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Common Core W.9-10.2b resources for Microsoft Word
Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Scaffolded 5 Paragraph Essay Outline / Organizer
This 5-paragraph essay organizer is a helpful tool for students who need significant scaffolding and support. It can be used with students from middle school through high school. Many of the 9th graders at the urban high school where I teach benefit from such a highly structured format---at least for their first essay of the year. I've discovered that if you give a student a box, she is likely to write in it. Simply having a box to fill for every sentence of the essay makes the task feel less d
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5th - 10th
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Serial Podcast Final Presentation
From Drama Dreams and English Themes, this product provides a final presentation for a unit based on the popular podcast "Serial." Like the Serial podcast, this presentation centers on using evidence to support a claim or theory. Students will work in groups to research and present a theory of the case in a 5-8 minute presentation. The product provides a simplified lesson plan, student instructions, a scoring rubric, a group planning sheet, and a log for students to use when reviewing each other
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9th - 12th
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High School Curriculum
Put together makes up my 7week Harry Potter Unit, written/ used for a group of 11th & 12th grade high school students but easily adaptable for all high schoolers. Included is our 8 week pacing guide following the 2024 fall calendar
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9th - 12th
Night Vs.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This graphic organizer allows students the opportunity to view a different perspective on the Holocaust. The students will need to have read all of Night by Elie Weisel. They will fill out the Night side of the graphic organizer first, this will be a nice review for the students, and great opportunity for student to student discussions. Teacher will need to find a copy of the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Students will fill out the chart for the movie as they watch it- teacher should
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9th - 11th
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Examining Literary Archetypes
Module PurposeThis module is designed to introduce students to the concept of literary archetypes (situational, symbolic, and character) as they prepare to embark on their yearlong study of world literature in tenth grade. Familiarizing themselves with archetypes and archetypal literary criticism will enhance students’ understanding of their readings across all genres throughout the course, providing them with a framework for identifying “those mythic elements that give a work of literature [a]
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9th - 12th
Complete Unit Lesson Plan for Rhetorical Analysis, 9th and 10th Grade Focus
This is a complete four-week unit for Rhetorical Analysis, with bell ringers, quizzes, practices, formative assessments, and three versions of a summative assessment (with a Common Core-aligned rubric). This is indeed a complete unit that I've been teaching and refining for years. (I'll have some of my Animal Farm materials up at some point.)This lesson is bundled with my "Rhetorical Analysis Complete Unit -- Slide Show" and also my "Build Your Own Nation! Learning Rhetorical Devices and Propaga
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9th - 11th
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Writing Journalism Self Editing Self Check Handout {Editable}
Journalism Writing Self-Editing/Self-Check Handout for Students - offered in Microsoft Word so you can customize it!
Do you have time to edit students' rough drafts? Isn't reading & grading final drafts time consuming enough? Do math teachers pre-grade homework & tests, turn them back to the student so the student can make corrections, then read & grade them all over again? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it!?
That's why I'm a firm believer in self-checking and self-editing, as well
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Essay Planning Guide (Sports Caster Version)
This is an outline students can utilize step by step to organize the structure and/or order of their essay. It is also 'sports' themed--so for those students who are interested or 'click' with sports--this is an outline they can utilize!
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Habits and Traits for a Successful Career Summative (with 2 formatives)
Do you want to help students envision success through healthy habits and a career option?This unit plan includes two formatives to help students understand their personalities through interest inventories and personality tests as well as career research. The two formatives help set the students up to write an original article about their future self and what successful traits led to a successful career. SummaryStudents will develop their position on what traits helped them be successful after sy
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9th - 12th
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How to Write a Thematic Statement: Theme of The Little Mermaid
For High School -- How do you write a thematic statement or an introduction to a thematic essay? Find out here!
This includes an introduction to theme and full explanation of what a theme is, how to write one, and an example of a paragraph written for The Little Mermaid.
Students first listen to "Part of This World" then discuss themes from the story. This example is provided.
There is a key that shows students the parts of the paragraph analysis for them to highlight and label to keep for fu
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9th - 12th
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MLA Citation "Quote Sandwich" Practice, avoid plagarism
This paper is a helper for teaching students about including research in proper, MLA form. It teaches students to introduce a quote with the author's name or article title, how to credit the author, and how to analyze the quote. It has two examples that they read through, and then they practice creating two quote sandwiches on the back. When you do the practice, I suggest having them switch papers with a partner and then checking for each individual component slowly. "Make sure your partner has
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8th - 11th
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THE OUTSIDERS Study Questions & Essay Prompts (review, lecture) on DOCX
NEW RESOURCE:This resource contains 24 study questions (two for each chapter) and 18 essay prompts (for a total of 42 questions) on S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Sample paragraph responses are given for each question and sample thesis statements given for each essay prompt.These questions require students to THINK DEEPLY regarding the central themes and conflicts found in the novel as they read.These questions can be used as jumping off points for small group or class-wide discussions of t
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
Rhetorical Devices Worksheet
This packet is great to use when studying speeches in class, or analyzing persuasive speaking or writing. This is a great tool for a second read, and was used during the whole-class portion of Pearson’s myPerspective Grade 10 Unit 3. Students can use this on their own, in pairs, or in groups with teacher guidance as necessary. If you have any questions about using this, don't hesitate to ask!
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9th - 10th
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Black Boy Schoolyard Fight Analysis and Reflection Writing Assignment
This handout asks students to characterize and analyze Richard Wright's motivations and reasoning before personally relating to the characters' experiences.
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10th - 11th, Not Grade Specific
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Argumentative Essay Exemplar Analysis and Critique!
This is a great lesson for students to complete before crafting their argumentative essays. It provides a 5-paragraph argumentative essay and analysis sheet. The essay attempts to persuade the audiece that tea is better than coffee and includes an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, a counterclaim and conclusion. Students will read the essay and answer the analysis sheet which asks 11+ questions about the content and structure of the essay. I hope your students learn a lot about the parts of th
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Life Lessons From Morrie - Tuesdays with Morrie Final Paper
An assignment sheet for writing a final paper over Tuesdays with Morrie!
This paper is focused on 'Lessons from Morrie Schwartz,' and asks students to choose two of Morrie's aphorisms and explain them in their own words, as they are represented in the book, and in their own lives! A wonderful way to wrap up the text!
Read more about TWM and lesson plans at donnellydailyapple.com !
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9th - 12th
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500 Journal Prompts - Get Your Students Writing!!
Looking for a resource to get your students writing every day? Look no further than this collection of 500 journal prompts! Designed with high school students in mind, these open-ended prompts are sure to get your students thinking and writing. Each prompt is crafted to encourage students to write at least 150 words, helping to improve their writing skills and confidence.These prompts are divided into categories that cover a wide range of topics, including back to school, various holidays, sleep
Grades:
6th - 12th
(Template Example) Cornell Notes + Traditional Outline Format EDITABLE
Introduction to Cornell Note Formatting using Traditional Outline Formatting for students. This is an example I created with my students during class to show them how to create this document on paper or via Google.Docs. It's a great class activity (or group activity) to help students understand what Cornell Notes are and how to use the traditional outline format. Reluctant, struggling and advanced writers who were in General Education and Special Education excelled using this process. It provid
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â BUNDLE Annotations + Cornell Notes EDITABLE
Who Am I/My Culture 3 Items Assignment Packet
This is a wonderful project to do as an introduction activity, or as an assignment early on in reading Tuesdays with Morrie!
The first assignment sheet asks students to gather 3 items or pictures that symbolize/represent them in some way. They will do a speech on these items!
**They can also write a paper later [see Who Am I/My Culture Paper Packet].
This Who Am I/My Culture 3 Items Assignment Packet includes:
- Who Am I/My Culture 3 Items Assignment Sheet
- Brainstorming 3 Items Worksheet
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6th - 12th
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IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE short story/Christmas movie analysis and paragraph writing
These worksheets (WS) will guide students to analyze a story; they cover background research, main characters, dynamic character paragraph model, conflict, setting and character comparisons, themes, and paragraph assessment. A key with model answers is included with one model paragraph.You can use the worksheets a variety of ways: Assign one background topic to a small group to research. Have the group present their topic to the whole class who will take notes on their own worksheets. Complete
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Multimodal Essay Planner (Microsoft Word)
This essay planner can be used for argumentative, explanatory, and informative writing. Students can use RAMP (role, audience, mode, and purpose) to analyze any writing prompt, then use the planner below to write a basic thesis, plan each body paragraph, and write a basic conclusion for their essay. The worksheet can be adjusted to analyze model texts or can be used for students to plan out their own writing. Each section can be taught in mini-lessons or the worksheet can be taught as a whole to
Grades:
9th - 12th
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