Curated OER
Language Arts: Final Drafting
Students are able to revise their own essays for greater clarity and fluency, adding explanation where needed and cutting extraneous information where appropriate. They are able to compose an academic essay with a complete introduction,...
Curated OER
Lesson Plan on Social Studies Research
Fourth graders listen to nonfiction stories, read fact sheets about historical characters and events, and record facts in groups. They write a paper based on six facts from their research.
Curated OER
Call Me
Learners write essays to persuade their families to use a particular long-distance phone plan. They compare a 10-10 plan to a regular long-distance plan.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze a constructed response question. Students will read the question closely and use this planning tool to plan constructed responses. This graphic organizer is a...
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Scott london.com: How the Media Frames Political Issues
Using published materials in the essay, the author describes the methods used by various media to manipulate the politics of the country through their ability to "manage" the news.
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Project Gutenberg Australia: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
This is the downloadable text for the essay "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, which describes the experience of the narrator (possibly Orwell himself) who shot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.
Eserver
E Server: The Thoreau Reader: Text/analysis of "The Maine Woods"
Includes the entire e-text of Thoreau's (1817-1862 CE) "Maine Woods," as well as maps of his movement, contemporary and modern reviews, and links to other sites on this work.
Eserver
E Server: The Thoreau Reader: "Cape Cod"
The Thoreau Reader includes a full online text of Henry David Thoreau's compelling book-length commentary on nature and society, "Cape Cod." Also includes maps, reviews, and further links and information to this work.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Washington Irving: Early Years
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature site provides biographical information and analysis of the works and literary contribution of Washington Irving. Use the forward arrows at the bottom of the web page to read a...
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Research Assistant: For Students: Purpose Statement
This site gives advice on how to write an effective purpose (thesis) statement. The summary is given as answers to four questions: what? why? when? how?.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Structure and Organization
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides resources to help students organize the content of their essays. Resources to help students with outlining content and incorporating transition words are provided.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: Francis Bacon
This lesson on Seventeenth Century British Literature focuses on Francis Bacon, founder of the essay form. It features links to his essays: "Of Tribute: Praise of Knowledge" and "Of Parents and Children" and a History of the Essay...
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Read Works
Read Works: The American Revolution, 1763 1783 [Excerpt]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an excerpt from an essay on the American Revolution and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, author's purpose, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions are...
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Introductions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips for writing a strong introduction for an essay. Using the following are discussed in these tips: anecdote, startling statement, famous ideas, question(s), first...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for preparing a constructed response that must compare three sources: two articles and a video.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that contains relevant information and valid inferences. W.9-10.2 Informative
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
New York Times
New York Times: Books: Criticism and the Age
Read Brooke Allen who, on the New York Times on the Web, reviews a book on Randall Jarrell and a book of essays by Randall Jarrell. Read some Jarrell quotes.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: Report Writing in Primary Grades
This is a fun, hands-on lesson from AtoZteacherstuff! Students go through a study of frogs while learning how to interpret and restate factual information.
British Council
British Council: Essays: Structure 2
This website provides tips to writing which develops an argument. When writing an essay, show that the writer can construct a coherent argument and employ critical thinking skills, as well as support an argument with evidence.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "America and I" by Anzia Yezierska
This is an essay about Anzia Yezierska, an immigrant from the Russian-Polish border, and her struggles adapting to living in America. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This site offers links to paired...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases by Ida b.wells
This is an excerpt comes from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" by Ida B.Wells. In it she talks about lynching, or the murder by mob for an alleged crime without a legal trial. The targets of such violence and hatred were...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Octavio Paz Biographical
Read about the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, Octavio Paz. This Nobel E-Museum website includes a biography, poetry, Paz's Nobel lecture entitled "In Search of the Present," and many other resources.