Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Appropriate Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising essays so that they contain the appropriate appeals.
Handout
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative page describes the true purposes of the hypothesis and how it should be used. Not only shows how they are written, but also helps students figure out the dependent versus independent variable.
Primary
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Differentiate Among Empirical, Anecdotal, and Logical Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Distinguish among different kinds of evidence in a text that supports conclusions and arguments in texts.
Unit Plan
Other

Astoria by Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides online text, including the author's introduction, for "Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains" by Washington Irving. It also provides a link to a publication history for this work.
Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Introducing a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips relating to writing the introduction of a discursive essay. Five separate methods are described, including provocative, balanced, illustration,...
Article
Other

Beginning Reporting: The News Lead Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Sometimes the best way to begin is with an anecdote or example. Reporter Jim Hall of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star gives tips about how to write effectively with this approach.
Activity
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided by a University of Pennsylvania professor, Alan Filreis, who has studied Stevens extensively. It contains excerpts from Filreis' critical works, texts of several of Stevens' poems, photos, reviews, letters, links to...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
All living things can be identified by their placement in a biological classification table. Students will investigate the organization of all living things and learn how to classify through the process of classifying their own shoes....
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Graphic
Curated OER

Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....

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