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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...
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Activity
Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
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Website
Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: Learning Social Vocabulary in a Menoir

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After discussing the picture book Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, students brainstorm the meaning of teacher-selected words. Once the students have a clear understanding of the words, they create a...
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Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness," and his short story, "The Secret Sharer," with the help of this study guide. It provides pre-reading material (author biography, vocabulary, introductory article), reading activities,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hands, Hands, Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will show pictures of six hands to students. (See attachment) After a brainstorming session, students will choose one hand that illustrates a particular story from their life. Then, students will write a two page narrative...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The lesson plan will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson plan begins...