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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner:workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The fourth workshop [58:24] features the classrooms of two teachers: sixth-grade language arts teacher Jenny Beasley and fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde. Both are teaching units on persuasive writing that allow students to write about...
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Editorial Essay Example

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of an editorial essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: A Character?s Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to write letters to the editor from the points of view of characters in books they have read. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Gcse: Newspapers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tutorial on newspapers. Looks at types of newspapers, the language of newspapers, news sources, what has news value, marketing, distribution, circulation, readership, online newspapers, editorial stance, ownership of newspapers, and...
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Website
Other

Persuasive/argumentative Essay vs. Opinion Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan teaches students that writing a persuasive or argumentative essay for class is the same as writing an opinion article for their local newspaper. The lesson plan includes showing students examples of opinion writings and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for four to five 50-minute lessons about analyzing political cartoons. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Website
Other

Efa: Editorial Freelancers Association

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page is for freelance journalists who have narrowed their selected field to editorials and editorial columns. Newly combined with the Editorial Freelancers Association, this site contains materials from both organizations.
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Handout
Other

Snn Newsroom: Reporter's Toolbox: Writing Editorials and Columns

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Advice and examples of editorial and feature column writing, along with an explanation of the role that editorial writers and columnists fill. Explains how to structure this type of writing in order to present clear arguments.
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Lesson Plan
Newspapers in Education

Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Lessons Library

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that...
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Lesson Plan
University of Arizona

Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Newspapers: Facts and Opinions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In order to sharpen a student's understanding of the differences between facts and opinions, this lesson incorporates both the close reading of a newspaper and the writing of a factual article and a letter to the editor.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Freedom From Oppression (Editorial Writing Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan designed to investigate instances of genocide both historical and recent. Directs students to take on roles as members of the press and create editorials that describe genocidal tragedies and that also outline steps...
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Website
Other

The Dirksen Congressional Center

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An effective site that provides non-partisan information concerning Congress and its leaders. The website includes CongressLink, up-to-date information on the US Congress; Congress for Kids, an excellent resource for younger students on...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which young scholars compare and contrast two non-fiction articles and two editorials, and write a compare and contrast essay. With free...
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Website
New York Times

New York Times: Sept. 11: One Year Later

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The New York Times Learning Network provides a variety of archived news articles, lesson plans, and resources concerning the issues and events that surfaced from the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Website
Community Learning Network

Community Learning Network: Journalism Theme Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Community Learning Network has great information on the art of journalism. The site is outlined by links for easy navigation and contains a rather exhaustive section on general resources. A great site to check out on...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General" by Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General" by Ambrose Bierce. The story is set up as a series of letters, diary entries, and editorials written in 1861 and 1862. (Free site registration offers some additional features,...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks: Textbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students critique a standard textbook account of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They read and analyze two primary documents and consider how this evidence specifically contests the textbook's account. Then...
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of John Milton

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site contains links to selected poetry of John Milton. The poems also contain notations.
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Website
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Choice Is Us: Monopolies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity introduces the concept of monopoly. It calls upon learners to consider how monopoly power might affect the quality and price of goods and services offered to consumers. In light of what they learn about the...
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Website
Other

Computer Tech. Doc. Project: Linux Op. System Background

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the website contains a large amount of information about Linux. It contains six documents on various aspects of Linux.
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Graphic
Other

Teen Analyst: Salary Tables by Career Field

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a table of average salaries for the various career fields. However, these aren't representative of everyone in that field. For example, some television reporters make millions of dollars a year. The salaries listed are a little...
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Newspapers in Education

Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Draw Your Own Conclusions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists developed this caption-writing exercise for a cartoon that lampoons voter apathy.

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