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Website
ProCon.org

Pro Con: Teacher Tenure

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson in which students analyze the pros and cons of teacher tenure.
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Lesson Plan
Student Achievement Partners

Achieve the Core: "Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution"

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan explores the meaning of the words in the Preamble to the Constitution.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Rhetorical Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on rhetorical context including defining it, questions to ask to understand it, and how it can be useful to the reader and responder.
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Activity
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Practice: Rhetorical Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a practice activity to see if students can identify the writer's rhetorical context.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary of the previous lessons having to do with rhetorical reading including rhetorical context, previewing text, actively reading, using context clues, and reading voraciously.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Applying to New Contexts Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some questions ask you to identify which scenario matches the principle in a passage. This type of question asks you to apply a principle or idea presented in the passage to a new context presented in the choices.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Historical/biographical Analysis Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short graphic organizer which allows students to assess the historical and biographical influence on a piece of literature.