Fusco’s English Class
Journal Writing Prompts
Inspire thoughtful journal entries with these detailed journal writing prompts. The resource includes 24 prompts that require learners to write expository, persuasive, and sometimes creative journal entires.
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Reflective Journaling
Students write to influence positive change. In this service learning lesson, students reflect on their service learning experiences as they journal about sharing their time, talent, and treasures. Students share their journals with...
Sundance
Teaching Strategies: The Giver
Can utopia be achieved? Included here are three literature worksheets to pair with Lois Lowry's The Giver. Pupils work in groups to come up with solutions to society's issues, individuals back up a statement related to a topic in the...
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Literacy in Content Areas: Think Aloud
Fifth graders examine the "think aloud" reading strategy. In this reading strategies lesson, 5th graders apply the think aloud strategy to solving word problems in math.
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The Mind Behind Design
High schoolers explore a design website and journal their findings. In this design and writing lesson, students analyze the design process and discuss benefits to society through design. High schoolers choose a design that they feel is...
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Double-Entry Journal Writing
Introduce your learners to the concept of a double-entry journal. Talk about how to connect with the text and model an example for them. Using whatever literature you are working with, have scholars choose a quote and make their own...
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Our Restless Planet
Students examine the topic of the Earth's rotation, revolution, and orbit. They observe teacher-led demonstrations, explore various websites, write journal entries, conduct a demonstration of why Earth experiences day and night, and...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Students complete activities for the autobiography of Maya Angelou. In this autobiography instructional activity, students write a journal entry about their life and discuss the morphology of the word autobiography. Students use active...
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Discussion Web
Get your class talking, even debating, about Gary Paulsen's popular novel Canyons. As they finish chapters 10-12, they complete the following discussion web concerning Brennan and the skull. They fill out the graphic organizer provided...
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Rates of Puberty Change: Lesson 2
The class fills in a handout - How Appearances Change During Puberty. They then discuss the changes that both boys and girls go through and make some comparisons of the differences between boys and girls . Hopefully this class is a safe...
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Should Populations in an Ecosystem be Restricted?
Fourth graders experiment to determine how overpopulation effects ecosystems specifically plants. In this ecosystem lesson, 4th graders conduct an ecosystems experiment after listening to Claire Daniel's, Ecosystems. They watch a video,...
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Life of a Soldier after the Civil War Lesson Plan: What's in a Name
Students explore the concept of institutional bias. In this Civil War lesson plan, students read case studies on the treatment of Irish and African-American veterans who did not receive their pensions from the war. Students discuss their...