Description
All 6 lessons are complete — draft a complex text in a form that matches our purpose and audience, write fluently in cursive with our own personal style, build a recognizable voice into our writing, name the point of view and perspective in our own texts, revise our drafts for clarity, focus, and coherence, and edit our texts for accuracy in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and format.
Every lesson comes with a full teaching set: a lesson plan, a worksheet, homework, and a handout. The unit also includes 6 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment.
Grade 8 · ready for Monday
What's in this unit
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1
Plan
6 lesson plans, each one 40-minute period, with what to say and what to watch for.
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Slides
The lesson on the board, one step at a time, with each answer on the next slide.
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Printouts
A worksheet, a handout and homework for every lesson.
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Assessment
6 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, an assignment.
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Answer keys
At the back of every worksheet, homework and assessment.
The 6 lessons
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The Real Draft: From Notes to a First Attemptdraft a complex text in a form that matches our purpose and audience and cite the sources our information comes from - 2Handwriting with Style, Formatting with Purposewrite fluently in cursive with our own personal style and use word-processing tools to make our drafts clearer and more effective
- 3Finding Your Voice on the Pagebuild a recognizable voice into our writing and adjust our language and style to fit our form, genre, audience, and purpose
- 4Whose Story Is It? Point of View and Perspectivename the point of view and perspective in our own texts and consider how different audiences might respond to our writing
- 5Revision That Actually Improves the Draftrevise our drafts for clarity, focus, and coherence and use feedback selectively to strengthen a draft
- 6The Final Pass: Editing and Proofreadingedit our texts for accuracy in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and format and use digital tools, such as spell- and grammar-checkers, carefully
- Read-Me-First — open it before anything else; one page that says what each file is for
- One numbered zip per lesson: lesson plan, worksheet, homework, handout and a one-page lesson read-me
- A zip for the 6 exit cards; a zip for the assessments: 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment
- Every file as a print-ready PDF and an editable Word document; the lesson plan also as a PowerPoint deck to project
In every lesson
- Lesson plan
- Worksheet
- Homework
- Handout
For the whole unit
- 6 exit cards
- 2 quizzes
- A project
- An assignment
- Every format included — PDF, DOCX & PPTX
- The Real Draft: From Notes to a First Attempt
- Handwriting with Style, Formatting with Purpose
- Finding Your Voice on the Page
- Whose Story Is It? Point of View and Perspective
- Revision That Actually Improves the Draft
- The Final Pass: Editing and Proofreading
- Each lesson fits one 40-minute period; the plan is written for a substitute to teach cold
- Prints cleanly in black and white; nothing depends on colour
- Answer keys on the teacher pages at the end of every worksheet, homework and assessment
- In My files right away, and by email.
- Zips open on any computer; on a phone, save them to Files or Drive first
- Licensed to one teacher for one classroom — not for sharing with colleagues or your school. Full licence terms
- Digital files are final sale; if something is wrong with a file we'll fix it
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