You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives

You will learn revision strategies you can use to strengthen your introduction and body of your paper. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format

[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

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style

In this lesson, students will to learn how to narrow their research topic and create a research plan and timeline. W.9-10.7 Research

In this lesson, students will learn how to develop a thesis and an introduction for a research project. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format

In this lesson, students learn how writers develop characters through a variety of techniques: narration, dialogue, interaction with other characters, interaction with setting, and characters' thoughts. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...

This lesson focuses on documenting research sources and writing a bibliography or Works Cited page. It discusses when and how to document your sources using MLA style. W.9-10.8 Sources, L.9-10.3a Standard Format

The activities in this lesson will help you focus on the important features of arguments, especially on the writer (or the source) and the evidence the writer provides. That way, you can more accurately decide if an argument is valid and...

In this lesson, students learn how to plan their research, find relevant primary and secondary sources, and use those sources in your research papers. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite

In this lesson, students will learn how writers use words that allow them to create pictures in their heads. When a writer uses sensory details or words that appeal to our senses, then we are able to use our senses and our memory to...

This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...

In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research

You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc

This activity provides an opportunity for students to model the volume of a rectangular prism and make connections to the formula, V=l ' w ' h.

Commodore Moore was given a hero's welcome after returning to Galveston. But this didn't last long, as he was dishonorably discharged from the Texas Navy and charged with "disobedience and piracy" and "murder for the execution of the San...

Short biographies of each of the presidents of the Republic of Texas, as well as five leading figures in the Republic.

Suffragist Mrs. W.B. Wynne published "The Legal Status of Woman in Texas" as part of her fight for women's rights. Check out images of the original document, a portrait of Wynne, and a brief commentary.

A key for classifying Texas native plants. Observe the characteristics of a plant and make choices as you work through the key to find out its binomial name.

Explore the Texas Revolution through primary texts. Here you can read "Friends and Citizens of Texas," a broadside from March 2, 1836, that "called all citizens to arms and all armed vessels to the coast."

A brief biography of James W. Fannin that describes the role he played in the struggle for the independence of Texas, and his tragic end at Goliad in 1836.

This is a very general biography about the 41st President, George H. W. Bush that includes a creative cartoon image. Covers family information, his presidency, and provides a bibliography for more information.

In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...

Which president owned a professional baseball team? Explore with AmericanPresident.org to discover more facts about George W. Bush. He is currently serving as the 43rd President of the United States.