Writing Essays Teacher Tools

Opinion Writing Bell Ringer Warm-Ups: 50 Digital Persuasive Writing Activities

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iTeach & iWrite

These 50 Opinion Writing Time Filler Warm-Ups are exactly what your reluctant or struggling writers need to improve their persuasive writing skills. You’ll get access to both a PowerPoint presentation and a Google Slideshow with 10 weeks of no-prep digital bell-ringers.

4th - 6th Writing, Writing Essays, Writing Expository

Also included in: Writing Warm-Ups Bundle: 200 Bell Ringers for Info, Opinion, Narrative & Grammar

Expository Writing Bell Ringer Warm-Ups: 50 Digital Info Writing Activities

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iTeach & iWrite

These 50 Expository Writing Time Filler Warm-Ups are exactly what your reluctant or struggling writers need to improve their informational writing skills. You’ll get access to both a PowerPoint presentation and a Google Slideshow with 10 weeks of no-prep digital bell-ringers.

4th - 6th Writing, Writing Essays, Writing Expository

Also included in: Writing Warm-Ups Bundle: 200 Bell Ringers for Info, Opinion, Narrative & Grammar

The Great Gatsby Character Analysis Mini-Unit | Literary Analysis & Writing

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Plotting Something

Once students know the characters well enough to move beyond first impressions, this mini-unit helps them turn what they notice into literary analysis.Students choose one major character—Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, or George Wilson—and look closely at motiv

9th - 12th Literature, Writing Essays

College Essay Unit | Personal Statement Writing Lessons & Rubric

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay can be frustrating. Students often think they need a dramatic story, choose a prompt before they have anything meaningful to say, or end up writing the same version of “this experience taught me to never give up.”This unit takes a different approach.The College Essay: Find

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Brainstorming Mini-Unit | Find Your Story

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay often gets stuck before students ever begin drafting. They insist nothing important has happened to them, assume they need a dramatic life event, or grab the first familiar topic they can think of and immediately turn it into a generic life lesson.Find Your College Essay S

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Revision Workshop | Personal Statement Editing

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Plotting Something

Your students have written the college essay. Now comes the part that is often harder to teach: real revision. This three-lesson workshop is designed for students who already have a complete or nearly complete personal statement. Instead of focusing only on proofreading, students look closely at wha

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Drafting Workshop | Personal Statement Voice & Structure

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Plotting Something

Your students have a college essay idea. Now they have to turn it into an essay. This five-lesson workshop is designed for the middle of the college essay process: after brainstorming, but before final revision. Students work on reflection, natural voice, prompt choice, structure, and beginnings and

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

Great Depression Primary Sources: Age-Adapted Teaching Pack Grades 3-12

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EGP Media and Press

Transform your Great Depression unit with this comprehensive primary source learning pack featuring authentic historical documents from 1929-1939. Perfect for developing critical thinking skills through Document-Based Question (DBQ) methodology.What's Included:5 Core Primary Sources (suitable for al

3rd - 12th Writing Essays, U.S. History, Other (Social Studies)

Analyzing Primary Sources: Alaska's Matanuska Colony & U.S. Government

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EGP Media and Press

What does it look like when the government stops stepping aside and starts stepping in?This primary source analysis unit uses Alaska's Matanuska Colony, one of Franklin Roosevelt's most ambitious and controversial New Deal experiments, as the lens for examining one of the most significant shifts in

6th - Higher Education Writing, Writing Essays, U.S. History