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Adult education writing-expository thematic unit plans
Winter Poetry Unit with Annotations, Sample Explication Essays, & MORE!
This unit includes TEN poems by classic authors that involve winter in some respect. Some poems use winter to symbolize absence, others age, and still others unity. Five of these poems have a more positive representation of winter while the remaining five have a more negative representation of winter-- however, this is debatable! And that is exactly what students are going to do! I was feeling inspired by the winter and started researching classic poems about the season. What I came to real
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Bear Brook Podcast Unit Plan Bundle
As an avid true crime listener and fan, I knew I had to incorporate Bear Brook into my AP English Language high school classroom. Please listen to the podcast in its entirety BEFORE considering this for your high school classroom here. There are some mature triggering concepts, and it requires a mature audience. You are also able to skip episodes or sections and use the podcast lesson plans. You will get:⭐ Episode 1: Hide and Seek slides⭐ Episode 1 Mining the Monologue assignment⭐Episode 2: Kno
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Topics for students to write persuasive essays and sub material SLP
37 pages. For each topic, there is a page discussing pros and cons with vocabulary, the second page has critical thinking questions and fact/opinion discrimination. The 3rd page is a graphic organizer with Reasons why you are pro and reasons why you are against the topic. The students should decide from what they've written if they are trying to persuade others that violence (for example) is good or bad. The sentences they write on this graphic orgainizers will be the topic sentence for each
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Politics of Mental Health
Structured questions to initiate active elf reflection of brainstorming notes and thoughts to be compiled and submitted in a comprehensive essay. Essays will be based on reflection from individual student's personal thought processes, incorporating supporting evidence for their final essay's constructive reasoning with examples of information from the required resources and materials assigned and linked in the instruction portion of the assignment. Final essays will focus on writing about
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Challenging Stigmas: Digital Interactive Notebook/UNIT - Distance Learning
Purpose:This 100+ page unit of study was created as an Expository Reading & Writing Distance Learning course intended to examine what stigmas exist in our society today, & how students can recognize, challenge & ultimately eradicate these stigmas in order to create a more knowledgeable, understanding, &/or accepting society. Description:125 Pages/Slides Include:Part I: IntroductionStigma TypesStigmas vs. StereotypesStigma AnalysisPart II: Challenging StigmasMental IllnessAlbinism
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Grammar Writing Vocabulary Spelling Basic Level Summer Home School Bundle
These PDF files include spelling, writing, vocabulary, and grammar worksheets, perfect for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Total of 200 pages.These worksheets have many uses:1. Home school2. Substitute teacher3. Snow days4. Busy work5. Online distance learning6. Class work7. Independent work8. Warm up activity9. Homework10. Quizzes11. End of quarter review12. End of year review13. Summer school / summer learning14. Back to school review15. And more!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Life Skills: Digital Interactive Notebook/UNIT - Distance Learning
Purpose:This 100+ page unit of study was created as an Expository Reading & Writing Distance Learning course intended to prepare students for life after high school. Description:111 Pages/Slides Include:Part I: Soft Skills/Hard SkillsPart II: Life SkillsFinding a JobBuying a CarBalancing a Monthly BudgetEtc. Part III: Next Level SkillsOvercoming Learned HelplessnessRejection TherapyGrowth MindsetPerseverance/GritPlease see the Table of Contents (3 pages) for more details.Great for:Distance L
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Adverts: Lesson Plans, Exemplars, Resources, Posters and Writing Frames
Welcome to our innovative package for making all students successful in writing adverts within the exposition genre of writing. Tried and tested in the classroom, we have put together a sequence of five steps which will support all students master the skills required for writing in a specific genre. What’s more, it is easy to implement, the resources are included within the product and the planning supports the teacher in ensuring the steps are met in their own time framework. Step 1 - Immerse a
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4th - 6th, Adult Education, Staff
Jobs & Majors Notebook: Digital Interactive Notebook/UNIT - Distance Learning
Purpose:This 112 page unit of study was created as an Expository Reading & Writing Distance Learning course intended to prepare students for:College LifeCareer ReadinessResumeElevator SpeechInterview Best PracticesDescription:112 Pages/Slides Include:Instructional Articles & VideosPersonality Traits Test & Job ConnectionsResume & Elevator PitchInstructions, Guidance, & FormattingStudent Samples/ExamplesInterview PreparationBest Practices & InstructionQ & A Practice &a
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
ON THE WATERFRONT: A Classic Film Unit
THREE WEEK 26-PAGE UNITClassic Film Unit. This 1954 giant rewrote the motion picture template of how films should be produced. Featuring Marlon Brando in what some consider his finest hour, On the Waterfront roped in twelve Academy Award nominations with eight Oscars being awarded. The film focuses on union violence and corruption among longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey. The unit allows for you to show the f
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: BUNDLE: TEN AMERICAN FILMS
Everything you need for teaching Persuasion
Where to begin? There's 174 files in this zip! Everything you need is here.
I use a persuasion unit to teaching various rhetorical and stylistic techniques, as well as more research practice, as I think working with nonfiction is often much more helpful to students than literature. In any event, I give you most of my resources--the rest are in other downloads (an editorial assignment and debates--and I'll let you decide how long you want to spend on the issue; you can focus on the basics and ju
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Methods of Persuasion: Digital Interactive Notebook - Distance Learning
Purpose:Created as an Expository Reading & Writing resource, this Interactive Notebook provides instruction, examples, & opportunities for critical analysis of Aristotle's Methods of Persuasion as they relate to rhetoric & bias in advertising/the media.Description:Customize the following as you wish:Writing PromptsAdvertisement ImagesCommercial ExamplesExamples of Bias in the MediaCumulative Writing ReflectionGreat for:Distance LearningSomething purposeful, timely, & introspectiv
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Close Reading, Inference-The Lottery by Shirley Jackson-No Prep Writing Activity
Description of ProductThis is a writing prompt requiring students to practice close reading and inference. This assignment focuses on The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, and an excerpt from the text is provided. This is a great addition to your literary lessons regarding extrapolating from literary text. This is a no-prep assignment that you can use before, during, or after your class reads The Lottery. It's a great composition prompt for middle school, high school, or college-level English Languag
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Great Gatsby ~ Common Core Aligned Novel Unit
Talk about a bad egg! The recklessness, corruption and passion, and all that Jazz come together to scramble the American Dream in the 1920s. The fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties to win the heart of his beloved Daisy. Does he win her love? In this day of standards- based Common Core learning, A Novel Advantage™ provides the foundation needed when reading this literary classic.
A Novel Advantage™ breaks the novel down into easy to use sections that include:
Positioning the Re
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rhetorical Appeals for High School English or ELD (ESL) Using Sentence Templates
Whether students continue their education or not, they must learn to identify persuasive techniques in spoken or written text. The concepts of the Rhetorical Appeals (persuasive techniques) can be extremely challenging for students but can also be very interesting for them. Understanding, identifying, discussing, and writing about the rhetorical appeals can be especially confusing, but using this unit with these steps, can simplify the process for both students and teachers. These steps can a
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Writing Unit/Writing Process: Intro, Body and Conclusion Scaffolds, Topics
Parents and Teachers,Teaching good writing has been a passion of mine for over twenty years, whether in a French, Spanish or English classroom. This program is the end product of all my experience and hard work. This product will provide a complete one to two week unit on how to write an essay, taking information from multiple sources and working very kid-friendly examples until gradually releasing the material for them to do. In other words scaffolding the entire process. Non-readers, ESE and a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Career Research Project
As part of an American Dream unit with my junior Am lit students, I have my classes investigate their own dreams and pursuits by researching a possible career they'd like to pursue as adults. It's a fun and informative project for them, and it pushes research and synthesis skills, particularly early on in the year when I schedule it. Students write not only narrative work but do a literature review that requires them to look at multiple sources of information to get a sense of things. You'll nee
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Awesome Editorial Persuasive Writing Assignment
Whether you're teaching journalism, a persuasion unit or helping your students with expository composition, this assignment is an excellent way of offering the students to write in an advanced, research-based voice. The assignment calls for a response to a school topic--feel free to adapt to issues related to your specific community--and to address them toward a specific audience (school or community paper, most likely). Students use the Monroe Model for persuasion to help construct their ads an
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Problem Solution Essay Unit
If you're teaching argumentation or expository composition, this is a great assignment that will yield complex thinking and writing. I ask my students, in pairs, to investigate a problem in the school or community; they then research it (causes, effects, patterns, etc.) and hypothesize a solution. The documents here follow a process, including producing a research document prior to composing, and features rubrics, pre-writing and editing tasks, etc. A great project for your high school or colleg
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Feliz Día del Educador (Práctica Integral).
Hi! This editable PowerPoint was created to practice talking about Teacher Appreciation Day❤️. Students will improve their basic skills (listening, speaking, reading & writing) in different topics, in this case about Teacher Appreciation Day. They will learn about the vocabulary associated with this topic, and how to give opinions based on their experiences and research. It has twenty-three pages in one document. The student document includes instructions, links to videos and websites, acti
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: AP Spanish-Práctica Integral Bundle
Research essay outline for Into the Wild
From Expert ELA, this outline takes students through the process of using a secondary scholarly source to write a persuasive essay related to Into the Wild. The assignment includes the link to a pre-chosen scholarly source. Students will be instructed on in-text citation in a subsequent class.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Personal Essay resources
Perfect for teaching Reflective or Argumentative Essays! I pair this with Letter from Birmingham Jail so that students do both personal and analytical writing.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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