World History
I don't often promote items that cost money, but the DBQ Project is simply amazing. First of all they adhere to standard curriculum and secondly they are so good that you do not need to cover the section beforehand. They all come with a one page summary and then each document is broken down into a series of questions, the last of which is always the topic sentence question. I have used them with my standard students and find they write better using the DBQ Project items than a standard essay where they have to find all of the information. The best part is that the essay does the teaching of those facts.
I usually set aside two class days for each one and insist that the kids correct all of their mistakes after they have turned them in so they can truly learn the correct way to write.
If you want to see an example, here is one on Renaissance.
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World History
The DBQ Project for Amazing Essay Writing
I usually set aside two class days for each one and insist that the kids correct all of their mistakes after they have turned them in so they can truly learn the correct way to write.
If you want to see an example, here is one on Renaissance.
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Ironically, at the same time one of my classes is starting to write a research paper, I received an email from Robert Morris asking if he could write a post for my blog. His write-up is so useful I am putting it up in its entirety. ...
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Just two days ago I was talking to an ESOL teacher in my school who had no idea about online translators. I have a number of ESOL kids in my classes and use the translators for essay writing. My thought is that if I am trying to teach the...