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11th grade creative writing lessons
Personal Narrative Essay, Autobiographical Incident Writing, Step-By-Step, CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students get creative with this eight-day Personal Narrative essay writing mini-unit. Featuring models of one professional and three exemplar student-written personal narrative essays, this bundle of step-by-step materials will inspire even reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements and dynamic lecture materials will guide your students to craft their own meaningful autobiographical incident essays
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8th - 11th
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Zendoodle Hand Self Portraits Art Lesson Back to School Middle School Art Lesson
DescriptionStudents discover who they are through art in this hand-self portrait lesson! Get to know your students as they write about their beliefs and who they are as a person. Students will use the creative process to design and apply elements using repetition and variety in their handprint piece. Students create their own self-portrait using their handprint, Zentangle designs, and a narrative describing who they are. The art lesson centers around creating a piece of artwork based on a core
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5th - 12th
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Writer's Workshop Prompts, Mentor Texts, Writing Activities, Exercises, Stations
Writing workshop IS for secondary students. If you want to use a writer's workshop approach to teaching writing, this bundle is for you! It includes multiple resources to help keep your students focused and learning as they build their writing skills. Be sure to check out the preview to see the pile of resources that are included!This writing workshop bundle includes:Quick writing prompts for risk-free writingWriting prompts that include revision exercisesMultiple short mentor texts to provide e
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7th - 12th
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Slam Poetry Mini Unit
Looking to add slam poetry to your poetry unit, but too swamped to plan it out? I’ve got you covered. This one-week slam poetry mini-unit is designed to be inserted into your poetry unit, and is packed with 5 days of my best slam poetry lesson plans. It will take your students through brainstorming, drafting, performance-planning, and performing all in a week. It’s the perfect unit to give your students a taste of slam poetry (and get them begging for more). You’re students will never think
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6th - 12th
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Writing Lessons: Word Choice
Teach your students to think carefully about their language choices: Each lesson in this bundle provides you with everything you need to teach students about word choice, tone, imagery, and figurative language. From the start of the lesson to the final assessment, the lessons hook students then move them through activities that focus on active, rather than passive learning. There are six different lessons in this bundle, all designed to show students how word choice affects meaning, whether they
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
Ode Poems for High School Creative Writing | Printable & Digital
Are you looking for a way to challenge students to use imagery while writing about something they love, in person or online? Odes provide a fun challenge in a creative writing course, as an enrichment activity, or a way to review figurative language. Their open-ended structure, but focused subject matter allow for a gradual release of responsibility for creative writing students or for excellent writers looking to challenge themselves. Students will love being able to write about something that
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Writing Activities for High School Bundle | Printable & Digital
Get to Know You Activities Vol. 1 : Letter to Your Teacher, Partner Interviews
Back to school in ELA can be incredibly stressful, but also so much fun! Take some of the planning pressure off by using this great bundle of six lesson plans/activities for the first week of school. This bundle includes my SIX FAVORITES. Did you know that this product now has a Volume 2 version? Check it out!What does this product include?-Six ready to print OR edit and individualize lessons-Compatibility with Google Drive and Google Classroom-Over 35 pages of lessons, examples, rubrics, an
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8th - 12th
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Crime Scene Creative Writing Activity Pack
Engage your students with this Crime Scene Creative Writing Activity Pack! In this activity pack, you will get everything you need to launch your students into team-building, brainstorming, and writing their own mystery short story.You will receive the following:A complete guide to help you transform your classroom into a crime scene, and have your students do all the imagining from the clues that you set up and leave behind!Posters and station cardsStudent handouts (including evidence tracking
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: BUNDLE Crime Scene/Mystery Files Creative Writing Activities
Creative Writing Unit for High School w/ Lesson Plans, Assignments, & Activities
This 4-Week Creative Writing Unit plan for high school students will inspire your students! A series of creative assignments are tied together with lesson plans as students create more and more developed pieces. Students spend the first two weeks producing a variety of short writing with a focus on the 6 Traits of Effective Writing. Students write Fractured Fairy Tales, Fan Fiction, Reconstructed Memoirs, Flash Fiction, 2-Sentence Stories with Images, and an imitation of Sandra Cisnero's "ELEVEN
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing: Complete 9-Week Class & Curriculum for High School
Take the stress out of planning a high school Creative Writing class with this complete, 9-week elective course curriculum bundle! This Complete Creative Writing Class Bundle includes everything you need to teach creative writing skills, poetry analysis, and engage students in a variety of writing at the high school level!In this engaging 9-week elective creative writing class, students will learn and apply literary terms, analyze mentor texts, and write their own original poems and stories. Thi
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9th - 12th
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End of the Year Activities w/ One-Pager Reflection for High School English & ELA
Use this end of the year activity for high school English classes to make the last week of school meaningful, memorable, and rich in reflection! This One-Pager Reflection Unit has a full week of lesson plans and student materials to guide students through a meaningful reflection process. Students take ownership of the assignment and the structure allows class time for teacher grading and organizational tasks so you can walk out on the last day of school satisfied with a successful school year!
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7th - 12th
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Person of the Year: Writing a Journalistic Profile Project Using Mentor Texts
If you’re interested in having students doing some more personal writing, but not always the same personal narrative or memoir, profiling a person that they care about or admire is a great way to switch the task up and give them another angle. This writing assignment can be categorized as narrative, but also as expository, informational, or argument. And, best of all, the assignment incorporates student choice while still giving you structure and space for writing instruction.Students will hav
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Curriculum High School Complete Semester
If you teach high school creative writing, this is the ULTIMATE curriculum for you! It contains everything you need to teach the course from beginning to end. If you’re looking for a complete creative writing curriculum, add this to your cart NOW! Your students will enjoy the writing process with contemporary mentor texts, engaging brainstorming and practice activities, and step-by-step writing instructions to guide them from beginning to end. Detailed daily lesson plans, rubrics, and answer key
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Workshop: Dialogue Mini-Lesson for High School
Teach your students how to craft and punctuate strong dialogue with this mini-lesson and writing workshop! Equipped with everything you need to teach hard and soft skills around writing dialogue, this lesson is a must-have when you're teaching narrative writing!With the slideshow, students will learn why dialogue is effective in narrative writing, what makes for strong dialogue, and how to properly format and punctuate dialogue. Then, they will practice the mechanics of punctuation with a worksh
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: High School Creative Writing Workshops & Mini Lessons Bundle
Fractured Fairy Tales - a Creative Writing Assignment W/ 3 Days of Lesson Plans
This creative writing 3-day lesson will guide your students through the process of creating an original Fractured Fairy Tale! Students choose a fairy tale to “fracture” and create an original take on a traditional fairy tale. This resource includes lesson plans, bell ringers, an assignment sheet, a planning sheet, a revision workshop, and a detailed rubric. All the prep work is done!All materials are available in PDF to print and student materials are writeable in Google Slides. ⭐ WAIT ⭐ This
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9th - 12th
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Horror Mini Lessons | ELA Reading & Creative Writing
Halloween friendly! Ready to have students in the palm of your hand and give them plenty of reasons to want to be working in your class - all year long? If your students like scary stories and other things frightful - read on!This product is also available in my Bundle of Fear (200+ Pages and growing). Don't miss out on a great bargain!Get students hooked and keep them engaged using the theme of horror. With these highly engaging lessons, they will practice their reading analysis and narrative w
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Language Arts Lessons Horror Bundle | Middle School and High School
Write Your Manifesto {A Mini Writing Unit for Grades 6-12}
Manifestos are an excellent hybrid of creative writing and writing for the "real world". Companies across the globe rely on establishing their values through a carefully crafted manifesto - this assignment is inspired by that idea and has been adapted to empower students to draft a short manifesto capturing their own belief system.
This is a lesson that can be used in a variety of classes. From freshman English, to graduating seniors, to AVID, and even a homeroom class, asking students to wri
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9th - 12th
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Caption It! Caption Writing Creative and Expository Writing Activity
"Caption It!" is a standards-based activity that features over 25 images for students to write captions. Directions are included for both a creative writing exercise and an expository (journalism) writing exercise.Caption writing is a shorter writing exercise that still practices proper conventions of grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in standard English. Start with these shorter exercises before moving to larger writing pieces such as formal essays. In addition, fosterin
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Middle School Art, High School Art Project Visual Journal, Altered Book Lesson
Visual journals, or altered books, are a great continuous project for your art class. This art assignment is perfect for middle school or high school age students. The visual journals can serve as a weekly, monthly, or yearlong project. I teach this visual journal assignment in every class, every year. Every Friday, students have a visual journal day. They get to work in their altered books or to catch up on a project if they have been absent or have fallen behind. It gives my students space to
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Personal Narrative Assignment
These lessons will guide your students through the process of writing a personal narrative. You will guide your students to follow the steps necessary to write an effective, compelling story. They will do pre-writing to develop their ideas and to focus on the elements of narration. The mentor texts will give them further guidance and inspiration, and a slideshow will focus their revision process before they do a final copy. This resource includes:A process-based approach to writing a personal na
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | College Application Essay | Prompts, Rubric
Looking for a comprehensive narrative writing unit that will take your students from inspiration to finished product? You want your students to become better writers, but it’s not easy to give them the instruction that will actually improve their skills. Simply explaining what good writing is or giving students worksheets to fill out about characteristics of writing won’t get them anywhere. In fact, it will only teach them that they are “bad at” writing and that there is no point in trying to i
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9th - 12th
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Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans
All of the sixteen stories for these lesson plans can be downloaded from our website for free in a reader-friendly PDF that we've created.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off. Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellThe Monkey's Paw by WW JacobsThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Hitch-Hiker by Lucille FletcherThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonLamb to the Slaughter by Roal
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Road Not Taken Activity - Creative Poetry Writing Assignment
The Road Not Taken Activity - Creative Poetry Writing Assignment: Bring poetry to life in your classroom by using this unique poetry writing assignment for Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken. After interpreting and analyzing the poem, students are ready to show off their creative writing skills. They will take all of the individual words from The Road Not Taken and rearrange some or all of the words to create a unique and original poem. You will be amazed by the variety of poems that your st
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8th - 11th
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The Mystery Case- Guide
Description: Step into the thrilling world of crime-solving with "Murder Mystery: The Case of Principal Tiger". This engaging and immersive classroom activity challenges students to become detectives as they unravel the mysterious murder of Tiger Pride High School's beloved Principal Tiger.In this comprehensive murder mystery game, students will work together to examine evidence, question suspects, and ultimately identify the culprit responsible for Principal Tiger's untimely demise. Set against
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5th - 12th
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