The Burning House
Persuasive Writing, Speaking, and Activities
Web Page Prepared by Kathleen Prody and Jean O'ConnorHelena High SchoolHelena, MTAugust, 2001 Rationale: Montana Pilots the ACT Writing Assessment for Juniors Under the advisement of the Montana Board of Regents, the Commissioner of Higher Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction convened a K-16 Joint Composition Standards Committee to determine if students' basic proficiencies in English will permit their success in postsecondary education. School year 2000 - 2001 was the first of a three year field test of the writing test chosen, the ACT Writing Assessment. The ACT Writing Assessment utilizes persuasive writing, and impacts all students. The activities and information on this site are designed for high school and middle school students. Since the field test, the ACT Writing Assessment in Montana has become the Montana University System Writing Assessment or MUSWA. Also, see Webwriters, a resource offering practice for students who wish to prepare for the MUSWA. Sources:
Education Article :: 99 Reasons Teachers Rock
The education community has been all gloom and doom recently, with Waiting for Superman, protests with bad press, and more standards on top of foolish mandates coming down from every which way. At TeachHUB, we want to remind all you teachers that we know you rock. Here are 99 reasons to prove it! March into this collection of weather lesson plans for primary grades and you... All across the nation, school, teachers, students, libraries, and families... Experts have identified character education as the core, underlying ingredient... As a teacher, you can help your students learn to observe carefully, ask... The modifications they are ushering into the exam have been called "extensive"... 99 Reasons Teachers Rock 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.Nearly seven out of 10 teachers (68%) cite working with kids as the reason for remaining in the profession. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 71% of teachers are women. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.
» I Have A Dream Speech Analysis Lesson Plan
Find Every Literary Term in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Most Famous Speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march on Washington, D.C. The speech he gave that day is one of the best known in American history. When people remember the “I Have a Dream” speech, as it has come to be known, they recall King’s message about civil rights. This lesson plan allows students to review literary terms, rhetorical devices and figurative language with a scavenger hunt through “I Have a Dream” speech. The Lesson Plan 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Examples of Literary Terms in the “I Have a Dream Speech” AlliterationThe repetition of sounds makes the speech more catchy and memorable. In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. Anaphora This term describes the most famous part of the speech: King’s repetition of “I have a dream.”
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
In recent years there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else. Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course that we teach at Cornell. You can download a complete pre-publication draft of Networks, Crowds, and Markets here.
