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Developing persuasive writing skills is a process that students start in elementary school and continue to develop through high school and beyond. Read Write Think offers a good interactive guide that can help students craft a good persuasive essay. The Persuasion Map asks students to start with a thesis statement before walking them through developing support for that thesis. Students can print their persuasion maps or email them to you.

"Historical Thinker is a group dedicated to promoting the teaching of historical logic and skills.  Chief among our goals is to provide resources that make writing sophisticated research papers in history easier.  We are working on the development of a comprehensive student workbook that details the process of writing a research paper from start to finish.  Students complete detailed  templates for each step in the process.  On the left, you will find downloadable samples of these templates along with teaching guides that will give you a sense of what the workbook will elaborate on.  "

In this unit, students explore a variety of resources-texts, images, sounds, photos, and other artifacts-to learn more about the Holocaust. Beginning with journal writings and a picture book to introduce the central issues, the unit focuses on student-centered inquiry. Students explore a range of print and non-print resources through extensive online inquiry activities. Progressing from individual work to a group learning project, the unit culminates in publishing the group's findings in topic-based newspapers.