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Language Arts

Why Study Language Arts

Voice

Johnny Cash Audition - Finding His Voice

Writing

Writing: Arts-Based Literacy

Common Core Writing Samples - by grade levels

Blog by Dave Orphal with First and Final Student Writing Samples as Measures of Teacher Effectiveness

Common Writing / Learning Tasks compare-contrast cause-effect problem-solution

Talk-It-Out Approach (Pairing)

Writing As A Transformational Focus At The High School Level

Standards

Read Like a Historian

Time Travel Times Two - Book Reviews of Books for Young Adults, all dealing with time travel, so great for the intersection of reading and history, or the future....

ideas for helping students understand common expository text structures like ***cause and effect, ***compare and contrast and ***problem-solution.

Baseline Essays

Social Studies

Why Study History - Search

Teaching & Testing Civics

Civics & Common Core

Why Don't You Just Tell Us the Answer?

Baseline Essays

Teching and Testing Civics

Examples of Student work - American Revolution

Geography

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