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This handout explains the PAPA (Purpose, Audience, Persona, Argument) Square rhetorical analysis assignment. It provides a layout of how the square should be created and a rubric for grading. Students have choice of essay to analyze and are able to demonstrate creativity.

Text-Dependent Analysis outline for RACES format -- explains each letter of the acronym and requires students to plan out their restatement and answer (RA), two pieces of Cited evidence (C1 and C2), and corresponding Explanation (E1 and E2) for how the evidence supports their answer. Can be used with any open-ended prompt which requires analysis using evidence from the text. Used as Keystone Literature prep (standardized test prep) but can be applied for many different writing tasks.

This was originally used as a letter to someone in government requesting a change in the community (promoting tolerance is the topic we used). It prompts students to write an opening statement, list how they could change and why they should change, and then end with a call to action.

This was used with "All Together Now" by Barbara Jordan, but can be adapted very easily for any persuasive letter to a government official. This worksheet includes instructions, examples, steps for finding contact information and addressing a letter, and a graphic organizer.

15 weeks of vocabulary and key terms that you should know for Advanced Placement Language and Composition. A Quizlet link and presentation rubric are attached in the original document, and there is a separate Google Slideshow for prompts for every vocab quiz.

A worksheet to practice making compound sentences with comma/conjunctions. An answer key is attached.

Slideshow that analyzes "A Modest Proposal" for rhetorical situation and ethos, logos, and pathos, then provides a resource for students to do their own rhetorical analysis of an essay using the PAPA format. Meant to be implemented after reading "A Modest Proposal."

This slideshow includes examples for seven types of poems with assignment information and other resources for students to ultimately submit a portfolio of written poems.

This breakout box is made to be completed in about 30 minutes as a review of material on illegal drugs. Information for set up, all lock codes, hints, and paper supplies are all included. You will need a larger box, a smaller box, a key lock, a three-digit lock, a four-digit lock, and a five digit multilock, along with a blacklight marker and light.

A breakout box to be used at the end of a Scarlet Ibis unit that has a symbolism focus. Locks required: 4-letter multilock, 5-letter multilock, hasp, two 3-number locks, 4-number lock. Also needed: blacklight marker and light

This project instructs students in writing a research essay on a mythological character, including an outline, rubric, additional "Character Interview" exercise, and peer review worksheet.

This packet has students work through choosing a topic, practicing introductions, writing an outline, and lists characteristics of the personal narrative genre.

This provides eight weeks of worksheets and quizzes (with keys) for vocabulary based on roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Each quiz is 10-14 points.

"Elaboration Is Adding Branches" encourages students to vary their sentence structure and include more details in their writing. It can also make for a nice poster for the classroom walls :)

A menu that provides options for students to choose a book report project and includes a Padlet of resources for each option.

Activity to demonstrate text structure: a reverse outline helps students see how authors organize texts efficiently. This activity uses Susan B. Anthony's "We the People" speech.

This can be used as an introduction to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe to annotate the first few paragraphs, focusing on mood and unreliable narrator.

Using Susan B. Anthony's "We, the People" speech, this activity demonstrates the organization of an argumentative speech or writing. Using the reverse outline format, students practice identifying author's choices and purpose as a basis for writing their own arguments.

The Jigsaw Protocol allows students to close read a large text in smaller parts and then share with their classmates. The attached worksheets apply to an informative or argumentative text, or a smaller text selection. There are opportunities for summarizing, paraphrasing, key terms, rhetorical analysis, author's main claim, etc.

A slideshow that can be printed for students to work on qualifying their claims and in turn their thesis statements. This was used in an AP Language and Composition course for the beginning of an argumentative writing unit.