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Higher education ELA test prep research
Line of Reasoning Digital Activities Cancel Culture AP Language Seminar
Line of Reasoning overview and activities designed specifically to help students understand and apply this sometimes elusive concept.Hot Topic for practice: Cancel Culture. Can be used as an accompaniment to an argument, rhetorical analysis, synthesis, or thematic unit. Perfect for AP English Language and Composition and AP Seminar courses - both of which use LOR concepts in daily practice and test mastery in the end-of-course exams and for AP Seminar, the performance tasks. Help your students i
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Claim - Counterclaim Graphic Organizer - NYS Common Core Regents
This 1-page document is a graphic organizer outline for a claim - counterclaim essay. While this is helpful for practice for the New York State Common Core Regents, it could be especially helpful for anyone work on an argumentative essay or research paper. Thanks for your interest!
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
AP Language Synthesis Bundle - research project, essay organizer, slides, unit
This bundle contains everything you need to launch and keep the momentum going in your AP Language Synthesis unit. Each resource helps your students visualize their thinking, organize writing, and understand the process to producing a solid synthesis essay. Multiple scaffolds include writing organizers, writing stems, and visual cue cards to understand the essay writing process. This bundle contains two project-based learning experiences, each of 5-10 class periods, that combine skills for both
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing S.O.A.P: Aristotles 5+ Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Based on Ray Salazaar's Article, "If You Teach the 5-Paragraph Essay--Stop It", uses College Board and Common Core Standards to guide students through building a well-written persuasive essay. Whether 5-paragraphs or 50-pages,the format works for fact or research based papers.
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Chart
Checklist
Definitions
Writing Guides
Examples
Peer workshopping component
Extra Resources: Links to Sample Essays...
16 interactive slides to guide students through the research writing process: thesis w
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Lots of MLA Practice
MLA broken down by topic: (1) MLA: How It's Done - 1 page visual with instructions on how to format any Word document into MLA format.(2) 15 essays that are not in MLA format - plentiful practice for students to help learn and reinforce tedious MLA rules.(3) Bibliography How-To - a quick glance at how to format book, internet, and periodical bibliography entries (the three most tested on state testing).(4) 2 practice bibliography worksheets with key(5) Essay in proper MLA format - great to refer
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
AP Language Argumentative Weekly Research Activity
This resource is a Weekly Research template for students to use when building current events knowledge for the AP Language Argumentative Essay. Students tend to have a limited knowledge of current events or politics, so this activity asks them to locate a recent news article about a given topic (in this case politics, but the topic can be easily modified to anything else). They must read the article and write a synopsis, identify elements of SOAPSTone, identify any bias present in the article, a
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Into the Wild Synthesis Assignment
Students will make their own AP English Language and Composition synthesis prompt for Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer addressing the question "Is Chris McCandless insane for deserting his material goods and running away to the Alaskan wilderness?" Students will find their own five sources using online databases and create an annotated bibliography to explain how the sources could be used to address the question. Students must balance the sources so that the question could be answered from either p
Grades:
9th - 11th, Higher Education
Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer for Literary Analysis
Use this product to help your students expand their body paragraphs beyond 3 sentences. This is geared towards literary analysis and includes sentence stems.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Lots of MLA Testing
47 test questions divided according to '97 State Standard and MLA rules from 2010: (1) Formatting: 15 questions(2) Heading: 5 questions(3) In-Text/Parenthetical Citations (one concept): 13 questions(4) Bibliography/Works Cited Format: 7 questions(5) In-Text/Parenthetical Citations (more complex concepts): 6 questionsFile provided in Word 97 format so you can easily cut and paste to customize quizzes or tests.Need some worksheets to help teach and reinforce MLA concepts? Refer to "Lots of MLA Pra
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Student-Friendly AP English Language Synthesis Essay Rubric
ALIGNED WITH THE 2019 CED AND EXAM CHANGES!Give students a leg up on the AP™ English Language & Composition synthesis essay (Question 1 on the AP™ Lang exam) by teaching them to think like trained readers. This rubric takes the multiple-page 2019 revised synthesis rubric and translates it into a simpler one-page matrix. A printer-friendly version of the rubric is included as well.This rubric is included in the 44-page unit Read 'em and Weave: The AP English Language Synthesis Question, which
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
AP Language Synthesis Prompt
This editable doc contains nine on-line sources relating to the topic of the effects of violence in media on the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of young people. All nine sources are links to full-length articles, pdfs of research, and a cartoon. The format follows the AP Language template for the synthesis question. You could edit the sources down to just a few; you could divide the class into groups and have one group report out on the article / research, etc. You could also use this as
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Claim - Counterclaim Graphic Organizer - NYS Common Core Regents
This 1-page document is a graphic organizer outline for a claim - counterclaim essay. While this is helpful for practice for the New York State Common Core Regents, it could b especially helpful for anyone work on an argumentative essay or research paper. Thanks for your interest!
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
INTERDISCIPLINARY ELA: 80 AFFIXES COMMONLY USED IN AMERICAN HISTORY
GREETINGS, SOCIAL SCIENTISTS:This set of posters contains affixes that frequently appear on American History, standardized tests. Post them and use them as an alternate word wall in class. Complement these by allowing your students to complete the “Roots of the Day” as a bell ringer or as a closure and overtime, you will examine that your students will retain the roots better than words!THANKS ALWAYS!!!MICHAEL WALKERENTHUSED SOCIAL SCIENTIST
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Biographical Expository Essay Project
In an effort to improve my student's historical references in their expository essays, I have them do this historical research project. It allows students to research not only a person who had an impact on the world, but also important ideas and people of the era. I usually pair students up and have them do a simple expository project after they are done with researching - developing body paragraphs about their person for a prompt. (ex. "Write an essay explaining how one person can have a last i
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Differentiation Tool NGLS ELA PK-12
Use this chart to easily observe the NGLS progressions from Pre-K to High School.Use the find and replace feature on Google Sheets to quickly locate targeted skills and the standards they pertain to.Excellent resource for differentiation.Each strand is collapsable to allow for easy viewing.Print out the entire progression chart onto one page and use to track:Student ProgressSmall and Whole Group Progress
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Problem/ Solution Research and Essay Packet: Billionaires
Students will begin by researching the debate on Billionaires, and why so many people are talking about them. Through 2 Ted Talks and 2 Articles they will get to learn how to research in different ways and see a variety of perspectives on a big issue! They will then define what they believe the true problem to be per their research and identify a solution. Through detailed outlines they will be able to write their own 5 paragraph problem- solution essay with direct evidence. Includes: 1 Pre-Rese
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Driverless Vehicle Informational Text Practice: Interview Annotation
Students will critically analyze the podcast transcript: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: How to Plan for a Driverless Future (4 pages). Students may listen to full (unedited) podcast to follow along as well.Students will be guided through some of the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles as they highlight each side and answer 15 questions that encourage further interaction with the text through deeper analysis.Answer key includes both responses to the questions as well as a highlighted article.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A NO PREP Guide to Writing a Research Paper
This NO PREP guide to writing a research paper, will show your students how to construct an appropriate and complete outline. Which can easily be turned into a successful research paper. I plan on using this resource with my students as they begin their research unit in the Spring. I will go through the parts of an essay as a mini-lesson, then assign them a copy of this slide show to add all of their information. This will count as the outline for their paper. Once students have this slide show
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Research/Argument Graphic Organizer - NYS Common Core Regents
This 1-page document is a graphic organizer outline for a research argument essay. More detail has been added to this document to include a check of source information and validity to claims and alternate claims.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Outline Graphic Organizer for Writing a Five Paragraph Essay
This is a reproducible worksheet for students preparing and organizing to write a five paragraph essay. This could be turned in with the actual essay to ensure that students have planned before they write.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Research Sources Worksheets (Research & Writing)
Do your students need help categorizing and defining their research sources? Are you asking them to meet a minimum number of research sources for their essays? If so, then these worksheets are just what you need!
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2 formatted sets of worksheets: Table format & Listing format for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Research Sources
Easy to understand definitions
Examples of all sources
Blank space for recording students' own research sources
Number of Sources Used line for each so
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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APA Research Paper Exam
An end of unit test for research paper writing in APA format!
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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