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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Bucket List Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the song "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw from the soundtrack for The Bucket List as a model, students will take a look at their values and the things they would like to accomplish in their lives before they run out of...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Guess and Check, Work Backward

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve word problems using the guess, check, and revise strategy.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton

For Students 4th - 8th
This workshop helps students increase their skills in descriptive writing by following tips and suggestions from writer Virginia Hamilton. After reading about Hamilton, students write their descriptive pieces and publish them online. A...
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Other

Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
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Activity
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
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Article
Towson University

Towson University: Active / Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive sentences into active voice.
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Activity
Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.
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Activity
Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Input Devices, Processing and Output Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the definitions and images of computer input and output devices. You can quiz yourself on page three by taking the Test Bite.
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BBC

Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Data Storage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about your computer's data storage, which includes understanding what ROM and RAM are. You may quiz yourself on page nine by taking the Test Bite.
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BBC

Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Word Processing and Desktop Publishing

For Students 9th - 10th
Review and take a quiz on word processing (WP) and desktop publishing (DP). Both of these applications are types of software.
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BBC

Bbc: Pythagoras' Theorem

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You can pick up some valuable pointers on how to apply the Pythagorean Theorem here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Percentages

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You can pick up some valuable percentage pointers on how to work with them. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an on-line "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Angles

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
You can pick up some valuable pointers on angles and lines here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Manipulation of Aglebraic Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Pick up some valuable pointers on how to simplify and factor algebraic expressions. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an online "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Standard Deviation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A demonstration of how to find the standard deviation of a set of data. Several examples and a practice test are offered.