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High school writing-essays lessons $5-10
Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Rhetorical Appeals Analysis and Persuasive Language Unit
Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ 2023 UPDATE: Now includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instructional slide. Students follow
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7th - 12th
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Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Summarizing: Informative Writing Skills PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically!In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quoting
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7th - 10th
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Expository Writing Unit
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach expository essay writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive expository writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:Over the course of these 4 expository writing mini-units, students will master the techniques required to complete well-structured i
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7th - 10th
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Avoiding Plagiarism Unit: Engaging Plagiarism Lessons - Academic Integrity
Plagiarism...what a "downer" topic! For years, I dreaded teaching it because students thought I was the Wicked Witch who was out to get them for every missing quotation mark in their essays (or at least that's how I felt as I taught them about the rules of citing sources). In an effort to make writing in general more fun and accessible to students, I came up with fun, engaging, non-intimidating ways to approach plagiarism lessons. Teachers can convey the importance of plagiarism without putting
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7th - 10th
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Thesis Statement Mini Lesson - Thesis Statement Slideshow, Templates, Examples
This thesis statement lesson will teach your students how to write powerful thesis statements. Students will analyze thesis statement examples and explore thesis statement structures and formulas to use as templates for their own writing. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Thesis Statement Lesson:✏️ Thesis Statement Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Defines proper and improper thesis statementsIncludes 3 formulas for writing thesis st
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6th - 12th
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Literary Analysis: Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts Reading & Writing Unit
Are your students confused about text analysis? You know how to do it yourself, but you're not sure how to make it accessible to students? I know the feeling. Analyzing texts is hard, and it rarely comes naturally. It's a difficult concept to break down into a methodical process. Still, it can be done. I created these analyzing texts materials to help my students practice analyzing a variety of texts, including nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, short films, movies, commercials/advertisements, a
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8th - 11th
Research Paper - Complete Unit
Research paper complete unit.
Research papers made easy! This complete unit has everything you need to teach writing a research paper from start to finish.
Includes NEW MLA 8th edition citation guidelines.
For the APA version of this unit, click here:
Research Papers Complete Unit - APA Style
Everything here is classroom-tested with hundreds of students who have successfully written a research paper. There are 65 pages of teacher notes, handouts, worksheets, activities and examples, all
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Bundle
Synthesis Essay Unit for AP English Language & Composition | Synthesis Question
Are your student struggling with synthesis skills? This ten-lesson writing unit slows down and stretches the process a student must use for the AP® Lang exam free response Question 1. What a student will do in May for Question 1 has been stretched to ten lesson plans here, each of which will take 60 to 90 minutes to facilitate. Each lesson plan includes materials needed, essential question, "I can" statement, activator, teacher input, student active participation, and summary. All materials are
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Language & Composition Synthesis Essay Bundle - AP Lang Exam
Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing an Argumentative Claim or Thesis Statement: Lesson and Activities
The thesis statement or argumentative claim is the backbone of solid writing! If your students' claims are lacking in confidence, knowledge, clarity, or formality, this mini unit is what you need!This thesis statement (argumentative claim) lesson focuses specifically on writing solid, effective thesis statements for argumentative essays. I use it as part of the pre-writing process as students are researching their topic.ARGUMENTATIVE CLAIM / THESIS STATEMENT MINI UNIT CONTENTS:*This mini unit us
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Argumentative Writing Unit Bundle for Middle and High School
Essay Writing Scavenger Hunt - How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay
This scavenger hunt is a great pre-essay writing activity. Students will go on a color-coding scavenger hunt after reviewing all of the information required to write an essay, such as the requirements of a thesis statement, the placement of the topic sentence, where to include transition words, etc. Teacher instructions, sample essays, and answer keys are provided. This activity would be appropriate for:• Elementary students who need experience• Middle school students who need guidance• High sch
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Essay Writing Resources BUNDLE
Personal Statement Writing: Lesson, Handouts, Prompts, Rubrics
This personal statement writing unit will help your students write phenomenal personal statements that stand out! This personal statement unit includes a presentation for direct instruction and student materials to help students brainstorm, plan, write, and finalize their personal statements. Ideal for a class assignment or for preparing students to write college entrance essays, this teaching resource includes everything you need from personal statement prompts, to student handouts, to example
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Personal Statement Writing Unit: Traditional PDF and Digital Google
Writing and Punctuating Dialogue in Narratives (Quote It!)
Writing Dialogue in Narratives: Teach your students how to properly write and punctuate dialogue in their narrative writing with this common core aligned lesson!This resource includes:- a 26 slide EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation- supplementary teaching materials, handouts, and class activitiesThis resource includes:- A 26 slide EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation that directly instructs students how to punctuate and include dialogue in their writing. - A punctuation student reference sheet - An in
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Ultimate Writing Bundle - Secondary ELA Writing
Literary Analysis Essay Writing Unit With Lesson Plans & Materials for Any Book
Teach Literary Analysis Essay Writing to High School Students with this 1-Week Unit! This complete no-prep unit can be used with any novel and includes lesson plans, a rubric, thesis writing guides, textual evidence reminders, and all student materials needed to guide students through the writing process for a an insightful and analytical essay on any novel, play, poetry, etc. All materials can be completed on paper or digitally through the Google links. This pack includes: ⭐ Five days of lesso
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9th - 12th
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Literature: Writing a Literary Essay Unit
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach literary analysis writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive literature essay writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:Think of this as literary analysis boot-camp: over the course of the unit, students will be introduced to the concept of anal
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8th - 11th
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Persuasive & Argumentative Writing: A Step-by-Step Process
PERSUASIVE & ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS: Get multiple lessons & activities to help your students write strong persuasive or argumentative essays. Your students will learn and follow a classroom-tested process that will take them from the prewriting to the final copy.You will use a process-based approach that asks students to reflect on their writing and to actively work toward improving it.The resource includes mini-lessons and handouts for the following:✔️ Introducing the essay: You’ll get ac
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle or High School
Informative and Explanatory Essay Writing Unit - Teacher Guide - Print & Digital
Informative Essay (aka Explanatory Essay) Writing Unit includes everything you need to help students grasp the concept of informational writing, the structure and organization of an Informative/Explanatory Essay, sample essays for peer-editing practice, rubrics, notes, and more! Designed for middle or high school students. Includes Teacher Notes/Instructions, Notes on the elements of an Informative Essay, handouts on the organization and structure, writing a Compare/Contrast Thesis, a Peer-Editi
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6th - 9th
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The Literary Analysis Essay
LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY: Students struggle with literary analysis, often because they don't look at it as a thinking process. The lessons in the package will slow them down and have them follow steps that will lead them to better written essays. (If you'd like them to start this process earlier, when they are studying a text, check out Teaching the Process of Literary Analysis).The first lesson is one you can use if you want students to choose their own topic. The lesson takes them through the t
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
The Great Gatsby: Chapter 1, 2, and 3 Lessons & Activities {EDITABLE}
When it's time to start The Great Gatsby, you'll need some lessons to get you going at the beginning of the novel. I like to start the unit focusing on both color symbolism and the way Fitzgerald establishes the gender roles in Chapter 1. Next, we work through several exercises in comparison and contrast between West Egg, East Egg, and the Valley of Ashes. This product includes a wide variety of lessons to help students through close reading and literary analysis and even gives students graph
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9th - 12th
Also included in: The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
Literary Censorship and Banned Books Lesson Mini Unit
Want to teach students about banned books and the perils of censorship? Try this engaging mini unit on literary censorship with regards to banned and challenged books. This unit is perfect for September as it is Banned Books Month, for a genre study, for an independent novel study, for a common literature circle theme, for book club, or for a controversial issue unit, among many other possible options.This mini unit features engaging lessons and student-centered activities to keep students engag
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9th - 11th
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Different Types of Plagiarism - Avoiding Plagiarism Lessons and Activities - AI
Updated in 2023 to include examples of plagiarism involving artificial intelligence (AI)! Avoiding plagiarism begins with teaching students about the different types of plagiarism. This lesson explores five types of plagiarism and includes worksheets, handouts, task cards, and digital worksheets for Google Classroom®. Included with this Types of Plagiarism Lesson:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Cards - Print✏️ Types of Plagiarism Worksheets for Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different
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6th - 12th
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Theme Essay - Literary Essay Writing for ANY Novel, Story, or Drama
Theme Essay writing will be a breeze with this motivating, step-by-step resource designed to lead your students through the entire process. Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs!Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A list of common theme topics and an invitin
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6th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast Essay Unit for High School w/ Lessons and Sample Writing
Teach compare and contrast writing in high school with this complete no-prep essay unit. This unit guides students in comparing and contrasting at least one literary work with another literary work or a movie. It includes lesson plans, a rubric, and all student materials needed to guide students through the writing process for a an insightful and analytical essay. Students pre-write, develop thesis statements, draft, incorporate textual evidence, conduct peer reviews and present their essays to
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9th - 12th
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Argumentative Writing Body Paragraph Unit Digital and Print
Do your students struggle with elaborating on research in body paragraphs? Mine do! With these argumentative writing body paragraph teaching materials, you can help your students understand the components of a body paragraph and the structure of a body paragraph. Additionally, you will be teaching them about how to elaborate on research and how to write transitional sentences.ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING UNIT CONTENTS:- A suggested lesson plan that spans 6 days (with 45 minute class periods)- A body pa
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Argumentative Writing Unit Bundle for Middle and High School
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