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High school critical thinking writing-essays homeschool curricula
Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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3rd - 9th
You Be the Judge - analyzing Supreme Court cases on the Bill of Rights
It’s one thing to simply memorize the Bill of Rights; it’s quite another to actually understand how they apply in everyday life. Teaching the former gives students words but no understanding for what they mean; teaching the latter gives students practice in critical thinking as well as a deep appreciation for their basic rights as American citizens. It is, in effect, the ultimate lesson in civics.
This activity is designed to teach students the meaning and application of the Bill of Rights by h
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7th - 11th
Persuasive Essay Opinion Writing Unit Graphic Organizer Prompts Rubric & Thesis
Thesis statement centered persuasive / opinion essay writing workshopThis digital, Google Slides workshop guides students through every paragraph and element of argument writing and allows for independent, self-paced practice. NO PREP! Perfect for DIFFERENTIATION, SELF-PACING, AND COLLABORATION! Argumentative Essay Writing Complete PAPERLESS WORKSHOP *Works With ANY ESSAY PROMPT* *Teacher Plans Included*GOOGLE SLIDES: Interactive Tutorials for Each Element: HookBackground informationCounter
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6th - 9th
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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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Middle School 3D Art Paper Mache Bird Sculptures - Painted Recycled Art Lesson!
Painted Recycled Art for Middle School Art or a 3-D High School Art Unit! Easy Papier Mache Bird Sculptures! ⭐Papier Mache is a fun art project that can be made almost for free! An engaging 3-D Spring or Summer-themed Lesson or timely Mother's Day gift item! Cardinals and Winter Birds could be created as well!Cross-curricular science lesson! Bird Anatomy!Student-tested with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Students will have a great time making this easy-to-teach bird sculpture while learning about
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Paper Mache Sculpture Lesson BUNDLE! Middle School 3-D Art Project Ideas
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft ChecklistThis Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist is the perfect writing checklist for ANY grade! Students check for capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling, and more! This checklist also requires students to...Read their essay out loud to make sure it makes sense ✓Take out any words or phrases that don't sound right ✓Replace boring adjectives with more exciting ones ✓Check for subject-verb agreement
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K - 12th
Expository Writing Unit | Slideshow, Graphic Organizers, Writer's Handbook
Teach your students how to write a 5-paragraph essay with this digital Expository Writing Unit for in-person or Distance Learning. Your students will learn the basics of informative writing plus how to organize and develop effective essays.Interactive Expository Writing SlideshowIntroduce, reinforce, and review the basics of Informative Writing with the Interactive Google Slideshow. The right-hand margin on the slides is editable, so you can tailor it to meet your students needs. Add questions,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
The Persuader! A Comic Adventure in Persuasive Writing. Activities Included!
A comic book about a serious subject like persuasive writing? And one that’s actually amusing? It can be done! Award-winning cartoonist David Rickert and award-winning author Cheryl Miller Thurston have joined forces to create an entertaining and instructive comic book that teaches the basics about persuasive writing.It features a female superhero known as “The Persuader” and her sidekick “Bud,” who swoop in to give practical help to two struggling students. The 16 page full color comic also inc
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4th - 9th
Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
This Writing Units Bundle includes the following units:
* Persuasive (Argumentative) Essay
* Historical Fiction
* Process (How-to) Paper
* Compare / Contrast
These units contains everything you need to guide your students through the writing process.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
*Editable Word document included
Help your students
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5th - 9th
Argumentative Essay Writing Complete Unit, Bundle
Welcome to my Argumentative Essay Writing Complete Unit! This classroom-tested, low prep, standards-based unit is designed to help you teach students to write argumentatively from beginning to end. What is it? It's not only a bundle of my best-selling, classroom-tested units and resources for argumentative writing, but also with this set of resources, you will have a full unit's worth of materials for teaching an argumentative essay.Why do you need it? If you are looking for a unit and a process
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8th - 11th
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Drawing Conclusions
Engage and challenge your kids with nonfiction reading passages to teach English or social studies students how to make inferences about real events! These eight drawing conclusions reading passages with questions concern people, events, or procedures related to American history and will give your kids the critical thinking practice they need to make inferences or form conclusions from reading. Higher-level short pieces help students think outside the box, and your kids will love them! Click her
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7th - 9th
Also included in: High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
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8th - 12th
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The Fallacy Detective Bundle
The "Study Guide" resource uses the book's questions with supplemental discussion/questions. It covers all chapters(1-38) thoroughly.The "Writing and Thinking" resource has brief questions on chapters 4-37.This one though only needs the student to read the chapters. The book's questions are not used nor referred to, so it can stand alone.They both have different questions. I use one for homework and one for class time.They both supplement the text and stimulates discussion and comprehension.This
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6th - 12th
Patty Paper® Geometry Full Book
Patty Paper® Geometry was designed as a resource to supplement high school geometry courses or as a text in pre-geometry, pre-algebra, and middle grades mathematics programs. An investigation set may take two to three days, and the exercise sets may take an additional two to three days. Duration will vary depending on age, abilities, and how well students work cooperatively. This 274 page black-line master book contains both guided and open investigations. The guided investigations provide step
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8th - 10th
Argumentative Writing Middle School
SHARE AND GO THESIS STATEMENT AND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WORKSHOP GREAT NEWS FOR VIRTUAL TEACHERS!The hard work of planning, prepping and printing, distributing and collecting papers is eliminated forever with this workshop. All you have to do is click, share, and begin teaching. The SLIDES for each element of the essay are color coded, making it super simple to keep your class on track. Slides are perfectly sequenced, so students can work from top to bottom, building their essays. Works great for
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6th - 10th
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Grammar & Grace: A Basic Grammar Review & Guide to Writing Improvement
Do you need an easy way to review basic grammar and punctuation with your high school students? Do you want a method to teach basic writing skills before you hold students accountable in their work? Do your students have gaps in their grammar knowledge, or perhaps lack mature writing fundamental skills? This packet of lessons and worksheets will provide a comprehensive, accessible, quick and easy process for reviewing and teaching these foundational rules and techniques! Gleaning from my years o
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
How To Teach the Five-Paragraph Essay: eBook
Writing instruction does NOT need to be difficult. Teach your students one simple trick that will get them writing strong paragraphs in no time. Then, adjust that one simple trick to transition easily into the five-paragraph essay. Students will also learn to write interesting introduction and conclusion paragraphs.This book gives teachers the lesson plans and a sample daily pacing chart that walk the teachers through each step. Topics for essay practice, rubrics, and timed assessments ensure
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5th - 10th
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Mesoamerica: the Olmec Civilization PowerPoint Presentation
4,000 years ago the Olmec civilization rose to prominence in Central America. They became the mother civilization for all of Mesoamerica. Their religion was adopted and modified by all the other cultures, as were their agriculture practices and architectural structures. As sudden as their appearance, the Olmec disappeared leaving behind many questions about their civilization.Featuring: -academic vocabulary and concepts-reflection-discussion-academic writing-questions with answersIntroduce yo
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Ancient History Growing Mega Bundle
Essay Writing for Home School - Complete Curriculum
Essay Writing for Home School - Complete Curriculum
This 182-page guide is for college-bound secondary home school students. I have adapted my popular essay writing units into one coherent, self-directed home school curriculum.
The curriculum contains step-by-step instructions for writing Narrative, Compare/Contrast, Summary/Response, Research, and Argumentative Essays. There are also sections on MLA formatting, research, avoiding plagiarism, academic sources, and writing prompts. Each section
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7th - 12th
Did Pocahontas Save John Smith? An Investigation and Essay Activity
It’s a story familiar to every American child: John Smith, captured by Powhatan Indians, was about to have his head smashed in when suddenly the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, laid her head on his and begged her father not to kill Smith, thereby saving his life. But is it true?
The answer to that is simple: nobody really knows. In this activity, students will examine both sides of the question, analyze the arguments made for and against the veracity of Smith's story, and decide for themselves wh
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7th - 11th
Digital Student Guide to MLA 9th Edition & Writer's Handbook Bundle | Digital
Introduce your students to MLA Format 9th Edition and the expectations of formal, academic writing with these interactive slideshows. The MLA Style Interactive Digital Notebook explains MLA Style in detail—and in an engaging way. Students learn ✅ Formatting✅ Avoiding Plagiarism: Paraphrase, Summarize, Quote✅ Citing Sources✅ Multimedia Citations: How to Cite Images, Videos, Social Media posts and more!✅ Formal Writing ExpectationsYou can display and discuss the slideshow in class or assign it to
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7th - 12th
Writing 101 A Writing Curriculum
Writing 101 is a complete writing curriculum with three units on Narrative, Expository and Persuasive writing. The curriculum incorporates ELA standards and is aligned to the Common Core. I have created this curriculum for the past fourteen years and use it in my classroom daily.
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Unit 1: Narrative Writing
An overview of the writing process with example essays. Includes 8 narrative prompts
Unit 2: Expository Writing
An overview of expository writing with model essays and 5 prom
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7th - 10th
Financial Math Bundle | Calculating Incomes - Overtime Pay and Allowances
Financial mathematics topics in ONE bundle!The bundle includes:1. Calculating Wages and Salaries Series A2. Calculating Wages and Salaries Series B3. Calculating Wages Involving Overtime Pay Series A4. Calculating Wages Involving Overtime Pay Series B5. Other Incomes - Commission, Royalty and Piecework Series A6. Extra Pay 1 (Bonuses and Incentives)7. Extra Pay 2 (Allowances)8. Extra Pay 3 (Holiday Pay)Other Financial Maths resources:Financial Math Lesson 1: Calculating Wages and Salaries Workbo
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9th - 12th
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