Process

A citation, or reference, is a line of text that uniquely identifies a source

This video lesson discusses quote Transitions for Analytical and Argumentative Writing, sometimes known as lead ins, which is a skill that will help bring evidence into your writing. This lesson goes through three common ways of transitioning into, or setting up, quotes in academic and analytical writing. Using these three strategies will make your writing more fluid, varied, and interesting.

In this video lesson Mr. Donnelly will be explaining how to plan an effective plot for a story and/or in writing.

This lesson discusses the basics of documenting sources, where does your evidence come from and why this is crucial to an essay. Documenting sources is also important to give credit to the source. Citing is explained and how to show where evidence is coming from. This video gives basic examples of how to correctly document sources.

This lesson discusses Introductions and Conclusions when it comes to essay structure and form. Thesis or main idea first, than topic sentences, evidence and commentary and finally write introduction and conclusion. An introduction has three parts, the funnel technique is explained using theme statement, enumeration and thesis. The three parts of the conclusion are explained using the restated thesis, re-enumeration and the closing.

In this video lesson, Mr. Donnelly will be modeling writing a plot. This lesson is aligned to the Common Core ELA for the third grade.

Plagiarism is use of another author's materials and expressing them as your own. In this video lesson Mrs. Stesner will be reviewing examples of plagiarism.

In this video lesson, Mr. Donnelly will be modeling double nothing e-drop. This lesson is aligned to the Common Core ELA for the third grade.

This lesson is on plot structure and plot mountains through examples from the movie The Lion King. Plot structure is explained in depth as to how a narrative is put together, to help you become a more effective reader and improve comprehension. The definition of a plot is explained in more depth in the lesson, through plot structure, types of characters, incidents and everything that happens between climax and resolution with examples.