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Free high school creative writing unit plans
Fractured Fairy Tale Unit
Stories and non-fiction text are written from a particular point of view. The author positions the reader to respond to a story in a certain way through the use of language and point of view. Your assignment is to pick a familiar fairy tale and write a diary entry from the point of view of the antagonist.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
A Poem A Day: National Poetry Month FREEBIE!
A Poem A Day:
This resource is an interactive, professional development resource for you and your secondary ELA colleagues. This resource will help any poetry teacher from the most experienced to the most terrified!
Your Download Includes
• An April calendar of links to great poems (21 poems, one for each weekday). Poems include: "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath, "Awkward Scars" by Robbie Q. Telfer, "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton, "Design" by Robert Frost, "Shooter" by Lamar Jorden...and so many mor
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7th - 12th, Staff
Creative Writing Course: Curriculum Schedule
This five-unit creative writing course which contains the following units with handouts, PowerPoint Presentations, Instructional techniques, Peer Critique forms, Rubrics for self- and teacher evaluation, and brainstorming activities. The Schedule outlines day-by-day lesson planning for each unit. Every unit builds upon the last unit's Learning Targets, and every unit ends with a lesson plan using a film to prepare students for the next unit. This high school curriculum can be taught at the mi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Writing Course
Treasure Stories Drama/Creative Writing Exercise
This unit is a good introduction to Drama or to Creative Writing. Each student will bring 2 treasures from home in the "Treasure Bag" (a paper lunch bag). Without opening them, the student picks one to keep and one to put into the center of the room. The student then picks one bag out that isn't their own. They then develop convincing stories about their objects. One is true, based on their treasure. The other is fiction, based on the borrowed treasure. Both stories need to have a beginni
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6th - 12th
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Acrostic Story Poem Unit
Every name has a story, and what more fun than to get your students engaged in creating poetry than by creating a poem from their own name! While the main poem is formed around their name where they can share about themselves, they will have great practice working in pairs or groups to strengthen their understanding, application skills, communication, teamwork, and storytelling as they can have fun giving a name to a picture, piece of art, or drawing of choice! I have included a fun one, but it
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Creative Writing Full Unit
This is a PowerPoint presentation that contains 26 lessons, of 60 minute each.
The lessons cover idea generation (with and without visual stimuli), planning, creating effective narrative and descriptive, organising paragraphs, creating interesting openings, writing monologues, writing for a specific audience and purpose, appropriate and effective vocabulary choices, using a range of sentence types for effect, use of a range of punctuation for effect, proofreading skills as well as 2 different p
Grades:
9th - 12th
Poetry Mini-Lessons: Exercises to inspire creative writing
These are some quick, easy-to-use mini-lessons meant to introduce the concept of spoken word/free verse to students!There are 8 lessons (with 1 bonus lesson). Some lessons involve reading and analyzing writing, while others include a writing portion. This unit comes with activities, videos, text questions, and open-ended questions.NOTE - these are NOT exactly standard aligned, but can fall under standards regarding figurative language and literature analysis. NOTE - these lessons are merely mean
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6th - 9th
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Adelaida: A Cuban Cinderella
On the island of Cuba lived two sisters named Adelaida and Marisol. Although identical twins in appearance, their personalities were as different as night and day. Adelaida was noble and loved to help others. She understood that the situation at home was not easy. On the other hand, Marisol believed that the world revolved around her. Will the sisters' actions affect their fate?Also available in paperback at amazon, bn, and booksellers worldwide for those teachers that teach a unit on Cinderella
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Creative Writing: Poetry Quarter
This is a full-quarter plan with all materials for teaching poetry as creative writing. This unit includes a selection of poems, space for notes, and a variety of exercises. All materials are included in this unit.
Creative Writing: Poetry by Shawn McKenna is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Monologue and Characterization Unit
This is a full turn key unit on what monologues are, how to write your own, how to work on characterization with your monologues, how best to perform them. It comes with interactive materials, a rubric, and peer critiquing document.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Poetry Unit
This package includes intro lessons on Ballads, Odes, Sonnets, and Free Verse. Also included is a quick lesson covering soliloquy and monologue. There are practice problems added on at the end of each lesson that allow students to test their knowledge on poetry. There are four Google Slide lessons that pair with a handout that is given to students at the beginning of the unit. Poems needed to teach the unit are included too. This is a low prep easy to follow unit on identifying and applying ty
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6th - 9th
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Four Hero-Themed Essay Prompts & Exemplars | Great for Struggling Students
This resource contains four prompts which come with example essays. This resource is editable, so you can use it however you wish. Prompt #1: What Makes Someone A HeroWrite an essay about what makes somebody a hero.Be sure to use two examples of true heroes, and give specific examples of what how each hero demonstrated this.At least one of your examples needs to come from a text we have read in class this year.Prompt #2: My Two HeroesWrite an essay about two prominent people in real life who are
Grades:
7th - 11th
Creative Writing Unit Plan
Creative Writing and Short Stories - incredibly detailed scheme of work on writing skills that includes activities and resources for over 17 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include language, structure, vocabulary, genre, organization, cohesion, settings, characters, themes and more!
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Creative Writing Complete Unit
Humans of New York
Inspired by the photojournalism project "Humans of New York," I created this unit for students to enjoy these human interest stories, but even more importantly, to give them a chance to pull stories from our own community.After reading HONY examples, my students interviewed people in our city and we created a "Humans of Tulsa" website.We did this project early in the school year, because I wanted students to understand the power of all stories--not just those written in books!This free resource
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7th - 12th
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Creative Writing: Short Story Quarter
Similar to my drama plans, this is a quarter-long plan for teaching short story. This plan includes reading short stories (your own collections-- I do not provide them), analyzing them, taking notes, exercises on stories and dialogues, final project on a collection, and a review and reflection assignment.
Creative Writing: Short Story by Shawn McKenna is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Myths and Legends Unit Plan
Myths and Legends - incredibly detailed scheme of work on reading skills and writing skills that includes activities and resources for over 18 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include language, structure, analytical paragraphs, characters, tone, types of character and more.To work in conjunction with our Myths and Legends pack
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Myths and Legends Grade 6, 7, 8 Complete Unit
Senior Memory Book
Adapted from a "hand-me-down" project from other teachers (hence the freebie), this three page writing project includes a description of the Senior Memory book, tentative deadlines (to be altered), and a rubric. All are student-ready.A Senior Memory Book will consist of your senior students' memories and thoughts from your whole life (K-12 including vacations, games played, struggles, etc). This collection of memories will be due at the end of the year, but they must begin in August and work o
Grades:
12th
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Identity Project (Fits with any novel unit or getting-to know you projects)
Great project Educators can utilize this project at the end of any novel unit that encompasses the theme of identity or coming-of-age. I created this for the novel: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Students are required to complete 10 projects (10 points per project, totaling 100 altogether, so if they only do 8, they earn 80 points out of 100). You can change this point system easily though. Even change and introduce projects throughout a novel unit (each week
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8th - 12th
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60 Second EXPERT!
This is a fun Theatre Improvisation Exercise that works with creativity, spontaneity, quick thinking, and imagination, as well as vocal projection, eye-contact, facial expression and body language. Students will draw a topic and speak on that topic for 60 seconds as if they are the EXPERT. They can use known information as well as create fanciful information. A step by step breakdown, topics and a rubric are included.
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5th - 12th
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How to write a formal letter
Students will learn how to write a formal letter.
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9th
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The Poet X Unit Guide
This unit guide for Elizabeth Acevedo's "The Poet X" is designed in accordance with next-generation standards. It spans a duration of 6 weeks and encompasses a comprehensive set of components including guiding questions, both formative and summative assessments, as well as vocabulary resources.
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Course - Unit 1 (Seeking Inspiration and Answers)
In order for students to become better writers, they must read a lot. Reading a variety of genres and authors gives students many opportunities to analyze style and voice and most importantly exposes them to writing that is better than their own, which can ultimately help them improve. Part of the rationale for this unit is that it builds in time for students to read, both for pleasure and learning purposes. This seems necessary due to the abundance of commitments students have outside of the c
Grades:
9th - 12th
Podcasting Unit and NPR Competition - FULL UNIT
I've created a slideshow for a podcasting unit with the NPR competition. For more awesome, free resources, visit the Gifted Guide website.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Women in Literature: Short Story Unit
This unit was designed specifically for New Zealand schools Level 2 and the NCEA qualifications, but it can be adapted to suit.
In this very exciting and interesting unit, students will be reading and analysing short stories from four very prominent writers: Mary Shelley, Flannery O�Connor, Katherine Mansfield and Patricia Grace.
They will discuss the elements of the short story genre and then will analyse the themes, plots, settings, characters and language features of these stories.
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10th - 12th
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