In Lesson 5: Writing an Argument (pages 58-68 of the pdf) from To Drone or Not to Drone, students will apply their prior learning and write arguments that utilize credible claims and craft effective counterclaims in order to fully develop and understand an argument.

This lesson focuses on the concept of the afterlife and the importance of pleasing the gods and goddesses, the significance of tombs and tomb building, and the burial customs and traditions of the ancient Egyptians. After learning about all of these concepts, students will design a tomb, create a model of it, and complete a short written assignment explaining the design and contents of the tomb.

In this lesson, students learn sentence combining using semicolons and colons and also learn to split sentences for clarity of intention.

In this DBQ Project mini document based question activity based on the Dust Bowl, students will examine multiple sources and reflect on what led to and caused the event.

This resource contains a lesson plan for assisting students with a culminating activity during a reading of Romeo and Juliet. Students are tasked with reading a critical essay independently. Afterwards, students are required to draw evidence from the essay, other readings, discussions and any other applicable materials used for a study of the play. The lesson may be used as a guide and may be manipulated to include resources that were aligned by the instructor. The resource contains applicable handouts to include: worksheets and graphic organizers.

This lesson gives students the information they need to practice writing great introductions for essays and other academic writing assignments.

In this lesson, students learn what makes a strong topic sentence in writing, then practice writing their own topic sentences.