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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
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Other

Mtsu: Checklist for Essay Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a checklist to use when taking an essay test.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Topics and Story Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of 101 narrative essay topics, short story ideas, and narrative writing prompts are provided on this site. Links to related narrative topics are also provided. W.11-12.3 Narratives, W.11-12.3a Narratives
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Other

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Sample Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an example of a basic five-paragraph essay on cats. The thesis of the essay is in bold, topic sentences are in italics, and each main idea is underlined.
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: How to Read an Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this guide when reading an expository text or any type of essay, as it provides important questions you should ask yourself while you read. You can access this page in multiple languages from the English homepage.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Introductions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips for writing a strong introduction for an essay. Using the following are discussed in these tips: anecdote, startling statement, famous ideas, question(s), first...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Wealth and Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze different types of texts, learn literary terms, write a satirical essay and a mock newspaper article, and work with vocabulary skills all within themes related to wealth and poverty.
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Other

Study.com: Parts of an Argument: Claims, Counterclaims, Reasons, and Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains the parts of an argument essay. [To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member.]
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TES Global

Tes: Holes by Louis Sachar: Writing Tasks

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint contains 16 various writing tasks connected to Louis Sachar's young adult novel, the book Holes. Students will write multi-paragraph essays, diary entries, personal letters, and more.
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Poetry Foundation

Full Books: "What Is Man? By Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online text of the essay "What Is Man?" by Mark Twain.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Claim Evidence and Reasoning

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A slideshow with twelve slides about reading or writing an argument, analyzing the claim and looking at how it is supported with observation, evidence, and reasoning.
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Other

Richard Geib's Person Website: On Revenge

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of Sir Francis Bacon's essay "On Revenge."
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Essays and Dialogues: George Kennan

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of a NewsHour interview with George F. Kennan (1904-2005), the man credited with articulating the policy of containment that shaped U.S. foreign policy toward communism at the start of the cold war.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotations of Samuel Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a list of quotes from Samuel Butler, compiled by John Bartlett.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Organizational Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips to help students with essay organizational problems. The article suggests that students look at the essay's introduction, thesis, transitions, body paragraphs,...
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National Arts Centre (Canada)

Arts Alive: Ludwig Van Beethoven

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Arts Centre of Canada explores the life of Beethoven (1770-1827 CE). Read about his education, musical contemporaries, loss of hearing, and his death. There are also discussions of many of his famous works,...
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Other

Maya Angelou Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
An archive of poetry by Maya Angelou is prefaced by a biographical essay.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides 30+ graphic organizers to aid in planning and writing. Students will be able to write informational pieces and literary responses.
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These are discussion topics to incorporate into your lesson on rights and responsibilities of citizens. Features questions to encourage debates or essay ideas. Also includes lesson plans.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Honesty

For Students 9th - 10th
What is honesty? How can you be an honest person? Find the answers to these questions as well as discussion questions, essay prompts, a self-evaluation quiz, and activity ideas.
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Rong-Chang ESL

Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Water Under the Sink (Continued)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides a continuation of "Water Under the Sink" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords,...
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Rong-Chang ESL

Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): A Festival of Books

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "A Festival of Books" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords, closed questions,...
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Rong-Chang ESL

Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Crazy Housing Prices

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "Crazy Housing Prices" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords, closed questions,...

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