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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson plan. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: How Does Writer Organize Nonfiction Text?[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: "I Feel" Origami Boxes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Give your students writing prompts to help them with their writer's block by using these PDF templates of boxes with open-ended prompts written on them. Although targeting elementary students, the concept could be used for middle school...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This instructional activity has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality...
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Other

Ncte: "Can We Blog About This?": Amplifying Student Voice in Secondary Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article describes blogging implementation in ninth-grade pre-advanced placement language arts classes to support strong writing practices. The author found that blogging empowered high school authors to craft worlds of digital...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: "Lawd! Lawd! Lawd!"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by the character Charlie in Daniel Keye's Flowers for Algernon, the writer will craft sentences, using different dialects/sayings with correct dialogue punctuation. The writer will devote a page in his/her writer's notebook to...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: How to Write a Memoir

For Teachers 7th Standards
How do writers present the challenges that adolescents face as they grow up? Students will learn about the importance of memoirs and coming of age literature. Students will learn about the craft of writing memoirs and explore their own...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: A Day as Your Shoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It's fun to personify articles of clothing as a means of inspiring creative writing from your young scholars, and this mini-workshop has students a) personify their shoes on a page in their writer's notebook, b) share their story ideas...
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BBC

Bbc Education Scotland: Bitesize Revision on Macbeth

For Students 9th - 10th
This "Bitesize Revision" of "Macbeth" provides summary, discussion, and review of the Shakespearean tragedy. Also includes a "Craft of the Writer" section that discusses the use of blank verse, rhyme, dramatic irony, and imagery.
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Other

Shaw Guides: Learning Vacation & Creative Career Program

For Students 9th - 10th
There are thousands of learning vacations and fun career programs here to choose from. What would you like to learn about?
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Charlotte Zolotow: Paul Zindel Becomes an Author

For Students 9th - 10th
Editor Charlotte Zolotow's large site offers this page about Paul Zindel, how they met, and how she influenced his creative life. Especially interesting is Zindel's description of all she brought to his life and craft as a writer.

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