Creative Writing High School Curriculum with Distance Learning Solution

Resource Details:

Color-coded 90-day fall semester calendar reveals detailed daily lesson plans which include daily objectives aligned to CCSS along with agendas for 50-60 min. classes.  Blank spring calendar included, so you can easily copy and paste the days into the next semester.  Within each agenda handouts, prezis, slideshows, videos, etc. are linked to provide you with everything you need to teach the entire course, but you can also review the days  and organize them to accommodate your own schedule and preferences.  Built-in days for flexibility and ideas for interventions and extensions provided.   After the first couple of weeks, the days of the week are divided into units as shown in the thumbnails.  Even though the days may have a different literature focus, they often build on one another. Mondays are poetry exploration, Tuesdays are short literature, Wednesdays are draft development, Thursdays are anthology workshop, and Fridays are independent reading based around reading through a lens.  Students value this set up as it allows them to know what to expect every day of the week and provides a variety for students who prefer one type of literature over another.  Includes creator’s personal email address for questions and what to do if distance learning occurs (curriculum available without distance learning).

Authors Covered:

• Poetry-Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Charles Bukowski, Marianne Moore, Pablo Neruda, Stephen Dobyns, Basho, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, and Nikki Giovanni
• Short Literature-William Faulkner, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jane Goodall, Julia Alvarez, Kate Chopin, and Toni Morrison
• Children's Books-Shel Silverstein, Victoria Turnbull, Jonah Winter, and Kwame Alexander

LitwithLeo Items Included:

• Distance Learning: Story Choice Board
• Distance Learning: Poetry Choice Board
• Naturalism vs. Realism with Plath and Chopin
• "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison: Themes of Privilege, Bias, and Racism
• Travel Stories
• Southern Gothic & A Rose for Emily
• Critical Theory: Independent Reading through a Lens
• Conventions BINGO
• Short Story Rubric
• Tongue Twister
• Color Poem
• Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
• Nature Personification and Tone
• Favorite Place Poem
• Poem Rubric
• Editable Class Procedures
• Reading Bookmarks

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