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A lack of audience leads to a lack of purpose. A lack of purpose leads to a lack of focus. A lack of focus leads to a lack of audience. End the …
Continue ReadingThe short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker helps teach students about characterization and conflict. Once the class has read this …
Continue ReadingDelight the elders of the family with a letter writing project. Get a journal and pass it back and forth between the Grandparents and teenagers in the …
Continue ReadingDon’t have time to create your own quiz? Here’s one that’s easy to administer and easy to grade. The Bean Trees Quiz, Chapters …
Continue ReadingRemember the last time you graded essays and you swore if one more student turned in an essay with one gigantic paragraph, you would kill him?
Continue ReadingTired of being let down by lame endings? So am I. Instead of complaining, I wrote this lesson plan to stamp out lame endings forever.
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If the reader is confused, it’s the writers fault. Clear up the confusion with clear transitions.
Continue ReadingHelp students build writing and team work skills by presenting a lesson about writing a comedic skit. Even students who don’t normally like to write …
Continue ReadingWhen you tell students to look words up in a dictionary, they never do. They think bad words about you. I prefer teaching them how to analyze word …
Continue ReadingSeeing the unfocused writing of my students, I knew I had work to do. Teaching revision in the writing process isn’t easy. I had to devise a …
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