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- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students complete a five paragraph analytical essay after carefully reviewing the parts of the essay and what elements each paragraph should contain. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students improve oral communication skills through small group activities whereby they discuss specific aspects of the essay sample, then write a skeleton essay with their group on the literary work in study. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the essay as a genre of writing. They look at a variety of essay types and determine how they are based in rhetorical tradition. They compare the writing styles of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass while examining the persuasive appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. They write an individual essay. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore how to write the five-paragraph essay. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study how essays and speeches as literary threads create an intimate relationship between the author and audience. They discover how speeches of important Americans reflect the hopes and dreams of earlier generations. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students survey learning strategies and conventions involved in the forms of essay composition in this four lesson unit. The organization and development of the persuasive, descriptive, and explanative essay are revealed in this unit. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students, through various practice activities, develop an understanding of the steps/process involved in writing narrative, expository, and descriptive essays. They write essays of their own. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students write an opinion essay about a conflict that they believe may affect their future. Student select an audience to write to and try to persuade that audience to accept their opinion. Students must include supporting evidence, and the causes or consequences of the conflict as well as an effective solution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore how to write an essay. They discuss the parts of the essay and how the essay is organized. Students discuss various examples of essays. Students play the Essay Matching game and they organize and compose their own 5 paragraph essay. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students explain the steps to making a sandwich to their teacher while he/she completes the steps. After the demonstration, they identify any part of the process that could use clarification. They are introduced to the practice of prewriting and write their own ideas on an essay. Full Review »