Essay writing for high school students newsweek

Credit... Our 2019-20 Writing Curriculum is one of the most popular new features we’ve ever run on this site, so, of course, we’re back with a 2020-21 version — one we hope is useful whether you’re teaching in person, online, indoors, outdoors, in a pod, as a homeschool, or in some hybrid of a few of these.

Winning means being published on our site, and, perhaps, in the print edition of The New York Times. Webinars and our new professional learning community (P.L.C.). For each of the seven units in this curriculum, we host a webinar featuring Learning Network editors as well as teachers who use The Times in their classrooms.

The events of 2020 will define this generation, and many are living through them isolated from their ordinary communities, rituals and supports. Though a writing curriculum can hardly make up for that, we hope that it can at least offer teenagers a creative outlet for making sense of their experiences, and an enthusiastic audience for the results.

Daily opportunities to practice writing for an authentic audience. If a student submits a comment on our site, it will be read by Times editors, who approve each one before it gets published. Submitting a comment also gives students an audience of fellow teenagers from around the world who might read and respond to their work.