The annual Elie Wiesel Writing and Visuals Arts Competition is open to students in grades 6 through 12 and serves to inspire middle and high school students and teachers to learn more about the Holocaust, racism, bigotry, and the dangers of prejudice. The questions posed each year guide students to explore the lessons of the Holocaust while examining contemporary issues such as bullying, peer pressure, unthinking obedience to authority, and indifference.

We can look at art to analyze and interpret the ideas at play; we can also use art as a prompt for creativity; but these two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Use this simple creative writing exercise to help students collaboratively use creative thinking in tandem with critical thinking as they make meaning from an abstract artwork.

This resource provides a simple, focused grading tool to assess literature analysis. It can be applied to demonstrations of skill through writing or speaking.

This resource provides a rubric written for high school students to self-assess their persuasive writing. Teachers may also use it for assessment. In this remix, the purpose of three different types of argument writing--arguments of fact, value, and policy--are described.

Remixed from Clarity Innovations' "Persuasive Writing Rubric--High School" available here: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/22756-persuasive-writing-rubric-high-school.

This resource provides an explanation of, sample directions for, and suggested logistics to implement a reflection and revision assignment after students have completed at least one draft of a writing assignment. The assignment requires students to pinpoint problematic issues in the writing and to focus revisions on those. The assignment requires both reflective writing about and actual revision of particular problems in order to develop awareness of their individual struggles with writing and practice solving those problems.

This resource provides ideas for how students can engage with a variety of sources that tackle controversial issues as they work to consider and support their own opinion. It provides scaffolding for the original resource from which it is remixed to help students prepare to write an argument essay on a controversial topic.

This resource presents ideas for a senior scrapbook that students can build throughout the year as they complete various assignments, most of which are writing assignments. The resource presents language designed to be given to students that teachers can adjust as they pick and choose from the various assignments they would like to do.

A leveled assessment to pair with Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil fro the National Endowment for the Humanities

Retrieved from https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/shakespeares-macbeth-fear-and-motives-evil