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High school writing-essays tools for common cores for Microsoft Word
Understanding Rhyme Scheme and Stanzas in Poetry
This item contains activities about understanding rhyme scheme and stanzas in poetry. It includes:
*Directions
*Rhyme Scheme Definition
*Rhyme Scheme Worksheet
*Rhyme Scheme Worksheet Answer Key
*Identifying Rhyme Scheme Worksheet
*Identifying Rhyme Scheme Worksheet Answer Key
*Stanza, Stanza Break, and Refrain Definition
*Stanza Worksheet
*Stanza Worksheet Answer Key
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Writing an Introduction Paragraph: Graphic Organizer
Every time my students begin writing their essays, they always get stuck on their introduction paragraphs. They stare at their blinking cursors or unmoving pens and constantly tell me, "I don't know how to start!" It's easy to go over hook sentences, connecting sentences and writing a thesis. It's easy to give practice versions of these three introduction elements (and students seem to get it). But once they are confronted with their own paper, their minds go blank.
This graphic organizer h
Grades:
7th - 12th
Editable Google Slides Presentation Rubric
A slide presentation rubric based on Common Core. This rubric can be edited to add or remove assessment details.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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COMPLETE English 9 - 10 Semester Pre / Post FINAL EXAM & ESSAY Test EDITABLE
This EDITABLE semester exam, final test or pretest includes: 60 multiple choice questions + 3 Essay Topics - Key and Essay Grading Rubric Ready-to-use, but customizable! Questions written with skills in mind, not specific literatureThis final exam is ready to use by anyone!Use as a pre-test, question bank, final / semester exam, or for review. Questions are about:story structure terms, character terms, figurative language, reading skills comprehension, vocabulary in context, basic sentence struc
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â ENGLISH ULTIMATE growing BUNDLE! 35+ Product TOOLBOX ELA Day 1 to Final Exam
"The Body" by Stephen King: Chapter Questions and Assessments
This package works effectively for all modes of teaching/learning (in-person, hybrid, remote) and for switching between the modes if required.This is a complete unit of study for Stephen King's novella, "The Body." The package includes chapter by chapter study questions with ANSWERS, a summary review, a test, and an essay assignment. Questions focus on vocabulary, close reading, higher order thinking, and making connections.Check out the complete preview. Package is in Word so you can modify.Her
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Diagnosing the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
An activity that lets your students become psychiatrists for the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A list of illnesses and their symptoms are matched to page numbers and passages. This activity is useful for finding and analyzing evidence (important to Common Core) and drawing inferences.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Heart of Darkness AP Lit Unit Plan
This complete selection of unit materials comprises a 6-day unit of readings and activities to support students’ reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Reading comprehension is supported by teacher guided-reading activities, supportive reading notes, and teacher-led discussions, as well as a wide variety of in-class activities: a pre-reading activity and discussion, a presentation (Prezi) with rich historical information and art, small group work, a New Historicism mini-lesson, and many m
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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Writing Prompt Pack, Argumentative Essay on Paying Students for Good Grades
With this low-prep, argumentative essay writing prompt pack, you will have everything you need to assign an argumentative essay to your middle or high school students. With the high-interest topic - Should students get paid for grades? - your teens will be excited to read the nonfiction textual-based stimuli included and compose an essay to state their point of view!Student Experience: Students will use the graphic organizer to brainstorm and organize their thoughts. Next, they will read the
Grades:
7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Writing Curriculum, Narrative, Explanatory, Argumentative, Research BUNDLE
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film For the Birds
After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 10th
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Research Paper--Creating MLA Source Citations Worksheet (Bibliography Practice)
This worksheet helps students figure out how to write proper bibliographic citations in MLA form. Given the fact that most databases (and even some scholarly websites) now offer citation suggestions, it is more important than ever to have your students focus on source citation as an individual skill. Often, these citation suggestions are poorly punctuated or presented in the wrong format. This worksheet will help your students build the requisite skills to be able to spot the problems and acc
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Lucy Calkins Readers Workshop-Literary Essay Graphic Organizer Theme & Character
This graphic organizer can be used for a literary argumentative writing unit. The graphic organizer shows students how to plan and organize an argumentative essay with a thesis statement, reasons, evidence and analysis to support the claim.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Argumentative Writing Essay Template for Struggling Learners/ ELLs
A 5 paragraph argumentative writing essay template with an intro, 2 body paragraphs counterclaim paragraph and conclusion. For struggling students and ELLs where graphic organizers may not be enough of a scaffold. Can be used with a graphic organizer for more support.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Student Presentation Rubric - EDITABLE
Student Presentation Rubric - EDITABLEThis rubric was created for students who will be evaluating other students during their presentation. Students check the most appropriate box then add totals.The categories include:CONTENTTopic is appropriateInformation is clearInformation is correctPRESENTATIONOrganization - Intro, Body, and ConclusionPresenter does not readVoice volumeMaintains focus on subjectGraphic/ PowerPoint qualityEye contact w/ studentsSpeaks clearlyStudents will add totals and fin
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Counterclaim & Rebuttal Stems & Practice Activity
Teacher Instructions1st Version:1. Students review the definition of a claim, counterclaim, and rebuttal.2. Students review the counterclaim and rebuttal stems and example.3. Students read each claim and generate a counterclaim and rebuttal for each, using the stems.2nd Version:The second version of the activity can be used for students who may struggle. 1. Students read the claims and counterclaims for the first and second example and provide a rebuttal for each. Then, students read the remain
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7th - 12th
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Just Mercy AP English Language Prompts
Six AP English Language FRQ prompts based on Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. 2 Synthesis2 Rhetorical Analysis2 Argument PromptsPrompts do not require students to read the text, but these prompts enable a deeper reading of the text through consideration and analysis of specific issues and experiences within the text.Prompts are appropriate for Pre AP and Honors/Gifted courses preparing for state exams.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â 37 AP English Lang Essay Prompts
How to Write a Rhetorical Analysis Essay for the AP Lang and Comp Exam
This is a step-by-step guide that explains how to write a rhetorical analysis essay (14 total steps). When I started teaching AP Language and Composition, I found it hard to explain the rhetorical analysis essay to my students. I typed up this document to help clarify the process for my students (and for me!), and we referred to it all year. It's a simple and straightforward list of steps. Teachers can use it as a teaching map for themselves, as each step of the process needs to be explicitly ta
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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Also included in:Â AP Language & Composition Bundle
Sentence Starters: Introducing Evidence / Elaboration Techniques - Printable
Are you tired of reading the same generic responses from your students? This useful charts helps students improve on their argumentative writing skills by adding variation to their sentences/transitions. It displays different sentence starters (and verbs) to help students introduce and elaborate on evidence when writing their essays (great way to add syntactic variety to formulaic written responses!). â–º These charts may be printed out and laminated for students to use in the classroom/at home (T
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Literacy Coaching Schedule
This is a Literacy Coaching Schedule, so I can document my tasks each day. This is helpful when you are completing your coaching log, reflecting on progress for the week, and when conferencing with administration.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education
Two School Concert Program Templates! For Winter and Spring Concerts! (Editable)
Concert program templates for your winter and spring concerts!Just plug in the information for your performing groups and your concert program is ready!This concert program template is ready to go! Just plug in your school's information, ie. song titles, teacher names and you're all set! Customize for winter or spring season by easily changing the images. This one includes two editable concert programs- one for spring/summer and one for winter! Please follow my store for new products!Thank you
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Unlock Success with our Choir Resources Super Bundle!
Essay Writing: Research Essay Mini Unit
Why keep asking the same essay questions and reading the same essay answers?! Here is a 5-Paragraph research assignment on any topic your students want! It's interesting, ready-to-print, and can also be edited to your needs if you'd like.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home.This Package Contains:- The Mini Research Essay Assignment (With Rubric)- A Research Sheet Template (for 3 d
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Fun Research Project for Middle School, High School, Teens
Make research fun with this "If I Won the Lottery" Research Project. Now includes editable Google Doc and Google Slides. Perfect for distance learning!This seld-explanatory NO PREP research project packet is perfect for a self-guided research essay for middle school (6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade) or high school students (9th grade - 12th grade).Editable Document Includes:*8 Paragraph Topics with Detailed Criteria for Each Paragraph*Due Date Chart for Each Step of the Research Essay* MLA Guide
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6th - 12th
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Reading Informational Text - Restaurant Menu - RI.7.1. - RI.7.3. - RI.7.5.
This item includes a lesson on how to read a restaurant menu.
*Applebee's Menu
*Over 38 questions requiring students to read the menu.
The lesson aligns with the seventh-grade common core standards:
RI.7.1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.7.3. Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text.
RI.7.5. Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text,
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Essay Writing: Personal Essay Assignment
Personal essays are an amazing way to tap into student writing! As open structure pieces of persuasive writing, they use techniques and content from a variety of other writing formats without the rigidity of formal literary essay style and structure. Instead, they allow students to use evidence they are more than familiar with (their own lives) and a natural voice (their voice) to develop their thesis. This is the kind of writing students see and do daily; in conversations, in ads, in emails, i
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
MLA Lesson for Website Citations: Interactive, Human Puzzle Activity
This classroom-tested, interactive, hands-on, game-like activity is excellent for reinforcing MLA website citation. It is a skills-building activity to get students ready to write their own research papers with internal and external citations. I have provided a quotation from a news article on a real-world topic (bullying) as well as the citation information. The topic of the quotation is also a good springboard for discussion. Students then arrange themselves into the correct format for both an
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
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