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Free high school writing-essays projects
FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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Writing an Autobiography
This resource will help your students understand autobiographies and will help them write one. I like to start this lesson by having students read an autobiography written by someone that we are learning about in class already. Maybe a scientist, an author, or famous mathematician. This helps them to understand what an autobiography is and how they can write one. This can be modified into a biography too where students use the About Me questions to interview one of their classmate or family memb
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4th - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts High School & Middle School
FREEBIE: 52 Weekly Persuasive Writing Prompts for Middle or High SchoolEnjoy engaging, culturally-relevant, persuasive topics for teenagers!Persuasive writing ideas and debate topics for the entire year!Spark interesting and enthusiastic discussion!WANT A NO PREP PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT?- DOWNLOAD MY PERSUASIVE WRITING PACKETYOU MAY ALSO LIKE ;)Teach Reading Standards with Videos: 18 LESSON FUN BUNDLECritical Lens Essay with 40 Inspirational Quotes FUN BUNDLELiterary Analysis Paragraph with Lyri
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5th - 12th
Day of the Dead Writing and Presentation Assignment
This CCSS aligned research, analysis, writing and speaking assignment is a great way to integrate history and cultural awareness into a high school English class. Students research an assigned important person (or "relative"), write a short narrative about the individual, then share their findings and "offerings" with their classmates. This assignment can easily be used for seventh and eighth grade students with an adapted rubric.
This set includes suggested research topics, a Dia de los Muert
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8th - 11th
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Citing Text Evidence - Citing Books - MLA Book Citations for Students
Citing sources can be confusing for students. This package includes a basic MLA book citation information page that explains and gives examples of both in-text citations as well as works cited page formatting. Also included is a student work template.Easy use - Easy to teachThis detailed product is great when introducing students to proper citation formatting for any well-written paragraph, research essay, or any other school paper. Simply print and teach!Included are:Teacher Guide with helpful
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6th - 9th
Color Coding an Argumentative Essay
Easily color-code an Argumentative 5 Paragraph. This will help students to visually assess whether they have all of the required components of a well formatted essay. This resource is fully editable and can be modified for a single paragraph as well.
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3rd - 12th
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Argument Writing Graphic Organizer: CREED, Scaffolds, and More
When students are given the freedom to choose a topic to analyze or argue, they are virtually always more successful. That is how this resource begins: students choose from a list of current controversial issues (or decide their own with teacher approval), and then enter the intricate process of argument. An acronym I've created, CREED, propels the students forward: Claim, Reasons, Evidence, Explain (relevance and importance), Discuss (counter-claim and rebuttal).
The CREED graphic organizer f
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6th - 10th
The Danger of a Single Story Lesson Plan
Do you need an interactive, student-centered project that will encourage social justice awareness and group collaboration? Go beyond just reading dusty tomes written by dead people and regurgitating boring details. Delve into a TED Talk, a related poem, and follow them up with highly engaging student discussions.
This 1-2 day lesson contains everything you need to guide students through reading and viewing modern literature covering social justice topics, responding to a daily essential questi
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9th - 12th
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Francophone Country Research Project
Students will conduct research on assigned French speaking country. Final product consists of a paper and a presentation.
Excellent cultural activity.
Materials included:
*Assignment instructions
*Essay structure directions
*Writing practice
*Essay rubric
*Sample exemplar paper
*List of francophone countries
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7th - 12th
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Court Case Project
In this complete project lesson plan, students support arguments for the outcome of a court case involving Mrs. Mary Maloney, main character of Roald Dahl's short story"Lamb to the Slaughter". This resource includes specific directions, graphic organizers, writing guides and sample starter sentences as well as useful transition words.
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9th - 12th
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Greek Mythology Project Menu
Are you looking for a way to incorporate student choice and differentiated instruction into a unit on Greek mythology? This Common Core aligned project menu provides options for vocabulary enrichment, essay topics to compare the portrayal of a myth across different mediums, and creative writing prompts for poems, short stories, and newspaper articles.
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7th - 10th
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Argumentative Writing/Research Paper Topic Proposal
Students can use this to help further develop ideas about an argumentative writing or research paper topic. This also allows parents/guardians to gain insight about what the student will spend a significant amount of time researching and either permit or deny the student to conduct further research.
Spring Break (Personal Narrative Outline)
When students come back from spring break, they are going to want to tell you all about it. Why not use this as a learning opportunity and allow them to share through their writing. This can be used as a packet over the course of a week or you can pick and choose which pages you would like to use individually. At the end of using the outline, students should be able to write a final piece over what they did over spring break. You can have a grand show case of their writing and have a "gallery wa
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1st - 12th
The Hows and Whys of Producing an Annotated Bibliography
This document provides the information and resources students need to successfully conduct research and prepare an annotated bibliography during that process.This can be applied to any extended research task, though it can be valuable even for shorter activities.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Research Essay on Mythical Creatures For Middle School
I designed this product for a class of students who loved the wierd, zany, and completely awesome idea of studying mythical creatures. The project includes all of the tools for you to guide your students through the writing of a 5 paragraph research essay. The packet contains a research page, rubric, lined paper to write their 5 paragraph essay on, two peer-feedback pages, and a model essay that I wrote for the project. The kids loved this! It's a fantastic way to teach research skills in a fun
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6th - 9th
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Winter Holidays Project with Rubrics
This project is made for students to learn about different Winter Holidays. It exposes students to different cultures and traditions around the world. Students will complete a short research project, creating a visual. Then students will write an explanatory essay and present their information. Project should take 3-4 days.
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4th - 9th
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Show-Stopping Personal Narrative Publishing Paper
Show Stopping publishing paper for personal narratives or other writing piece. Great for a fun film or show stopping theme bulletin board. Film strip outline used for student drawings that go along with their writing pieces.
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1st - 12th
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Peer Writing Conference Form
This quick form allows students to conference with their peers about their writing. Using the checklist and talking stems, it is easy for students to provide and receive feedback on their writing at all ages.
This is a resource I typically use after we have completed a brainstorming map or prewriting. Once students have their feedback, they can turn it in to be reviewed by you and monitor their progress.
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2nd - 12th
Narrative Essay Rubric
This rubric assists teachers in fairly grading narrative stories written by students. It is also a part of a larger bundle for a narrative writer's workshop unit in my store!
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4th - 9th
Compare and Contrast Essay Thesis Statement Template (Short Story)
This is a quick template that can be used to help students generate a thesis statement for a compare and contrast essay. This resource was designed with short stories in mind though it may be used for other mediums.
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6th - 12th
Fundamentals of Writing PBL Proposal Template
For teachers interested in providing real-world, relevant, and project-based writing, this PBL template allows students to propose creative products instead of the generic 5 paragraph essays we're used to grading. This proposal will allow students to share their project in the three phases (Purpose - Process - Product).If you teach 9-11th grade writing, using this template is a start for students to demonstrate their ideas in creating a more relevant product with an authentic audience in mind. W
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9th - 11th
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Movie Review Project - outline, graphic organizer & success criteria
I've used this outline to provide a structured, scaffolded approach to writing a film review in my grade 6 class. It would be suitable from grades 5-10 and even 11-12 with some adaptations.
It includes a discussion of what film criticism is, with examples, and the areas of the film students should consider. It also includes a list of success criteria, space for notes during viewing, an area for the rough copy, and a rubric is available as a separate listing.
I have used this to great effect wi
Grades:
6th - 12th
Thesis Statement Writing - Differentiated
This is what I used to help break down the process of thesis writing for my d/Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing students at the high school level. This type of model was very useful and can be modified to meet the unit that you are studying! This helped a great deal with their ability to see what words should be involved in their writing and gave them options/freedom of choice while allowing exposure to grade-level curriculum.
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6th - 12th
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Senior Exit Project (Research Writing)
The Senior Exit project is an attempt to prepare students for their future field of study. This is not a surface level project; it’s a project that focuses on research writing. Students will be asked to focus on their future, and for some, that may be a difficult thing. That being said, it is a necessary thing. The basic premise of this project is simple: find your future field of study and select a controversial topic within said future field of study. For example, my future field study would h
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12th
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