Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.

Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.

Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.