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High school creative writing lessons for Easel
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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40 Fun Writing Prompts for Secondary Students Crazy Picture Prompts
This awesome set of funny and crazy picture prompts are perfect for inspiring even the least motivated too-cool Secondary English students to get into creative writing. A great range of images to help them get writing!Perfect for ELA English students from Year 6 to Year 10 or 11, depending on where you are. These fun creative writing prompt worksheets look best in color, but still look good and work well printed in black and white. Set out in separate worksheets, ready to print and go. Awesome f
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Picture WRITING PROMPTS for Secondary Students 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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Fable, Fairy Tale, Myths, Legends Unit
This comprehensive unit is a fantastic resource to use with a variety of fables, fairy tales, myths, or legends of your choice. Students will discover how life lessons are learned from understanding fables and how fairy tales influence society. They will also be able to identify connections to cultures that legends originated from and realize how myths illustrate the belief systems and customs of the cultures that created them. Here is what is included:★Essential Questions★Vocabulary Word List★
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6th - 10th
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Fan Fiction Writing Assignment and Lesson Plans for High School Creative Writing
Engage your students in the creation of original Fan Fiction! Students choose a favorite work of fiction and carefully plan / develop their own take on a published book, movie, video game, or TV show. 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! Please click the PREVIEW for a detailed look at this resource. Materials are in PDF to print and all student materials are writeable in Go
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9th - 12th
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POETRY WRITING UNIT - 18 Creative Writing Lesson Plans & 85 Activities
This grade 9-12 POETRY WRITING UNIT PLAN has 18 detailed creative writing lessons and 85 fun activities. Students are guided through journal activities to complete a poetry portfolio packet of 7 poems. It is a no prep, print and go (or put on Google Classroom) resource. The 89 slide vibrant PowerPoint presentation with some fun animations leads the students through each lesson. A sub without any prep time could supervise these lessons. All student instructions are supplied in the PowerPoint pre
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9th - 12th
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Vague and Ambiguous Pronoun Reference: Mini Unit, Distance Learning Compatible
Vague and Ambiguous Pronouns contribute largely to immature writing among middle and high school students. This mini unit will train students to identify, eliminate, and replace these vague pronoun references. The packet includes a complete lesson, practice examples, 2 worksheets, and answer keys. After completing this lesson, your students will begin to recognize and revise their own errors, sending vague and ambiguous pronouns to their grave. This product is available to modify for Google d
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6th - 10th
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Poetry Stations 2.0: for High School and Middle School Digital
***All of my stations may be used for distance learning. Simply upload the pdf into your google drive and share it with your class. This set, in particular, has poetry in a box project that would be wonderful for a student at home. Instruct them that group work now will be done independently, or they can use a virtual meet to work as a team digitally. If you loved my first set of poetry stations, then you will be head over heels for this new set. I’ve created six more stations that explore poeti
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6th - 10th
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Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief -Vs. Perseus Writing Assigment
This is a short writing assignment that lets a student compare Percy to Perseus. I have included: teacher directions, a copy of the myth, a graphic organizer, the constructed response writing prompt, and a rubric. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.If you like this assignment, you might want to purchase my set that includes 8 other learning stations for this novel. Percy Jackson&Olympians The Lightning Thief: L
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Percy Jackson: Bundle Lesson Unit with Digital Options Activity
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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Famous Journalist Long Term Research Project
This activity is perfect for a journalism course. Students will be researching the life and journalistic contributions of a famous journalist and share the findings with the class through a PowerPoint presentation. This project would work well as a introduction to the course or as a midterm / final exam. A lesson overview is included with objectives, materials needed, and a detailed facilitator's guide for lesson planning purposes. The activity includes a long list of famous journalists for
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5th - 12th
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Flash Fiction Assignment With 2 Days of Lesson Plans, Bell Ringers & Assignment
Guide your students through the Flash Fiction writing process! Students carefully plan and develop an original flash fiction piece, complete with story elements. 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! Please click the PREVIEW for a detailed look at this resource. All materials are available in PDF to print and student materials are writeable in Google Slides. ⭐ WAIT ⭐ This r
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Prompts for High School, Daily Bell Ringers for Creativity
Engage students in the creative writing process with daily bell ringers. The 24 prompts in this pack can be used as bell ringers, exit tickets, or a second teaching point during the lesson. This resource is designed to spark creative writing, induce reflection about the writing process, and to guide revision. This resource includes a link in Google Drive and can be completed digitally!Please click the PREVIEW above for a closer look at everything included in this resource! ⭐ WAIT ⭐ This resource
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Middle School High School - Using Classic Texts as Mentors
When my students complete this learning activity, their creative writing is delightful to read - truly! Plus, they feel 'smart' and it boosts their confidence to add sophistication to their imaginative writing. Unlike simply using a thesaurus, the students have explored the new vocabulary in context and therefore produce sophisticated narrative writing as they understand not only what the words mean, but also how to use them well. I share this with you to get back the love of writing we all have
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Writing a Memoir Assignment for a Short Reconstructed Memoir for High School
Guide your students through the process of writing a reconstructed memoir! Reconstructed memoirs involve developing a memory with the perspective of experience. In this 3-day creative writing activity, students choose a memory, develop it into a vignette, and work through the revision process. 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!Materials are in PDF to print and all student
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9th - 12th
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Macbeth Analysis of the Witches Creative Group Project
Choose this fun group activity and presentation project for Macbeth, Act 4--THE WITCHES!The witches in Macbeth are intriguing to your high school ELA students.Their association with Macbeth contributes to his characterization.They also add so much to mood and character motivation.Their messages are symbolic, mysterious and misleading---tragic for Macbeth. This resource is to be used when your high school ELA students complete their study of Act 4, Scene 1 of Macbeth. No-prep. Includes scoring r
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9th - 12th
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Entrepreneurship Project - Business Plan / SWOT analysis / Project
Entrepreneurship Project - Business Plan / SWOT analysis / Logo DesignThis project lets students develop a business plan for their own business. This project helps students with the fundamentals of starting a business while learning what to consider when starting a business. Students will use the pages provided as a template to create their own business. This project is appropriate for Grade 6-10 students.This project was designed to encourage entrepreneurship. It can be used to supplement lesso
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6th - 9th
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Twenty-five Creative Writing Lessons
This product includes twenty-five no-prep Creative Writing lessons all with detailed instructions, optional rubrics and original mentor texts. Topics include: personal narrative, narrative voice, poetry, science fiction, interviews, drama, and more.These lessons, like all my lessons, are made to be accessible to students by giving them the opportunity to practice their skills in the context of their own abilities and needs. This set of twenty-five lessons is available separately or as part of a
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Writing and Rhetoric 80 Lesson Bundle
Twenty-five Writing Practice Lessons
This collection of twenty-five no-prep lessons includes complete instructions and original mentor texts to give students the kind of focussed, uncomplicated practice they need develop their skills. Topics include direct and indirect description, using affixes to improve sentences, avoiding redundancy, avoiding misplaced modifiers, translating prose into poetry, writing good introductions and conclusions, adding detail, epistolary fiction and more.These lessons, like all my lessons, are made to b
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Writing and Rhetoric 80 Lesson Bundle
World Building: Creative Writing Generative Exercises
How do authors create worlds so real it feels like readers can jump into them? Inspire your students to think like authors, and deeply consider their worlds and the way that they impact character behavior. Move beyond physical descriptions to include culture, government, as well as the characters' personal world and their closest relationships. You can use these: During Planning --To generate ideas before students embark on a novel writing or short story writing project,During Revision --To fles
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4th - 12th
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Science Fiction Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide — ELA Genre — CCSS Rubric
Shepherd your students' next creative writing assignment with this science fiction narrative step-by-step writing guide. Unique from most creative writing units, our science fiction guide begins by asking students to make simple and fun decisions about the key elements of their story before having to lift a pen or open a word processor!A “10-second sub plan” (print and drop on your desk!) or the basis of a week-long writing unit, your purchase includes (See PREVIEW):A narrative map template that
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7th - 10th
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ELEVEN by Sandra Cisneros Creative Writing Assignment W/ 2 Days of Lesson Plans
Engage students as they read “ELEVEN” by Sandra Cisneros, analyze the use of figurative language and effective dialogue, and then write their own imitation assignment. This resource includes a the full text for "ELEVEN," an assignment sheet, a rubric, a peer review checklist, and 2 days of easy to implement lesson plans! All the prep work is done!All materials are available in PDF to print and student materials are writeable in Google Slides. ⭐ WAIT ⭐ This resource is included in my 4-Week Crea
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8th - 10th
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Fantasy Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide — ELA Genre Story — CCSS Rubric
Shepherd your students' next creative writing assignment with this fantasy narrative step-by-step writing guide. Unique from most creative writing units, my fantasy guide begins by asking students to make simple and fun decisions about the key elements of their story before having to lift a pen or open a word processor! A “10-second sub plan” (print and drop on your desk!) or the basis of a week-long writing unit, your purchase includes (See PREVIEW):A narrative map template that assists student
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6th - 10th
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Horror Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide — ELA Genre Story — CCSS Rubric
Shepherd your students' next creative writing assignment with this horror narrative step-by-step writing guide. Unique from most creative writing units, our fantasy guide begins by asking students to make simple and fun decisions about the key elements of their story before having to lift a pen or open a word processor!An “10-second sub plan” (print and drop on your desk!) or the basis of a week-long writing unit, your purchase includes (See PREVIEW):A narrative map template that assists student
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6th - 10th
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