Write Here Write Now ELA

20 essential questions that can be used to guide lesson plan writing or questions that can be used for daily journal writing or even socratic seminars in the classroom. They are appropriate for high school aged students, but can easily be modified if desired to suit younger students in terms of their language.

This is an end of unit assessment I used with my students where I have students in groups first research and analyze famous closing statements for criminal cases and then I break them up into either the prosecution or defense side and have students write a closing statement for Medea. You can also have a mock trial and have students in groups write these closing statements. This may work well for upperclassmen studying Euripides play and can span several class periods.