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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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Poetry Project for High School Seniors
Seniors love this! I use this project for the last six weeks of the school year to help ward off senioritis. Students study various poets, watch a clip from DEAD POETS' SOCIETY for the "carpe diem" poem, listen to Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" as they study Tennyson, and watch the Simpsons' "Nightmare Cafeteria" to delve into satire and write their own satirical poem. These are just a few of the assignments included in the poetry project. I am amazed at the poems the students wri
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12th
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Fun Short Story Writing Assignment for Unmotivated High School Students
This short story writing unit has been very successful with classes of generally unmotivated eleventh- and twelfth-grade students. The length and complexity requirements are easily adjustable for differentiation or to fit your schedule.
This packet includes:
• Silly story starters that students construct by picking a subject, verb, object, and adverbial out of a hat. (Grammar reinforcement!)
• Instructions for leading students in prewriting.activities.
• Editable assignment sheet.
• Outline she
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10th - 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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How to Write a Great College Admissions Essay - Works with Common Application
I have been teaching 11th graders to write a college admissions essay for the past ten years and this system really works! It's especially great if you have a wide variety of writing abilities within the same class.My favorite part of the packet is the "student" writing samples that help students understand what a finished product is going to look like. I've also included a brainstorming activity, an essay organizer, a rubric, and brief explanation of how to effectively use these materials.
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10th - 12th
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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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Sample Personal Narratives (Exemplars)
There are 5 sample personal narratives to use as exemplars to help kids understand the features that go into writing a personal narrative! They are all in Microsoft word format so that they can be altered/edited as necessary to help you meet your teaching goals!
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3rd - 6th
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Build Your Own Elf
Super cute Christmas Elf Template Students use the templates to create and build their own one of kind Elf. No two will be the same. Get inspiration from all different head types, eyeballs, noses etc. Includes a sample elf that can be used as a colouring page for the kids. Once the Elves have been completed the kids can get creative and name their elves and even write a little story. A fun way to get creative, and maybe little bit excited about the holidays.
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Not Grade Specific
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Fourth Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 4th grade. Included are prompts, rubrics, & graphic organizers - all as printables that will allow you to use separately or together in a Progressive Writing Journal. The new narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle Schmitz, Masters in Reading Instruction
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4th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Third Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 3rd grade. Included are printable prompts, rubrics and graphic organizers that will allow you to reinforce concepts in a Progressive Writing Journal for the whole year. The new narrative, informative/explanatory and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle, Masters in Reading Instruction
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3rd
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Dystopian Society Project -- Create a Dystopia
This project is for use with a dystopian novel/literature unit. It asks students to create a dystopia of their own. Ultimately, they create four end-products: encyclopedia entry, creative story, promo/commercial, and presentation.
Students should have a good understanding of dystopias before assigning this project. It works well in conjunction with both literature and movies, such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, Fahrenheit 451, The Truman Show, etc.
This project covers multiple English Langu
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9th - 12th
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'Coraline' Film Study Booklet
This booklet includes film techniques such as sound, colour, lighting, costume, characterisation with images from the movie. This work booklet consolidates their knowledge of film techniques in a practical way. There is also an assessment at the end of the booklet whereby students become the director and are interviewed based on the cinematic choices (why they chose to represent things in certain ways).
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7th - 10th
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Detective Fiction Complete Unit of Work and Study Guide
This 55 page study guide, is everything you need to introduce mystery and crime genres through Detective Fiction. Works well with the Detective Fiction PowerPoint. Have you students become detectives as they work through the various activities, including identify various famous detective, vocabulary quizzes. The following readings are included:Lamb to Slaugter by Roald DahlThe Perfect Muder by Renate YatesMrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat by Roald DahlThe Landland by Roald DahlThe Bus Ride by Sah
Grades:
8th - 12th
Red Dog - Film Study
Booklet for the film study 'Red Dog'. The booklet includes a range of questions, camera angles and research and assessment tasks.
Grades:
7th
Suspenseful Writing Packet for Middle School Students
This easy and engaging packet moves writers from brainstorming and planning to a finished short story that they will be proud of! You can have students work individually or with a partner; my students love working with a partner! Students have really enjoyed this writing assignment and still remember it by the end of the year! Suspense, more than any other genre, reinforces the components of strong narrative writing!
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6th - 9th
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Complete Sentence Practice: Writing Revolution
Create strong writers using this great practice worksheet! This product follows the writing revolution curriculum. Each page has a student friendly picture. Students are directed to come up with a complete sentence that includes a who, what, where, when and why for each picture! Product also includes a blank template that can be used for students to draw their own picture or for you to add in a picture of your own! Additionally, this product can be easily differentiated through requiring student
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K - 4th
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Samurai Kids White Crane Novel Study
Attention Australian Teachers. This is a novel study that is closely linked to the Australian curriculum with Scope and Sequence stated for each of the 14 chapters. Also for each chapter there are activity suggestions and questions for either individual answers or small group or class discussions.There are no graphics to download. There are other novel study units to be found at my store www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Pam-C
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4th - 6th
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Melodrama script: The Cheesecake Factory
A campy melodrama script for middle or high school. Fun for class or for full production! Will the Graham sisters be able to save their cheesecake factory from the evil Riley Slapdash and his clumsy assistant?!?
The Cheesecake Factory, OR The Women of Cheesy Virtue by Tammie Pogue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Not Grade Specific
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Composition Writing Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students are introduced to composition writing and the different modes. However, the main focus is on identifying the parts of a composition, discussing the format and using sample compositions for scaffolding.
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Not Grade Specific
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Iambic Pentameter Practice FUN!
Your students will be asked to practice their iambic pentameter skills in a fun way!
This handout acts as if a record company, "Iambic Records," is hiring them to rewrite a popular song so that it can be enjoyed by a more educated audience. Students will supply their own song choice to rewrite in iambic pentameter and then scan the syllables.
They will love the example I have provided in which the Macklemore "Thrift Shop" song has been turned into iambic pentameter.
"These tags I’ll pop, and b
Grades:
9th - 12th
Advertising Unit: Creative Writing, Propaganda, Persuasion: FUN!
This fun project can be completed almost independently by your students, after a mini lesson one day each week. After the first lesson, explaining propaganda and advertising layout and components of an ad, students will analyze ads in small groups and then launch their own advertising campaign!
Here's what they will learn:
1. How to find and use creative writing (especially figurative language and persuasion) in advertisements.
2. How to create visually and verbally appealing advertisements an
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4th - 7th
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Coloring Pages Soup / Soups / Cooking / Stew / Chowder Soup Day Foods Art
Foster creativity with this awesome soup day coloring set. This set includes 29 images. Ideas to challenge the students:-Invent a story for your image, what is happening? What happened 2 days ago? What will happen tomorrow?-Color the image in only one color (focus on light and dark).-Color half and your friend colors half.-Color half angry and color half happy.-Describe the image in writing or orally.-Add a background These are intricate illustrations intended for large 8.5” x 11” format, no w
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2nd - 12th
Magic Tree House Revolutionary War on Wednesday Unit (Book # 22)
This download has everything you need to use The Magic Tree House Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osbourne as one of your book choices for a book group. This is a great book to use in your book groups, because it teaches students about the Revolutionary War. This unit plan includes before, during, and after reading activities. The before reading activities include using predicting strategies. The during reading activities include comprehension questions for each chapter, and a journa
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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