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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Sensory Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a lesson has been learned. The retelling...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Fortune and Mis Fortune

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this RAFTS lesson students read W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" and then complete a grammar activity, or use the interactive fortune creator, to develop a writing prompt for a short essay about the fate or luck involved with their...
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Other

Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This resource from Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk defines various patterns of text organization and provides a brief essay example of each pattern.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Iste Nets: Birthstone Project With a Multimedia Twist

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This interdisciplinary project on birthstones, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), focuses on research skills, writing skills, and the ability to put together an electronic presentation.
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Heroes of the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Approximately half-way through this essay is an intriguing paragraph dealing with Sir Gawain's spiritual battle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." This is contrasted with the more traditional physical battle of many epic heroes....
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Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: George Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource about Victorian author George Eliot provides a detailed biography, bibliography as well as essays about themes, characterization, narrative and more.
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Beyond the Written Document: Looking for Africa in African American Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Paulla A. Ebron, professor at Stanford University, takes a look at how objects, landscapes, orally transmitted stories, and songs along with written documents can be used to study cultural history.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Writing Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" employing the analysis of such literary concepts as setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization. Students will write an essay discussing what the story suggests about middle-class...
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Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Alfred Lord Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of resources provides access to variety of scholarly works related to the Victorian writer. Includes a detailed biography, a list of works, social and political histories, and essays about themes, setting, imagery, and...
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Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web provides information from a detailed biography and social and political history to essays about narrative, characterization, and more. This site provides a variety of excellent resources relating to...
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Unit Plan
Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
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Graphic
Curated OER

George Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web contains a variety of excellent resources about Victorian author George Eliot. It provides everything from a detailed biography, political and social history, and a list of works...to essays about theme,...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web provides information from a detailed biography and social and political history to essays about narrative, characterization, and more. This site provides a variety of excellent resources relating to...

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