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Creative writing Common Core RL.9-10.4 interactive notebooks
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Dystopian Short Story
Looking for an engaging short story unit that will inspire your classes to make a difference in their worlds?In this classic of dystopian fiction, Ursula Le Guin describes a city where people celebrate happily without a care in the world—except for one child, kept in miserable conditions.“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a great choice for getting students to think about their own role in perpetuating injustice in the world. It’s also a wonderful text for teaching point of view, setting, a
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9th - 12th
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Diction and Word Choice Lesson - Geraldo No Last Name - Sandra Cisneros
This lesson on Diction and word choice can be used as a traditional worksheet, digital worksheet, or with Interactive Notebooks (ISN). I use it in my Short Stories unit with "Geraldo No Last Name" by Sandra Cisneros, but this resource is editable for any text. (optimized for grades 7-10)What You Get: 1. Introductory PPT (editable)2. Two lesson plan ideas: analytical or creative writing options3. Interactive Notebook layouts and foldables4. Traditional worksheet version (editable .doc)5. Digital
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin | Literary Analysis | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for a fun, rigorous unit on Kate Chopin’s classic story?With bellringer freewrite prompts, questions for close reading and discussion, and creative writing exercises, this mini unit will get your students discussing big ideas and engaging in a close reading of this classic story of a woman’s failed search for autonomy in 19th century America. The plans in this resource work for interactive notebooks as well as learning stations. If you have time to complete everything here, there is enou
Grades:
9th - 12th
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
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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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
Spoken Word Poetry | Slam Poetry | Emtithal Mahmoud | Writing Prompts & Analysis
Encourage your students to find their voices, tell their stories, and speak out about what matters to them. With creative writing prompts, poetry questions, and a final creative writing project, this unit has everything you need to get your students excited about poetry, discussing big questions, and experimenting with writing some poetry of their own.The unit focuses mainly on Emtithal Mahmoud, an award-winning poet, an activist, and a survivor of the genocide in Darfur. She is also the winner
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9th - 12th
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The Man to Send Rainclouds by Leslie Marmon Silko | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? These lessons on “The Man to Send Rainclouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and fully appreciate Silko’s wonderful writing.This seemingly simple story by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Indian, tells the story of the peaceful de
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Poetry Slam Analysis Worksheet / Interactive Notebook
My students are currently participating in Project-Based learning. You can find more information about Project-Based learning at www.bie.org. Essentially, it is a way to really engage students, and provide them with authentic learning experiences to allow them to hone 21st century skills.I developed this worksheet to go along with our Poetry Slam PBL Unit. In order to create their own slam poems, students need to watch a few (or a lot!) and analyze them to find out: What makes a poetry slam e
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7th - 12th
Romeo & Juliet Final Projects: Tests, Quote Analysis, Essay Prompts, Creative
Whether you want traditional text-based exam questions, prompts for argument essays, essay questions, or ideas for fun and creative projects, this resource has you covered.These innovative summative assessments will change the way you teach Shakespeare's classic play.When you assess your students on Romeo and Juliet with this resource you will:• give your students assessments that will deepen their learning and exploration of the play• equip your students to write longer and more independent ass
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9th - 12th
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Stephen King Elements of Horror: "The Man Who Loved Flowers" Short Story & Essay
Looking for a compelling unit on horror that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Students love the work of Stephen King and with good reason! His writing is accessible, compelling, and impactful. But reading well-written horror stories with your classes accomplishes way more than just grabbing their attention. What’s great about literary horror when it’s taught the right way is that it really give
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Speaking Out: Teen Depression & Mental Health | TED Talk, Spoken Word Poetry
Why are people not always honest about how they are doing? What are the mental health benefits of writing about personal struggles? How does art help people to heal from trauma? This compelling thematic unit on real-life issues of depression, mental health, and healing through artistic expression will get your students examining texts, participating in critical thinking activities, engaging in close readings of poetry, discussing ideas that matter, and writing with real purpose.The 11-16 day
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Margaret Atwood: Gertrude Talks Back | Hamlet | POV Creative Writing Act 3
A modern feminist revisioning of Queen Gertrude from Hamlet, this contemporary text by Margaret Atwood is a great choice for teaching point of view as well as for looking at Shakespeare’s classic play in a new light. “Gertrude Talks Back” presents a queen who is clever, sure of herself, and unafraid to say and do what she wants. It’s a very different version of the role than what most viewers have come to expect. However, when your students dig deeper into the character with the questions for c
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid Short Story Unit | World Literature | Analysis & Writing
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students thinking critically, analyzing literature, and writing creatively? This masterful text is widely-anthologized for a reason—in one incredible and entirely unique paragraph, Kincaid explores themes of gender dynamics, societal expectations, and the mixed messages that all children get about the best ways to be and act in the world. Yet figuring out how to get your students to truly appreciate and understand this classic is no
Grades:
9th - 12th
Romeo & Juliet Fun Activities: Pre-Reading to Final Project | Paired Texts
Tired of your students failing to make connections between Romeo and Juliet and their own lives? With everything from the cycle of violence to the culture of live fast, die young, 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 t
Grades:
9th - 12th
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Writing Prompts | Analytical & Creative Writing
Want to get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of Twelfth Night? Whether it’s because your students are not inspired to write, you don’t know how to “teach” writing, or you’re too overwhelmed to deal with all the grading, writing is something that you might end up dropping.And the less your students write, the more anxious and uncomfortable they’ll feel when they are tasked with writing an essay or even a short reaction.If you want to help y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Leslie Marmon Silko | Native American Poetry | Indigenous Literature
Looking for poem by a contemporary Native American writer that will both engage your most reluctant learners and challenge your more advanced classes? The lovely poem "When Mountain Lion Lay Down With Deer" by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Indian, tells the story of a speaker who travels through time as she journeys up a mountain. With themes of metamorphosis, the importance of storytelling, the past, the transformative power of nature, and connecti
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9th - 12th
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Big Hamlet Writing Prompts Bundle: Argument Essay, Bellringers, Lit. Analysis
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 Hamlet with these writing activities you will:• bring your students’ writi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Tell-Tale Heart Lesson Plan | Tell-Tale Heart Unit Plan, Questions & Answers
Looking for an innovative unit on “The Tell-Tale Heart” that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level?With this fun and rigorous unit, your classes will explore madness, creativity, repression, visual art, creative writing, and even how syntax and sentence structure contribute to style and meaning.Students will start off with quick clip from a classic movie, which will get them thinking about lies and tr
Grades:
9th - 12th
A Sound of Thunder, Bradbury, Short Story Unit: Lessons, Questions, & Answers
Looking for a quick and easy lesson plan that will also get your students sharpening their creative writing skills? This lesson on “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and flex their writing muscles. “A Sound of Thunder” is a widely-anthologized story that explores the classic concepts of time travel and the paradoxes that can result from making changes to the past. The story includes themes of humanity vs. nature, the consequences of our actio
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9th - 12th
Lesson Plan: There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury, Short Story Unit w/ Questions
Looking for a quick and easy lesson plan that will also get your students sharpening their creative writing skills?This lesson on “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and flex their writing muscles. “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a widely-anthologized story that explores the classic themes of Cold War-era terror of nuclear war, humanity vs. nature, the consequences of our actions and the inevitability of death.This fascinating mini unit
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9th - 12th
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"The Freedom Writer's Diary" Unit
This is a document with questions that align to sections of the novel. Use the questions for discussion, Socratic Seminar, Journal Entries, blogging assignments, creative writing, and so much more!
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9th - 11th
Poetry Projects Interactive Digital Notebook
Students will love the personal, unique poetry prompts as an exploration of self and their ever changing perspectives of the world. 10 unique prompts with rubrics, space for reflection and notes, and a glossary of poetic forms. 38 pages of hyperlinked tabs, sample poems, and links for more information.This is a pdf download, compatible with an editing program such as KAMI or Goodnotes. Instructions for using KAMI with Google Classroom are included in this document.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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