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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa creative writing resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
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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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD (30 NATIONS, 80 PP, WORD SEARCHES, BARGAIN!)
This has reading sections about Christmas for each of 30 nations, plus basic statistics for each nation’s capital and largest city, language(s), currency, and approximate population. The nations are the following:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Germany, Guatemala, Holland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukr
Grades:
3rd - 9th
The Santa Substitute - A Christmas Play
The Santa Substitute is a comedy play written for 4th - 8th grade level students. The plot focuses on a story of Santa Claus, who is unable to deliver the Christmas presents after he breaks his leg. The elves come together to find a “Santa Claus Substitute”! The skit is simple, funny, and loved by students, teachers, parents, and any audience!
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5th - 8th
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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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Christmas Fun - Activity Sheets Grades 6+
Looking for something for your students to do after semester tests or right before Christmas vacation? This is a set of 10 holiday fun sheets/activity sheets designed for upper-level grades (6+). The set includes:
2 Word Searches
2 Color Pages for teens
Christmas Word Scramble
Writing Acrostic Christmas Poem
Easy Sudoku
Winter-Themed Writing Paper
Mini- Holiday Cards
Mini Envelope (Foldable)
Christmas Crossword Puzzle
Christmas Fun/Activity Sheets Grades 6+ by Suzie's Angle is licensed under
Grades:
6th - 10th
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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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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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Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Multi-Step Equations Storybook Project
This is a project that I look forward to every year. It's not often students get the opportunity to channel their creativity in math, so I try to fit in any opportunity that I can.
The Storybook Project requires students to think outside of the box, and metaphorically solve a multi-step equation. Students are challenged to personify the distributive property, combining like terms, as well as inverse operations and create a story that incorporates these mathematical procedures into its plot.
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6th - 9th
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Victorian 'Pen Licence'
Use this as an incentive for students to complete work in neat cursive. This template can be edited with students name, photo & and school. Modeled off the Australian Victorian licence. Enjoy watching your students work hard to keep their work neat!
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3rd - 6th
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Memoir: Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students understand what a memoir is and generate ideas for writing their own memoir with the Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!. Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes a note to the teacher as well as the following documents: Essential Questions, What is a Memoir Guided Notes, Quick Writes Journal Prompts, Elements of a Memoir/Personal Narrative, Discussion Questions Relating to the Memoir, Events and Emotions Brain
Grades:
6th - 12th
'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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"Nobody Knows My Name" Religious Christmas Program/ Children's Play
Loosely based on characters from "A Christmas Carol," this play, "What's in a Name?" uses an Angel of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, to show how the man labeled 'innkeeper' in books and plays all over the world may feel if he were to find out his name wasn't included over the centuries of retelling Christ's birth story.
Does it matter if nobody knows your name?
This play has 23 speaking parts, but can be easily edited for more/less. There were four songs (available on iTunes) that I us
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4th - 12th
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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
The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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6th - 12th
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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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My Life Story: 25 Chapter Outline for Writing an Autobiography
This autobiography project includes 25 different chapter ideas that will help students write their life story so far! You can easily modify this project for different grade levels by deciding (or allowing students to decide for themselves) which chapters to write about. Even reluctant writers enjoy doing this project and parents absolutely LOVE having this for a keepsake!
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Christmas Opinion Writing with passages to support evidence
This Christimas Prompt is an opinion writing activtiy. It includes a prompt that gives students a choice between two holiday vacations. It also includes passages that describe each vacation. These passages will be used to support the writers opinion in their writing.
I use the OREO method to teach opinion/persuasive writing. I've included an OREO graphic organizer with instructions.
Common Core aligned
Grades:
4th - 6th
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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
A Christmas Carol:a modern play for reader's theater or royalty-free performance
As a companion text for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Three Ghosts and a Jock is the full package including a script for 23 actors which can be performed royalty-free or used in the classroom as a reader's theater production. This modern version is set in a school and follows basketball star, Ethan Scott, "rich" in talent, but poor in matters of the heart as three teachers of school days past, present and future visit him to change his erroneous ways. Crafted from the original, this str
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6th - 9th
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