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High school informational text scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
The CRAP Test (Finding Credible Internet Sources)
Want to help your students find credible, reliable, and relevant sources for a research project? Then this is the perfect resource for you!
Helps students organize their information in a visual way.
Helps them see if their sites are legitimate.
Gets them started with accurate and quality websites for research!
Connects well with the HOW DO I RESEARCH PRESENTATION.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Rhetorical Analysis Article of the Week - SOAPStone AP Lang
This file is a one page, front and back, article review using SOAPSTone for AP Lang or AP Lang prep.
Students are asked to analyze an article using rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos), determine the author's stance, unpack a prompt, and write an introduction paragraph to an essay.
This can be used for an article of the week. For AP Lang, this can be used with an Op Ed, or used to prep students for AP Lang. I have also used it as a study guide for upcoming nonfiction essay prompts.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Renaissance Literary Period Webquest and Test
This activity contains questions and charts that lead the student through an interactive history lesson of the Renaissance Period. It is a concise guide through the historical events which shaped the literature of the period and includes questions about the time period's prominent figures, Humanism, the English monarchs (Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, etc.), the Reformation, and the changing beliefs and values of the people. The packet also includes a multiple-choice test that ma
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Social Media & Pop Culture Project - student investigation of cultural influence
In this interactive unit, students will work participate in a two-week (depending on class length) investigation where they will evaluate the influence of social media, fashion, and other cultural norms within their life. First, students will spend about two days in their own investigation, where they will evaluate their own habits: phones, social media, ear buds, fashion, politics & then they will observe their surrounding world to see the habits of those people surrounding them. Next, they
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Updated AP Language & Composition Bundle - Units 1-6
Unit 8: AP Lang & Comp - Focus on Education- PPT, reading, and activities
Students will love learning about the foundations of education, and the many controversies that surround schooling as we know it today. First students will read through some foundational documents including: Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Horace Mann, Emerson, and more. Students will then respond to an argument prompt that has students focus on "book learning" versus "world learning." Next, students will then take a look at more contemporary pieces, including works from: Diane Ravitch, Jonathan Kozol
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
AP Lang Unit 1: Human Rights and American Doctrine: Rhetorical Situation
Created from a vantage point of human rights, this PPT unit will explore all of the key components of the AP Language and Composition's Unit 1 standards while also highlighting International Human Rights doctrine and American rights doctrine. First, students will grasp the concepts of the rhetorical situation through engaging speeches (video and text included): Malala, Lou Gehrig, Selena Gomez, and more. Students will learn to identify all of the key features: speaker, persona, audience, context
Grades:
10th - 12th
Nonfiction (Memoir) Book Club Notes - 3 Levels Bundled
Book club notes designed to help students engage in their reading while focusing on the following skills:
*Creating objective summaries
*Analyzing inner & outer dialogue
*Determining a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot
*Citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports analysis
Notes are designed to support students performing below, at, or above grade-level expectat
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Ellis Island Interactive Webquest Research Writing Project
This webquest takes students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. The first 3 pages of the webquest includes guiding focus questions for students to answer as they tour all the rooms of the main building of Ellis Island. Students will view photographs, listen to oral histories, and analyze data. A reflective essay is also included at the conclusion of the essay which allows students to use integrate and cite evidence from the webquest.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Citing Evidence! Using Says, Means, Matters to Cite Quoted Text + RACE Strategy
What a great tool to help guide students toward citing evidence correctly! Use Says, Means, Matters to cite authors, evidence, quoted text, and more. Includes examples for modeling and concludes with a summary paragraph using the RACE Strategy. This file is a Word Doc, but can be easily modified to Google Programs.- Distance Learning Activity
Grades:
6th - 9th
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Old Man and the Sea: Notes
From Electric English...
These are typed notes that explain some of the deeper context of the novella "The Old Man and the Sea". Even with all the other activities you assign during the course of the unit, it is still beneficial for the student to give them a concrete item they can refer to while working with the material. Hope it is helpful :)
Grades:
10th - 11th
Renaissance Literary Period Webquest and Test
This activity contains questions and charts that lead the student through an interactive history lesson of the Renaissance Period. It is a concise guide through the historical events which shaped the literature of the period and includes questions about the time period's prominent figures, Humanism, the English monarchs (Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, etc.), the Reformation, and the changing beliefs and values of the people. The packet also includes a multiple-choice test that ma
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Nonfiction Terms Cornell Notes
FULLY EDITABLE - MS Word format
This set of notes for nonfiction terms is set up Cornell, or 2-column, style. It includes 2 pages of teacher's notes (information has been completed) and 2 pages of scaffolded student's notes.
The following terms and concepts are covered: central or main idea, summary, compare, contrast, argument, evidence, assertion, citation, logic, fallacious reasoning, author's purpose, text features, headings, illustrations, captions, headline, direct quotation, table of
Grades:
6th - 9th
Argument Essay Packet with Exemplar, Outlines, Peer Review, and Rubric
Included here are:
1. A fact sheet that outlines the essential components of an Argument Essay. Students are typically directed to annotate and highlight as we review these fundamentals together as a class. For NY State residents, there is a final question where they are asked to distinguish the Argument Essay from the TAR essay, the other written response on the 11th grade NY State Regents exam. If this prompt is not needed by the teacher, it.is easily removable from the Word doc.
2. An "exem
Grades:
9th - 12th
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE - NOTES DRAMA CLASS
This fill-in-the-blank notes activity corresponds with the PowerPoint Presentation that covers the "Ten Commandments" of Audience Etiquette in a fun, simple way. These ten commandments are essential for any Drama class, and there is also a Quiz covering the ten commandments available in my store.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Victorian Literary Period Web Quest and Quiz
This web quest is a concise questionnaire that requires the learner to gather information about the Victorian Literary Period from the Internet (and other sources if necessary) to learn about the period prior to reading the literature. The activity is ideal for independent or group work. The subsequent quiz consists of 20 multiple choice and true/false questions that may be modified to suit the learners' needs. There are answer keys for the web quest and the quiz.
Grades:
11th - 12th, Adult Education
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New SAT Essay Scaffolding Worksheet
This worksheet is designed with the new 2016 and later SAT Essay rubric in mind. It walks student through basic comprehension and then taking apart the passage with the three suggested components in the SAT directions and rubric. The worksheet leads students to create a thesis statement specific to the SAT Essay task. It also has students draw on details from the passage to provide them with content to start writing the essay.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Propaganda Techniques Cornell Notes
FULLY EDITABLE - MS Word format
This file contains a completed teacher copy and scaffolded student copy of Cornell or 2-column style notes on propaganda techniques.
It covers the following terms: propaganda, logic, fallacious reasoning, hasty generalizations, circular reasoning, only-cause fallacy, bias, and prejudice.
It covers the following propaganda techniques: Transfer or Association, Testimonial, Plain Folks, Bandwagon, Glittering Generalities, Stereotypes, Name Calling, and Snob Ap
Grades:
6th - 9th
Notes: Annotating a Text
From Electric English...
This is an exercise to introduce students to annotation. AAHhhhh the dreaded annotations!!! I have to say that in my experience truly showing a kid how to process information - pull out what is relevant, what is not; think about new knowledge in terms of what they already know, and what they don't; begin to understand language, and why writers craft their words the way they do; reflect on what is effective, and what is not - all of these are life skills, not just classro
Grades:
10th - 11th
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Retrieval Chart (Documentary)
This is a simple information organiser to use with any documentary. It scaffolds note taking and encourages students to classify and record information as they watch the documentary. After viewing they can extend their thinking by discussing and recording the purpose of individual elements that have been chosen.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Documentary Conventions
Thesis Statement Formula
Students can sometimes find it difficult to understand how to create a thesis statement. I created this formula for composing a thesis statement to break down the steps for them. I mainly use this with my 7th, 8th, and English Language Development students. It is a simple way to help them understand the components of a thesis statement and create their own.Hopefully this quick activity helps your students as well.
Grades:
7th - 10th
A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce Figurative Language and KEY
This 2 page Figurative Language worksheet on Ambrose Bierce's short story "A Horseman in the Sky" has 3 parts. Part 1 identifies the 11 examples of figurative language in the story: classical allusion, onomatopoeia, biblical allusion, alliteration, simile, irony, parallel structure, foreshadow, personification, flashback, and metaphor, and students have to match the term to the definition. Part 2 uses the same terms from the word bank to match the term to an example. Part 3 has 20 direct quo
Grades:
8th - 11th
Video: How Can You Write a Great Informational Essay (Including on a CAASPP PT?)
If your students are asked to write an informational essay on the CAASPP / SBAC performance task, what can they do to make it as excellent as possible? This 18-ish minute video walks them through a simple rubric, asking them to improve MY essay by looking through notes on astronauts to come up with a main idea. (Which winds up being that it is difficult but fun to become an astronaut!) It has a "thinksheet" that helps students engage and follow along. I have them scan the questions before we sta
Grades:
3rd - 11th
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Boston Massacre: Honor to Crispus Attucks
Students read a synopsis of the Boston Massacre and then decipher a poem honoring Crispus Attucks by John Boyle O'Reilly. Poem is gradually released line by line to allow students to analyze primary source and translate in their own words.
Teacher: make copies double-sided
Students: fold worksheet accordian style with Attucks' picture on the back.
Tested with success by comprehensive, IEP, 504, ELL, GT
Thank you in advance for leaving your feedback!
Honor to Crispus Attucks by Lucy Figueroa
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7th - 9th
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