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9th grade short stories outlines
Narrative Writing - Beginning/Middle/End - Sentence Starters
When students need to create a story from scratch, help them organize their ideas and the content with this mini poster/graphic organizer/mini anchor chart.It is divided into 3 sections for beginning, middle and end. Each section includes a checklist of what should be included in that section, sentence starters to help students begin their paragraph(s) and an example using one of those sentence starters.Hope your students find this as useful as mine did!
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4th - 12th
Labyrinth Film Study Viewing Guide
Labyrinth is an 80's classic that your students are sure to love! This Film Viewing Guide includes Before Viewing, While Viewing, and After Viewing questions to help students focus on characterization, setting, plot, and main themes of Labyrinth as a folktale with elements that connect to myth. Can easily be used as a stand alone film study or part of a Short Stories unit.
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7th - 10th
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Hero's Journey Short Story Archetype Creative Writing Project
Learning about hero's stories or archetypes? Have students practice this with a creative writing assignment! This product will have students write a short story about a hero who goes on all 5 stages of the hero's journey plot pattern archetype. It has an outline for that, dialogue guides, a rubric, and more. There is an additional outline to expand the project to include other archetypes as well such as character archetypes, symbol archetypes, etc. The different outlines in this packet allow you
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6th - 12th
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Fractured Fairytale Crime Scenes
In this assignment students will create a presentation of a mock crime scene based on a fairytale. Each crime will include characters from common fairytales. Students will include evidence to create a crime scene scenario. The assignment is organized into two main projects. The first part of the assignment involves creating a presentation of the crime. The second part of the assignment is a narrative story that explains the actual crime scene.
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5th - 9th
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Flowers for Algernon - Full Text Annotations
This will save you so much time as you teach the story, Flowers for Algernon! You can use this to guide your lesson, or give to your students to show them how a text should be annotated as they are reading.
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7th - 10th
A&E Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994) Questions
Have you been looking for questions to go along with the A&E Video Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994)? If so, you’re not alone. I spent months searching for questions to use with this amazing documentary—in my opinion, the best one on the market. When I came up empty handed again and again, I decided to create them for myself. I created this 23 question assignment for students to fill out as they watched the documentary in class. I have included a detailed answer sheet for the
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7th - 10th
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Creative Writing Resources: Creating a Short Story
This vibrant, 25-page resource is packed with show-don't-tell activities, colorful prompts, and step-by-step guidance for crafting short stories. Designed for grades 6-9, it's perfect for sparking creativity and refining writing skills. From descriptive writing exercises to narrative structure breakdowns, students will explore new ideas and develop their storytelling abilities. Engage your students with this visually appealing resource and inspire a lifelong love for writing!
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6th - 9th
Cornell Notes for teaching Theme
These Cornell notes with answers provide students with guiding questions for teaching theme as an element of literature.
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4th - 12th
Raymond's Run Writing Activity
Use this literary analysis paragraph lesson to get your students to start writing analytically and cite specific text evidence.
Literary analysis paragraphs are eleven sentence paragraphs and force students to think critically about a text.
This packet includes a prompt, a pre-write activity, and a how-to (sentence by sentence) write an insightful literary analysis paragraph.
Use with Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run".
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7th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast Essay Graphic Organizer Outline
This graphic organizer prepares students to write a compare and contrast essay in the "Story 1, then Story 2" format. It allows students to plan an intro paragraph, two body paragraphs for story 1, two body paragraphs for story 2, and a conclusion.
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7th - 9th
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Modern Fairytale Lesson Plans
Modern Fairytale Lesson Plans 10 Lesson Plans made to bring modern fairytales into the 9th Grade ELA classroom Lessons are aligned with ELA Common Core standardsThe preview shows the entire research paper I completed for the lessons Unit Could be used a mini unitA good way to teach theme, adaptions & compare/ contrast.
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9th - 12th
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Suspense in "The Monkey's Paw" - Using Text Evidence
I use this writing outline as students are beginning develop literary analysis skills. After we read, "The Monkey's Paw", students use text evidence to show the literary elements that the author uses to create suspense in the story. It's a basic outline for a basic paragraph on a great short story that students enjoy.
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6th - 9th
Digital Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer - Google Slides - Distance Learning
This is the digital version of this product. You can find the pdf version here.I'm so glad you decided to purchase the Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer. This product is a great way to guide students into writing a narrative that follows the hero's journey plot line in a well-organized manner. I like to break this pre-writing activity up over multiple class periods, so as not to overwhelm my students. Once they've gotten all of this done, they'll be ready to begin writing their narrative. They
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4th - 12th
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The Gift of the Magi Theme Essay
This CCSS aligned essay prompt asks students to identify a theme in O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi." This essay prompt handout includes three possible themes and a basic essay outline that will require students to use quotes from the text to support their response.
Also, be sure to check out my Peer editing worksheet to help your students work through the writing process.
Common Core Essay - Common Core Aligned Essay - The Gift of the Magi Essay - Theme Essay
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7th - 12th
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Journal Entry Template
This journal entry can be utilized for Social Emotional Learning activities, ELA journal entries, first days of school activities, creative writing, etc.
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PreK - 12th
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The Possibility of Evil - Lessons Including Final Essay
This package includes the following:
An activities explanation sheet which breaks down the order things should be approached in as well as gives some additional information about how to approach each of the elements.
An anticipation guide which give students an opportunity to consider the ideas that will be addressed in the story in order to access prior knowledge.
Comprehension questions to ensure that students are clear on the basic plot elements and some of the literary elements as well.
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8th - 12th
"The Ransom of Red Chief" Literary Essay
O'Henry's short story, "The Ransom of Red Chief is rich in humor and a number of literary devices. This 3-page essay format bundle prepares students for writing a well-developed essay on the author's use of literary elements such as irony, figurative language, foreshadowing, exaggeration, and surprise ending. I've used this for several years and have received some well-written analysis of the short story.
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7th - 9th
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Short Story Elements BUNDLE
This bundle includes all five sections of the short story elements lesson including:
- Part One: Plot and Setting
- Part Two: Character
- Part Three: Conflict
- Part Four: Narration
- Part Five: Theme
- Part Six: Literary Devices
- Not the Classics: List of short stories for teen audiences
- Plot stages printable
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7th - 12th
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Short Story Writing Template
Short story writing template includes day by day steps for students to effectively brainstorm, gather ideas, outline, and write their own short story. Some elements of a short story need to be pre-taught in order to use this effectively. Includes pages on Character sketch, Setting, Plot, and Theme. This could be used throughout your short story unit or by itself as a creative writing exercise. Day to day details suggest a peer edit as well. May take up to 2 weeks to complete writing task. Good
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7th - 12th
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Tips for Writing an Anecdote
Eight tips in a handout/outline style to help your students understand how and when to use anecdotes in their writing. Works wonderfully in a writing binder or folder as something for students to use as a personal anchor chart.
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6th - 12th
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Organizer and Paragraph with "The Tell Tale Heart"
Many middle school students need a formula for writing- one that will serve them well in more than just English Language Arts Class. Whether we ask for a short answer, a paragraph, or a full essay, students should utilize a format like Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, or C.E.R. (I use this acronym with my classes, but I used to refer to this as A.C.E. answers to my students: Answer, Cite, Explain.). This resource asks students to practice responding to a short question and a longer one, both requiri
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7th - 9th
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5 Differentiated Plot Diagram Templates (for Any Novel, Film, or Short Story)
Recognizing plot structure is an important step in understanding and analyzing how good stories are told--whether it's a short story, a classic novel, or a film. Plot diagrams templates are a good way to help students visualize a narrative by recognizing and filling out the key components from a story. Whether you're doing a novel study, a film class, a creative writing unit, or any other lesson about storytelling, these five engaging templates serve as a valuable study tool or assessment tool f
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5th - 12th
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Short Story Terms PowerPoint and Notes Sheet-Freshman
This zip file contains an editable PowerPoint and follow along student note sheet (a PDF, not a Word document). The note sheet is fill in the blank and the blanks corresponds with underlined terms and definitions on the PowerPoint. This is a basic PowerPoint that includes the following words: prose, genre, characters, antagonist, protagonist, static character, dynamic character, stereotype, Point of view and the types, five elements of plot, theme, mood, tone, foreshadowing, flashback, and the t
Grades:
7th - 9th
Greek Mythology BUNDLE
This bundle includes all 6 Greek Mythology sections! In total receive enough assignments to complete your unit, while touching upon literature studies, writing, media studies and oral communication!
1. Intro to Mythology
2. Myth Summary assignment
3. Greek God Tradeshow assignment
4. Creative writing - Your World, Your Myth assignment
5A. Hero's Journey powerpoint and handout
5B. Character archetypes powerpoint and handout
6. Myth in Movies assignment.
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7th - 12th
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