Master Teacher lessons
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The Research Begins Now!
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Evidence in reflective arguments come in a variety of forms.
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Tone and persona play important roles in personal experience writing.
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Memoirs are highly structured, as writers organize their stories to create a desired central idea or series of ideas.
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If I said Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, & Ben Franklin were astronauts, would you believe me? Bet you would if THEY said it. That's talent.
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Students learn to recognize the building blocks of effective argumentation.
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From "I have no idea what I just read" to "I get it!": Teaching students to map their way through dense text.
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Socratic seminars are wonderful for learning what students know and how engaged they are in a book or topic.
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A parody of "What the Fox Said" has parallels to Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale."
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The gender codes American society has defined are part of many of the decisions we make, and most of us are not immune to this effect.
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Humorous writing, like any other writing, is highly structured.
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CAUTION: Reading this may be hazardous to your . . . hmm . . .
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Tapping into what students don't know that they already know.
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Cheaters never win...or do they? Let's check it out.
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Magazine advertisements reveal the first step of understanding argument.
