Essay Research Guide: Significant Playwrights

Essay Research Guide: Significant Playwrights Guide students through researching and writing a properly-cited five-paragraph essay on an important playwright. This scaffolded resource selection allows students to choose a playwright to research. Students gather facts and summarize the playwright's life using the background research and note-taking worksheet. The essay outline activity then walks students through drafting a complete essay, meeting all requirements. Peer review and revision come next with the provided checklist. Finally, students submit their polished essay for assessment with the included rubric aligned to Common Core ELA standards. Implement this full research lesson or just portions for a shorter research activity in grades 8-12. This resource contains a writing assignment, peer review checklist, grading rubric, research organizer, and outline worksheet. It scaffolds the entire process so even reluctant writers find essay drafting manageable. Flexibly fit this into any drama or language arts curriculum.