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Creative writing Common Core RL.9-10.1 handouts
Short Story Stations: Characterization, Style, Setting, Argument, and Makerspace
Short stories are a great way to bring many voices and themes into your English class. They're nice and snackable - easy to fit in between other units or right before holidays, and easily combined into a quality unit with something for everyone. But what do you do to keep the discussion of each new story engaging for your students? These short story stations give you five ways to approach any short story or short story unit. The stations get students examining characterization, setting, and styl
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9th - 12th
Poetry Unit - Middle or High School Complete Unit
Printable workbook with various activities such as final projects, rubrics, quiz, links to poems, videos, and a culminating spoken word Poetry Slam! In this unit, students focus on the essential questions "What is Poetry?" and "What is good poetry?" Students have the opportunity to analyze poetry, and also try their hand an writing poetry. This unit give students a lot of choice in creating and analyzing poems that are engaging and meaningful! Keywords: Poetry, poet, poetry slam, printable, w
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7th - 12th
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"Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie" Reading Comprehension Packet
"Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie" is SUCH a fun novel study to begin, or end a student's freshmen year of high school! This download is a comprehensive reading comprehension and reflection ready-to-print packet for students. The novel itself is an easier read, but the language is rich with poetic devices and characterization which is what this packet focuses on. There are questions provided for each chapter, as well as poetic device charts and journal prompts for many. The writing prompts include a
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8th - 10th
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Sonnets: Critique & Create, Lesson & Handouts; Google Classroom & PDF
Google Classroom added in 2020 This product is now available in two formats, printable and Google Classroom. The Google Classroom version includes all student handouts. Answer keys are kept separate on the printable version. The printable version has remained the same.Sonnets Lesson Plan: Students can stomp it, shout it, and get the beat while grappling with the challenge of iambic pentameter in Sonnets: Critique & Create. This set of lessons, guides, and handouts provides detailed instruct
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7th - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds / Unit Bundle / Gothic ELA
I am excited to debut these resources for Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novel adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous stories and poems. Poe: Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe includes the classics: "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Cask of Amontillado," "Annabel Lee," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Bells," and "The Raven." My students love this graphic novel! Hinds' images bring Poe's work to life in an extra-special way.This resource is for my Edgar Allan Poe (Gareth
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8th - 11th
"The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” Inspired Point of View Writing Prompt
“The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by Jon Scieszka is the basis for this fun creative writing assignment which is a great alternative to assigning a standard essay. Your students will love the fun creativity and you will love the innovative way to teach critical thinking and writing skills.Students will demonstrate their ideas about a character from a text that you have studied in class by writing an original story about that character. It is also a great tool for discussing point of vi
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9th - 12th
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 PowerPoint and Activity
Just in time for Valentine's Day. You and your students will enjoy annotating Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 that satirically mocks typical love sonnets. This activity allows students to analyze theme, structure, figurative language, mood/tone, and even provides them with the opportunity to create their own version of Sonnet 130.
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10th - 12th
Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.The workbook includes:A cover pagePre-reading research activity regarding t
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7th - 12th
Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" - Literary Analysis + Invitation to Create
Boost your students' literary analysis skills with "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff! This resource is designed to help students explore crucial literary elements, critical thinking about diction, and author's choices, while also fostering their creative response ability. This comprehensive two-day lesson plan features Tobias Wolff's culturally rich and enlightening short story, complete with an easy-to-follow comprehension guide of 10 questions and a creative assignment nicknamed "Invitatio
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8th - 10th
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Between The Lines: Close Reading and Creative Writing Lesson Plan | Jesmyn Ward
Bring the incredible words of Jesmyn Ward into your classroom as inspiration for your students' writing. This lesson dives deep into Ward's craft to discover how she creates strong feelings in her readers with the words she chooses--and just as importantly, the words she leaves unsaid. By leaving this space for reader interpretation, Ward allows us to insert ourselves "Between the Lines." By producing their own creations, students will combine their own ideas with the tools they've taken away fr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Frankenstein Guide: Volume 2 Questions, Writing Prompts, Essay, Activities & Key
In this PDF packet for Volume II (only) of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, you'll find 110 pages of teaching resources for you and your students.Here's a look at what's included:Suggested reading & activities scheduleClass activities and homeworkVolume overview (for instructional modification!)Reading questions (for you!)Guided reading questions (for students!)Chapter writing promptsEssay writing prompts and assignment with grading scorecardKey quotes and quote analysis worksheetLiterary device
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury - "Smart Home" Activity
"Smart Home" Activity for the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray BradburyThis activity asks students to put themselves in the shoes of Bradbury. He wrote this story in 1950 and included some "Smart Home" technology eerily similar to the gadgets available today. Students consider something they envision being in the homes of future. They are tasked with designing, explaining and selling the project. My kids loved this activity!
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6th - 12th
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Novel Study: Dark Wind Blowing by Jackie French Teacher Resource
A work package filled with activities (in-class or online learning) that compliments a novel study of Dark Wind Blowing by Australian author Jackie French.Suitable for lower school (years 7-9). This work pack contains: Pre-reading activities Chapter comprehension questions – literal, inferential, critical thinking Vocabulary builders Plot structure template Character analysis templates Writing about themes Discussion questions Creative activities
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7th - 9th
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone - Alternate Ending for Chapter 5!
Embark on a journey of literary exploration and creativity with our lesson designed for 9th and 10th-grade students. This lesson focuses on Chapter 5 of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and encourages students to apply critical thinking, inference skills, and creativity to craft an alternate ending. By tapping into their understanding of character reactions, plot developments, world-building, conflict, resolution, and character growth, students will not only deepen their comprehension but
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7th - 10th
The Crucible Prereading Activities | The Crucible Pre-Reading Activities
How do we speak out against the majority? How do we talk to the enemy? How do we know that we are doing the right thing? Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a great text for digging deep on some complicated essential questions. When your students reflect on their own views and ways of being in the world, they’ll learn more about their own beliefs, and they’ll get excited about the themes and ideas of the text.Investing some time before you start the book to make the play relevant to students' liv
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9th - 12th
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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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Characterization and Dialogue Gallery Walk and Lesson
This lesson takes approximately 85-90 minutes, but it can easily be shortened to meet your needs. If you are working with your students to understand dialogue and its purpose, look no further! This lesson guides students through dialogue as a literary device in an engaging way.1. Students work to write dialogue for a painting.2. Students work in pairs to write dialogue about a scenario of their choosing.3. Students travel to 10 different examples of dialogue through an engaging gallery walk. At
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7th - 12th
The Odyssey Postcard from Odysseus - Summary & Prediction Activity
Put your students on the boat with Odysseus in his grand epic! This creative narrative writing task can be done at any part of the epic The Odyssey as students use inference and prediction skills to demonstrate understanding of the text. Combine creative art skills with literary analysis with this class activity.
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8th - 11th
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The Alchemyst by Michael Scott Unit Plan
Been looking for the perfect book to connect everything from Shakespeare to Mythology? The Alchemyst by Michael Scott is the perfect answer. This book is filled with mythological and historical allusions as well as poetic, literary, and dramatic devices. Either to start your year or tie it all together, this unit plan introduces the idea of an allusion while students investigate one of the many to create an "-ology" or study-of book in which they follow one of the characters, places, or symbo
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8th - 10th
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What Would Your Character Do? Characterization Activity for Any Text
Use this resource to help students analyze a character out of context, or to build one of their own! By putting characters in out of context situations, they can learn more about how they might act. They also have to explain WHY they think their character would act this way, finding or creating support for that character choice. Use this fun activity in many ways and with any text! Additional lesson ideas are included in the download!
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Workshops - Mythic Structures
This series of lessons has the students compare the sequence of events outlined by Propp and by Campbell for a hero's journey. It is meant to consolidate the idea of sequencing narratives, and of translating the structures in myth into more modern stories using film as part of a process of recognition.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Carpe Diem Poetry
This resource includes a poetry study on "carpe diem," using both John Gay's "Youth's the Season" and Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Students will analyze the central idea, tone, style, and imagery (answer key included). An extension (also included) asks students to attempt to create their own carpe diem poems.
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8th - 12th
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MACBETH ACTIVITIES / HANDOUTS BUNDLE (OVER 17 RESOURCES!)
This creative, engaging, and well-made resource includes over 17 activities and handouts that correspond with the play. The resources make teaching, learning, and studying Macbeth a memorable experience for students and educators! Students will creatively interact with the text in various ways like never before, guaranteed!
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8th - 12th
"The Necklace" Writing Activity
This double-sided worksheet gives students the opportunity to express their personal reactions to Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" using concrete evidence from the text. Students organize their ideas on the first side of the handout and then write a letter to Madame Loisel on the back of the handout. My 9th graders loved this activity and wrote some terrific letters!
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9th - 12th
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