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Creative writing Common Core SL.9-10.1 resources
ELA Curriculum Bundle: The English Teacher's Life Preserver
This ginormous ELA bundle will solve a lot of your problems. You'll never have to stay up late trolling for lesson plan ideas again. You'll just dive into this folder, choose one of the dozens of activities and projects inside, and then hit the hay. Imagine the delicious smells of your own literary food truck festival. Imagine students fighting over your most popular reading library titles. Expect newly engaged writers when you roll out your first ever ELA maker space and guide your students in
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9th - 12th
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Punctuating Dialogue - Embedding Quotations Grammar Worksheets - Quotation Marks
Teach students about punctuating dialogue using these grammar worksheets, games, and activities! Students will learn about embedding quotations and the proper use of quotation marks with this modern and engaging lesson. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Punctuating Dialogue Grammar Worksheets:✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Informational Handout✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Practice Ac
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6th - 10th
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Slam Poetry, Spoken Word Poetry Unit Plan - Poem Writing & Analysis Activities
This no-prep, engaging, 5-week CCSS-aligned slam poetry unit is packed with fun spoken word poetry activities and assignments - EVERYTHING you need for your next slam poem unit! Studying poem writing and writing slam poetry can be a fun, interactive, student-centered experience that engages every learner! These resources provide the complete slam poetry experience, from exploration to analysis, from writing to performance. Your students will understand and appreciate slam poetry, but they will a
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8th - 11th
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Star Spangled Banner Activity: National Anthem Reading & War of 1812 summary
It's the National Anthem! Whether it's social studies, english, or music class, this mini-unit is perfect for any study on the Star Spangled Banner (or the War of 1812). This bundle includes a fun, introductory whole-group PowerPoint-style quiz, a historical reading with comprehension questions, and a creative re-writing of the National Anthem. Everything you need is included! It's even in PDF and Google drive formats! Learn more specifics in the details below:☞ This resource is also a part of
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Creative Writing Unit - Descriptive and Narrative Writing Lessons and Activities
This creative writing unit for high school includes 150 pages’ worth of narrative writing prompts, descriptive writing lessons, grammar worksheets for punctuating dialogue, and more! Suitable for online learning with digital activities for Google Classroom®.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Included with this Creative Writing Unit for High School:✏️ Descriptive Writing Informational Handouts✏️ Descriptive Writing Prompts with Pictures - Digital & Print✏️ Punctuating D
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8th - 12th
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Hero’s Journey Unit - Hero’s Journey Worksheets and Creative Writing Project
Your students will love this Hero’s Journey Unit! Includes Hero's Journey worksheets to explore Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and apply it to fan-favorite films PLUS assignment instructions, graphic organizers, and an editable rubric to develop students’ own Hero’s Journey outline Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! ⚡︎ Save 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡︎ Included with this Hero’s Journey Bundle:✏️ Hero’s Journey Informational Handout - Digital & Pri
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6th - 9th
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Ice breaker Games - Back to School Icebreaker Bundle for Middle and High School
This back to school icebreaker bundle includes engaging ice breaker games for middle school and high school students! Based on popular classics, this bundle includes: “Speed-Meeting” icebreaker questions, “Matchmaker” partner pairing cards, and collaborative “Snowball Writing” prompts.⚡️ Save over 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡️Ice Breaker Games included with this Bundle:✏️ “Speed-Meeting” Icebreaker Questions for Teens - Color & Greyscale30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate icebreake
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6th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Modified and Modern Fairy Tales (Google Drive)
Help high school Creative Writing students better understand the conventions of the fairy tale genre and prepare for the drafting of modified fairy tales with this comprehensive, low-prep, standards-aligned unit plan. Supporting materials are included. This resource is made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, a printable option is available.) More specifically, the following are included:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring
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9th - 12th
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The Ten-Minute Play: A Complete Unit for Writing a One Act Play, EDITABLE
Add some DRAMA to your Creative Writing class! This complete drama unit spans 11 days (including in-class student work time, not including additional outside-of-class work days) and covers 10-minute play basics, examples, activities, rubrics, and formatting requirements. Always a fan favorite among my students, this group project lends itself well to online platforms such as Google Classroom where students can collaborate in one virtual space, as well as fun in-person activities. This unit inclu
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Course Curriculum BUNDLE
Creative Writing Poetry Complete Unit - Middle/High School - 4 Weeks - EDITABLE
This high school Creative Writing Poetry Unit for middle and high school is meant to engage students in learning about and writing different poetic forms, and to hopefully change some of those "I hate poetry" attitudes and leave students saying, "Poetry... hey, it's not too bad!" With fun group activities, peer workshopping, outdoor inspiration trips, and the repurposing of discarded books, this complete unit aims to help students produce their own poetry in a final collection that they can be p
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9th - 12th
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9-12 High School Personal Narrative (Family Narrative) Writing Unit
*** FREEBIE IN THE PREVIEW! Open up the preview file to snag your free copy of the writing process anchor chart printable! ***This download includes everything you will need to teach personal narrative writing through the writing of a family narrative for even the most inexperienced high school writer. The scaffolded instruction works to bring writers up from middle school to high school quality in their narrative writing throughout the process described in the 2 weeks (10 days) of lesson plans.
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9th - 12th
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Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle
The Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle has everything you need to help your students dive deep into Gothic short stories! This bundle is meant to be paired with any Gothic short story you choose! In this bundle you will find...1 Fear Survey: (4 pages) Students will take an extensive survey to figure out which innate fear is the strongest in them! Once students have completed the fear survey, they will read about their fear and then answer reflective questions. This survey is a great tool to he
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9th - 12th
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Dystopian Short Story
Looking for an engaging short story unit that will inspire your classes to make a difference in their worlds?In this classic of dystopian fiction, Ursula Le Guin describes a city where people celebrate happily without a care in the world—except for one child, kept in miserable conditions.“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a great choice for getting students to think about their own role in perpetuating injustice in the world. It’s also a wonderful text for teaching point of view, setting, a
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Prompts - Daily Writing Journal Prompts, Digital Choice Board
Includes 3 weeks' worth of creative writing prompts to use for daily writing journal prompts, narrative writing story starters, and other writing activities! Suitable for online learning with a digital choice board formatted for Google Classroom®.Included with these Creative Writing Prompts for Middle School and High School:✏️ 15 Creative Writing Prompts for Student Choice - Digital & PrintStudents can select a prompt from a list of creative and engaging topicsProvided in digital format usi
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6th - 10th
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“Earth on Turtle’s Back” & “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” Creation Origin Myths
It’s back to school, and you’ve decided to begin the year with Native American Literature because they offer great opportunities to enhance your classroom management strategies and they add cultural diversity to your curriculum. But you don’t have good resources, and you don’t have time to make them. Worse, you know you need a major grade within a month, but you don’t have time to make an assessment. Worst of all, you know you could enhance your classroom management simply by offering a project
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle
This bundle includes a full semester curriculum map; six three-week, standards-based unit plans; and all instructional materials for supporting high school Creative Writing students as they generate original works of fiction. Not only does this bundle provide everything a teacher needs to carry out the curriculum to fidelity, but it substantially reduces prep work so teachers may invest more time developing positive relationships with students and offering personalized support as they work to ac
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9th - 12th
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Narrative Writing Lesson - Descriptive Writing Prompts with Pictures for Setting
Teach narrative writing with these descriptive writing prompts with pictures! This creative writing lesson will teach students how to establish setting using the “zoom” method. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Narrative Writing Lesson for Descriptive Writing:✏️ Descriptive Writing Informational HandoutsDefine key terms for narrative writing and explore strategies for establishing setting✏️ Descriptive Writing Prompts with Pictures -
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6th - 10th
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Short Film in a Flash Complete Unit Plan (Make a Mini-Movie in 1 Week!)
Challenge your students to produce a mini-movie in one week with this Short Film in a Flash complete ready-to-go unit!Students will have one week to write, film and edit a short film based off a prompt from a creative list of 20 options. Everything is ready to go with a visual instructor's presentation, an editable Compass-aligned lesson plan, step-by-step project guide for students - and supplemental materials (shot list, storyboard, 2-column script). There are two grades for the project: a for
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Also included in: Video Production Curriculum Bundle for 1st 9 Weeks
Creative Writing Unit Plan for Science Fiction Narratives (Google Drive)
Help high school Creative Writing students better understand the conventions of science fiction and prepare for the drafting of original sci-fi short stories with this comprehensive, low-prep, standards-aligned unit plan. All supporting materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, printable versions are available.) More specifically, the following are included:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring understanding(s),
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9th - 12th
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin | Literary Analysis | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for a fun, rigorous unit on Kate Chopin’s classic story?With bellringer freewrite prompts, questions for close reading and discussion, and creative writing exercises, this mini unit will get your students discussing big ideas and engaging in a close reading of this classic story of a woman’s failed search for autonomy in 19th century America. The plans in this resource work for interactive notebooks as well as learning stations. If you have time to complete everything here, there is enou
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9th - 12th
High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
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9th - 12th
Flash Fiction Microfiction Creative Writing
Sudden fiction, short-short stories, microfiction--whatever you call it, writing flash fiction is a fun way to challenge your high school students’ creativity. This creative writing resource can be used at the beginning of a short story unit to practice the elements of plot, character, setting, and point of view. You can also use this resource at the end of a short story unit as practice in revision and conciseness. Flash fiction can even be used in a literature class to review and assess studen
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Ultimate Fiction BUNDLE
Shakespeare Parody Project (Editable)
This editable parody project assignment can be used with ANY Shakespeare play. It's such a fun way to assess students while they gain essential communication and technical skills. This is usually a two or three week project which results in students writing a parody script for a scene from the play, creating an original video/movie of the parody, and presenting it to their class. All of the handouts are editable so you can customize them to suit your needs.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Introduction to Greek Mythology Class Activity
Do this thought-provoking, fun and engaging activity or minilesson before beginning any Greek Mythology unit! It involves writing, creative thinking and discussion to help students understand what the Greeks were thinking and doing when they first created the myths. It shows how we today have a very scientific mind, whereas the Greeks had a more imaginative mind. This lesson involves students writing an explanation of select pictures in nature that are "unexplainable." It includes a PowerPoint
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7th - 12th
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