Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Revising a Thesis: Practice 1 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the strength of a thesis in an essay and revise it if necessary.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Essay Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by Empire State College explains the entire process of essay writing. It begins by defining what an essay is and continues then through the entire process, from prewriting to gathering information to shaping information to...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] An inference is a guess based on the information within a situation. It is valid if the guess is logical. This lesson teaches you how to check a completed draft for relevant...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
Lesson Plan
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 lesson has been learned. The retelling...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising sentence variety and for sentence combining in an essay.
Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto Mississauga: Papers: Expectations, Advice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which provides the expectations and grading criteria for students at the University of Puget Sound, also contains a great deal of helpful advice for student writers in general. The site walks students through the process of...
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the evidence to support points in an essay. Be sure you have enough support for each point and that the points are strong ones. It also suggests you double check both direct and indirect quotations in your paper to...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th
You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.