Lessons

Thesis Writing Workshop 
A 50-minute workshop designed to teach students how to write evidence-driven thesis statements

Outline Generator
An electronic tool to help students turn their thesis statements into essays.​

Fairy Tale Grab Bags
An activity in which students use fairy tales to develop thesis statements.​​​

Thesis Classroom Ideas
A selection of other ways to incorporate thesis writing into classroom instruction.​

What's the Scoop?
A method for making the OPVL (Origin-Purpose-Value-Limitation)  document analysis tool more approachable for students.

Think, Build, Tweet
A LEGOs and Twitter combination lesson -- we challenge our students to work in groups to imagine a crucial event, individual, or concept from a unit of study, build it, and then write a explanatory tweet.

We are incredibly grateful for the technical expertise and teaching knowledge that Brian Herberger, formerly the School Based Technology Specialist at Kilmer Middle School and currently FCPS Test Analysis Specialist for Instructional Services, contributed to the development of our Thesis Writing Workshop, as well as bringing our ideas for the Thesis Generator to life.