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Writing-expository homework for Microsoft Word
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: Discussion Questions/Prompts
This series of 46 questions asks students to analyze the rhetorical strategies, themes, and literary techniques used by Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale. Questions also include prompts regarding characterization, imagery, themes, mood, and symbolism.
Questions are broken into four sections for reading assignments appropriate for grades 10-12 or college-level analysis.
Also look for my quiz packets for classics and contemporaries, such as Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Khaled Hosseini's T
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Assignment: Write a Movie Review. Film Critique Handout w/ Rubric
This is a handout for a fun and creative writing assignment, in which students will write their own film review. Page one explains the function of a film review, and the kind of content that should be included in one. The content should be focused on evaluating the film, rather than summarizing. A couple website links are also included so that students can go read some current reviews and get a better understanding of what a good review is before they create their own.Formatting requirements are
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8th - 12th
Movie Review: Extra Credit or Class Assignment
Students are required to write a movie review in a professional manner, which can be a challenge since they are used to just telling friends if they liked a movie or not! In this assignment, they must think more deeply and explain why thy like or dislike a film. They are to consider elements such as similar films, connections to movie trends, the director's prior work, casting suitability, etc.
I offer this as an extra credit assignment, but it could easily be changed to a regular assignment.
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7th - 12th
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Handout for ELA English: Extra Credit Opportunities; 5 choices; Broad Options
This is a handout for students that inquire about extra credit opportunities in English or Language Arts class. It offers 5 options (2 options for an explanatory essay, creative writing - poetry, creative writing - short story, and a book report). I've used this handout for both middle school and high school. It's a quick go-to to give to students that ask me about earning extra points in class. The requirements are general and broad enough to use in any class that focuses on ELA skills. The han
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7th - 12th
Parts of Speech, Pre-Assessment
(answer key included)(FREE post assessment available too!)
** To increase contextual comprehension, the pre-assessment is written in narrative. The FREE post-assessment is the narrative conclusion to the story. It is highly recommended teachers use both the Pre and Post assessment.
Teaching Parts of Speech is so important as it creates common language for reading and writing between a teacher and student.
I've successfully used a pre/post assessment in my Parts of Speech unit that doesn't
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Memo Writing Assignments
Great assignments for a business or technical writing class; the students are asked to first write a request memo, asking a manager to investigate a problem. They are then asked to write a policy memo, explaining a new policy to their staff. Includes rubric.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Introduction Paragraphs - an intro with samples and practice evaluating
This worksheet provides an introduction to writing a strong introduction paragraph. It includes work on grabbing the reader's attention and stating a claim or thesis. It gives a list of grabber sentences, suggestions for important information to include in an introduction, and then ends with three sample introductions that students must rate and then justify their rating.
A great way to introduce writing introductions. The samples use ideas from the novels The Giver by Lois Lowry and others.
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6th - 9th
Article of the Week - College Recruiters Take Social Media Seriously
Based on Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week concept, my reading articles are typically non-fiction and modeled on Vale Middle School's format. The articles have been chosen by me and all questions have been developed by me. If you would like to see what Vale Middle School does, check out http://vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles-week
This informational text discusses how social media can harm a student athlete's chances of being recruited by a coach. It includes three multiple choice, a question
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6th - 9th
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The Diary of Anne Frank - Personal Narrative Diary Writing
Everyone has a story but each of our stories is different. Your story is important too.
14 diary writing topics to choose from that mirror those that Anne wrote about.
Connect to The Diary of Anne Frank through an on-going anchor activity that students can work on in a writing center, when they have finished other assignments, or for homework. Students will be asked to observe the people around them and their environment as Anne did. They should take the time to think about the topics and pl
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5th - 12th
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Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Reading Guide and Paper
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Reading Guide and PaperThis lesson plan covers the Jean Fritz book Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold. The reading guide has 56 questions and also includes a writing activity where the student makes a judgment about Benedict Arnold. An answer sheet is included for the teacher.This lesson plan is included in my American Revolution Webquests and Lesson Plan CollectionIndividual American Revolution Lesson Plans:WebquestsAmerican Revolution WebquestAmerican Re
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Benedict Arnold American Revolution Bundle
Hound of the Baskervilles Homeworks and Unit Exam
Ten homework assignments for Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskerville plus very comprehensive exam.
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9th - 12th
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Pen Pal permission letter
A generic/editable pen pal permission letter to send home to parents
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Book Review Rubric
This rubric is used when a student completes a novel and then is expected to write a three paragraph book review.
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3rd - 8th
Checklists for Editing Stories. Possible Assessment Tools
Included in this upload are a series of checklists for planning, structuring, for characterisation, point of view, narrative voice, language, dialogue, context and world. There are also general checklists which include less specific information on each of these features. In the checklists there are activities for discussion and planned paragraph writing which should consolidate written exposition. There are also a series of questions which need written responses, underlined choices, a series
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Not Grade Specific
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American Authors Research Project
This is a group assignment. In groups, students will choose from a list (or alternative is acceptable with approval) of American authors. Together they will write an expository research paper detailing the life, works, and societal contributions of these authors. They must use and properly cite at least 3 sources in their paper. Then, they will take the information they learned in while researching their author and create a 5-8 minute presentation to be presented to the class. This is a great op
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10th - 12th
Exploring the parts of an Argumentative Essay
Equip students with a practical understanding of argumentative essay structure using this insightful worksheet. By analyzing a well-constructed essay sample, students gain a clear visual on the fundamental elements required for a cohesive 5-paragraph argumentative (expository) essay. This resource allows students to identify crucial segments like the hook, thesis statement, arguments, counterclaims, rebuttals, and more, providing a comprehensive overview of the necessary components for a compell
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7th - 12th
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Article of the Week -"Refugee Transitions” - NYS Engage NY
Based on Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week concept, my reading articles are typically non-fiction and modeled on Vale Middle School's format. The articles have been chosen by me and all questions have been developed by me. If you would like to see what Vale Middle School does, check out http://vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles-week
This informational text Article of the Week comes from a NYS Common Core Module INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN by Thanhha Lai. It is a recommended text to use with the
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5th - 8th
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Deconstructing the prompt HW Practice- Informative- 16 weeks
This product contains 16 weeks worth of decomposing on unpacking the prompt practice for the 4th/5th grade FSA Writing Test. Each day is given a prompt for homework in which students have to find the topic, point, and main idea.Pages vary between 3 per week to 4 per week to allow holiday breaks. Directions correlate to Core Connections, but could be edited.This resource ONLY contains informative prompts. There are not text sets to go with them, it is to give students practice in deconstructing
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4th - 5th
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The Scarlet Letter Research Paper/Rubric
Includes essay prompt, three research paper topic choices, and checklist rubric
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9th - 12th
Also included in: The Scarlet Letter UNIT BUNDLE
AOW Article of the Week Graphic Organizer
I designed this digital organizer to be used by students who needed support when annotating and note taking. The document is editable so the instructions can be adapted and changed to fit the need of your students.
I designed this product to be used digitally (Google Docs) but could be used as a hard copy as well.
There are several sections (pages in this document). The first section is a 2 column graphic organizer. The text is on the left and the column on the right is for the students t
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6th - 10th
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The Scarlet Letter Essay/Planning - Values
Includes essay planning and prompt with questions Topic: values - personal narrative writing
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9th - 12th
Also included in: The Scarlet Letter UNIT BUNDLE
Flowers for Algernon essay questions (post assessment)
The Flowers for Algernon essay questions are critical thinking questions. They can be used either as a pre-read thinking strategy or a post assessment of comprehension and connections.
My students were intrigued with the questions. Many passionate discussions ensued after students spent time peer reviewing classmates ideas. The questions (and student answers) provide a great "script" for teacher lead questioning sessions.
This product gets students thinking. Feel free to check out my other
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8th - 12th
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Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives Worksheets
Introduces and gives examples of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Also comes with activities. Great for grades 1-4
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1st - 4th
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Dystopian Movie Analysis
This guide contains 15 questions to consider while watching a dystopian fiction movie and directions and space for a movie review. There is a list of 30 movies with ratings ranging from G to R, so students can complete this on their own as homework, extra credit, or with a movie of the teacher's choice.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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