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What is a hero? What makes a hero? Help your students to write a three (3) paragraph, informative essay about their "everyday hero." First, students will brainstorm and define what makes a hero. Then students will listen to and analyze popular song lyrics about heroes. Finally, students will write their own three paragraph essay.

This is a formal lesson to introduce point of view (POV) to 7th grade students. There is a power point with cloze notes to help students understand point of view and how to analyze it in a text.

Use this power point and cloze notes to teach or review how to trace an argument. There are also built in activities and articles to use to further strengthen a student's understanding.

Use this power point to review or introduce how to write a HOOK for essay writing. Also included are notes that go along with the power point and a practice worksheet.

Use this power point to teach and discuss 6th grade standard RL.02.

Would you like to review argumentative writing with your students in a creative way? Use this power point presentation and handouts to have students write an argumentative essay about the benefits of chewing gum during school or during standardized testing. The best part, the students write their essay for the school principal.

Use this power point and closed notes to review or introduce the standard.

Use this resource to introduce or review structures of a story.

The right lesson at the right time (fortunately/unfortunately). Use the current and "hot" new song from Twenty One Pilots to review figurative language and elements of poetry.

use this power point and notes for students to learn about standard 7.RL.04. They will learn about figurative language as well as connotation and denotation. There is also a fun project for students to create.

Teach students to use transitional words in their writing by having them write about how to eat an OREO cookie

Use this power point and cloze notes to teach or review text structures. There are also practice questions and some activities to further extend your students' learning.

Need to explain conflict and how it affects the plot to your class again? Well, look no further.

use these doodle notes to review or introduce students to certain english language arts standards. standards included 6.RL.02 6.RL.03 6.RL.09 6.RI.02 6.RI.03 6.RI.09

Just in time for Valentine's Day. Review the parts of an argument and have students write an argumentative paragraph about their favorite type of Hershey Kiss. The best part of this lesson is that students get to do some test tasting.

use these doodle notes to introduce students to standards or for review.

Have students create a step book, comic strip, and/or a fortune teller to learn or review the 8 parts of speech.

Use this product to introduce or review point of view in informational text for sixth graders.

Use this power point to have student review literary terms at the beginning of the year before a unit or as a review in the middle of the semester.

Use this resource to introduce or review central idea for the 6th grade standard RI.02