This has a list of websites and resources that can be used when developing a lesson plan on persuasive writing. There is even help with writing the lesson plan itself.
Stuck? Are your students stuck? This website offers a plethora or creative writing prompts to jog any writer-blocked mind. Could also serve as a bell ringer/exit ticket assignment.
On this website, you use graphics to create a story. The options are a little limited, but it could help in generating ideas for creative writing. Although this website may seem a little juvenile at first glance, it is actually very fun and I think high schoolers may enjoy it.
This website contains explanations and examples of "proper" formatting for specific styles, such as MLA. It is a wonderful resource for writing research papers and the like.
Great for students being able to recreate a scene or aid visual aids to reading. Easy enough for me to navigate, so students will have no trouble. They can even add characters and write dialogue for more interactive productions.
This is the quintessential website for finding opposing viewpoints to inform students when writing persuasive or argumentative essays. A various amount of "hot-button" issues can be found here in a non-biased and equally represented way.
This is an easy way to make those cool vocabulary word clouds that you have been seeing. Great printable for students to learn literary device terminology and even essay writing techniques.
Students will be using edublogs in order to keep a daily or weekly blog (depending on computer accessibiliy)to make progress in writing expression and personal opinion. I will use my own edublog as an example for students.