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This Powerpoint Lesson will guide your students through the basics of biographical writing. The presentation contains 15 slides that begin by explaining the terms (biographical) and (narrative). There is a writing prompt included in the powerpoint as well as a slide for dissecting the writing prompt into something more manageable. Your students will leave this lesson with basic understanding of this writing domain.

This warm up exercise is a great way to get students thinking about how to read effectively. Basic words in the reading have been replaced with complicated euphemisms. Students must rely on basic word knowledge and context clues in order to decipher important words in the plot. The activity is rather like a puzzle requiring students to use critical thinking skills and inquiry. Students may work independently or in pairs to guess the answers. Reviewing the answers together as a class may account

This eight slide powerpoint will walk your students through the basics of connotation and denotation. It includes definitions, images, elaboration, and prompts for pair-sharing about the content. This makes a great introductory lesson at the start of a unit. It would also be a great re-teaching tool for those that need more review.

Help your students prepare for high-stakes timed writing tests with this informative lesson. With proper elaboration and student/teacher interaction, this presentation will easily provide an hour of useful instruction. Students in high school, middle school, and elementary grade levels often get an overdose of narrative text which makes for a lack of understanding of what expository writing really is. This lesson fully defines the writing domain and provides concrete examples of the different ki

This worksheet has a mini-lesson containing a sample to read aloud and annotate. The bottom half of the document contains 17 different writing prompts to use anywhere for instruction. I've used the worksheet for guided practice, skill review, and as homework assignments. This even lends itself to a "Show Not Tell" folder containing student selected writings using sensory detail. Use it as little or as much as your students require.

Use this eighteen slide PowerPoint Presentation to introduce or review the literary terms necessary for success on the California High School Exit Examination. The Focus of the lesson is on characterization in narrative texts. The lesson is helpful for both reading, writing, and as test preparation for the multiple choice reading questions on the CAHSEE.

This Powerpoint lesson includes the basic parts of a letter in a diagram format. It also includes a sample letter of complaint, and a writing prompt for in-class activity.

This handout provides students with a choice of three different essay topics for a unit on Julius Caesar. Two of the topics are expository arguments in response to literature. The final prompt is a creative writing alternative assignment. Giving students autonomy in choosing a topic is proven to provide better results in essays. Limiting a student to only three options is usually a resonable choice for a teenager to make. Purchase this quick handout and save yourself some time!

This is an essay prompt written in a style that mimics the California High School Exit Exam. The prompt urges students to write about a well-known person who would qualify as a hero.

Have students staple this quick grading rubric for the California High School Exit Exam to an essay. This tool will allow you to grade essays in under a minute per composition. Alleviate the stress of assigning papers because the teacher must then grade them. Give your students as much writing practice as needed with this quick essay grading rubric.

This Powerpoint lesson includes the basic parts of a letter in a diagram format. It also includes a sample letter of complaint, and a writing prompt for in-class activity.

Help your students achieve a greater depth of analysis on timed writing tests by showing them how to go beyond simple identification of literary devices. The handout and powerpoint presentation will enable your students to comment on an author's use of language by organizing the thought process in a manageable method for high school students.

This essay writing prompt prepares students for the California High School Exit Exam by allowing for practice of the Biographical Narrative writing domain. This prompt mimics the language and the formmating of the California High School Exit Exam.

I've done some of the graphic design work for a unit on_To Kill a Mockingbird_. These are not actual lesson plans. Included in this digital download are 8 lesson plan templates with a color scheme and movie stills to help create a quick lesson plan template for a day or a week. I usually lose an hour after school to making several slides that have some color and some images to them. This download is just a time saver for a busy teacher.

This fifty-three slide powerpoint will give your students a firm foundation of 9th and 10th grade literary terms from basic things like plot and rising action through more advanced terms like juxtaposition. This content is helpful for instruction at many different levels.