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High school informational text unit plans $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
Grades:
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
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True Crime Podcast Informational Text Standards Unit | Middle School ELA
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Podcast unit plan is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom or download and print as a PDF! Both formats are included. This digital resource was created in Google Slides and is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide over two weeks of content to your students. Students will practice citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzing the structu
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Persuasive Writing: Lesson Plan Pack
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach persuasive writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive persuasive 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:The main goal for this unit is for students to learn the main techniques of persuasive language (including ethos, pathos, and logos), and
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8th - 11th
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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
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Language & Composition Synthesis Essay Bundle - AP Lang Exam
Slideshows That Don't Suck Mini Unit: Engaging, Visually Appealing Presentations
Are you tired of cringing at students' ugly font choices, plain white backgrounds, and overwhelming text? Are you bored listening to students read word-for-word off their slideshows? I was one more Comic Sans font from going crazy, so I designed this Slideshows That Don't Suck Mini-Unit to tackle the problem of boring presentations once and for all!In this mini-unit, students will examine examples of slides in a gallery walk, learn about elements of design in learning stations, and then they wil
Grades:
7th - 12th
To Kill a Mockingbird Pre Reading Unit
This mini unit is designed to lay the foundation for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Written during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1960, and set during the 1930s, racial injustice is at the core of this novel, and in order for students to truly understand what the novel is about, they need to understand these issues.
This bundle will help lay the foundation that your students need to understand this.
This mini unit includes:
-Lesson plan suggestions
-Harper Lee Biography
-Pre r
Grades:
8th - 12th
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"A Modest Proposal": A Study of Satire
This CCSS aligned unit provides an overview, examination and creation of satire using Swift’s "A Modest Proposal" and other resources. Students read and analyze different satires, build their vocabulary, gain historical knowledge, read and analyze "A Modest Proposal", then craft their own satire. For a smaller activity pack about satire *without* “A Modest Proposal”, click here: A Study of Satire. **Please don’t purchase both.**Includes:* Satire Overview Handout* Two Satire Analysis Activities*
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion Unit
Provide your students with a more complete understanding of rhetorical analysis with a variety of concept overviews, practice activities, complementary assignments and assessments. This product is included in my AP Language and Composition Bundle for a reduced price. Please don’t buy this item in addition to the bundle as it is already included.
This resource is organized in the following sections:
Rhetorical Analysis with an overview of rhetoric using the SOAPSTone method, a practice activit
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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NEWSPAPER UNIT - Packets, Worksheets, Prompts, Samples, Template, LPs & More!
*Recently updated with new graphics and fonts!
This is a HUGE Newspaper Unit that I have not only created but implemented. My students loved it and got so much out of it! There is a lot that is included and I did my best to mention it all below. You can also download the preview for free to get a better idea although there is more that you cannot see.
Lesson Plans:
~Brief Outline and Overview of how to spend each day (30 minutes)
Parent Letter:
~ Optional Parent Letter if using for RTII group
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Early American Literature Unit
This CCSS aligned unit provides a literary and historical overview of early American literature from the Native Americans', European explorers' and colonists’ perspective. Students read and analyze literary and informational texts, write a narrative and/or argumentative essay, and finish the unit with a test. This set includes the following:* Nine public domain readings including Native American creation myths, an excerpt of Columbus's journal, an excerpt of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca's journal
Grades:
9th - 12th
How to Write a Research Paper
As a middle school teacher, I believe that teaching students to write a research paper is the most important skill that I can give them. This unit is meant to have students go step by step through The Writing Process in order to write a MLA-Style Research Paper! This 29 page student handbook will make Research Paper Writing a breeze. Teaching Tip: When I teach this unit, I model and we discuss each step as we go through the workbook together. Students are so proud of their typed MLA format
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Writing Unit Bundle~ FIVE Writing Units at a DISCOUNTED Price!!!
GRIT: A Growth Mindset Unit for Upper Grades
As teachers, we know that effort and determination are the biggest factors in our students’ success. All too often, this message doesn’t get communicated to our students. We often hear, “I can’t...It’s too hard...I’m not good at that.” The best way to shift that negative/fixed thinking is by implementing a growth mindset program. I created this week-long unit for upper grades (specifically high school or advanced middle schoolers) because I could not find quality age-appropriate resources to tea
Grades:
8th - 12th
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CCSS:
So, You Want to Buy a Car? -- Argumentative Writing + Simple & Compound Interest
This unit requires students to use their research skills and basic math skills (using simple and compound interest) to choose and "pitch" their dream car to their parents.
The teacher randomly assigns each student a job, hourly wage, and two interest rate options: a simple interest loan from your parents, and a compound interest rate from the bank. Then, using the auto sales booklets (which you can pick up at most grocery stores), they will choose two cars to compare. They will do that math, fi
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7th - 10th
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Red Scarf Girl Literature Guide with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
Literature Guide for Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang. 87-page novel study on the nonfiction memoir about living in China under Chairman Mao and how the Cultural Revolution affected her family. Good book for middle school ELA, especially 7th grade. Comprehensive novel guide aligned with standards includes pre-reading activities, vocabulary with tests and answer keys, study guide, discussion questions, unit plans, writing focus, grammar practice, supplemental materials and visuals for class discuss
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Characterization Unit: Looks Can Be Deceiving- with The Landlady
This 5-day unit has everything you need to teach characterization in a fresh and relevant way that students will love! I don't know about you, but I feel like we do students a disservice if we teach them English in a vacuum. I don't want them just describing characters...I want them to understand HOW and WHY we characterize people in both the real-world and in literature. This unit aims to do just that with a series of lessons and activities that incorporate fiction (Roald Dahl's wonderfully cre
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7th - 10th
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Understanding Arguments with Cesar Chavez Speeches
Help students to deepen their understanding of rhetorical devices and the text structure of powerful arguments with the week and a half unit, Understanding Arguments with Cesar Chavez Speeches.
In this unit, students listen to and annotate a Cesar Chavez speech, answering text-based questions that help to deepen their understanding of rhetorical devices, the central claim, and the purpose of each section of Chavez's speech. Students then focus on rhetorical devices, finding examples, analyzing
Grades:
7th - 10th
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True Crime Writing in the United States Unit (AP Language)
This unit looks at American history and culture through the lens of true crime narratives. The assignments and activities trace the roots of this genre of non-fiction from Puritan accounts of executions to 19th Century murder ballads to modern day serial killer stories while analyzing the changing intellectual landscape of the last 300 years. This unit asks student to explore questions of class, gender, race, and morality in relation to criminal behavior. As an AP Language unit, students practic
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
INFORMATIONAL TEXT UNIT - Indigenous Theme (FNMI) - BUNDLE of Lesson Plans
This bundle of 6 lesson plans uses activities for reading and writing workshop including: writer's notebook prompts, comprehension strategies, persuasive graphic organizer, carousel brainstorm activity, collaborative placemat activity, analysis of literary devices (theme, imagery, repetition, etc.), small and large group discussion, add on writing activity, talking circle activity, and task card analysis activity (task cards included). Bundle includes printable student notebook aligned with each
Grades:
7th - 12th
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RACE Writing Strategy
Help your students improve their reading, writing, and inferential thinking skills using the RACE strategy!! RACE is a well-researched writing strategy which stands for restate the question, answer the question, cite the evidence, and explain the evidence. This strategy helps students learn how to write a constructed response using evidence from the text.This Google Slides lesson has the entire RACE strategy broken down by steps, with practice examples for each step. It includes a lesson plan, r
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7th - 12th
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Fortnite Complete Literature Unit - No Prep - Reading Comp, Assessment, and More
Kids are going CRAZY for Fortnite! Join the craze in the classroom!
ELA UNIT FOR GRADES 3-8
READING COMPREHENSION
CITING TEXT EVIDENCE
GRAMMAR AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
MAKING PREDICTIONS
SUMMARIZATION, MAKING TEXT CONNECTIONS
ANALYZING QUOTES FROM THE TEXT
ACTIVITIES FOR EARLY FINISHERS
Includes Anchor Charts & Answer Keys
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Quizzes
UPDATED: This bundle now contains a quiz for habit 7, and teacher keys for all 7 quizzes! This bundle includes quizzes for habits 1-6 that are covered in the book 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens. It also includes a final summative test for all 7 habits.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Non-Fiction Readings from the Civil Rights Era -- texts & Objective Assessments
Ugly realities make for powerful readings. These three non-fiction selections drawn from the first half of the 20th century are sure to provoke lots of animated classroom discussion.The first reading, "What Was Jim Crow?" is an informational text that explains the laws and their usage to keep blacks and African-Americans powerless; the second, "Ida B. Wells: Against All Odds" is a biography of a little known civil rights activist, especially in her anti-lynching work; the third selection is the
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Levels of Questioning (Bloom's and Costa's) 2-week Common Core Unit
Get your students used to the new Common Core questioning language with this Levels of Questioning two-week unit! Unit includes a variety of activities including a vocabulary worksheet, close reading, text-dependent questions, summary writing frame, and an assortment of structured collaborative activities.
Contents:
* Detailed five-page teacher guide with pacing guide and lesson specifics
* Three-Story House PDP sheet and activity
* Costa’s Levels of Questioning handout for each subject area
Grades:
5th - 12th
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