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High school creative writing resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
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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Humor and Comedy Writing Unit Plan
This is a 5-10 day humor writing unit plan for secondary English, college writing, or creative writing students. It’s meant to teach the theory and structure that go into humor writing along with plenty of practice activities.Humor writing takes a specific set of writing skills, and it can translate to a well-paying job for those who are especially good at it. Even students not destined for standup stages or sitcom writers’ rooms will benefit from studying the elements that make writing funny. T
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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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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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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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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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Dead Poets' Society and Poetry Unit
This product contains materials for a poetry unit inspired by the film Dead Poets' Society. It includes the following things:
• A chart for the student to record pertinent information about when the poem was read or recited and by whom and why this particular poem was chosen for this particular event. This chart should be used as the springboard for a discussion of how these specific poems help reveal the theme of the movie.
• A copy of each poem for the students to annotate.
• AP style questio
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9th - 12th
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Multi-Step Equations Storybook Project
This is a project that I look forward to every year. It's not often students get the opportunity to channel their creativity in math, so I try to fit in any opportunity that I can.
The Storybook Project requires students to think outside of the box, and metaphorically solve a multi-step equation. Students are challenged to personify the distributive property, combining like terms, as well as inverse operations and create a story that incorporates these mathematical procedures into its plot.
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6th - 9th
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Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Dystopian Society Project -- Create a Dystopia
This project is for use with a dystopian novel/literature unit. It asks students to create a dystopia of their own. Ultimately, they create four end-products: encyclopedia entry, creative story, promo/commercial, and presentation.
Students should have a good understanding of dystopias before assigning this project. It works well in conjunction with both literature and movies, such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, Fahrenheit 451, The Truman Show, etc.
This project covers multiple English Langu
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9th - 12th
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Memoir: Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students understand what a memoir is and generate ideas for writing their own memoir with the Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!. Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes a note to the teacher as well as the following documents: Essential Questions, What is a Memoir Guided Notes, Quick Writes Journal Prompts, Elements of a Memoir/Personal Narrative, Discussion Questions Relating to the Memoir, Events and Emotions Brain
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6th - 12th
'Coraline' Film Study Booklet
This booklet includes film techniques such as sound, colour, lighting, costume, characterisation with images from the movie. This work booklet consolidates their knowledge of film techniques in a practical way. There is also an assessment at the end of the booklet whereby students become the director and are interviewed based on the cinematic choices (why they chose to represent things in certain ways).
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7th - 10th
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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
Grades:
8th - 12th
The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
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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6th - 12th
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My Life Story: 25 Chapter Outline for Writing an Autobiography
This autobiography project includes 25 different chapter ideas that will help students write their life story so far! You can easily modify this project for different grade levels by deciding (or allowing students to decide for themselves) which chapters to write about. Even reluctant writers enjoy doing this project and parents absolutely LOVE having this for a keepsake!
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4th - 9th
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Suspenseful Writing Packet for Middle School Students
This easy and engaging packet moves writers from brainstorming and planning to a finished short story that they will be proud of! You can have students work individually or with a partner; my students love working with a partner! Students have really enjoyed this writing assignment and still remember it by the end of the year! Suspense, more than any other genre, reinforces the components of strong narrative writing!
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6th - 9th
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Editable First-Day-of-Class Documents You Can Use As A Starting Point
These forms are a companion resource to the Sanity-Saving School Year Starter Kit, a free, three-day email series meant to help you cut through information overload and focus on the few, basic things that will most help you prepare for the first day of teaching. There is some overlap between the advice you’ll find in the Starter Kit and what you’ll find in this resource, but as a rule, the Starter Kit contains advice about preparing for the first day of school, organized so you can find it when
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9th - 12th
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The Art of Racing in the Rain Literature Unit
Comprehensive Unit for Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain. Includes:
Poetry and Narrative creative writing with models and examples
2 short answer, constructed response reading quizzes
Final Test (short answer, thematic, literary analysis, multiple choice, true/false)
Comprehensive Literary Analysis Data Sheet for book
Daily Book Club, Thematic reading log, and Figurative Language reading log assignments
Introductory activity on "dead dog" archetype with video and read aloud
"i-Search
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Grades:
9th - 12th
6 High School Writing Rubrics
This product contains 6 high school wriing rubrics for the following genres:
* Personal Narrative
* Persuasive
* Literary Response
* Editorial
* Poetry
* Short Story
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9th - 12th
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Similes: A super long list
Three pages with three columns jam packed with nothing but ideas for similes. Use these lists as an introduction, study guide, or for writing ideas. Students will have to provide first part of the simile since only the second half is provided on the lists. Definition is included at the top for quick reference.
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3rd - 12th
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Iambic Pentameter Practice FUN!
Your students will be asked to practice their iambic pentameter skills in a fun way!
This handout acts as if a record company, "Iambic Records," is hiring them to rewrite a popular song so that it can be enjoyed by a more educated audience. Students will supply their own song choice to rewrite in iambic pentameter and then scan the syllables.
They will love the example I have provided in which the Macklemore "Thrift Shop" song has been turned into iambic pentameter.
"These tags I’ll pop, and b
Grades:
9th - 12th
Coloring Pages Soup / Soups / Cooking / Stew / Chowder Soup Day Foods Art
Foster creativity with this awesome soup day coloring set. This set includes 29 images. Ideas to challenge the students:-Invent a story for your image, what is happening? What happened 2 days ago? What will happen tomorrow?-Color the image in only one color (focus on light and dark).-Color half and your friend colors half.-Color half angry and color half happy.-Describe the image in writing or orally.-Add a background These are intricate illustrations intended for large 8.5” x 11” format, no w
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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