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8th grade writing-essays projects
Writing a Research Paper Unit Project & Portfolio for Research Writing EDITABLE
This research writing unit and portfolio has everything you need to teach the research process in an organized and engaging way! Your students will strengthen their reading, writing, and researching skills throughout the research project.This comprehensive portfolio will help your students master the research writing process in 6 steps-- indicated by organized tabs (topic selection, research, annotated bibliography, research outline, the writing process, and reflection).The portfolio is made up
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8th - 12th
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World Cultures Guided Research Project
World Cultures research project. This product has everything you need for your class to complete their world cultures or country research projects (except the researched information). You can use this guided research project with any country of the world.
Go beyond your typical country report! This research project will guide your students to learn and write about their chosen country's:
Introduction
Geography and Climate
Government and Economics
Food and Drink
Values and Beliefs
Family and
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Guided Research Project BUNDLE
Essay Writing Mega Bundle: ALL of my Current and Future Essay Lessons!
My students spend a lot of time mastering the foundations of essay writing so they are well-prepared for upper grade levels, standardized tests, and college. Download ALL of my best essay-writing lessons and save yourself TONS of time with classroom-tested resources!
This bundle includes ALL of my current and FUTURE essay-specific lessons/units. It will be updated each time I publish a new resource, and you get FREE updates for life! (Please note that this bundle's price may increase over time
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7th - 10th
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Research Paper | Complete Unit Any Topic | Printable & Digital
Research Paper complete unit with everything you need to teach writing a research project essay writing from start to finish FOR ANY TOPIC (Printable & Digital) - Perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom activities!No prep start-to-finish student research packet in printable and digital formats: Printable PDF, editable Word Document, PowerPoint slides, Google Slides and Google Doc for no prep research project or independent Google Classroom activity.This packet has successfully guid
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5th - 12th
Virtual World Traveler Research Writing Project & Expository Writing Essay
This editable project is designed to encourage students to discover a new country's culture through research writing and creative thinking. Students will complete a research and expository essay, a world gallery hop, and a visual project to complete the assessment. NOTE: This resource is included in my 9th and 10th grade ELA Resources BUNDLE so if you have already purchased that, there's no need to purchase this resource! If you're looking for more resources like this at a discounted price, you
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7th - 12th
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Screenplay UNIT: Screenwriting in Secondary ELA-- From Script to Trailer
One of the things I really enjoy is reading and writing screenplays. In this unit by Bespoke ELA, I have put together some of the key lessons that I've learned about script writing in a format that is user-friendly to secondary ELA students. Screenplay writing is a high-interest type of writing because all students love movies. For this project, students will create their own original screenplay concepts, write a character sketch and plot treatment, craft a ten-page screenplay sequence, creat
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Research Process and Plagiarism Flip Book
Introduce the research process with this easy to assemble flip book! No need to cut and no wasted paper. Just print double sided, fold, staple, and teach! The flip book introduces students to the research process by covering how to find appropriate sources, taking notes, paraphrasing, citing sources, and plagiarism.
Printing and assembly instructions are also included.
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GUIDED RESEARCH PROJECTS walk your students through the research process by asking essentia
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Guided Research Project BUNDLE
Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
Teaching grammar doesn’t have to be painful lecture from a textbook or worksheet. Engage students with projects, activities, and mini-units, selling them on why grammar matters, debating its use, teaching each OTHER lessons, and making the editing process more tactile!
These classroom-tested projects/activities can be used in conjunction with your existing grammar curriculum to make learning engaging and student-oriented; they can be used in rapid succession or easily embedded across a school y
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6th - 11th
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Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
Poetry Activity Bundle: Reading & Writing Poems in Secondary ELA
Want to ease your students into harder poetry, prove why we need to care about it, or add more variety to your existing curriculum?Use this rigorous bundle of activities to remind the “big kids” that poetry is still fun!These products will help you establish why we need to care about poetry, analyze poems closely, safely experiment with the 10 classic poems under the guise of the “mad libs” templates, listen to classic and contemporary poems, and ease into writing original poems that students wi
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7th - 10th
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Expository Essay Writing: No Prep Elaboration Practice
Teaching Expository Essay Writing is now effortless with this no prep PDF, editable DOC and Google Doc version of the Expository Writing packet! Perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom activity.This complete 12-day unit packet has everything you need to teach expository essay writing from start to finish!Use again and again for 5 included topics or any expository writing prompt!This packet has successfully guided hundreds of my students through their expository essay writing in English
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6th - 12th
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All Things WRITING Bundle: Writing Activities Projects for Middle & High School
Looking for a bundle of engaging, interactive writing activities and projects for your middle and high school students? I've got you covered! This bundle includes more than 30 highly engaging writing resources designed for grades 7-12.The best part about this writing bundle? It includes ALL of my writing resources for a fraction of the price. If you purchased them individually, it would be $280+. However, by purchasing the bundle, you'll save more than 40%! Check out the resources included (be s
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7th - 12th
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Blind Date With a Book | Book Talk Assignment & Informative Essay
Looking for an engaging, hands-on activity that encourages students to read independently? Look no further than this "Blind Date With a Book" exercise! This book talk assignment and informative essay will encourage students to choose a book based on their interests! I have noticed that a lot of my students enjoy reading when they are allowed to read books that they are interested in. I wanted to give them the opportunity to share the books they find intriguing to their peers, so I created this
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4th - 12th
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Biography and Wax Museum Project
A fun, engaging, and rigorous writing project! Each year, my class has done this writing project and we invite the younger grades to our Wax Museum. Then, every year, my new class begs and asks to do the same type of project!
In this project, the students will research (using the outline) a person who has made a difference in the world. They can choose from a list or a different option (with your approval). Then, they will write a biography based on their outline. Finally, they will create a sh
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5th - 8th
Life Science and Biology Research Projects and Claim Evidence Reasoning Practice
Are you looking for independent research projects for life science or biology? Maybe you want to incorporate more reading and writing in your science class? Introduce your students to real world discoveries and amazing phenomena with these low-prep research projects. Students will gather information from text and video sources. Then they will craft argumentative or explanatory essays using the CER format.Each project meets life science, reading, and writing standards. Students begin each project
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7th - 10th
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MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS4-5
, MS-LS4-4
Op-Ed Essay - Opinion Argumentative Writing - Civics ELA Research Project
Use this complete op-ed argumentative essay kit to upgrade your Social Studies or ELA class with an authentic project that makes your students real agents of change in their local community!Cultivating great writing skills isn’t hard. You just need the scaffolded, step-by-step directions and models in one low-prep, everything's-included project kit.This resource comes in both print PDF and paperless Google files for your flexibility!Greatness is sharing one's ideas with the real world to create
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Essay Letter Writing Projects - How to Write Opinion College Essays
Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel (rubric included)
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This zipped download contains only PDF files. It includes a student assignment sheet, a theme and plot analysis graphic organizer, an essay outline, a 100 point rubric, and a peer editing form.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the bel
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7th - 12th
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Blackfish Unit-Common Core Aligned!
This is a unit build around the documentary film Blackfish. It includes two study guides for the film, printer-friendly versions of articles related to the topic (both for and against Sea World), handouts on annotating text and writing an argument essay, a vocabulary activity, a jigsaw activity with rubric, a performance task written in SBAC style (argument essay), an extra credit assignment, an exemplar argument essay, and a worksheet on writing persuasive statements. This is EVERYTHING you wou
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7th - 10th
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America's Foundation Thematic PBL Unit Print & Digital
Lay a strong foundation for your modern U.S. History course with an examination of the FORE American values (Freedom, Opportunity, Representation, and Equality) established by Founding Fathers as well as activists throughout the 1800s in this unit that asks, "Who founded America's values?" This broad picture thematic unit reviews the first half of American history with a more mature nuance, making it perfect for your high school US History course that focuses on post-Reconstruction to the presen
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Thematic Inquiry PBL Full Course Bundle Print & Digital
Restaurant Review - Engaging Persuasive Writing Unit/Project
A huge hit each and every year! The students actually beg to work on it! Easily usable for fourth through eighth grade. A great unit through which to address narrative and expository style writing, developing and supporting a thesis, descriptive writing, similes and metaphors, using mentor texts, composing formal letters, and addressing envelopes. Plus, it is a lot of fun!
Local restaurants have responded really well to the project and have actually written students back (and even sent gift car
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4th - 8th
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American Immigration Thematic PBL Unit Print & Digital
Build a strong base of evidence-supported writing and appreciation of the main ingredient to America’s world-renown success, the immigrant, with this project-based unit that asks, "What is our American story?" This unit coversCurrent-day immigration and ethnic makeup of theUSEllis Island "new" immigrants of the early 1900sGreat Migration migrants of the mid-1900sVietnamese refugees of the late 1900sThis unit strengthens core skills like Analyzing and evaluating statistical, interview, and artist
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Thematic Inquiry PBL Full Course Bundle Print & Digital
World Creation Myths Unit Bundle - Group Projects, Comparison, and Writing
Everything you need to teach Creation Myths from around the world is in this Unit Plan. Includes group work, research, presentations, essays, compare/contrast assignments, and creative writing. Everything is aligned to standards and includes grading rubrics.There are many different options for assignments that you can do with this unit. I have outlined the different elements below with the standards taught and the time needed. Feel free to mix and match as much as you wish. If you wanted to do e
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7th - 10th
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Persuasive Essay Writing Bundle (Common Core Aligned)
This complete writing unit takes the students through the writing process (Brainstorming, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing) on how to write strong, effective, common core aligned persuasive essays.Along the writing process each stage is broken down individually to really help students focus on nailing each section just right. Students are provided clear goals and mentor examples for their introduction, body paragraphs, counterclaim, as well as their conclusion.This simple and effective un
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5th - 9th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
Public Speaking PBL Unit: Talk Like TED - with Research Writing & Rhetoric
Persuasive talks are a powerful way to teach students public speaking, rhetorical analysis, persuasive writing, and research-skills. For this unit, students write a research paper on the topic of their choice, analyze contemporary speeches, and craft a persuasive speech for an authentic audience that captures their own unique voice on a topic of their choice. In my own classroom, I was blown away by some of the topics my students chose, which included “Glossophobia: How the Fear of Public Speaki
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Project Based Learning (PBL) Growing Bundle for High School English
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