The Power in Your Hands - Teacher's Guide, 2nd Edition - Updated and Revised
The Teacher's Guide includes an easy-to-use grading grid, answers, and writing prompts.
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Teacher's Guide - The Power in Your Hands: Writing Nonfiction in High School
Students will learn independently in the self-guided textbook, so why buy The Power in Your Hands Teacher's Guide?
This Teacher's Guide gives you all the answers for their daily work. It also equips you to be as involved as you care to be in your students' writing class.
The Power in Your Hands, Teacher's Guide includes an easy-to-use grading grid. It will help parents grade essays with a grading grid. Now you can evaluate your teens' essays by answering simple and clear questions. Whether you are new at grading or a seasoned pro, your nail-biting days are over. Download a sample grading grid here.
Answers to all daily lessons are included in the Teacher's Guide and many student and professional essays from the textbook, so you know what your students are reading. Each Power in Your Hands assignment includes a specific checklist and writing schedule. These, too, are included in this guide.
Also in the Teacher's Guide are the 14-Minute Power Surges, a fun program of daily writing prompts geared to interest even the most reluctant writers. This program is similar to Sharon Watson's 10-Minute Writing Plunges found in Jump In, her popular middle-school writing curriculum.
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
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<h2>Question: Is the Updated and Revised edition, ISBN 978-1-971136-85-1, compatible with the original Power in Your Hands, 2nd Edition?</h2>
The short answer: It might be troublesome to use both editions in a co-op or family situation, but not impossible. Most pages have no changes at all. <br><br>
We recommend the <i>Updated and Revised Edition</i>, however, as it contains the latest and most modern wording, examples, and essays.<br><br> The following are changes to the <b>textbook</b>:
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<ol> In “Persuasion: Logical Appeal,” we updated some examples in lesson 5 for in-text citations.</ol>
<ol>In “Persuasion: Compare and Contrast,” lesson 5 has a new “digging deeper” essay. Instead of reactions to religious symbols, the new topic is on two ways doctorassisted suicide is viewed: compassionate versus dangerous. </ol><ol>In “Persuasion: Moral/Ethical Appeal,” lesson 1 contains new examples for the active voice.</ol> <ol>In “The Position Paper and Documentation,” lesson 1 is expanded to help students select reputable sources for their information. This additional information <b>changes all the page numbers after page 229</b>; therefore, original versions of The Power in Your Hands, 2nd Edition will be off one page from the updated and revised version.</ol> <ol>We updated the documentation methods in lesson 7 and 8 of that chapter to align with the Modern Language Association’s latest methodology.</ol> <ol>In “Biographies” lesson 4, we changed the second method of writing a biography.</ol> <ol>Throughout the “Compare and Contrast” chapter, we deleted references to World War I and World War II and substituted references to modes of communication: in person or electronically. The example essay in lesson 2 is new.</ol> <ol>In “Personal Narrative,” the example essay is different from the original one.</ol> <ol>Throughout the textbook, there are small revisions to wording that will not have a negative effect on students using both books in a co-op.</ol><ul></div>
The <b>Teacher’s Guide</b> includes new information about what students are learning in each lesson and what terms are being taught. For instance, in lesson 4 of “Persuasion: Emotional Appeal,” we’ve added “<i>Students are examining examples of loaded words.</i> <b>Terms:</b> connotation, denotation.”<br><br> Updated March 2026
