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For this project, you will be researching and creating a guide for a national park. You create a pamphlet about a national park of your choice after reading and researching books of interest. Include all of the following rubric details and you will produce an outstanding research project!

For this project, you will be researching and creating a guide for a national park. You create a pamphlet about a national park of your choice after reading and researching books of interest. Include all of the following rubric details and you will produce an outstanding research project!

Students required to write a persuasive letter to the Principal explaining why all students should be required to give to charity.

Research teams will create persuasive posters about the positive/negative effects of new technology.

Write a 1 page summary including WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and Why. The summary should include at least one paragraph. Your summary should be neatly written. You should have an introductory sentence that states the topic of the summary. You should use transition words to help with the flow of the paragraph. Make sure your name and class period is on your summary. Proofread and edit your summary.

Guidelines for Expository Writing

Biography should include important details of the person's life and the contributions he/she made to the community/country. A project will be completed on this person including: personal information and background, biggest obstacles, and their significance and contribution to Black history.

Students were asked to construct an essay about the 3 major factors they believed were most important in motivating oneself to complete a goal.

This biography includes information on the person's early life, what led them to their chosen career or purpose, what contributions they made to society, interesting or unique facts about the person, and the student's own reflections about the impact that the person and their contributions have on modern times.

Revisit some of the classics, and reread several versions of the same fairy tales in order to write their own modern adaptations to some of their favorite tales.

SWBAT revisit some of the classics, and reread several versions of the same fairy tales and folk tales from around the world in order to write their own adaptations to some of their favorite tales. The aims to use fairy tales as a vehicle for furthering Achievers’ abilities to write any kind of stories, and give Achievers more practice writing fiction. There will be a focus on rehearsing and planning for stories, paying careful attention to fairy tale language and structure through revising and elaborating, and crafting their own versions of an old tale.

What are the positive and negative effects of new technology? (i.e.) cell phones, television, and computers. Break class into 6 teams. Assign each team one of the projects. Research teams will make persuasive presentations about the positive or negative effects of new technology.

Students will know small group expectations which would include completeness, accuracy, requirements, legibility and time management.

Writing: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.

Essay Poem must include facts and opinions about drugs and alcohol. The Essay/ Poem must also have an advocacy part where the student explains ways to keep themselves drug free.