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7th grade writing-expository dbqs
Sentence Starters: Introducing Evidence / Elaboration Techniques - Printable
Are you tired of reading the same generic responses from your students? This useful charts helps students improve on their argumentative writing skills by adding variation to their sentences/transitions. It displays different sentence starters (and verbs) to help students introduce and elaborate on evidence when writing their essays (great way to add syntactic variety to formulaic written responses!). ► These charts may be printed out and laminated for students to use in the classroom/at home (T
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5th - 12th
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Black Lives Matter & Civil Rights Movement Project
An incredible hoard of primary and secondary source documents for students to research, analyze and synthesize into a comparative essay on the civil rights movement and modern day movement for Black lives. Students will have 3 different topics to choose from, all with guided research scaffolds (text sets and questions to guide inquiry): "civil rights", "policing", "students and youth", and "creating social change". Included is an intro lesson on Black Lives Matter, a rubric for the writing proje
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education
DBQ Tool Kit
Give your students a booklet they can create that guides them through the entire process of answering document based questions. Print the booklet front to back fold and staple and your students will have everything they need.
Included:
*Space for you to give them your method of document analysis along with a link to sites with tons of ideas.
*A format for analyzing and categorizing the documents. Along with an example.
*A sentence by sentence outline of how to answer the DBQ. It is the redu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: 7th & 8th Holiday Super Pack!
Cancel Culture: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint, Assessment, Activities, Rubrics & More
Unlock the Conversations of Tomorrow, Today!Are you ready to introduce your students to one of the most gripping and relevant discussions in our society? Our "Dive into Cancel Culture" lesson plan is tailor-made for secondary educators, eager to spark critical thinking, debate, and understanding around a topic that's shaping our digital and real-world landscapes.Inside Your Comprehensive Toolkit:Dynamic PowerPoint Presentation (40 mins): Jumpstart the dialogue with an engaging presentation desig
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Age of Exploration
This Power Point Presentation includes; Vocabulary, The Silk Road, Marco Polo, the reasons for exploration, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, and all of the maps describing their routes to give an excellent overview and visual of European Exploration. This Power Point highlights these points specifically; what country sponsored them, their goals, achievements, and obstacles. Each slide also includes an interesting point
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Article of the Week: Implicit Bias
This Article of the Week follows Kelly Gallagher's protocol of multiple scaffolded reads of one informational text to increase comprehension. Students are asked to:infer meaning of complex vocabularyannotate for meaning while readinganswer questions varying in Bloom's Taxonomy depthThis article can be used to compliment a novel or can work alongside other short texts about bias.
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7th - 10th
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Just Add WATER (Simple Strategy for TDA, DBQ, Constructed Response...)
Response to Reading, Text Dependent Analysis, Constructed Response, Document Based Questions...Writing about reading comes in many names. This strategy - complete with notes, notes page, explanations, a sample paragraph, and a strategy assessment chart - will provide students with a scaffold for writing quality responses.
Engaging students in the act of writing about what they read can be challenging. This sometimes occurs when students are not engaged in the reading, but it more often h
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Culturally Responsive, Game Based U.S. History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up: Alliance
Put colonial North America into full context with over 25 lessons using activities, maps, an animated video, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the ALLIANCE board game (separate purchase). WARNING: History class will never be the same.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "A clever take on statecraft whereby six teams across colonial North America meet the triple challenge of nation building, international diplomacy, and economic sustainability. Iroquois Confederacy
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4th - 7th
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Due Process: Primary Source and QuickWrite
Students will be given a cartoon about Miranda Rights, as well as a definition of the term due process. After evaluating the source, students will be asked to answer a short writing prompt dealing with the due process amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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7th - 12th
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Just Add WATER PowerPoint (Simple Strategy for TDA, DBQ...)
This is a PowerPoint of the WATER text-dependent writing strategy offered through my store. If you just want the strategy without the notes page, explanation page, and assessment page, then this presentation is the correct choice for you. The strategy will assist your students with Response to Reading, Text Dependent Analysis (TDA), Constructed Response, Document Based Questions..all the names attributed to writing about reading.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Short Constructed Response Quick and Easy Activity with Rubric
Changes can be scary and with the new STAAR elements, there can be a lot of uncertainty. This SCR template is a quick and easy way to help our students be successful on STAAR. On the left, there is a place that walks students through each step of the way. They will read and analyze the text both as a reader and a writer. There is a place to rewrite the prompt, a space to plan and write, and a place to write their final drafts. On the left side, there is an easy-to-grade rubric using STAAR langua
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Grades:
5th - 8th
DBQ: Julius Caesar Primary Source Analysis and Essay
Thank you for downloading my product!Students will uncover the reasons why Julius Caesar was brutally killed by the Roman Senate. Students will analyze primary sources and write an argumentative essay. This resource is great for 6th-7th Grade History or ELA classes. Please rate and comment if you enjoyed the free resource. Thank you!Included in the free resource: 1. One page Lesson Plan- with Essential Questions, Big Idea and Student Objectives2. Timeline and Introduction (to establish context)3
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6th - 12th
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180 days of Journal Prompts: Writing that Everyone Loves!
I've never done anything in my class that provoked the same reactions from my students! This packet includes 180 days of journal prompts. That's one for each day of the school year! If done properly, students will be able to use this as bellwork (a quick five minute activity) or as an exit activity. Students will be so excited to see what their next journal entry will be that they'll come in asking for more.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Roanoke Island CSI -Investigation/Essay Builder
Are you looking for a FUN way to teach students about the disappearance of the Roanoke Island Colonists? Over the years there have been many speculations about how the colonists disappeared, and some theories were just bonkers. This lesson will allow students to explore logical reasons for the colonists disappearance and some theories that may stretch the imagination. Credible evidence about how the Island of Roanoke came to temporarily hold inhabitants from the new world is explained in mini re
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7th - 9th
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TDA Task Cards (Organizing a Paragraph)
I know that essay writing isn't always the most engaging activity. So, I designed this task card activity to make our essay unit FUN. Get your students up and moving, working and collaborating when it comes to writing! These task cards require students to organize paragraphs and figure out the proper sentence sequence. Add a prize at the end, and students are determined to win.
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7th - 8th
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Revolutionary War WebQuest/Power Point
This power point has it all! It covers the Revolutionary War completely, including DBQs, document based questioning, video clips, and maps. It covers all of the important battles included in the standards. The document based questioning includes Benjamin Franklin's speech and the Constitution. Everything you need to provide instruction that reaches all learners. Below is listed all of the events it covers:
Proclamation 1763
Sugar Act of 1764
Stamp Act of 1765
Townshend Acts of 1767
Boston Ma
Grades:
4th - 8th
Outline for Expository Essay or DBQ Essay
This product is jam packed with information to help scaffold essay writing for struggling writers or students who are right on track. This DBQ outline include information for the DBQ on the Salem Witch Trials. However, you can delete that information (or use it as an example!) to help support your writers. This outline also includes sentences starters for each chunk of an expository body paragraph. It also details how to write an effective introduction and conclusion! Great Formative Assessment
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5th - 12th
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MLA Format with Google Docs Guide
This guide can be a handout or online guide to MLA Format in Google Docs. The side information helps to guide students step-by-step on how to create an essay in MLA format. There is also a YouTube video linked at the bottom to give multiple methods for understanding how to set a paper up in MLA format. This is part of the "WICOR" resource collection.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Document Based Question: Why did women's roles change from the 50s to the 80s?
One of our SC SS Standards for the 5th grade addresses how women's roles changed during the Cold War era between the 50s to the 80s. I could not find many resources to support my teaching of this standard, so I attempted to create my own DBQ! I use the "The DBQ Project"'s "Mini-Q's in American History," Volume 2, and this resource does a phenomenal job of meeting our SS standards, as well as promoting common core reading and writing standards. So, I used their format to create my own DBQ answ
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5th - 7th
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Lupita Manana: Document Based Essay Assignment
At the conclusion of our unit on immigration and after reading Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty my students wrote this persuasive essay pertaining to illegal immigration. It is formatted to match the format of the document based essay on the New York State History Regents Exam. The documents that they use are the book and articles that we read as a class.
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7th - 10th
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Steps for Paraphrasing Bundle
For students who benefit from graphic organizers, checklists, and direct instruction on writing skills when putting information into their own words. This tool includes:
• A graphic organizer for key words and ideas in a document or quotation
• A graphic organizer to organize the clauses or thoughts and ideas in a sentence
• Directions to guide students in writing their own sentence.
• A how-to handout listing four steps to a “perfect paraphrase”
• A checklist for students to help them reflect
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6th - 12th
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Standardized Test Prep Essay- Therapy Dogs and Soldiers
This article and writing prompt pair requires students to read and respond. They must be able to define "stigma" with examples taken from the text and their own prior knowledge. The text is an article from Tween Tribune Smithsonian. It is a 940L text.
This could be an essay or a short constructed response. Formatted similar to a sit-down, standardized-essay test.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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7th - 10th
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Planning, Drafting, and Writing an Introduction
This is a great product to help your students understand what 'makes up' an introduction. It advances the sophistication of their writing while giving various levels of support. The layout is clean, student-friendly and perfect for upper elementary grades. You will definitely see improvement
Included in this product:
Color Anchor Chart for Planning an Introduction
B&W Student Notes Page
Scaffolded Student Worksheets
Drafting Page for Introduction
Don't forget to check out the Introduct
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4th - 7th
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Synthesis of Learning: Athenian Democracy vs American Democracy Part 2 of 2
This is Part II. - Or may be used individually as a reserach-based writing activity on Athenian and American Democracy. It includes a clear writing prompt. Asks students to synthesize their information includes Rubric, scale and instructions, lines for writing and a note to include separate paper if student requires more space. SS Benchmark SS.6.C.1.1. and 3 common core benchmarks. Designed to be printed on back of Part I Venn Diagram.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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