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Lesson Plan: How to Write a Thesis Statement
Essays without thesis statements are easy to grade: simply write an 'F' at the top of the paper, laugh, and shuffle up the next paper. Unfortunately, essays without thesis statements demonstrate a lack of proficiency by the student and teacher. Either way, you're screwed.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 23, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: How to Use Parentheses
I love parentheses (not as much as they love me, however).

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 23, 2009 to
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Acrostic Poem Activity
Have fun. Be creative. Write a poem. It's all right here. Come take a look.

Published by dawn m. laughlin (924 pts ) on Sep 23, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: Apostrophe Use
You see them everywhere, misused apostrophes. Let's end the insidious misuse of apostrophes by teaching apostrophe rules.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 23, 2009 to
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Creating Your Favourite Pantoum Poems About the Planets!
What could be more out of this world than our solar system? Writing a pantoum poem is just one way to make studying the planets both exciting and creative. Students explore solar system websites and then use their research to create a pantoum poem to express their newfound knowledge.

Published by ksosa (799 pts ) on Sep 21, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: When to Use a Hyphen
Remember when we hand wrote our writing assignments and didn't need to know the difference between a hyphen and a dash because the pen stroke looked like either? Those days are gone forever and they're not coming back, so maybe you should check out this lesson plan and learn the difference.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 20, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: Writing a Good Topic Sentence
A good topic sentence serves as a foundation for a good paragraph. A bad topic sentence serves as the foundation for most student writing. Let's change that now!

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 20, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: Quotation Marks and Punctuation
End the senseless misuse of quotation marks and punctuation by teaching this handy lesson (Don't worry. I've included the rules, just in case you forgot them).

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 16, 2009 to
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How to Grade and Revise a Rough Draft in Class
Take trade and grade to the next level.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 5, 2009 to
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Lesson Plan: How to Improve Writing by Learning How to Edit an Essay
Editing involves more than adding punctuation and correcting a misspelled word. Editing must make the main idea of the essay more clear. That means getting rid of unnecessary sections, paragraphs, sentences, and words. How to improve writing begins with learning how to edit an essay.

Published by Trent Lorcher (30,053 pts ) on Sep 5, 2009 to
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