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Creative writing Common Core CCRA.R.8 resources
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Mentor Text Digital & Print Unit
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett is a fun mentor text for all ages! If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!*****************************************************************************In this pack, you will receive:★a mentor sentence lesson for the book★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach complex sentences★bonus parts of speech activity ★reading activities: sto
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3rd - 5th
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"Junk Journal" Novel Project for ANY NOVEL: A Creative Way to Express Analysis
For this creative project, students will create a "junk journal" representation of their interpretation of a novel. This project works for any text in secondary ELA and presents an engaging way for students to interpret literature.What is a “junk journal”?While junk journals can vary from person to person, they generally share one primary characteristic: the journal is made with mostly a mix of found and recycled materials.In essence, a “junk journal" is a journal that is created out of “junk,”
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Questions, Satire Writing and Analysis
This famously incendiary short story can be a great unit for Halloween, or, if you're feeling spicy, Thanksgiving. I think there's always room for "A Modest Proposal", like there's always room for pie. Spoiler: the proposal is that starving poor people should eat their own babies. Sound crazy? Outrageous? Ludicrous? It is, and just wait until your students get to delve into this meaty story and understand the deeply moving message it holds. This is a classic for a reason. Included:Link to the st
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9th - 12th
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THE GIVER - Persuasive Writing Task - Travel Brochure
The Giver - Persuasive Writing Task - Travel BrochureThis is a persuasive writing task based on The Giver (primarily after Chapters 1 to 6) that I have used for many years. This project could also be used as a final or summative task - easily adapted - super engaging and speedy grading!Students are to create a travel brochure for The Community by using persuasive language and effective visual communication.Through this task, students are able to not only be assessed on persuasive writing and vis
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: THE GIVER - Novel Study Resource Bundle
Entire Year of Middle / High School English: Printable Units - Major Bundle!
Save 50%!!!This is everything (and more) that I use in my upper middle and high school English classes. Each activity is easily adaptable to make it fit at any grade level. Really easy to use - everything is printable,and easy to organize from this massive bundle. Assignments and activities are inquiry driven, engaging, collaborative, and student centered. Contents:First Week Activities UnitMemoir UnitBell Ringer Journal PromptsProject Based MagazineMemory Book UnitInfluential Person Researc
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8th - 12th
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Creative Writing Syllabus, Quarterly Calendars, Warm-ups, and Activities -CCSS
This 37-page posting offers my syllabus and 4 quarters of agendas, writing warm-ups, projects, etc for for Creative Writing 1 and for Creative Writing 2, 3, 4 for grades 9-12. I added the quarterly agendas after I noted from the comments that some teachers wanted more clarity on how to take the material from this packet and fit it into a calendar. Use them as a jumping off point to fit your students' skills, abilities and needs.Download this packet to getA Creative Writing 1 Syllabus4 quarters o
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6th - 12th, Staff
Podcasts For High School: Imagined Life, Scattered, Radiolab, Poetry Unbound
Use these ready-made plans for podcasts for high school students to allow your students to develop active listening skills while deepening their understanding of literary techniques. Whether you're new to using podcasts in your classroom or you've already tried it out, these no-prep full unit plans, mini unit, and bell ringer activity will help you on your journey to using podcasts effectively!Research shows that listening comprehension actually leads to better reading comprehension, which means
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9th - 12th
Literacy BUNDLE for ENTIRE School Year TEN (10)MONTHS (Sept-June)Middle School
Literature ELA BUNDLE for an ENTIRE School Year (September - June) 7th gradeThis bundle will give you EVERYTHING you need to get through an ENTIRE YEAR of English Language Arts with 114 products and over 180 days of activities!! Designed for a 7th grade ELA Classroom, this bundle can be used in any middle school ELA classroom.September is full of fun getting to know you activities, pre-assessments, literature, research & analyzing poetry. October you can enjoy some more literature & anal
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6th - 8th
Orwell's 1984 Character Diary Project
For this project, students will take on the perspective of either Winston, Julia, O'Brien, or Parsons from Orwell's novel 1984 and create a ten-entry diary from that character's perspective.Students are to:Write from the point of view of one character: Winston, Julia, O’Brien, or Parsons.Write ten entries from the point of view of the selected character.Include a quotation from the selected character in each diary entry. Use the quotation as a starting point for the diary entry. Include page num
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Unit 1: Personal Narrative- End of the Unit Assessment
This assessment encompasses the standards taught in the first unit. It is assessing their understanding of the majority of the Unit's primary focuses. It does not include a writing prompt due to the fact that the CKLA curriculum provides these.
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5th
The Crucible Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons, Activities, Assessments
With its historical significance and timeliness with contemporary news stories, "'The Crucible' (Arthur Miller) Unit Plan" is excellent for a cross-curriculum study of the Salem Witch trials and the 1950s U.S. Red Scare whether in Distance or Classroom Learning situations. CCS and Bloom's Taxonomy aligned, it suits grades 7-12. It contains daily plans, a vocabulary list, study questions w/answers, a wide variety of literary analysis activities, journal and essay formats and topics, project idea
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9th - 12th
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Wolf Hollow Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk.ABOUT THE NOVEL: Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becom
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Lauren Wolk BUNDLE
Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix Novel Study
About the Graphic Novel: In a timely update of Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying ne
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6th - 8th
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MyPerspectives Unit 2: The Individual and Society
This resource is a concise and engaging unit plan on American Literature with the theme of the individual and society. Students explore the question: what role does individualism play in American society? Through various texts, activities, vocabulary, assessments, and tasks, students engage with American Literature in an innovative and informative way. Texts in this unit include but are not limited to: The poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot, excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau,
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Narrative Writing Checklist - FREE - Primary Exploration - Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
FREE Narrative Writing Checklist serves as a wonderful reminder for students to check their work! The checklist walks students through the editing process to ensure that they are submitting their best work! This is a great addition to a writing center or narrative writing booklet. In my classroom, I use this narrative writing checklist along with Primary Narrative Writing and Book Cover Assessment. This Narrative Writing Booklet is a step-by-step student work booklet that teaches students to suc
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PreK - 8th
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Narrative Nonfiction & Memoir Unit ELA Short Story & Memoir Analysis Activities
Together, these diverse materials create a 5-6 week unit that thoroughly covers the memoir and narrative nonfiction genre. First, students will work closely with two iconic paired short texts - "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf and "Death of A Moth" by Annie Dillard. Not only will they analyze each story in length, but they will discuss their similarities and differences - which obviously go much deeper than their titles! Then, they can dive into any full-length memoir of your choosing, usin
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9th - 12th
Beowulf Activity: Grendel's Mother: Monster or Grieving Mother?
This resource allows students to interact with "Grendel's Mother" and her character. Students are to analyze and dissect given quotes and determine just how monstrous Grendel's mother may be while considering that sympathy should be given to her as she may, in fact, just be grieving over the loss of her son. As an extension, students are to consider all of the antagonists they have ever watched, read, or studied. Their writing exercise is to sympathize with the antagonist in a way that just abo
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9th - 12th
Othello Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Notes, Lessons, and Activities
High school students will be ignited by issues such as gender, class, ethnicity, dignity and age in William Shakespeare's iconic tragedy since they mirror many of today's headlines. This Othello Unit Plan has the depth for teachers to meet their teaching goals with a plethora of activities for students to explore the elements of literature, the major issues, and the elements of Drama and Tragedy that comprise this play. The lessons and activities support Common Core Anchor Standards and address
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10th - 12th
Nimona Graphic Novel Study
About the Novel: Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel has been hailed by critics and fans alike as the arrival of a “superstar” talent (NPR.org).Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister B
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6th - 8th
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Project or Homework Choice Board | Any Novel | Literature Study
Choice board for the study of any novel, short story, play or poem! A printable double-sided sheet of eight creative mini-project or homework tasks designed to appeal to a range of learning styles. This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Your students choose the task that appeals most! You could even specify the theme or feature associated with the text you are studying, and ask your class to work to a specific topic.Tasks include the succes
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8th - 11th
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Five Little Indians Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop with Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.About the Novel: Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling
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7th - 10th
Love Monster and the Perfect Present Valentine Book Companion and Activities
Love Monster and the Perfect Present Valentine book companion offers multiple resources to teach a wide array of story elements. This is a simple, easy print and go resource with everything you need. It is standards-based and covers all aspects of language arts instruction. The activities were designed to be open-ended for easy differentiation and modification.Love Monster is a wonderful book written on a level that helps children understand and make connections. I have included an abundance of
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Crankenstein and Love Monster Valentine Book Companion and Activities
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Unit Bundle of Lessons and Digital Activity
I've included everything you might need for Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. You get scene analysis, coloring pages, constructed response writing prompts, Jamboard templates, literary stations, graphic organizers, dual-column notes, a CSI Murder kit, Character Crowns with characterization activities, and more.Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.My assignments appeal to different learning styles and are Comm
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8th - 11th
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FAHRENHEIT 451 Novel Study CCSS Unit for 7th-10th Grades
This engaging, fun, and rigorous unit is designed to help low, medium, and high students in many Reading and writing standards in grades 7th-10th. This unit will also help you teach this challenging book in an easy way. This unit will help spark discussions and debates that will make it fun for the teacher and students. This unit will also supply you with many formative and summative assessments that your principals, your students, and your parents will love. Take a quick look at the preview pac
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7th - 10th
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