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Rules of Evidence: How to Use Supporting Details
Teaching the rules of evidence for using evidence and supporting details will help students avoid common logical blunders and recognize when they're being manipulated by other writers.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 11, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: Using Evidence and Supporting Details in Writing
Being able to define supporting details and use them as evidence in a research paper or essay makes writing more effective and useful. This lesson plan explains the different types of supporting details and includes a quick exercise to help students learn the material.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 11, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: How to Write an Essay Introduction
Writing an effective introductory paragraph binds the audience to the writer. A bound audience means you get to share all those wonderful ideas you’ve been wanting to share. Teaching this skill means instead of communicating with grunts, your students will communicate with words.

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How to Revise an Essay: Evaluating Writing
Evaluating writing is the first step in the revision process, so why don't students do it? They don't know how...until now.

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American History Project Ideas: Oral History Project
Remember when you were a kid and your grandpa droned incessantly about his days in the Navy and how they navigated using stars and constellations? You just wanted him to shut up so you could eat ice cream and cake with your cousins. Now he's dead and you wish you could remember all the stories.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 6, 2009 to
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Point of View Activities: Writing an Eyewitness Account in Response to Literature
Writing about literature can be fun (kind of) with this creative writing assignment. Use this analyzing point of view in literature activity to help students understand perspective.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 4, 2009 to
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Research Paper Prewriting: How to Choose a Topic for a Research Paper
Prewriting strategies must include a method for choosing a research topic. Teach students how to choose a topic for a research paper with these easy to follow instructions.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 4, 2009 to
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Selection of a Research Topic: Teaching Students to do Research
Interesting writing topics are everywhere. Why, then, do students complain about how boring their research papers are? It's because they are not proficient in the selection of a research topic and choose something that they feel the teacher wants. Not anymore.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 4, 2009 to
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Tips on Writing a Research Paper: How to Identify a Topic Question for Essays and Research Papers
Teaching students how to identify a topic question establishes the foundation for writing effective thesis statements.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Oct 4, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: Eliminate "To Be" Verbs
I'm a big fan of "to be". I'm also a fan of the other 9,999 verbs my students never chose to use...until I created this wonderful lesson plan to eliminate "be" verbs.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 28, 2009 to
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