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This summer enrichment packet is focused on helping secondary students build or freshen reading and writing skills during time off from school. It features 4 challenging, standards-aligned activities that combine skill-building with plenty of writing practice. Each activity includes extensions that can be assigned for extra credit or a more challenging experience.

Table of Contents

  1. Narrative Writing: Genre-Bending Journal
  2. Evaluate and Judge Writing: Play Virtual Tourist
  3. Argument Writing: There's Something Happening 'Round Here
  4. Reading (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas): Haven't I Seen This Already?

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Andrea Cartwright

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Andrea Cartwright (B.A., M.A.) is a 10th grade Lead Advisor and English teacher at a school in San Francisco, California. With a B.A. in Literatures in English, (minoring in… Read more

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