Learning+Essentials+for+Microsoft+Office+Plans

The lesson plans on available on this page have been contributed by teachers who are using Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office with students to master standards.

Using Learning Essentials, students will write a Compare (How are they the same?)/Contrast (How are they different?) essay on the topic of their choice. Students will fully utilize Learning Essentials as they progress through the task, checking each step off in the project assistance pane as it is completed.
 * Middle School**
 * Learning to W****rite a Compare/Contrast Essay**

Students will think of someone they know very well and whom others would benefit from knowing. After listing three of the traits that make the subject extraordinary, students will write a brief character sketch, consisting of introductory and a single body paragraph, explaining the most outstanding character traits the subject possesses.
 * Modified Character Sketch: The Writing Process**


 * High School

Mini-Research Project: Time Periods in American Literature** Using Learning Essentials, students will develop a mini-research project over a time period in American literature; Revolutionary Lit, American Romanticism, Civil War Lit, Modernism, etc. The purpose of this lesson is twofold: to introduce students to the application of the basic research skills they will need for their Spring project, and to demonstrate how social events, cultural bias, and historical perspective influence literature.

This lesson utilizes Learning Essentials along with the Holt Online Writing Lab in order to help students plan and write a persuasive essay. It should take about two days to complete, start-to-finish, and can be done completely digitally. If you do not want to utilize the Holt Online Writing Lab, just continue Day Two with a timed, in-class writing on paper. The beauty of the Writing Lab is that the students get automatic feedback scored by the TCAP Writing Assessment Rubric, and an optional Day Three revision session can be done online in that program.
 * Creating Main Ideas and Supporting Details for Persuasive Essays**

Students will analyze two TCAP Writing Assessment Anchor Papers over a given prompt. They will use the Objections Chart to determine whether or not the anchor papers have main ideas with strong supporting details, and then they will score each paper based on the TCAP Writing Assessment Rubric. The intended outcome is for them to notice a correlation between higher scores and prewriting/brainstorming main ideas and supporting details.
 * Analyzing Persuasive Techniques / Scoring TCAP Anchor Papers with Learning Essentials**

After reading and discussing the poem, The Wife's Lament, students will use Learning Essentials to draft, revise, edit, and produce a final draft of a theme analysis of the poem.
 * Theme Analysis for //The Wife's Lament//**