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High school creative writing unit plans $5-10
Writing & Creating a Children's Book; Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 - 12 - Adult
Creating a Children’s Book – Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 – 12 – University – Adult, is an exceptional journey by which students will research, strategize and use technology, critical thinking and art to make a complete and professional picture book. This project will be fun. It will also be challenging and by the time it is finished, students will definitely understand more about the picture book industry, the types of books that sell, how a book is actually put together, and how many decision
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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Mystery Writing Workshop – ELA – Reading, Activities, Guides, & CCSS Rubrics
How are mystery stories taught? What are the elements of mystery writing? Unpack the "mystery" of creative mystery narrative writing with your students with L-EA's no-prep Mystery Writing Workshop. My scaffolded activities teach the art of mystery writing from appreciation and analysis to planning and publishing!Writing mysteries is great natural practice for learning all of the important elements of narrative structure: setting, characters, conflict, rising action, climax, and conclusion. These
Grades:
6th - 9th
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★
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Fractured Fairy Tale Narrative Writing Unit: Middle and High School
This is a bundle of all the products I created to use with my students for our narrative writing Fractured Fairy Tale Unit! My suggested use of the products is as follows: 1. Use the "Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Project" to introduce the narrative unit (directions included in product) 2. Use the Elements of a Fairy Tale with the presentation and guided notes. 3. Use the "Writing Project" file to read 6 classic fairy tales adapted from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm while guiding
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Mystery Writing Unit Fictional Narrative Writing
Make writing fun! Complete mystery writing unit. 13 activities that guide students through the creative writing process with no advance prep! 21 pages of student handouts guide students through the process of brainstorming, writing, editing, and finalizing their own mystery story. Activities include:Choosing the settingWhat is the crime?Who are the suspects?What are the alibis?Who are the witnesses?What is the evidence?What are the clues?Design a Plot LinePlanningFirst DraftEditing-PersonalEdi
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6th - 9th
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Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Back To School Activities, Worksheets & Get to Know for Middle School
30 activities to get students introduced to the new year, to set goals, to write journal entries about their summer and plans for the future, to get to know their peers better, to create community, to allow you insight into your new students, and to allow students to draw and be creative (selfies! Instagram memories! Tablet photo fun (draw)!), This is a great way to start the year for upper elementary and middle school students.✂Join my Newsletter & get a FREE Art Tutorial for your Classroom
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6th - 9th
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Pop Sonnets: A Unit Plan (editable)
Looking for a way to liven up Shakespeare for your students? Look no further than pop sonnets.All credit for the idea must be given to Erik Didriksen who created the Pop Sonnet Tumblr a few years back where he would take a popular song and write it as a Shakespearean sonnet. Check out his Tumblr at https://popsonnet.tumblr.com/.Now your students will have an opportunity to use Didriksen's pop sonnets as mentor texts to create their own pop sonnet of a song of their choice. This activity is highl
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7th - 12th
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The Ten-Minute Play: A Complete Unit for Writing a One Act Play, EDITABLE
Add some DRAMA to your Creative Writing class! This complete drama unit spans 11 days (including in-class student work time, not including additional outside-of-class work days) and covers 10-minute play basics, examples, activities, rubrics, and formatting requirements. Always a fan favorite among my students, this group project lends itself well to online platforms such as Google Classroom where students can collaborate in one virtual space, as well as fun in-person activities. This unit inclu
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Course Curriculum BUNDLE
Young Authors: Mystery Story Creative Writing Unit
What is the perfect way for students to practice narrative writing? Mystery stories! This genre instantaneously hooks a reader's attention, poses thought-provoking questions, keeps a reader in suspense, and stimulates discussion. The Young Authors: Mystery Story Unit focuses on the following concepts:
-Reading, understanding, and appreciating classic mystery literature
-Effective story structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
-Mystery and narrative vocab
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6th - 9th
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Humor and Comedy Writing Unit Plan
This is a 5-10 day humor writing unit plan for secondary English, college writing, or creative writing students. It’s meant to teach the theory and structure that go into humor writing along with plenty of practice activities.Humor writing takes a specific set of writing skills, and it can translate to a well-paying job for those who are especially good at it. Even students not destined for standup stages or sitcom writers’ rooms will benefit from studying the elements that make writing funny. T
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
World Creation Myths Unit Bundle - Group Projects, Comparison, and Writing
Everything you need to teach Creation Myths from around the world is in this Unit Plan. Includes group work, research, presentations, essays, compare/contrast assignments, and creative writing. Everything is aligned to standards and includes grading rubrics.There are many different options for assignments that you can do with this unit. I have outlined the different elements below with the standards taught and the time needed. Feel free to mix and match as much as you wish. If you wanted to do e
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7th - 10th
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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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Stephen King - A Unit of Suspense
Full unit, over two weeks of materials. The unit examines the four main elements of suspense: foreshadowing, figurative language, dramatic irony, and realistic characters. Students will look at these elements through excerpts of Stephen King novels, specifically The Shining, Salem's Lot, Cujo and more. This unit will take you from practice to formative and provide all the rubrics and answer keys needed along the way. My students thoroughly enjoyed this unit and I hope yours will too!
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9th - 12th
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9-12 High School Personal Narrative (Family Narrative) Writing Unit
*** FREEBIE IN THE PREVIEW! Open up the preview file to snag your free copy of the writing process anchor chart printable! ***This download includes everything you will need to teach personal narrative writing through the writing of a family narrative for even the most inexperienced high school writer. The scaffolded instruction works to bring writers up from middle school to high school quality in their narrative writing throughout the process described in the 2 weeks (10 days) of lesson plans.
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9th - 12th
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Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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Writing for the Real World: Narrative Non-fiction Writing Unit
Narrative Non-fiction is a type of writing in which the writer tells about a true-life (non-fiction) event in a story (narrative) format. It is sometimes called fact-based storytelling. Journalists and authors are using narrative non-fiction more and more in the books and articles they write because it easily catches and keeps the readers’ attention.
In this step by step guide, your students will find narrative non-fiction writing fun and easy. Filled with reproducibles, differentiated optio
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6th - 9th
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Process Paper / How-To Writing Unit for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
Editable process paper / how-to writing unit for English Language Arts grades 5 - 8.
Everything you need to guide your students through the process of writing a process paper.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
Help your students master the writing process by taking them through it step-by-step.
This process paper unit includes....
1. Teache
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
The Once and Future King Novel Unit
Long before Harry Potter, readers have been enchanted by King Arthur legends in T.H. White’s modern retelling, The Once and Future King. Yes, it's a long novel, but this resource is guaranteed to keep your students engaged! Are you ready to guide students' reading for maximum enjoyment and textual analysis, research and writing skill development? In this 4-6 week unit, students will read closely, discuss, conduct online research, perform, reflect, and write analytically and creatively as they a
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9th - 11th
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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Dead Poets' Society and Poetry Unit
This product contains materials for a poetry unit inspired by the film Dead Poets' Society. It includes the following things:
• A chart for the student to record pertinent information about when the poem was read or recited and by whom and why this particular poem was chosen for this particular event. This chart should be used as the springboard for a discussion of how these specific poems help reveal the theme of the movie.
• A copy of each poem for the students to annotate.
• AP style questio
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9th - 12th
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ChangeMaker or Passion Project | Life Skills | Project Based Learning | PBL
Project-Based Learning Unit | ChangeMaker or Passion Project Secondary Unit: Download PDF and email me for the editable Google Doc. **THIS RESOURCE IS ALSO INCLUDED IN MY YEAR-LONG ELA MEGA BUNDLE! SAVE MONEY & FIND IT HEREThis engaging student-centered unit is designed to inspire middle and high school students to become genuine ChangeMakers in the world. Resources can be used for project-based learning, independent study, or secondary ELA credit. Aligned with Common Core ELA Standards Grad
Grades:
8th - 12th
Write Horror Shorts- 2 Stephen King hooks & Creative Writing Supports
My students are engaged by horror and anything weird and wonderful! This unit works really well around Halloween and can be used throughout the year too. Although high school students are sometimes nervous to do creative writing, it motivates and liberates them to be creepy! This unit is the best possible way for students to apply all of those literary terms they have learned. They realize literary terms are actually the building blocks of any story. I even enjoy the marking of this unit!This
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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