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Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity
Students will upgrade their bland research questions using prompts of depth and complexity and then create a sequence of questions using concepts from Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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Building Creative Analogies
Students will take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, they’ll create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
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Passive to Active Voice
Rewriting passive sentences into active sentences makes them clearer, shorter, and more interesting. This video will help students to identify and improve these passive sentences.
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Propaganda and Logical Fallacies
In this series, students learn about five types of logical fallacies then develop an argument against a great idea, invention, or character using these techniques.
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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing: The Ethical Issue
Students will identify ethical issues from the science fiction and fantasy genres, then use those ideas to develop their own story’s realistic problem.
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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing: Introduction
Students will write a story tackling an ethical issue using the sci-fi or fantasy genres.
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Academic Love Letters
Students will use multiple perspectives to compose a letter of admiration from one academic subject to another.
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Elements of The Fantasy Genre
Dig into the common elements of the fantasy genre.
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Valentines with an Academic Twist
Take a fluffy holiday activity, and give it an academic spin. Watch as students create valentines with a connection to your grade-level content.
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Literary Technique: Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is a powerful literary tool to use for analysis as well as creation. Students will learn to see juxtaposition in existing stories, and develop juxtaposed characters in their own writing.
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Teaching Criticism
Ask students to go beyond “I like it,” and form critical opinions based around a set of criteria. Students can produce written arguments, or turn their opinion into an oral presentation.
