Creative Writing Assignment - Geek Out Passion Project - Video Introduction

Creative Writing Assignment - Geek Out Passion Project - Video Introduction: Capture your students' passions and enhance their writing skills with this dynamic video writing assignment. In this task, students delve into topics they're passionate about and showcase their expertise by creating a listicle to share with the class. The highlight of this resource is the captivating hand-drawn video introduction by the talented John Spencer, designed to captivate students from the get-go. With comprehensive instructions, student handouts, pre-writing organizers, and editing checklists included, this assignment offers everything needed for seamless implementation without any prep work required.

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How This Geek Out Creative Writing Activity Works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the creative writing assignment to students to help them consider what they geek out on (lots of examples included). This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately.

• Use the eye-catching PowerPoint presentation to introduce the assignment in more detail to your class and guide you through each element of the creative writing lesson and assignment.

• Use the instructions, student handout, writing organizers, editing checklist, and assignment sheets to implement the project and set students up for success with their writing.

What's Included in This Geek Out Creative Writing Activity:

➡️ Introductory Video: Use this short video to introduce this engaging creative writing assignment. The video is hand-drawn and will hook your students in before you begin the lesson.

➡️ Geek Out Teacher Instructions: The teacher instructions will guide you through each element of the lesson and assignment so you feel totally confident implementing this in your classroom.

➡️ Geek Out Teacher Presentation: Use the included PowerPoint slides to guide the lesson and as prompts for what students should do and in what order.

➡️ Outlining Page: Use this double-sided outlining planning page to help students plan out their writing.

➡️ Editing and Improving Checklists: Students will use the included checklist to improve their writing before completing their good copy of the listicle.

➡️ Geek Out Final Good Copy Pages: Students will complete the final copy of their listicle on this eye-catching good copy template.

➡️ Teacher Rubric: Use the included rubric to grade student's work quickly and easily!

What Teachers Are Saying About This Geek Out Creative Writing Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a fantastic activity to ease students into informational writing. I turned it into a mini research project and we created infographics from our lists. It was great! Awesome job :)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I used this resource during the school closure because I wanted to allow the students to work on a passion project that they didn't have to necessarily do in front of a computer screen. This resource helped them to get the idea of the project and how to organize it. They could go back and rewatch the video or look at the directions again. Overall, my students loved having this freedom and seemed to like this resource. Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great Resource! My students look forward to this every year.

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