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Common Core W.11-12.4 scaffolded notes
5-Paragraph Essay Mini-lessons: Plan, Slideshow, Guided Notes, & Exit Tickets
Get everything you need to introduce (or review!) 5-paragraph essays with these 5-paragraph Essay Mini-Lessons! This PRINTABLE and DIGITAL resource will eliminate your need to prep--so you and your students can get through essay writing quicker!The included lesson plan breaks everything down from prep work (none required!) to day-to-day lessons.Use the EDITABLE slideshow containing five mini-lessons to walk your students through the formatting, structure, and citations of a 5-paragraph essay. Th
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8th - 11th
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MLA In-Text Citation Practice Bell-Ringers - Paraphrasing & Embedding
Students overwhelmed with all the rules for how to do MLA in-text citations? Set students up for success with MLA format by practicing in small chunks with these MLA in-text citation bell-ringers. These lessons provide scaffolded practice for paraphrasing and embedding quotes so that students can gradually gain mastery.Here's how it works:Start by using the PowerPoint to give guided notes on the basics of introducing quotes, paraphrasing, and MLA in-text citation rulesFor 11 days, students comp
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8th - 12th
Writing a Personal Narrative Essay - Distance Learning Compatible
In a personal narrative essay, a writer shares his or her thoughts and feelings about an event in his or her past with an audience. In this pack, students will move through the writing process to compose a personal narrative essay.The pack includes a step-by-step process, brainstorm/planing page, peer edit checklist, suggested marking rubric, and example essay.UPDATE: This includes both a printable PDF version and a digital version using Google Slides.See also my Writing a Persuasive Essay pack
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7th - 12th
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" SOAPSTone Analysis and Reading Questions
I can remember reading "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Jonathan Edwards' sermon is certainly a memorable piece of American rhetoric. While this is a common text for American literature classes, the language is dense and challenging. To help students navigate this tricky text, I have selected an excerpt from the text and paired it with 25 side-by-side questions. The questions cover a variety of skills and topics, including figurative language, comprehension, allusion, inferences, author's
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11th - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Guide, Graphic Organizer, & Rubric Template - Print & Digital
Are you struggling to teach your students how to write a persuasive essay? This editable guided writing resource has everything you need to teach engaging and effective writing lessons! These structured essay outlines, graphic organizers, rubrics, checklists, and anchor charts break down the writing process into manageable steps.This how-to writing strategies guide with easy-to-follow writing materials feature detailed scaffolding steps that will guide your students on what to write, how to add
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3rd - 8th
Antigone Character Analysis Essay Writing Pack | Worksheets & Graphic Organizers
Make approaching Antigone accessible and engaging with this great tool for character analysis and crafting character analysis essays. If you're aiming to show students the intricate dynamics and moral dilemmas contained within Sophocle's tragedy, this resource saves you time and energy. The prep work is done!What's In This Resource?This resource guides students towards an in-depth discovery of the characters with a 3-page graphic organizer for each main character and then a full 7-page graphic o
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9th - 12th
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Growing Poetry BUNDLE! Templates for Tone, Theme, Mood Across Texts & More!
ADDED 10/3/23: Mood & Tone graphic organizer and two poem comparison task based on poetry by Sara Teasdale.ADDED 7/13/23: Types of Poems graphic organizer!ADDED 10/29/22: Close Reading & Poetry Analysis Practice (good for all high school analysis, but especially Pre-AP English); includes these Cornell Notes with abbreviations for common literary terms and words/marks related to note-taking! Contains scaffolded examples and answer keys.Mood, tone and poetry itself can be challenging, but
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7th - 12th
Expository Essay Graphic Organizer PDF & 60+ Essay Prompts
Need a print or digital resource that provides a solid and easy-to-follow structure to base your teaching of informative / expository essay writing in a clear and concise way? This essay writing organizer has been designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for students and for you, teachers! It's completely no-prep, you can print and teach straight away, combining at any stage of an expository / informative writing unit.The organizer is broken down into a 4-step procedure that
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Persuasive Writing Guide, Rubric, Graphic Organizer, & Peer Editing Templates
Are you struggling to teach persuasive writing? Look no further! This Persuasive Writing Bundle includes a scaffolded essay writing guide, rubrics, self assessments, graphic organizer outlines, graphic organizers, & peer editing checklist templates which are made for scaffolding the requirements as students develop their writing skills during the school year.This standards aligned resource includes 7 print-and-go writing rubrics with coordinating student self reflections, outlines, and graph
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3rd - 8th
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Night by Elie Wiesel - Symbolism Essay
Night is Elie Wiesel's haunting and poignant memoir, rich with symbolism and historical context. We know that night is a prominent symbol in the story, but what other symbols are also present?Have students write a comprehensive, 5 paragraph essay in formulaic writing style to investigate symbolism in the book, find supporting evidence, expand on their topic, and make a claim about symbolism in the novel with this essay resource.What you get in this resource:Formulaic Writing Terms - Handout with
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Night by Elie Wiesel - Novel Unit Bundle
Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizers | From Brainstorming to Final Draft
Need a print or digital resource that provides a solid and easy-to-follow structure to start your students off with argumentative essay writing? This argumentative essay writing organizer has been designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for students and for you, teachers! It's completely no-prep, you can print and teach straight away, combining at any stage of an argumentative writing unit.The organizer is broken down into a 5-step procedure that covers every stage of essay
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7th - 12th
Class in Victorian Literature: Historical Context Notes and Analysis Questions
Intersections between historical context and literature are essential to comprehension, but it can be a challenge to help students see how disparate topics such as economics, politics, and social movements affect literature. That's where this resource helps! With this resource, you can help students understand the intersection between social class and Victorian literature. Further, this resource works for student with all levels of prior knowledge. There's a notes and graphic organizer section f
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11th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Pride and Prejudice Printable Bundle (85 questions, 70 pages, 8 resources)
Poetry Analysis Lesson - "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too, Sing America"
*** Please watch the video preview for more details!In this poetry analysis lesson, students will delve into the works of two prominent American poets, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. By comparing and contrasting their poems "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too, Sing America," students will explore themes of identity, representation, and the American Dream. The lesson includes comprehension questions for each reading and offers a written response section to help students critically analyze the
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9th - 12th
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Romantic Era - Early American Literary Movement Series, part III
This literature unit on the Romantic era is the third in a series of the American Literary movements which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Following the the Age of Reason, which instituted a rationalism that sometimes went beyond its own boundaries, the Romantic writers rebirthed the ideals of: intuition, imagination, individuality and nature as a source of inspiration. Invoking the pas
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9th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Writing Graphic Organizer | Brainstorming to Final Draft | 7th-12th
Essay Writing Graphic Organizer for Any Type of EssayWhether it's argumentative, descriptive, narrative, or expository essays, this organizer has got you covered! Ideal for high school students but is also adaptable and effective for middle school learners. This essay writing organizer has been designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for students and for you, teachers! It's completely no-prep, you can print and teach straight away, combining with whatever unit you're doing
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7th - 12th
Unit- Epic Mythology- The Odyssey- 6 Bundles (EDITABLE)
PROFILE:Subject: ELAGrade Level: 9-10Unit: Mythology5 Writing Prompts2 Essay Types2 Prompt Types5 Thematic Topics2 Writing Skills Focus21 CCSS Anchor Standards6 CCSS Reading Anchor Standards Focus29 Standard Learning Tips 21 Standard Testing Tips5 Scaffolding Levels6 Bonus File Agendas59 Links25 Recommended Exemplar Texts 60 MY ORIGINAL Products89 Activities
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9th - 12th
Scaffolding for Rhetorical Analysis Essay Writing: Thesis and Body Paragraphs
Using a speech delivered in the film Remember the Titans, students will work through the steps to develop a thesis, look at an example body paragraph, and attempt a body paragraph of their own for a rhetorical analysis essay. This resource is a Google Doc, so you can share it directly with students and/or make any adjustments to match the language and focus on your own course. Great for an AP English Language and Composition course or a CCP Composition and Rhetoric course.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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How to Write an Essay
2-page handout with notes and examples on how to write an essay. Includes the essential elements of an essay's structure: introduction (hook, transition, thesis), body paragraphs (topic/claim, evidence, explanation/analysis, transition)conclusion (paraphrase thesis, review evidence, broader analysis).These notes use Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men as an example, which is a novella almost all students are familiar with. (Most students read it in 9th or 10th grade.)See accompanying video here! Note
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance - American Literary Movement Series, part VI
This literature unit on the Harlem Renaissance is the sixth in the American Literary movement series which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Between 1915 and 1970 over six million African Americans migrated from the southern states to northern cities like Philadelphia, New York and Chicago to seek out a new life. Concentrated in specific neighborhoods, such as Harlem, some members of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Post-Modernism - American Literary Movement Series, part VIII
This literature unit on the Post-Modern era is the eighth and final unit in the American Literary movement series which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Following modernism, the post-modern movement emerged within the genetic codes of modern thinking, where the world had been broken off from more permanent concepts of truth. Post-modernism is akin to structuralism which states that trut
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Write a Thesis (scaffolded notes, practice, and tips)
Three (3) pages of Scaffolded notes and practice for writing solid, on-topic, articulate THESIS statements. (Grades 9-12 but can work for 8th grade honors classes.)This handout is mean to be accompanied with the PowerPoint slides here. A thesis statement is the most important statement of the essay, and it's the toughest one for students to write. These notes/practice/tips help students NAIL this sentence, and thus improve the rest of their essay!
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9th - 12th
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BUNDLE: Introduction to Epic Mythology- The Odyssey- CCSS ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
AGENDA: Introduction to Epic- The Odyssey- Introduction, Extras, ConclusionPROFILE:Subject: ELAGrade Level: 9-10Unit: EpicCreator: Erica VilliloINCLUDES:1 Bonus File: Agenda with 8 Links 14 different CCSS Anchor Standards 28 MY ORIGINAL Products10 Assessments
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9th - 12th
Rhetorical Analysis Distance Learning Unit Bundle (Special Education Friendly)
A bundle featuring plenty of resources to help all of your students write a rhetorical analysis essay. This bundle includes: Letter From Birmingham Jail (excerpted) guided reading, rhetorical situation graphic organizer, rhetorical appeals guided notes and practice, and a rhetorical analysis essay packet with outlines and graphic organizers to help students plan their essays. All of these items can easily be edited and assigned through Google Drive
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Senior Literature Essay Writing Guide WORKSHEETS
Are you new to teaching 'The Great Gatsby', exploring senior English instruction for the first time, or looking for comprehensive essay teaching activities? 'The 'Great Gatsby Senior Literature Essay Guide' Worksheets, are specifically designed to assist educators teaching grades 11-12 ELA (U.S) and Years 12 and 13 (NZ) in guiding their students through the intricacies of literary analysis essays.These worksheets provide everything you need to empower your students to write compelling and insigh
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11th - 12th
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