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High school creative writing scaffolded note microsofts
What is a Vignette? (Presentation)
This is an awesome PowerPoint to introduce middle/high school students to vignettes and House on Mango Street!
Here are the notes that go along with it: What is a Vignette? Notes
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Y11 VCE English -The Thing Around your Neck Analysis (Cell Block 1)
A teacher's dream! A super easy and complete step-by-step to help students analyse the story Cell Block 1 by Chimamanda Adichie. Students can listen to Adichie's Ted talk on ' The Danger of a Single Story' and then answer important inquiry questions based on the talk.Then, there is a helpful guide on Adichie's writing style and personal background before students access the slide on how to successfully annotate the writing piece. There is also a bank for students to record any useful quotes and
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
What is a Vignette? (Notes)
Scaffolded notes for teaching students about vignettes. Perfect as an intro for House on Mango Street!
This goes along with the What is a Vignette Presentation!
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
On Writing by Stephen King: 8-page Study Guide Packet for Students
This 8-page download contains three study guides for use with Stephen King's On Writing, his memoir/invaluable writing handbook. These study guides cover the following sections of the book: pp. 3-94 (the memoir); pp. 103-131 ("Toolbox"); and pp. 139-178 ("On Writing"). I also have available a set of quizzes for the book. Also check out my other materials for grammar and mechanics, literary units, and writing instruction. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance either before or after pur
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Poetry Presentation and Notes for Class
Class Presentation and Notes for PoetryThis includes notes on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman (including author backgrounds, writing careers, etc.). This also includes notes about general poetry as an art form + notes on free verse.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Newspaper Journalism: Monthly News Article Brainstorm
This document is a comprehensive tool designed to help your newspaper journalism students streamline the process of choosing a captivating and relevant news article topic. This worksheet guides students through six systematic steps, from brainstorming initial ideas to making a final selection, ensuring that their chosen topic is not only interesting but also feasible for in-depth coverage.This document is a great resource for student writers for the school newspaper.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Letter to My Future Self
This PowerPoint provides guided instruction in formal letter writing. It can accompany my free download of the Letter to My Future Self Assignment Overview (which includes a graphic organizer for the notes). Students are asked to write a letter to themselves to read 5 years in the future. This activity works best with writing portfolios that follow a student's educational career. Assignment can be modified for middle school or to use as beginning of the year activity to open at the end of th
Grades:
6th - 11th
Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare — Sonnet Lesson, Guided Notes, & Writing Activity
Teach your students all about Sonnets with a unique analysis of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138. 1) First, use the Powerpoint presentation to familiarize your students with:Sonnet definition and structureShakespearean SonnetsPetrarchan SonnetsSpenserian SonnetsMiltonic SonnetsIambic pentameterVoltaTwo-part thematic StructureRhyme SchemeGuided notes worksheet included!2) Then, have your students analyze Shakespeare's Sonnet 138 by answering comprehension and literary analysis questions. Answer k
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Characterization- Presentation, Notes, + Activities for ELA and Creative Writing
Understanding characterization helps students to understand texts AND helps them to be better creative writers. This purchase is equally helpful for regular English Language Arts students along with Creative Writing students!Included in this purchase is a characterization presentation with accompanying guided notes, two types of character sketches, and a character mask activity. Additionally, for the characterization presentation and the mask presentation, you will receive the Canva template lin
Grades:
6th - 12th
Style Structure Warm-Ups
If you know you want your students to develop their ability to write with more sophistication, but are struggling to get them there - this resource is for you! It will span 10 days of warm-ups with 1-2 stylistic structures every other day they will be learning to use, then applying into their own persuasive writing/presenting. I use this resource myself when I teach persuasive speaking, so there is a speech development component to the warm-up that could easily be skipped if it does not serve yo
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE: Style Structure Warm-Ups with Wall Posters
Character Archetypes Presentation and Notes
This presentation includes an introduction to 13 different character archetypes. It is a combination of archetypes from Reader's Workshop and Carl Jung's archetypes. Each slide features an archetype, a brief description, traits to describe the archetype, and a picture of a well-known character who fits the archetype. The last slide features a link to a Buzz Feed quiz that allows students to discover their own archetypes.Also included is a 3-column chart for students take notes. There are two ver
Grades:
6th - 9th
WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A bundle of 20 writing resources for ESL students.This download includes:Imaginative WritingNarrative WritingBiography WritingArticle WritingReport WritingArgumentative WritingDescriptive WritingDiary WritingPersuasive WritingSummary WritingReview WritingParagraph WritingDialogue WritingCreating WritingAutobiography WritingFactual DescriptionPlay-Script WritingPoem WritingUsing Textual Prompts to WriteNon-chronological ReportHere are some possible uses for these in your classroom:To challenge ea
Grades:
6th - 10th
Figurative Language & Poetic Devices PPT
This PPT presentation is an excellent overview of what figurative language is, and how it is used in written and oral communication. It reviews 16 figurative language techniques including metaphor, idiom, irony and 10 poetic devices including assonance/consonance, rhyme and symbolism. The cloze notes for the presentation are included separately so students have a copy of the notes without having to write everything down.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Identifying Poetic Devices in THREE engaging texts!
5 Song Playlist Character Workbook
A great way to work through original character creation! How I've Used This: I have my middle school students write 5 songs into a playlist. These could be their favorites, their least favorites, or someone else's favorites/least favorites. I give that playlist to another student, and we begin a character unit based on this playlist as inspiration! This workbook includes: 5 Songs Listening ActivityCharacter Traits Objective and Super-Objective Lasagna Activity (inspired by the amazing work of M
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Structure - Subverting a Generic Code
This series of activites uses a flipped classroom, where students read, highlight and create a series of dotpoints to understand the subversion of generic codes. They then research an example of a tv series that subverts a generic code and in pairs give a three minute lesson to the class on why their tv series is part of a genre but chooses to subvert it. They are given guiding questions to respond to. The last activity is them choosing a scene from a text in a genre they know well and using i
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Scaffolded Vocabulary - Creative Writing Prompts - English Bell Ringers
It's no secret that having good vocabulary increases reading comprehension and fluency skills. However, simply memorizing definitions is one of the hardest ways to absorb what the word means and how to use it.This bell ringer activity introduces a new word every day. Students will get to see how the words should be pronounce, their part of speech, and their definitions. Then students will be asked to use that word to address a creative writing prompt. This activity builds on itself by introducin
Grades:
7th - 12th
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How Authors Build Suspense
I have used this brief PowerPoint presentation at the beginning of a genre study of Gothic fiction in preparation for students to write literary analyses and as part of a creative writing course when students are working on short fiction. It works across grade and ability levels because it breaks the more abstract idea of suspense down into specific author's craft techniques, most of which students are already familiar with or which are easily understood. The six methods of creating suspense tha
Grades:
8th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Intro to Gothic Fiction Film Mini Unit: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Problem-Solution Essay
This is a ready-made PowerPoint animated Writing lesson with answer key for Problem-Solution Essay - suitable for middle and high school.This writing lesson provides a step-by-step guidelines that help students grasp the writing process of the essay and enable them to write their own easily.
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Characteristics of Epics and Epic Heroes powerpoint notes lesson
This powerpoint presentation gives detailed explanation and examples of the characteristics of epic poetry and the epic hero, displaying still shots taken from a multitude of popular movies and television series'. Students will be able to record organized notes on epics and epic heroes, while seeing vivid examples that encourage comprehension of the material. This presentation displays a compilation of characteristics in the most simplified format possible, in order to ensure the success of ev
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Writing Process Lesson - PPT & Guided Notes
A complete PPT presentation on each step of the Writing Process, complete with a video recap and guided notes sheet.
Grades:
5th - 9th
6 Types of Literary Conflict Notes
A slideshow with notes about conflict and the six types of literary conflict (person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs technology, person vs supernatural, person vs environment). The notes are fill in the blanks so students can write in key words. The slideshow includes links to four YouTube videos which can be used to assess students' understanding of the content in a class discussion. I have used the slides with students between grade 5 and 8, however, you should use your
Grades:
6th - 9th
Elements of Poetry Powerpoint Presentation
This powerpoint presentation is designed to introduce some of the elements of poetry and give students examples of them. You may use this to introduce a lesson on poetry or use it as a review after reading a poem. You can swap out the examples I give and put in examples from the poem you are currently reading.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Scaffolded Vocabulary - Creative Writing Prompts - English Bell Ringers
It's no secret that having good vocabulary increases reading comprehension and fluency skills. However, simply memorizing definitions is one of the hardest ways to absorb what the word means and how to use it.
This bell ringer activity introduces a new word every day. Students will get to see how the words should be pronounce, their part of speech, and their definitions. Then students will be asked to use that word to address a creative writing prompt. This activity builds on itself by introduc
Grades:
7th - 12th
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