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Creative writing Common Core W.11-12.9 resources
Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle
This bundle includes a full semester curriculum map; six three-week, standards-based unit plans; and all instructional materials for supporting high school Creative Writing students as they generate original works of fiction. Not only does this bundle provide everything a teacher needs to carry out the curriculum to fidelity, but it substantially reduces prep work so teachers may invest more time developing positive relationships with students and offering personalized support as they work to a
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Modified and Modern Fairy Tales (Google Drive)
Help high school Creative Writing students better understand the conventions of the fairy tale genre and prepare for the drafting of modified fairy tales with this comprehensive, low-prep, standards-aligned unit plan. Supporting materials are included. This resource is made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, a printable option is available.) More specifically, the following are included:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Introduction - Poetry, Music and Visual Media Unit
This three-week unit is an excellent introduction to American Literature and meets the needs of visual, auditory, and linguistic learners. Students are introduced to American voices and ideals through poetry, music, and art. The unit sets high expectations for close reading and literary analysis while also encouraging creativity. Furthermore, the unit encourages critical thinking by requiring students to synthesize texts with universal themes and incorporates all English Language Arts Common Cor
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
World War I Poetry Bundle
You're all set to cover World War I poetry with this bundle! The resource includes intro slides, a packet of analysis questions with poem texts, and a final writing assignment. More details on the contents:Introductory Slides: These slides include a quick write to help students connect their prior knowledge to the topic, political context for why Britain got involved in World War I, a collection of British military recruitment posters with discussion prompts to help students understand the socia
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Thematic Unit: Immigration & The American Dream | Lit. & Synthesis Essay Writing
Want your students to feel more empathy for people whose lives are not like their own? Even though they might know that opening the “golden door” for those “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is a foundational value of this country, many students don’t have first-hand experience with immigration. Seeing the stories in the news or knowing some facts and figures won’t help them relate to the human beings who are working so hard to make it here and won’t challenge them to care about what hap
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9th - 12th
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Writing a Review of a Movie, Television Show, or Book for High School (Google)
When listening to the radio or surfing the web, we often come across critiques of movies, television shows, music, and books. Those who critique media take time to thoughtfully consider relevant details before determining entertainment value. This way, the general public benefits from the reviewer’s reasoned, informed judgments; the public uses these judgments to determine whether the movie, tv show, song, or book is worth experiencing.Project Overview:Students choose one of the following to r
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9th - 12th
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Horror Creative Writing Unit
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.In this 2-3 week unit, students will be challenged with developing their own horror villains, spooky settings, side characters, and stories. You will find that this unit has been broken down into lessons asking students to participate in several fun, rigorous, and engaging activities, such as:Creating their very own horror villainCreating a horrific setting for their storyCreating a short story that follows Freytag's Pyra
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Fantasy and Horror Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
Grades:
9th - 12th
Creative Writing Activities - Engaging & Common Core Aligned for Grades 6-12
Creative Writing Activities - Engaging & Common Core Aligned for Grades 6-12
This set of six creative writing activities is perfect for any creative writing course or unit for students in grades 6 - 12. Engage your students in writing exercises such as rewriting stories from alternate perspectives, personifying objects, scripting a talk show interview with a celebrity, creating a scary story mini-book, composing color poems, and developing characters.
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*a writing inventory to star
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6th - 12th
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Shakespeare Parody Project (Editable)
This editable parody project assignment can be used with ANY Shakespeare play. It's such a fun way to assess students while they gain essential communication and technical skills. This is usually a two or three week project which results in students writing a parody script for a scene from the play, creating an original video/movie of the parody, and presenting it to their class. All of the handouts are editable so you can customize them to suit your needs.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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In Cold Blood Resource Bundle - UPDATED
I collected all my best-selling resources on In Cold Blood here - one stop shopping! The bundle includes: the study guide, the close reading assignment, the comparative analysis essay, the creative writing/defense of Dick and Perry assignment, the Capote synthesis assessment plus I have thrown in my In Cold Blood and Capote Viewing Guide as well as my Visual Argument Project as a bonus. I have added a literary theory element for each part of the book where students pick if they want to analyz
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9th - 12th
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Divergent Poetry: Creative Writing & Close Reading Activities
Divergent Poetry: Creative Writing and Close Reading Activities - Common Core State Standards Aligned
Incorporate poetry into your novel unit! I've included 35 pages of engaging activities that will inspire and spark creative thought and critical thinking. Students will not only write poetry, they will practice close reading, annotating, research, vocabulary, and more.
Exercises include:
Writing poems: haiku, acrostic, free verse, found, black-out (redacted), I Am, Character Bio, diamante, fiv
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Divergent Novel Unit Bundle Common Core Aligned {Editable}
MyPerspectives Unit 2: The Individual and Society
This resource is a concise and engaging unit plan on American Literature with the theme of the individual and society. Students explore the question: what role does individualism play in American society? Through various texts, activities, vocabulary, assessments, and tasks, students engage with American Literature in an innovative and informative way. Texts in this unit include but are not limited to: The poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot, excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau,
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Introduction and Conclusion Paragraphs: Class Notes and Graphic Organizers
Crafting good essays show your command of language, demonstrate a higher level of thinking to your readers, and demonstrate your ability to converse with the text!This eight page document includes all graphic organizers and contextual notes to use as handouts or class lecture notes. Topics covered include:- Notes to begin writing and effective introduction and an effective conclusion;- Notes of what NOT to do in introduction and conclusion paragraphs;- Ready to print graphic organizers to start
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7th - 12th
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Fun Independent Poetry Projects: End of the Year English Activities High School
Want your students to have fun and work independently at the end of the year without sacrificing rigor?After a full year of analyzing literature from different times, it’s great to wrap it all up with a unit on poets who are writing about the world we live in today. Students often believe that literature is something that exists for another time and another place, but with these pieces, they’ll learn how relevant poetry is to their own lives. All of these poems are by respected, well-known poets
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9th - 12th
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27 Journal Prompts for Choice Reading or Independent Reading (Print and Digital)
Independent reading or choice reading programs are a great way to engage students in reading and literature. There are thousands of ways to incorporate choice reading, including literature circles and book clubs, silent sustained reading time or DEAR time. Regardless of how you incorporate independent reading in your classroom, writing about reading is a good way to check for comprehension, encourage analytical thinking, prepare for discussion, focus on skills, and build the habit of writing.Wit
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8th - 12th
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Hamlet Activities for Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 | Revenge, Lies, & Depression
Worried that your students will fail to make connections between Hamlet and issues that matter to their own lives? Shakespeare’s classic play has so much to offer a contemporary audience, but it isn’t always easy for students to make those connections. If your students don’t understand how his work relates to problems and questions that matter to them, they won’t be excited to study the play. Even worse, when students are forced to read a book that they see as a dead text, they’ll be bored and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Gothic Literature
Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint is a perfect way to introduce the gothic genre, Frankenstein, Dracula, or the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Presentation includes gothic influences in art and a formative assessment where students try their own hand at writing in the gothic genre. Students love to hear the spooky music as an inspiration to their portentously gloomy stories. Perfect for Halloween writing - or any other time. Need gothic poetry products? Check out my Gothic Poem Analysis B
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Halloween Literature PowerPoint Bundle
The Things They Carried - Empathy Building Unit
The series of activities in this unit are designed to enhance empathy for your students to situations, people, cultures, and places they may have never experienced before. Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, is an excellent literary resource, in particular with setting, narrator, and characterization, imagery, syntax, and more, as well as developing deeper understandings of the themes of war, post-traumatic stress disorder, battlefield violence, social and political inequities, and men
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10th - 12th
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Story Elements Unit: Plot Diagram, Character Analysis, Types of Conflict, Theme
Elements of Story unit includes 6 power points covering Setting, Plot Diagrams, Character analysis, Types of Conflict, and Theme, as well as lessons on understanding complex character motivations and subtext. Assignments on creative narrative writing, assessments with answer keys and rubrics, and fun Memes of the Day related to the learning content.* Elements of Story lesson: Plot, Setting, Theme, Characters* Freytag's Pyramid assignment* Synopsis and Paraphrasing plot practice assignment* 6 typ
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9th - 12th
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Spooky Story Writing for Middle School: 6 Week Creative Writing Unit
This creative writing unit on How to Write Spooky Stories is designed to provide a flexible framework with a wide variety of individual, group and full-class lessons. The unit can be taught in four to six weeks depending upon the amount of class time available. This unit includes 115 pages of materials, including five full short stories that correspond with particular lessons.The unit is broken down as follows:IdeasWhere do we get good ideas for stories? Because students often struggle with idea
Grades:
5th - 12th
Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare | Romeo & Juliet Activities | Writing Prompts
Want to get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of the play?The prompts, guides, handouts, rubrics, and suggestions here are all proven to work based on sixteen years of teaching writing to all levels of high school. It’s not easy to take students through a writing assignment or to get them to improve their skills, but with the right tools, it can be done. When you teach Romeo and Juliet with these writing activities you will:• bring your stud
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9th - 12th
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