Beyond Five Paragraphs: Advanced Essay Writing Skills
This resource is designed to help academic high school students create sophisticated essays required for university. Along with explicit instruction and questions and activities to support student understanding, this visually engaging book includes 18 modelled essays by professional writers, and 12 modelled essays written by high school students. Each chapter also includes advice about essay writing from Canadian university professors. Students will learn about the different types of essays, how to plan and research content for an essay, and how to write an essay including drafting and editing. Students will also learn how to analyze literature in the form of an essay. Every chapter has content that focuses on timed essays to help students prepare for timed-writing situations and improve their performance.
From Txt to Talk: Communication Skills for Today and Tomorrow
This student resource offers explicit instruction of communication skills. The first half of this resource focuses on the communication process and the second half of this book provides selections for communication in the 21st century. For instance, the selections in the second half range from how to begin a conversation to how a person makes him/herself heard in a world of billions.
The skills are developed through a three-part lesson structure that supports differentiated instruction and current pedagogy. Each selection includes higher-order questions and activities to ensure students have a deeper understanding and each skill is taught through a variety of full-colour text forms, in particular hard-to-find visual and graphical information texts. Anecdotes from people in the workforce describing when they have used the skills are included in each selection.
The skills are developed through a three-part lesson structure that supports differentiated instruction and current pedagogy. Each selection includes higher-order questions and activities to ensure students have a deeper understanding and each skill is taught through a variety of full-colour text forms, in particular hard-to-find visual and graphical information texts. Anecdotes from people in the workforce describing when they have used the skills are included in each selection.
realfriends: Stop Cliquing, Start Connecting
"realfriends" is a social action project created by a group of Grade 12 students in rural Nova Scotia. The purpose of realfriends is to create a face-to-face social network, connecting as many people as possible in order to help institutional climates and communities become more social. realfriends addresses the growing concern among young people that they are missing face-to-face social connections due to the increased dependency on technology to interact with others.
This collection of student essays offers insights into the importance of "real" friends, the social problems created by technological dependency, the ways in which we might change societal behaviour, as well as reflections about their social action project, realfriends. The students also annotate their essays with reflections about the writing process, making this collection an ideal set of essay exemplars for classroom use.
This collection of student essays offers insights into the importance of "real" friends, the social problems created by technological dependency, the ways in which we might change societal behaviour, as well as reflections about their social action project, realfriends. The students also annotate their essays with reflections about the writing process, making this collection an ideal set of essay exemplars for classroom use.
21st Century Communities: A Youth Inquiry Project
When Grade 12 students asked, “What defines a community in the 21st century?” their teacher didn’t presume to know the answer. The question prompted the students to create a Youth Inquiry Project that explored the roles of media, technology, women, industry, poverty, discrimination, education, and environmental issues in our communities.
Each student created an individual inquiry question to shape how they look at their own communities in rural Nova Scotia. The students then visited a contrasting community in northern Alberta to see how their questions were reflected in the First Nations community of Fort McKay. The results of the students’ thinking about communities are presented in this anthology of essays with accompany student annotations about the writing process. The essays are useful in secondary classrooms as exemplars of student writing and reflection.
Each student created an individual inquiry question to shape how they look at their own communities in rural Nova Scotia. The students then visited a contrasting community in northern Alberta to see how their questions were reflected in the First Nations community of Fort McKay. The results of the students’ thinking about communities are presented in this anthology of essays with accompany student annotations about the writing process. The essays are useful in secondary classrooms as exemplars of student writing and reflection.