Middle schoolers discover how to determine the flavor of a jellybean using different key documents.  In this economics lesson, students discuss Virginia economics and begin an activity in which they will help decide on the what...

Learners formulate a definition of art in the introductory lesson for a unit on various art forms. The learning emphasis is placed on Oregonian artist Duff Severe and reflective writing. Students compose an essay describing various art...

Introduce your class to the personal essay with this worksheet. Learners identify the subject of an essay and then record examples from the essay that represent the author's thoughts and feelings regarding the subject. While this...

Prepare your class for applying to scholarships with this instructional activity. Although very bare-bones, this plan provides a writing prompt for learners that will surely get them thinking about how to present themselves to the...

Use this presentation to introduce a class or lecture about writing organization. The slide show is the first part in a five-part series, titled "What is an Essay?" The slideshow is short and could use more detail, but functions as a...

Write about economic and banking issues of concern to the public. Investigate lending discrimination and the impact of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. Use a guide to do research and write an essay.

Students create a standard outline, using a word processing tool, while they are learning about the basic writing device of the 5 paragraph essay.

Students write an outline of facts about hurricanes to include in an essay.  In this research essay lesson, students use science books and research hurricanes to gather the information for their essay.

In this essay worksheet, students research why the Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez invaded the Aztec Indian lands. Students research this question and the effects it had on the invasion of the Aztec people and write an essay about it.

Students explore how to write an essay. They discuss the parts of the essay and how the essay is organized. Students discuss various examples of essays. Students play the Essay Matching game and they organize and compose their own 5...

In this writing worksheet, students identify what a thesis statement is and how to write one from three different essay questions. They identify the three main points for each questions and then, give it a title.

Seventh graders read the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. They consult Media Center and online sources as they conduct research needed to write an essay that answers the question, "Is Great Expectations a classic, or just a...

Young scholars write a first draft of an essay reflecting their opinions of Things Fall Apart. They complete their circle diagrams, have them approved by the teacher, and write their essays. They write in their dialectical journals as...

Students write essays to persuade their families to use a particular long-distance phone plan. They compare a 10-10 plan to a regular long-distance plan.

This is the downloadable text for the essay "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, which describes the experience of the narrator (possibly Orwell himself) who shot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.

Read Brooke Allen who, on the New York Times on the Web, reviews a book on Randall Jarrell and a book of essays by Randall Jarrell. Read some Jarrell quotes.

Read an overview of an essay by Virginia Woolf titled "A Room of One's Own" and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

Using two songs by India Arie as well as an excerpt out of Sharon Flake's The Skin I'm In, students will explore their own self image. After analyzing the qualities that each student feels that they embody, they will compare these to the...

Students and teachers will benefit from these examples of quotes from Lord Alfred Tennyson. This site offers only a handful of examples. Don't miss out.

A learning module that begins with Henry David Thoreau's "Excerpt from 'Civil Disobedience'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

A learning module that begins with an essay by James Harvey Robinson titled "On Various Kinds of Thinking" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...

The New York Times on the Web features an essay about Jarrell written by Richard Eder called: "Randall Jarrell: How a Poetry Critic Becomes Loved".

A learning module that begins with "Koloman Running" by Tom Weiser, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...

The complete text of Sir Francis Bacon's essay "On Revenge."