You could skip reading all this and just download this teacher and student ready handout: Writing a Rhetorical Precis. It’s part of this 8 simple writing assignments. Here’s a simple writing assignment that covers some of the more difficult Common Core Standards and helps young scholars learn how to analyze non-fiction. This is […]
Common Core Lesson Plan: Easy Research Assignment Using Google Docs
September 1, 2014 By
Normally by the last month of the school year, I end the day by crawling in the corner, lying in the fetal position, and sucking my thumb for a few hours. The end of last school year went much better because I created this ridiculously awesome online Final Exam Review using Weebly and other online […]
Lesson of the Day: Using Literary Quotations for Writing Assignments
June 23, 2014 By
A couple posts ago, I shared a simple and useful writing assignment involving thematic quotations, not necessarily connected to literature. Let’s take a look at an assignment using quotes from specific pieces of literature. But first, let’s take a look at Common Core Standards covered by this assignment W.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in […]