This lesson plan provides a selection of writing prompts for students to choose from, centered around baseball.

In this lesson, students evaluate arguments and synthesize what they have learned in order to develop and strengthen their own position.

In this lesson, students will focus on establishing and sequencing evidence-based claims, creating logical arguments.

In this lesson, students will use a collaborative process in order to develop and strengthen their writing, focusing on text-centered discussion about their argumentative pieces.

This lesson asks students to make an informed decision about whether the suffering of the titular character in Edith Wharton's novel is a result of his personal actions and relationships or the society around him. Students perform close reading of several passages to aid in making their decision.

This tool helps students break down their argument into reasons and supporting details, which will help them write their letter.

In this lesson, students identify and explain the effect of parallel structure in The Declaration of Independence.

In this lesson, students analyze the use of connotative language, hyperbole, allusion, and rhethorical question in Speech to the Virginia Convention.

This resource includes sample topics for position papers as well as criteria for evaluation.

This activity can be adapted among grade levels, and involves students practicing describing objects by their properties.

This resource examines five useful prewriting strategies with examples of how to use them.

In this lesson, students write reviews for popular retail website Amazon.com in order to develop their reading, critical thinking, and persuasive writing skills. Students will employ the writing process after reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper," to create their own published reviews of the story.

In this lesson, students create a persuasive flyer to sway the opinion of the class on a controversial issue.

Students are guided through how to use quotes and quotation marks when writing about a poem. A specific example is given using the poem "Fifteen" by William Stafford. Students are then given guided questions and directions to practice the technique using Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" as a sample text. The students are directed to use specficic textual evidence from the poem to discuss the poem's meaning and figurative language.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

The Committee of Public Safety's assumption of political power and rule between 1793 and 1794 marked what was arguably the most radical phase of the French Revolution. The Committee justified its excesses as necessary to protect against domestic and foreign counter-revolutionaries. In this lesson, students question the motives of the Committee through analyzing excerpts from the "Decree Against Profiteers" and "Law of Suspects."