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A requirements sheet, peer/self-editing checklist, and scoring rubric for a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay profiling a historical figure important to soccer.
Includes: essay requirements page with due-date tracker (research notes, outline, draft, peer edit, final) · writing-tips / peer-and-self editing checklist
Teaches students the process of writing a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay -- forming a thesis, using supporting documents, and structuring an argument -- and provides rubrics to grade the resulting essay.
Includes: paperless-setup instructions for installing Adobe Reader (duplicated as PDF and PPTX) · editable 7-point DBQ rubric (PPTX) · paperless fillable rubric, no-percent version (PDF)
Free download Step-by-step guide and project materials for writing a tragedy narrative, including planning tools, a peer/self checklist, and a scoring rubric aligned to Common Core writing/reading/language anchor standards.
Includes: writing tips list · self/peer editing checklist
Assess fifth-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Includes: informative writing rubric (student checklist, teacher grading guideline, scorecard, comment section, bordered and non-bordered versions)
A requirements sheet, peer/self-editing checklist, and scoring rubric for a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay profiling a historical figure important to cricket.
Includes: essay requirements page with due-date tracker (research notes, outline, draft, peer edit, final) · writing-tips / peer-and-self editing checklist
A Poetry Month research and writing activity in which students research an assigned poet and write a short biography summary.
Includes: Poets and Authors Mini-Research graphic organizer · Biography Writing Prompt with lined response pages
Guides students through independent biographical research on Booker T. Washington and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Includes: Research essay requirements/instructions page · Writing tips checklist (self-check and peer-check columns) · Essay rubric scored against CCRA.W.2.A, CCRA.W.2.B, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3 (out of 40 points total)
Assessment and writing resource for the novel 'The War That Saved My Life' - chapter comprehension quizzes, literary essay prompts, and quick writes.
Includes: 7 comprehension quizzes (chapters 1-46, grouped in 7 sections) · 10 literary essay prompts · 5 quick writes
Guide students through independently researching the artistic life and legacy of Vincent Van Gogh, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
A one-page (front/back) guide that walks students through planning and drafting an original science fiction narrative, with model examples, a peer-edit checklist, and a scoring rubric.
Includes: list of classic science fiction narrative examples (E.T., Back to the Future, Fahrenheit 451, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Flowers for Algernon) · writing tips list · peer-edit checklist (self/peer confirm columns)
A step-by-step narrative writing assignment guide having students write an original narrative (real or imagined) about a grandparent, including planning, drafting, peer editing, and rubric-based scoring aligned to CCRA.W.3.
Includes: assignment requirements page with due-date fields (Narrative Map, Outline, Draft, Peer Edit, Final) · writing tips list · peer-edit checklist (self/peer initial confirmation)
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of Theodore Roosevelt, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Guide students through independently researching the literary life and legacy of T.S. Eliot, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Guide students through independently researching the life and scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of Winston Churchill, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of Thomas Jefferson, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Paired-text analysis activity teaching students to compare an allegorical children's story and a poem, both used to represent the Holocaust, and to synthesize their shared themes in writing
Includes: 'The Terrible Things' analysis page: author's purpose, symbolism (the clearing, the Terrible Things, the different animals), comprehension question on the… · annotation and analysis page for the poem 'First They Came For The Jews' (GIST summary…
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of Thurgood Marshall, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
A chapter slice from a 'How to Write an Essay' workbook, based on a five-step writing model, that teaches students to draft essays using graphic organizers.
Includes: Critical Thinking Skills chart (Bloom's Taxonomy mapped to chapters) · Assessment Rubric (Level 1-4 scoring for Ideas, Organization, Style, Conventions)
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of Sojourner Truth, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
Guides students through independent biographical research on Duke Ellington and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Includes: Research essay requirements/instructions page · Writing tips checklist (self-check and peer-check columns) · Essay rubric scored against CCRA.W.2.A, CCRA.W.2.B, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3 (out of 40 points total)
Guide students through independently researching the life and influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
A nine-week set of weekly writing practice slides for grades 7-10 covering descriptive, expository, and narrative writing to build regular writing practice.
Includes: 9 weekly writing-prompt slide decks (Week 1-9, 12 pages each) · Teacher Guide / Editable Writing Rubric (4 pages)
A set of print-and-pass poetry writing lessons designed to be run by a substitute teacher, each giving students a concept definition, drafting time, a peer-review step, and a rubric-scored final poem.
Includes: Sample substitute note/teacher instructions with class-period agenda · Write Haikus Lesson (concept definition, 4 haiku drafting slots, agenda sidebar) · Write Cinquains Lesson (concept definition, cinquain drafting slots, agenda sidebar)