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High school creative writing lessons for SMART Notebook
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!!
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Writing Narratives Package
This package breaks writing narratives into the critical elements in order to scaffold students to writing strong stories. It is broken down into: setting, problems, characters, plot, good beginnings and word choice.
When I use this package I typically focus on one element each day in order to create an in depth understanding. I encourage students to write about what they know. I have them begin with a setting they know better than anyone and base their character off of someone they know reall
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Narrative Revision
This unit lesson will guide your students through the revision process. Move through the revision lessons as slowly or quickly as needed for your students. Provide writing breaks for your students to look back at their own writing and apply the following revision strategies: Show don't tell, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, overused words, figurative language, and dialogue. My students love how this lesson works and you can use the mini lessons with separate writing pieces.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence Writing
An engaging and stimulating notebook file teaching students about independent and dependent clauses through the analogy of a wizard and wizard's staff.
The file moves through simple, compound and complex sentences and how to appropriately join such sentences together my identify correct clauses.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Staff
Color Poem SmartBoard Slides
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These slides are made to go along with my Color Poem Activity & Organizer document, also on my TpT store!
Use this download first to introduce the concept of a Color poem and to write one together as a class. Then use the Activity & Organizer for students to review, organize, and write their own!
Poetry is such a fun unit and one poem students always seem to love is the Color Poem.
This poem is five stanzas, with each stanza focusing on one of the fiv
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Grades:
4th - 9th
5 Ways to Start a Story
Students often struggle with how to begin their creative writing or short stories. This SMART notebook file contains 5 effective ways to begin, with examples from published books provided. For example, "It was" can be used, a la George Orwell: "It was a bright cold day in April." I was impressed at the difference this lesson made to students' work. I would use this after students have planned their story plots and have them try each of the 5 techniques to find one that works.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Introduction to RAFT
Short notebook file to introduce the concept of a RAFT project. (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)
Includes an example and a practice question.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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