This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.

The activities included in this lesson plan require the reading of William Armstrong's Sounder. This technology-based lesson fosters critical thinking and includes journal writing, student-led discussions with another class via video...

This is an excellent lesson plan unit that can be used with gifted students. Students can choose from three case files and each case file has six lesson plans. After studying a case, students must compose a persuasive argument, present...

Contains plans for five lessons that use Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" to teach about free speech and give students an opportunity to develop persuasive arguments. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...

Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This lesson plan uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well. In addition...

This lesson is a hands-on way for students to learn how to discern between fact and opinion. This is an important skill for citizenship in that citizens should be informed about what is happening in their communities and should take...