With the end of the school year quickly approaching, it’s time to begin planning that last unit or final activity and all of your end of the year activities. Here is a list of five different high school English and middle school end of the year English lessons to get you though those last weeks!
End of the Year ELA Lessons: Synthesis Writing
Students are very passionate about high-interest topics, and one of the best ways to harness that energy is to teach a synthesis writing unit. These synthesis argument essays cover topics that students are interested in and help walk students through the synthesis process. This mega bundle includes 14 different engaging topics that teenagers are interested in.
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“This was an amazing resource! My students appreciated how the unit simplified the writing process for them, which in turn made the process easier on me! Thanks.”
End of the Year ELA Lessons: The Research Paper
Assigning a final research paper is one of the quintessential final units for a secondary ELA classroom. This research paper teaching unit includes everything you could need to teach the research process and assign a research paper to students.
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“My students really benefited from such a structured way to write their first research paper. They loved the topic choices and each student enjoyed researching their chosen topic. Thank you for creating such a wonderful resource and sharing it with us!”
End of the Year ELA Lessons: Future College and Career Research Paper
Before sending students out for the summer, one great way to wrap up the year is to assign either a future college or a future career research paper. This college and career research assignment duo includes both of these assignments so that students can select which research-based assignment works best for them.
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“This was a great source to have my kids actually think about the careers they are interested in after high school and address some of the things pertaining to those careers that they wouldn’t normally think of.”
End of the Year ELA Lessons: A Graphic Essay
This was one of my favorite activities from this semester. Rather than assigning a full-on essay, have students present the information the gathered in a visual format. This graphic essay assignment includes a sample template and directions on how to assign a visual essay in your classroom.
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“The documents have clear directions and are visually appealing. Students know exactly what is required and how to proceed through the process of writing an argumentative graphic essay. This is an especially helpful resource, because it gets students writing, researching, and arguing with a purpose. It’s also perfect for independent learning as students are able to challenges themselves to use more academic language and write a variety of sentence lengths or use simple language and sentences for your ESL students. And the best thing of all is that it’s READY-TO-GO! There is NO PREP involved other than having your topic(s) for students to choose from to complete the assignment. You could even go so far as having students choose their own!”
End of the Year ELA Lessons: End of the Year Growth Mindset Activities
If you wish to jump to end celebratory and reflective end-of-the-year activities, this End of the Year Growth Mindset Activities resource is just for you! This resource has enough activities for a couple of weeks of growth mindset and reflective fun.
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“This was a great resource to use towards the end of the year. I used these during testing to help my kiddos reflect on their true growth over the year. We had great conversations from these activities.”
With one of these five end of the year ELA lessons, you are sure to have a fantastic end to your year. These end of the year ELA activities are idea great for middle school and high school.
