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Creative writing Common Core RL.9-10.3 resources for Microsoft Word
Detective Fiction Complete Unit of Work and Study Guide
This 55 page study guide, is everything you need to introduce mystery and crime genres through Detective Fiction. Works well with the Detective Fiction PowerPoint. Have you students become detectives as they work through the various activities, including identify various famous detective, vocabulary quizzes. The following readings are included:Lamb to Slaugter by Roald DahlThe Perfect Muder by Renate YatesMrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat by Roald DahlThe Landland by Roald DahlThe Bus Ride by Sah
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8th - 12th
Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 1 Writing Prompt
Teaching Shakespeare can be enervating, which is why I like to intersperse readings of the scenes with writing activities such as this one. It not only gives students a break from the text, but it allows them to process and demonstrate what they've learned--and while being creative. A great, efficient activity that is excellent to assign after reading Act 1, Scene 1, and which can be easily completed in one class! (Suggested word count can be adjusted as you see fit.)
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9th - 12th
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Much Ado about Nothing in 45 minutes! (script and guided questions)
No time to read and analyze the entire play of Much Ado About Nothing? Wish you had a cut version with the important scenes and original language with a synopsis of the missing parts? This is for you!This would also work GREAT in a drama classroom if you want students to work on specific scenes. Break them into groups, give each group a scene, and have a narrator read the in-between synopses.This script keeps the original language (with some parts edited down) of:1. Opening Scene where everyone
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8th - 12th
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Movie Review Outline
This is an outline for students to fill out before, during, and after the movie
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7th - 12th
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Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky -- Nonsense words, Sound Devices, Biography
Jabberwocky is a poem that many children love due to the sing song cadence of it. However, when it comes down to understanding what is being said, they are at a loss. This unit introduces Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in three contexts. First as a standalone poem in it's entirety. Next, in the context of Stanza of Anglo Saxon Poetry in which Carroll defines the nonsense words. And lastly as Humpty Dumpty defines it in Through the Looking Glass. The goal here is to show introduce students to an aut
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8th - 9th
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Writing Prompt on Creating Surprise Plot Twists
Description of ProductThis is a writing assignment to accompany discussions on Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This prompt requires students to think about unexpected plot twists and alternate story lines. An excerpt from the text is provided. This is a great addition to your literary lessons regarding this story's motifs and themes. This is a no-prep activity to assist you in teaching/discussing this story. It's a great composition prompt for middle school, high school, or college-level English
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Dystopian Book Project
Government control, environmental destruction, technological control, survival, and loss of individualism... Whew. Sounds like that would make a great book! With this project, students have the opportunity to read any dystopian fiction novel they want and interact with the concepts, material, and specific skills in a fun and creative way. This project includes four categories: characters, symbolism, theme, and plot. Students are able to choose from three different project ideas to show mastery o
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9th - 12th
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Deadly Unna? Teachers Notes and Activities
This resource is a quick and easy introduction to the novel with an overview of the story, setting, and structure. Questions for students as they read, as well as reflective questions and creative writing and research activities. Editable and Printable.Can be used with theNovel Introduction PPT and Deadly Unna? Europe Voices in Aboriginal History PPT.A Comparative Study Workbook is also available for a more comprehensive novel story.
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9th - 12th
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Green Tea and Lemonade Short Story
This story is about two 7th graders who are having difficulties dealing with their school, home and social environment. There is abuse, and drug references. The story should not be given to middle school students. There are questions and a writing prompt on the last page. Please read carefully before you assign this story.
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9th - 11th
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Capulet vs. Montague: Bloody Beginnings
I have designed this project as a PBL (Project Based Learning) for my 9th grade students. This project asks students to not focus so much on the topics of "love," "fate," or "impulsivity," but rather focuses on conflict. My Romeo and Juliet unit is focused on character analysis, and through this project I ask students to come to understand how and why conflicts are created, how conflicts can be absolved, and how to handle conflict. This project also asks them to connect the conflicts within Rome
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9th
Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds -- Complete Unit!
Includes reading guide questions, dialectical journal entry forms, poetry project, two test versions, and a creative writing project! Includes rubrics.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Instagram Stories Plot, Structure, & Author's Intent (Remote/In-Person)
Your students are already making Instagram and Snapchat stories to share with their friends. Why not have them share what they know with you using a platform they already love and know how to use? This activity is designed to help students summarize, understand the structure and plot of a story, and analyze the intentional choices writers make and the impact of those choices. This download includes options for remote and in-person learning, as well as project guidelines and rubrics to help commu
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Character Archetypes Booklet
Need a quick and easy way for students to track the archetypes you've taught them in class? Look no further. This booklet serves as a template for students to track the qualities, examples, and characters they've read about in relation to the archetypes they fulfill. Suitable for students of all ages, and easily printable as a booklet. Printing Instructions: Go to File > Print.If your printer supports automatic printing on both sides, change Print One Sidedto Print on Both Sides. Choose the o
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Not Grade Specific
All Summer In A Day Guiding Questions
Although this story is often taught in elementary school, it has richness and complexity that can be used to teach writing technique for middle schoolers and above. These questions are high level questions that focus on craft, structure and vocabulary. It is a great story to use to preface a longer study of a speculative fiction piece because it utilizes the familiar and the fantastical. I used it with the PDF version found here: https://www.mukilteoschools.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?mo
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7th - 12th
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Glory Days Theme Poetry Packet- Song, Two Poems, Creative Writing w/KEY
This packet is focused on the theme of glory days, the days during which a person was at their best, shining, talented, famous, and admired. 1. The lesson starts with a video and poem excerpt about Grizabella the Glamour Cat - this is meant to engage students visually and with a poem excerpt to get them talking about the imagery and inferences that can be made2. Next are two poems about an older man and an older woman, both with their own pasts and the evidence of their glory days lost in the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Romeo and Juliet: Online Character Chat
This activity is used as an on-going online blog called The Voices of Verona. Students are asked to create a character who will now be a citizen of Verona, Italy. Students will answer three questions to help create a well-rounded, authentic character.It prompts students to join a Google Classroom (left blank for you to add your own code). However, if you prefer a different method of blogging, just edit it. Personally, I make an entirely new Google Classroom and call it "The Voices of Verona"Ther
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Character Analysis Creative Scene Writing
One of the best ways to judge understanding of a character (in my opinion), is to write from their perspective. This assignment asks students (individually or in groups) to write a scene script involving a background character and then perform it.I've had great luck with this assignment and students have told me they love it since it provides a fun creative outlet and is different from other assignments they've needed to do. I've been incredibly impressed with how well the students seem to under
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9th - 12th
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"The Landylady" Roald Dahl Paper Slide Video Project
This lesson focuses on adapting point of view. For this assignment, students take the short story "The Landlady" and write a script that turns the story into 1st person point of view. Students then create backgrounds and props for a paper slide video. Many examples of paper slide videos can be found on Youtube, but overall it is a short video on a single topic that is told through a series of paper backgrounds and a voice over. This story and assignment is always a big hit and student really gra
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7th - 10th
Haikus With Hobbits
Hello, you are probably wondering why I gave the full download in the preview! Feel free to steal the Haiku With Hobbits idea (enjoy). The thing I am selling is the effort put forth in the design.This download comes with both the image version of the design (see below the assignment) as well as the actual shapes themselves (see second page) so you can feel free to change it up as you see fit. I am working on a few others, this one is the white theme background. The assignment in the middle is in
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21st Century Romeo and Juliet
While my 9th graders were reading through Romeo and Juliet, some struggled with the language (as many do with Shakespeare). So, to help them put it in their own terms, my class participated in re-writing the famous balcony scene from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The class was divided into boy/girl pairs (as best as possible) and each took on the role of Romeo and Juliet as they create the balcony scene as if it were happening at our school today. Romeo is the Captain of the
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9th
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The Fault in Our Stars - Character Interview writing assignment
For this activity, the students are to write an interview of a major character from John Green's The Fault in Our Stars as if that person were being asked by a news reporter about the events in the story.
This assignment gives students practice both in writing creatively and demonstrating their knowledge of the themes and conflicts found in The Fault in Our Stars.
Includes a rubric for grading the assignment.
Other related products The Fault in Our Stars:
• THE FAULT IN OUR STARS - Agree or
Grades:
10th - 12th
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The (Tone) Envelope please...
This is a fun and creative introductory activity that will allow the students to see how important it is to use diction, imagery, and other details to show tone in a piece of writing.
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6th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Act 2 Writing Prompt
This is an excellent creative writing prompt that will help students understand the crucial first two scenes of Act 2 of Julius Caesar. Students will be able to demonstrate their comprehension of the play, in addition to getting a chance to be creative. The suggested length is 350 to 500 words, though this word count can be expanded or shortened as needed.
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9th - 12th
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Bio Poem
This is a great way for students to summarize what they have learned about a specific character. Bio-poems are great for novels with multiple complex characters. On the first page of this download there is a sheet for students to fill out about their chosen character. The second page is the "key" for the bio-poem as well as an example.
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7th - 9th
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