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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Hoodies crackdown in Kalamazoo middle school irks some students, parents - Latest News - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

Hoodies crackdown in Kalamazoo middle school irks some students, parents - Latest News - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
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Persuasion Unit

  • Persuasive Outline
  • Rubric--Persuasive Research Report
  • Anecdotal interview form
  • Persuasion sentence completions
  • Persuasion words matching quiz
  • support, anecdote, oligarchy
  • frigorific, exquisite, loquacious
  • rivulet, sychophant
  • Immigration Opinion
  • Immigration Article Study Questions
  • appeal, emotional, logical
  • word form chart
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Response to Literature Unit

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  • Theme form
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  • word form chart for treatment, scope, etc.
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  • Flash cards: conspicuous, vile, and loathe
  • Essay Checklist
  • Book report form
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  • absurd word chart (old)
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  • loaf word chart (old)
  • conspicuous word chart (old)
  • oppression word chart (old)

Narrative Unit

  • Vocabulary Worksheet
  • Word chart sildes 1-3
  • Word chart slides 4-6
  • Word Form Answers
  • Word Chart Narrative II
  • Culture and Heritage Organizer
  • Recurring Theme Essay Checklist
  • Recurring Theme Worksheet
  • Transistions
  • Attention-grabbing introductions
  • Frederick Douglass Video Form
  • Akeelah Viewing Guide
  • Random Narrative Generator
  • "Root of Freedom" Questions
  • The remaining words form the California Standards in the narrative unit
  • Curriculum Letter
  • narrative, theme, and tradition
  • Carnegie Standards for Written Work
  • contemporary, autobiography, coherent
  • Root of Freedom

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  • Proportional Word Chart
  • word form chart
  • From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Attention-Grabbing Introductions
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  • Checklist for Five Paragraph Essays
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  • State Standards for Writing
  • State Standards for Speaking
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