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Ideas for the high school English classroom. Novels, grammar, writing, and reading skills.

Grammar ideas and worksheets for a variety of high school levels. PPTs, activities, and worksheets are available.

This source discusses the importance of teacher modelling when we teach writing to students. The idea is to get them to see beyond their original draft and understand that they have more to say after their initial thoughts

This is a great PDF which distinguishes argument writing from persuasive writing and explains the terms students need to be familiar with. It also discusses ideas on how to teach the elements of argument and explains the importance of clear feedback.

"Convince Me" PDF gives excellent introductory lesson ideas for argument aligned to common core standards.

I think some of these teaching ideas would be interesting to get my students involved in thinking about argument. I could model a paper about eating bugs.

Blogging ideas for the 21st century. Get students to write for multiple purposes

This site has several writing prompt ideas. It also discusses the modes of writing and gives two example papers

This site offers ideas for how to introduce composition to students. It also links to a nice .pdf for peer revision.

Comparison Paragraphs Organized by Subtopic Another way of organizing a comparison is not according to supporting details that are similar, but according to subtopic. (A subtopic is a main example, or main supporting idea, that illustrates the topic sentence of a paragraph. For more about supporting details, click here.)