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High school creative writing activities for Microsoft Word
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Creative Writing Bundle Creative Writing Activities Digital & Print Writing
This bundle contains FIFTEEN creative writing products plus extra activities. You can add these creative writing activities to your current plans or use them independently. These creative writing activities include instructions as well as sample answers. Over FOURTEEN downloads are in this creative writing bundle:1. A narrative writing presentation. Students will learn about the different techniques of narrative writing such as pacing, dialogue, description vivid language, and other tools.2. A
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8th - 12th
Daily Lenses 1-4
While I have always known the value of frequent writing, I became particularly inspired to incorporate more creative writing experiences after attending several English conferences on the importance of writing. Widening my perspective on writing, I concluded that writing is writing, and not all writing has to be in the form of an essay!I developed what I call the "Daily Lens" which allows students a creative opportunity to write for 10 minutes at the start of the period. When I started incorpora
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reverse Poetry Project
Have your students write poems that send one message when read from top to bottom, but an entirely different message when read from bottom to top! Use the effortless template for an exciting, complex piece of creative writing. Two model poems are included.
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4th - 12th
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LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL - Letter to Next Year's Students
What better way to end the year than to have your students write letters to your upcoming students next year! This is a one-page template for a guided 3-paragraph letter that your students can write during the last week of school. It includes introducing oneself, and explaining learning, favorite projects/assignments, and tips/advice for students to be successful in your class! My students always do a wonderful job inspiring next year's students (I give these to my new students on the first d
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4th - 12th
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Dialogue - Rules, Examples, & Practice
Use this 2-page worksheet to teach the main rules of writing dialogue in a story. Each rule has examples and practice correcting dialogue. Then, at the end, students practice writing their own conversation using correct dialogue.
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4th - 10th
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Language Arts Writing A Play Script Basic Outline Template Graphic Organizer
This is a basic graphic organizer to use with your students when having them brainstorm ideas during the process of writing their own play. The outline template covers such topics as title, character, settings, scenes, main idea, climax, resolution, and narrator. This outline template is great to use with your special needs students or those who have a difficult time generating their thoughts on paper.
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5th - 10th
Transcendentalism Creative Writing Postcard Project for Nature, Walden, Etc.
Transcendentalism can be a bit dry, but this short creative writing assignment allows students to delve deeper into the values of Transcendentalism following the reading of Nature, Walden, or Civil Disobedience (aka Resistance to Civil Government). This item includes:(1) the assignment description and options(2) easily modified grading rubric(3) and a postcard "template." Suggestion: I typically print the postcards on cardstock.RELATED PRODUCTS:Transcendentalism 55 Question Test - Thoreau and E
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10th - 11th
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Writing Guide 4: Tone & Audience (Explanation, Definitions, and Activity)
A quick writing guide on different types of tone!Comes complete with a 1 hour tone writing activity where students try to persuade different groups of people at school to agree on a four-day school week.THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:- Tone Definition Sheet with 36 DIFFERENT TYPES OF TONE- 1 Period Writing Activity arguing for a four-day school week (with persuasive writing instructions and outlines of six different audiences to convince)- Rough Work sheet for each audience- Peer Feedback sheets- Debrie
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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Back to School - Timeline of My Life
Get to know your students at the beginning of the school year by having them create a timeline of important events in their lives. Attached is a worksheet with directions and a space for students to brainstorm their events before creating their colorful timeline with dates, events, and pictures!
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3rd - 10th
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Mirror Writing Activity - Leonardo da Vinci
This paper focuses on Mirror Writing, the process of writing words and messages completely backwards. Leonardo da Vinci was famous for writing all of his notes and ideas using Mirror Writing. No one know for sure why he did it, although many believe it was to prevent others from stealing his ideas. This paper allows students to both decode a message written using Mirror Writing and allows them to write a message of their own. This activity goes great with any lesson on Leonardo da Vinci, or can
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2nd - 12th
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OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse: Activities and Resources
This 50+ page Out of the Dust resource packet combines study guide and discussion questions, graphic organizers, vocabulary, projects, writing assignments, quizzes, keys to them, internet resources, and more! Check out the preview file for a better sense of the material. Best of luck.
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5th - 9th
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Creating Chinese Pictograph Scrolls - Ancient China Activities
The students will be able to understand that literature and art reflect the many characteristics the ancient Chinese culture. Students will study Chinese Pictographs and then create their own Chinese Pictograph Scroll, which will match up with the key words they use in a creative story.--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving BundlesAncient China Mini-Unit: Inventions, Pictographs, Marco Polo, Jeopardy, etc.A
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Ancient China Unit: Bundle of 24 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
Figurative Language Worksheets: 15 Picture Prompts with Writing Practice
Looking for a good creative writing practice using figurative language vocabulary?
Included in this 18 page document are picture prompts and instructions for students to create two examples of figurative language and to define which examples they have created. To assist students in their mastery of such terms as simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, irony, alliteration, allusion, symbolism, imagery, and oxymoron, unique pictures have been chosen to inspire creative answer
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6th - 12th
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Simile, Metaphor, Personification Worksheet
This worksheet allows students to practice the differences among simile, metaphor and personification. It also gives them a chance to create each of these devices! This is a good supplement to an existing poetry, reading, or writing unit.
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7th - 12th
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Inanimate Object Monologue Assignment
Push your students to their "characterization limits" by asking them to become Inanimate Objects like doorknobs, tubes of toothpaste, desk chairs, etc. This assignment allows students to think "outside the box" and script their own monologues about life from the perspective of something nonliving! Rubric for scoring the performance and script of their monologue is included.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Amazing Monologue Bundle
Poetry Project for High School Seniors
Seniors love this! I use this project for the last six weeks of the school year to help ward off senioritis. Students study various poets, watch a clip from DEAD POETS' SOCIETY for the "carpe diem" poem, listen to Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" as they study Tennyson, and watch the Simpsons' "Nightmare Cafeteria" to delve into satire and write their own satirical poem. These are just a few of the assignments included in the poetry project. I am amazed at the poems the students wri
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12th
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How to Write a Great College Admissions Essay - Works with Common Application
I have been teaching 11th graders to write a college admissions essay for the past ten years and this system really works! It's especially great if you have a wide variety of writing abilities within the same class.My favorite part of the packet is the "student" writing samples that help students understand what a finished product is going to look like. I've also included a brainstorming activity, an essay organizer, a rubric, and brief explanation of how to effectively use these materials.
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10th - 12th
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Fun Short Story Writing Assignment for Unmotivated High School Students
This short story writing unit has been very successful with classes of generally unmotivated eleventh- and twelfth-grade students. The length and complexity requirements are easily adjustable for differentiation or to fit your schedule.
This packet includes:
• Silly story starters that students construct by picking a subject, verb, object, and adverbial out of a hat. (Grammar reinforcement!)
• Instructions for leading students in prewriting.activities.
• Editable assignment sheet.
• Outline she
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10th - 12th
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Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes Activity | Letter from Roger Creative Writing
This is a great culminating writing assignment that teaches students proper business letter format at the same time! Students write a letter from Roger to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. The assignment is laid out as a business letter to give students a model. Excellent for reinforcing character development and point of view!Related Product:End of Short Story Unit Writing Assignment | Business Letter⭐ Follow me for new products, sales, and freebies!
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5th - 10th
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Journalism: Fairy Tale Newspaper Project with Rubric
This project is a fantastic alternative to a traditional test for a Journalism class. Ideal for middle school or high school, the project asks students to create everything from main articles, headlines, and editorials to a comic strip, classifieds and even a "Dear Abby" section. Students are also assessed on their ability to make bylines, captions and to adhere to the format of each section of the newspaper
I use this project with my own high school Journalism class and they absolutely love
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7th - 12th
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75 Fantastic "What If" Fractured Fairy Tale, Nursery Rhyme, and Story Prompts
Looking for prompts that force students to reexamine stories and think "outside the box"? This collection of prompts takes characters that students know and says "What if" something different had happened! Great for use as a creative writing "Bell Ringer" set, as improvisation prompts, or as scene starters for longer scenes or one-act plays. The set of 76 prompts (you get a bonus!) includes a few suggestions on how to use the prompts in the writing classroom or theatre program. Enjoy!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Incredible Improvisation Bundle
Identity Chart: Who Am I?
A simple, clear graphic organizer that shows four categories of identity, with questions for the students to answer about themselves under each category. Excellent for both self-awareness writing exercises and studying identity of characters in literature.
Grades:
6th - 10th
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