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75 8th Grade Writing Prompts Students Can’t Resist Responding to

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They can even use them as longer argumentative essay topics during an argument writing unit! Write a short essay about your favorite celebrity and their biggest album, movie, or show. 10 Math and Science Prompts for Interdisciplinary Writing Writing in math and science can be as easy as pi! Which do you choose, and why?

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94 Intriguing Writing Prompts for High School

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Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ? What would you do?

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Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

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Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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Will Online Learning Lead to College Closures? Clay Shirky Says It’s Complicated.

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About once a month, he puts out a new essay about the many complex forces acting on higher ed these days—highlighting some ways true transformation is happening. To help steer the discussion, Shirky started a newsletter last year called “ The (Continual) Transformation of Higher Ed.” They cut the number of majors from 33 to 17.

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How to Weave Advisory into Academics — Plus 10 Resources for Teaching SEL

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Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. In “the real world” as teachers say, challenges are complex.

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