point Essay Rubric PDFOne page printable document for easy grading!Sincerely,Digital Dan P.S. (Be sure to check out my new, innovative Google Classroom products too!)
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Personal Narrative: Plot and Imagery and "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
Truman Capote’s ability to convey emotion and sense of place and time through his mastery of imagery and plot sequence is impeccable. In his short story, “A Christmas Memory,” Capote creates the characters of Buddy and his best friend, an older lady with developmental disabilities. This is their simple adventure of preparing for Christmas (non-religious): baking fruit cakes, cutting down and decorating the tree, and simply enjoying one another’s company.This unit includes:-the text of “A Christm
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Argumentative Essay Writing Prompt Student Loan Forgiveness
Sick and tired of those old essay topics like school uniforms and cell phone use in school? Challenge your students to think critically with this timely topic on Student Loan Debt Forgiveness. This is perfect for test prep for SAT, ACT, CSET, CBEST, GRE.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Neale Hurston, Final Test, Novel Assessment
This is a final test for Zora Neal Hurtston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, including multiple choice, true false, quote matching, and short answer essay questions with an ANSWER KEY included. Possible answer examples for each short answer essay prompts are also included. I use the essay prompts for essay choice questions they can use for their expository essay at the end of the term as well.This assessment delves into the rich tapestry of themes, characters, and literary elements within the nov
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Final Test, Novel Assessment, Final Exam
This is a final test on To Kill a Mockingbird — a versatile assessment tool designed to evaluate students' understanding of Harper Lee's timeless masterpiece. This exam includes a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true / false, quote identification, and short answer essay questions to assess comprehension, critical analysis, and interpretation skills. Use and reuse the test from year to year and/or give it as a make-up test for absent students. An answer key including key po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Romeo and Juliet - Complete Student Packet
Save yourself plenty of time creating worksheet after worksheet, and running to the copier over and over again. This complete Romeo and Juliet Unit is visually engaging with challenging work that puts the student incharge of understanding the text. The Unit included a long-term writing assignment on quotations from the text with exemplar; Act-by-Act questions; literary terms for plays; prologue activity; note space for characters and their character traits; pre-produced themes with note space;
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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DEBATES-ENL1W-ENG4U Highly Adaptable Unit. (2023) ON Curriculum
This is the updated and more complete with indepth vocabulary/jargon in regards to a Debate Unit/the debate Unit previously posted. This unit is 2 WEEKS! The first week and part of the second week are teacher-student transferrable knowledge, each lesson contains consctructive opportunities for teachers to build rapport, be attentive to students with needs and allow students to set their own pace in the learning. Ontario Curriculum Expectations Included in Lesson Plans.The learning that occurs in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
HS-LS4-2
, HS-LS4-1
, HS-LS4-3
, HS-LS4-4
, HS-LS4-5
Total solar eclipse - 8 April 2024 notebook
An eclipse is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when the moon is directed wholly or partially between the sun and the earth, obscuring or blocking part of the sunlight. It can be a solar or lunar eclipse, and occurs when the Earth, Sun and Moon are accelerating on the same general line. Eclipses are a beautiful and interesting phenomenon for many people and are used for scientific and cultural purposes.
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3rd, Adult Education
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