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High school creative writing internet activities under $5
Song Titles | Main Idea and Symbolism | Language Arts Worksheets
Songs and song lyrics are so important to teens, and this is one of my students' favorite lessons all year. Teenagers - actual teenagers - have complimented me on this lesson plan. That was a wow-factor for me, because I really didn't expect quite that much love when I developed the lesson. Every time I teach it, I hear comments such as: "We should do this kind of thing more often," "Of all your classes, this one is my favorite so far," etc. Quite a few get so involved, they ask to work on it at
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8th - 11th
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6 Word Memoir Getting to Know You Activities High School & Middle School
This Six Word Memoir Project is a perfect back to school icebreaker for high school or middle school students. Build classroom community while teaching important ELA writing concepts like diction, syntax, and the writing process. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES six Word Memoir writing activity is a fun and engaging getting to know you activity for high school or middle school students as well as an excellent way to introduce any identity unit or memoir unit. This activity is editable so yo
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7th - 12th
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Figurative Language & Poetic Devices Quiz & Activity
A quiz (or can be used as a worksheet) over various figurative language terms and poetic devices. Quiz includes 20 matching and identification of devices in poems.
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Terms covered are:
alliteration
assonance
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
rhyme
eye rhyme
internal rhyme
paradox
carpe diem poetry
true rhyme
near/half rhyme
Activity is an optional internet scavenger hunt of poems and song lyrics
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7th - 12th
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ELA Morning Work Do Now ELA Bell Ringers LITERARY WORD OF THE DAY DIGITAL
SEPTEMBER BACK TO SCHOOL BELLRINGERS, LITERARY WORD OF THE DAY! Students review: Theme, plot, conflict, setting, foreshadowing, flashback, irony, symbolism, alliteration, point of view, simile, metaphor, imagery, genre, and more! Includes end-of-month test and literary element sketch activity. DAILY TASK: Students read a literary definition and use the letter hints to determine the word of the day. Then, students write an example of the literary word.INCLUDES20 Bell ringersPRINTABLE end of mont
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6th - 9th
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ELA Morning Work Do Now Bell Ringers QUICK WRITES BACK TO SCHOOL DIGITAL
AUGUST BACK TO SCHOOL, DO NOW, QUICK WRITE BELLRINGERS, WITH MIN-LESSONS FOR PARAGRAPH WRITING. Get your students' creative juices flowing at the start of every class, with fun, thought-provoking QUICK WRITES! DAILY TASK: Students read a short, thought-provoking prompt and do a 10 minute Quick WriteINCLUDES20 writing promptsMini-lessons for paragraph writingMini-lesson for Quick WritesEditable instructionsBuilt in digital timer (optional)Instructions for studentsCOMING SOON BELL RINGERS FOR EACH
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6th - 9th
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Urban Legends Powerpoint - Creative writing and research assignment
This 28-page power point details how urban legends get started in our society. Students will learn how to identify them and how to research their validity. This power point contains examples of urban legends (school appropriate), lots of pictures, examples and information about how to identify an urban myth.
After showing this power point, I usually ask my students to create and write an urban legend of their own using the guidelines. I also ask students to do a short research project on ur
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9th - 12th
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Blog Template for Current Events, Science, Math, Creative Writing- No Computers!
Don't have computer access, but want to teach your students about collaborating, discussing, and publishing 'online'? These 'Blog' Templates allow all students to share their thoughts in a unique way.
Using Blog Templates will guarantee total participation in your classroom - even shy students love this!
For their 'blog,' students generate their own blog title (___.com), give each entry a title and date, and generate key words that would highlight the importance of their blog entries. There
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4th - 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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Google Slides - Hamburger Paragraph Graphic Organizer Template
Go Paperless, Go Engaging, Go Media, Go Google Slides.Organize ideas with the Hamburger Graphic Organizer. Write your first draft on the next slide. Perfect for distance learning, this interactive Google Slide is a paperless template. Attach to your Google Classroom and share with your students. Text boxes are prepared for students to fill. Edit as you please.What You NeedThis resource was created using Google Slides.To use this you must have a Google email. This will give you access to your per
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Google Slides - 10 Pack Graphic Organizers
Soundtrack of My Life Reflection and Creative Writing Activity (Rubric Included)
Hello, fellow educators! Welcome to the Soundtrack of My Life Reflection and Creative Writing Activity! This awesome creative writing Google Docs activity can be used with in person and virtual learners for hybrid learning-and it's editable! Encourage your students to reflect on meaningful events in their life so far AS IF IT WERE A MOVIE! This is a great activity for self-characterization and self-discovery, encouraging students to metaphorically connect music to life events, design an album co
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9th - 12th
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Advertising Techniques - Create An Ad - DIGITAL Media Literacy Activity
Looking for a fun digital project where students create their own advertisements? Using the techniques used in advertising, students must create an ad and then justify their work by writing a paragraph explaining their choices. Students create their ad using a digital platform and you can give them the option of a print ad, tv ad, or radio ad. This activity is excellent for a media awareness activity, media literacy unit, or a study on persuasive writing!Includes the following Google Slides™le
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: MEDIA LITERACY ACTIVITIES - Advertising & Social Media DIGITAL Bundle
Hunger Games Trilogy Capitol Mutts Creative Activity
Enjoy this activity to use while teaching The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and/or Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
Students will use creativity to invent their own Capitol mutts. It includes options for an online activity, computer drawing activity, and traditional paper/pencil activity, plus follow-up questions after the activity is completed.
Also includes guided discussion for relating the methods of torture to modern day weaponry/torture and the ethics of war.
For additional project activi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Plan A Trip To Disney World Fantasy Activity Be A Travel Agent
Lets pretend you are going on a trip to Disney World. You must plan the trip to Disney World for your family. You need to decide on where you will stay, how you will get there, where you will eat, and what you will do and see while you are there! Grab a tablet or computer and research all you will need for your trip to Disney World. Then have fun creating a brochure of the tripWhat's included?- Graphic organizers to organize idea of transportation, accommodations, food, and attractions- Blank su
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4th - 9th
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Whitman vs. Hughes: "I, Too" and "I Hear America Singing" Activity Pack
This activity pack gets a lot of mileage out of two short poems! It contains a sequence of engaging activities that helps your class with analyzing literary terms like metaphor, understanding author's purpose, comparative and analytical writing, and using critical critical thinking skills to make high level connections between the text and the real world. Included Activities: 1. Guided Reading Questions: Both poems are included with side-by-side questions. The sequence of questions are aligned
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10th - 12th
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The Outsiders Unit Supplements & Updates - Inclusive Text Pairing Suggestions
Ready to make your OUTSIDERS unit more inclusive? This resource is part of a series to help teachers find supplements and updates for core texts in order to add more inclusivity to their curriculum. If you're teaching THE OUTSIDERS, this resource will save you tons of time! Key Elements:✅ THE OUTSIDERS themes✅ Essential questions for the novel✅ Literary elements in THE OUTSIDERS For each text, we share easy changes, like paired texts (videos, poems, articles, etc.) you can incorporate on a budge
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7th - 9th
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Distance Learning Editable Peer Review Google Form: Creative Writing Short Story
Tired of making a new peer review worksheet for every new piece of creative writing? Try this 100% editable peer review google form with ANY short story - with a limited time FREEBIE included!This form is broken into sections (Overall Story, Setting, Characters, Plot, Theme, The Bigger Picture) to help students chunk tasks. Only one section at a time appears on their screen with skills-focused questions in a variety of formats for proper differentiation. Students will use the included Plot Diagr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Google Slides - Setting Through Images - Story Elements
Inspire Thinking Through ImagesGo Paperless, Go Engaging, Go Media, Go Google Slides.Inspire creative thinking, imagination, creativity and develop writing through images. This interactive Google Slides is filled with 66 different images to identify.Each slide requires students to observe the image and respond by identifying the Where (Place) and the When (Time). Each slide also requires students to provide descriptive words to describe the setting.Inspire narrative writing. Students can select
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4th - 12th
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Creative Writing Prompt: The Crazy Crime Scene Unfinished Mystery Story
Unfinished story prompts or story starters are a powerful creative writing tool. Students are given a short mystery story and they write the solution. This helps get them past writer's block or that persistent fear of not knowing what to write about. The story prompt gives them a setting, characters, and a clear plot line to follow.In this story, someone has robbed the Shermer City Bank! Usually criminals leave no clues, but this time there are too many clues! There’s a blonde wig, a spilled sod
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5th - 9th
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Social Network Character Analysis Project
This assignment is titled “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Social Network,” an excellent form of differentiated instruction to teach one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies. We hear a lot these days about how our students enjoy communicating with one another on sites like Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. This assignment is essentially a character analysis assignment in the form of a “mock social network.” Students must imagine that characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream have social networking
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9th - 12th
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Middle-High School Paraphrasing and Citation Activity, Writing and Research
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day Quotation Marks Internet Activity
Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sept. 19! In this activity, students will use the internet to find their pirate names and use a pirate translator to collaborate on a dialog between a gang of ferocious pirates. This lesson is easily tied into a quotation marks mini-lesson or review activity. A fun ice-breaker for the first weeks of school!This download contains a one page .pdf file.
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5th - 10th
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Show Don't Tell: Make 50 Boring Sentences Interesting- Distance Learning
This product contains 50 boring sentences that merely tell information. Students must revise and rewrite the sentences to show the information in an interesting way. Sentences can be used to help develop students' skills in descriptive and/or narrative writing.The sentences are in an editable Word document, so you may change names and edit details as you desire.Teachers can pick out some sentences and model for the class how to show instead of tell information.Additionally, the whole class can w
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Writing: Science Fiction - Drag & Drop - Digital Distance Learning
This is a creative spin on students writing a science fiction themed story. Students are given 6 characters (one wild card) to choose from to add to their fictional stories. Students use the drag & drop feature to select their characters, setting, and conflict. Each slide has questions about how each of these elements will contribute to the plot of the story. They are also provided with a story plot diagram to plan their story and some pages to begin typing their draft. Included: Slide 1 - S
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3rd - 10th
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Propaganda - Commercials: Escape Room
Engage students in learning the 8 different propaganda techniques used in commercials through a webquest styled escape room. Students will watch 8 famous commercials, trying to match what technique they are!Great for real-life, relevant teaching! Additionally, provides great visual examples to help students remember what each technique is.Could be a fun Super Bowl learning activity or just a general day in the classroom activity!
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5th - 10th
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