Creative Writing Curriculum High School Complete Semester

If you teach high school creative writing, this is the ULTIMATE curriculum for you! It contains everything you need to teach the course from beginning to end. If you’re looking for a complete creative writing curriculum, add this to your cart NOW!

Your students will enjoy the writing process with contemporary mentor texts, engaging brainstorming and practice activities, and step-by-step writing instructions to guide them from beginning to end. Detailed daily lesson plans, rubrics, and answer keys make this a low prep, low stress resource for you!

All of these activities have been successfully used in a high school classroom during my many years of teaching creative writing. This resource will provide you with 35 weeks of materials, so you can customize each unit to fit the needs of your students.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• Semester calendar/pacing guide for easy planning
• Interest survey allows you to get to know students’ writing habits and preferences at the beginning of the course
• Bell ringers with 90 prompts for daily writing warm-ups
• Brainstorming unit provides 45 activities to avoid writer’s block all semester
• Fiction unit includes dozens of activities on short story elements, instruction in writing a full-length short story, flash fiction mini unit, & pick-a-path adventure story project
• Poetry unit uses modern, diverse poetry to teach 8 poetic devices, 7 poetic forms, & 50+ poetry prompts
• Course reflection lets students self-assess their growth & can be used with a semester-ending portfolio project or as a final exam
• Editable PowerPoint slides with definitions and examples of literary terms
• Student handouts with tips to write more effectively
• Mentor texts and discussion questions with answer keys
• Warm-ups, brainstorming, and practice activities to generate ideas for writing
• Detailed writing instruction sheets for students
• Single-point rubrics for easy assessment
• Detailed lesson plans & teacher tips
• Printable PDF and Google Slides versions 

Notes:

• Due to copyright laws, copies of mentor texts are NOT included in this resource. Links to online versions are included for you to use with your students.
• The Google Slides versions contains text boxes for student responses. Due to copyright laws, the content is NOT editable for teachers.

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