This online textbook provides a generalized understanding of composition and to serve as a supplementary aid to high school English teachers.

To get students writing about context, which can be tricky, these writing frames set up the basic premise for answering the prompt posed.  Every student gets a frame, so no one can look around and determine who the higher or lower-level student is.  This helps students begin to understand and respond to the significance context makes in a text.

Students chose a book of fiction from the media center. Given a specific amount of time to complete reading the book, students then write a review of that book giving a description of various components of the book as well as a recommendation. 

This activity asks students to examine and evaluate how the structure of a work can impact meaning and audience experience. Students are tasked with examining text structure, plotting events for a visual representation of the "highs and lows" of the story, and composing a formal paragraph explaining their findings/analysis. It is divided into 3 sections, which can be spread out and completed individually or it can be a single assignment. It should take students about 120 minutes to complete all parts.