True Crime Middle School Research Paper Bundle
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If your middle school students think research essays are boring, they need to think again.
These true-crime writing prompts are engaging, mysterious, and sometimes even a little bit scary.
This bundle includes 4 true-crime prompts for your students to research as they write their essays:
1. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
2. Fyre Festival
3. The Chicago Tylenol Murders
4. Madeleine McCann's Disappearance
These crimes range from not scary at all (a scammy music festival that never happened) to truly chilling (a three-year-old child disappearing in the middle of the night).
This variety will allow you to differentiate for students who need a gentler topic and those who need the thrill of a more ghastly crime.
In addition, your students can feel more autonomy as they choose which crime they would like to investigate.
But the super engaging topics are just the beginning.
These resources will help your students . . .
- Develop a thesis statement
- Write logical topic sentences
- Support their claims
- Find credible sources
- Build a logically organized research paper (5-8 paragraphs)
- Self-assess their writing
- And more!
Rather than starting with an introduction and rambling their way through to the conclusion, your students will start with the most important building block of their research paper: the thesis statement.
From there, they will build their topic sentences and move on to their support/evidence.
Finally, they will finish with an introduction and conclusion that complement the content of their research paper.
Individual rubrics are included for each step of the process so your students can check their work as they go and YOU can grade their papers AS they're being written!
What's included in these resources?
- Teacher tips to guide you through the process
- 4 student handouts with intriguing true-crime writing prompts
- 52 Fillable student handouts that build 4 separate 5-8-paragraph research papers when put together
- Rubrics for each section of the papers (for student self-assessment and teacher grading)
- A put-it-all-together handout that shows students how to organize their papers
- Evidence tip sheets to help students get started with their research
- 4 example papers for students to reference as they write
"This was the most engaged I have ever seen my students when writing."
— Tiffany C.
Click on the preview to see these engaging research paper resources up close!
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