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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Length and Style

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...