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El Education: 20 Years Project Portfolio

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This project is a portfolio of an 8th grader who projects herself 20 years into the future including her future occupation and life. To prepare students interview someone who works in a field similar to their projected one. The project...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hands, Hands, Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will show pictures of six hands to students. (See attachment) After a brainstorming session, students will choose one hand that illustrates a particular story from their life. Then, students will write a two page narrative...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Is a Legal Career Right for You?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a 3-part project; however, you may opt to omit 1 part. Students will investigate a career related to the legal profession to determine the various aspects of the career. In addition, students will create a PowerPoint presentation...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica School: Ruby Bridges: Connections Between Individuals, Ideas, Events

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Students will read an article about Ruby Bridges and watch a video of President Obama meeting with Ruby Bridges. They will complete an anticipation guide and a reflective essay based on this content.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Why & How to Use Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of Sydney reference explains the importance of using reputable sources in academic writings. Then the site provides steps to follow to assist students with using bibliographic sources. Click on the sections list to...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...
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The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay addresses the madness present within the Shakespearean comedy, "The Comedy of Errors," and how it is reflective of "Elizabethan ideas about both supernatural and natural causes of madness."
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Beginnings of the Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two 50-minute lessons that teach about the comparison/contrast organizational pattern. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 40-minute lessons that teach persuasive writing to elementary students. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: How to Writing Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five fourth grade lessons that ask students to write essays for future fourth graders about how to have successful years. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Outlining?from Freewriting to Formalizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to write literary analysis essays about Edgar Allen Poe's ?The Fall of the House of Usher.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders prepare to write, develop, and publish a culminating task essay. They also reflect on the understanding they've built through the unit texts by engaging in a discussion about the unit question, and they prepare for the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: It's My Life Multimodal Autobiography Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask learners to write autobiographies before creating multimedia presentations for them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alphabiography Project Totally You

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask middle schoolers to write autobiographies using aspects of their lives for each letter of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students to write effective "hooks," or beginnings, to their writing. They read the introductions of fiction passages and analyze the techniques they use before applying these techniques in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cooking Up Descriptive Language Designing Restaurant Menus

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to develop their descriptive writing skills by creating their own restaurant menus. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: Hugh Mac Lennan

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Hugh MacLennan, who is "considered one of Canada's most nationalistic novelists." This article provides information on his education as well as events and themes reflected in his written works.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: This Is My Life!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This assignment requires you to write about your own life, your family, and the things that are influencing you so far in your personal journey. The result will be a short autobiography of your own and hopefully a little more...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a instructional activity has been...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Empire Building

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lengthy essay about American focus on foreign affairs after the Civil War, expanding particularly in the late 19th century. Read about U.S. exploits in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific...

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