Eighth graders empathize with how colonists felt when they were taxed without representation. They use a metaphor of students and a school principal to describe the strained relationship that developed between the colonies and Britain.

Third graders read "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest L. Thayer and create a newspaper article about Casey's infamous at-bat.

Learners read information about Anglo-Saxon rulers and literary techniques, then complete a worksheet to help them review. Students take notes about the oral tradition, Anglo-Saxon literary terms, and Anglo-Saxon poetry. Learners create...

Students read background information about Rachel Carson found on the listed website links. They analyze and answer questions about her work and how it is linked to science then they research pesticide usage and alternative methods.

Students analyze Korean culture from their literature piece. They investigate the theme of oppression by an occupying army. Students encounter courage, resistance movements and explore the underground railroads.

An explanation and examples of using parallelism in writing.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...

This unusual site actually is a set of articles that first appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, not exactly the place one would expect to find a discourse on parallel structure. Not only is there an interesting discussion of why we...

In this lesson, you will practice using parallelism by recognizing parallels, seeing possibilities for parallels, and creating parallel constructions. Learn to use parallelism in your writing, and you will find it to be your most useful...

You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.

This resource presents many examples of awkward and faulty parallelism which could be used for a class writing exercise, as well as for a guide to constructing correct sentences.

After textbook and online instruction in parallel construction, students examine "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" and the Declaration of Independence for parallelism before writing their own paragraphs.

You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.

This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...

This entry defines parallel structure and provides the five rules of parallel structure complete with explanation and examples.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about Sam's three tricks: parallel structure, the rhetorical question, and transitional words and phrases.

Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...

Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, students are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...

A good reference to consider when writing professionally (as in business/technical writing). Includes brief structural examples.

This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.

This entry focuses on avoiding shifts when writing sentences including shifts in verb tense, mood, number, person, discourse, and sentence structure. It provides explanation and examples of each type of error and explanation and examples...

This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...

In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.