9th - 12th Grades

Prompt: Tom Hussey Reflection of Younger Self

Video link

Slides and Worksheet (updated by Stephanie Turner, Brunson ES)

Additional See-Think-Wonder inspiration from The NY Times and Project Zero.

This lesson asks students to focus on asking questions about a prompt. This can be an excellent introduction to a new topic, but I've also used to to move students from learning about a topic to producing their own products (writing or speaking).

Once students learn this procedure, you can use any relevant Question Focus as your prompt.

Topic: Sentence Fragments

• Video link. Slides and Worksheet to share.

• Librivox audio recording of Little Red Riding Hood (different version)

Additional Resources

• The Learning Center's Online Writing Lab with exercises and answers

• Capitalization rules and worksheet (forces copy)

• Six-Word Memoirs. Feel free to adapt for your own classes as needed, and share how you did it with the rest of us.

• Story Telling and Parts of a Story, by Stacey Jolly (Reynolds HS)

Sentence Stems for Recording History

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