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Free high school short stories projects
"The Tell Tale Heart" Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
There is a ton of figurative language in "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe! This allows you to have students match the figurative language terms, identify examples, and then choose one example and make it come to life!Note: You need to make a copy of the file that is located in the eye. I cannot share it with your students.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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"The Most Dangerous Game" Characterization Activity
"The Most Dangerous Game" Body Biography is an activity to help students with characterization. In my class, we always begin the year with this story to review basic literary terms. I always want to have a lesson the first week of school that is engaging, yet high-level. This activity is aligned with both TEKS and Common Core Standards. A grading rubric is also attached. I would recommend having students work in pairs or groups of three, however, this works well individually as well. This lesson
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9th - 12th
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Film Review template
An entertaining and useful template for the lessons devoted to those who likes to pass the evening watching a good movie, as well as a great reason to brush up various genres, talk about them and develop speking skills.How it works.Students write short reviews of their favorite or any recently viewed films (come up with intriguing annotations, draw posters and share opinions about the most successful and not so good moments of films), and then in pairs or groups, exchange their works and discuss
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Short Story Creative Project and Rubric
This creative project assignment was designed for a ninth grade English class, but could be adapted to a middle school ELA class as well. Students are required to choose an object of significance from a short story read and discussed in class (a list is provided on the assignment sheet, but can be edited). They must use basic materials at home to recreate the object, using textual evidence as a guide. Two different rubrics are included for grading flexibility.
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7th - 10th
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Yellow Wallpaper Full Unit
[UPDATE -- Links have been updated and expanded. Quiz key coming shortly.] This short unit on "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman includes the full text of the story, an active reading guide, a comprehension quiz, prompts for teaching about symbolism, and a great group research project with full instructions.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
This is a 3-5 day, 2 page culminating project for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is aligned to 8th grade standards, but is appropriate for grades 7-10. This project focuses on making evidence-based inferences and argumentative writing. Students are asked to determine if they find the defendant (the narrator) guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. First the collect evidence for both sides. Then, they choose their side and develop their argument. Finally, they conduct their tria
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7th - 11th
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Fairytale
Hansel and Gretel
retold and illustrated with photographs taken in the Hesse region of Germany, where the Grimm Brothers found the original folktale in the early 19th Century,
This is a 24 page full color picture book presented in 14 spreads. It contains original text at a minimum 5th grade reading level and original photographs taken in the area of Germany from which the tale was collected.
It could be used in a literature class, a creative writing class, a German or world culture culture. St
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" Court Case Project
In this complete project lesson plan, students support arguments for the outcome of a court case involving Mrs. Mary Maloney, main character of Roald Dahl's short story"Lamb to the Slaughter". This resource includes specific directions, graphic organizers, writing guides and sample starter sentences as well as useful transition words.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Create Your Own Fable
This resource is used when teaching fables. After reviewing a few of Aesop's fables, students access Bloom's highest level, create, when they apply their knowledge of fables in order to write their own in this activity. It includes directions, a list of what to include, an example, and a rubric for students to use when constructing theirs. My students came up with some very creative fables when we did this! They had me cracking up! The fables are fun to read and share aloud to the rest of the cl
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3rd - 12th
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Creative Characterization in Writing
This writing project requires students to use methods of characterization to create their own characters and write about them in a fun, unique and interactive way. The document includes two specifically explained, ready-to-use activities that will walk students through the process of imagining a character and writing a short story about him/her/it. Includes possible scoring rubric that is adaptable to your needs.
Rebecca Malone
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7th - 12th
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Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" - A Lesson in Diction
This activity accompanies Ray Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian" and could be used in any ELA class, grades 6-12. Students analyze Bradbury's diction in reference to setting and character. This activity forces students to slow down their reading and focus on a writer's specific word choices and their impact on the work itself. This could be used as a formative assessment and does align with the Common Core State Standards: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of
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7th - 11th
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Book Project- Make your own book jacket!
This resource can be used for any secondary grade. It shows mastery of skills that have to do with summarization, understanding the elements of plot, theme, and symbolism. I use this resource during an entire unit as students silent reading book projects, but this can also be used for a class novel or short story.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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The Masque of the Red Death by Poe: Symbolism Song Lyric Project
This song lyric activity is perfect to connect the themes of the seven rooms in The Masque of the Red Death to songs of today. Finding evidence and critical thinking are important components to any lesson, and this lesson provides varying level of learners with this opportunity while also allowing for individual preference and real-world connections. Please enjoy this free resource and stop back as new material will be loaded soon!
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9th - 12th
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Short Story Bingo (Choice board)
A perfect way to begin your school year. Review the basics in 7th or 8th grade with a choice board using Short Stories. Students choose four stories from an approved list (you can change the stories to fit your school's recommended curriculum) and complete one activity for each story. Bingo columns include Comprehension, Compare and Contrast, Summary, and Discussion. This bingo board gives students voice and choice in 1) what they read and 2) how they show you they are proficient in each categor
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6th - 9th
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Creative Writing Exercise: Creating Inciting Incidents In A Story
This is a writing exercise for students to work on creating inciting incidents in their short stories.All good stories need to have an inciting incident at the start. This exercise gives students information on what an inciting incident is, what it should do, and example of what one could look like, before asking them to create an inciting incident of their own.The exercise can easily be completed in one class period, usually with time left over for a few students to share their work with the cl
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Digital Storytelling with Storybird
Storybird is a free Web 2.0 application that allows students to unleash their creativity with digital storytelling. Storybird contains beautiful artwork for students to use and the youngest students could easily manuever through Storybird's pages and create wonderful stories. It is easy for teachers to register and create classes with assignments. Teachers have the capability of emailing the story links to parents. There is also a discussion thread.Teachers do have some prep work in adding stude
Grades:
PreK - 12th
2 Lesson Plans: Incorporate AI into the Classroom all ages
This resource includes one lesson for high school-aged students and one for elementary-aged students. Find the appendix at the end of the document for sample resources to use in the lesson. Learn how to use AI tools in the classroom.
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4th - 12th
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The Most Dangerous Game Final Project
This is a list of five options for a project to complete after reading "The Most Dangerous Game". The options are creative, but rigorous at the same time. Students can choose one OR all of the options! Designed for a 9th grade co-taught class, but can be used for any level learner.
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8th - 12th
One Pager Project - Universal
Students can use this activity to analyze almost any story/novel while also having some fun. They can create their one-pager on any size of physical paper or electronically. This can be a project that lasts 3 days to 1 week depending on how much detail you want your students to go into. A great activity to do at the end of a story/novel or during a time that you need students to be able to work independently. Rubric and student outline included!
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7th - 12th
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Body Biography - Character Analysis
This "Body Biography" activity is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply their character analysis skills. It works with any text you may be teaching, and is particularly effective when used in a novel study or short story unit. Here, students will work in small groups and be assigned a character. They will trace and cut large silhouettes of their assigned character on Bristol-board and move through a series of questions that encourage students to garner deep insights about the
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7th - 10th
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Creative Writing Dinner Party
This is a an activity for a creative writing class. I gave my students this activity after having them brainstorm a list of 15 people alive or dead that they would like to meet.
The font can be found on dafont.com
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7th - 12th
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English First Peoples 12 Oral Story Research Project
This mini-research project involves students listening to a First People's oral story, analyze its aspects, conduct research using suggested sources to better understand the story’s context and meaning (including the role and importance of land in First People's stories), and assess sources for their authenticity, relevance, accuracy, and reliability. Includes a English First Peoples 12 proficiency-scale rubric assessing the following curricular competencies: Analyze how First Peoples languages
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12th
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MineCraft in the Language Arts classroom: writing a narrative essay
This lesson focuses on creating rich imagery in a narrative story using the highly engaging MineCraft game.
Is MineCraft not available in your school? Replace MineCraft with any 3D model. This could be another computer program or even an "old school" diorama.
This packet includes:
- Lesson plan overview and student directions
- Scoring Rubric
- Essay sample
- Screen shots and video link for sample MineCraft world
Is MineCraft not available in your school? Replace MineCraft with any 3D mo
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Playwriting, Model/Sample Play, Unreliable Characters
Writing Whiz has created a lesson plan for anyone interested in helping students gain a greater appreciation of unreliable narrators and dramatic irony -- tied into the reading of "The Tell-Tale Heart." Included are internet links for teachers to find printable copies of the original story and a play or theatrical version of "The Tell-Tale Heart." Jumping off the idea of an unreliable narrator like the madman in "The Tell-Tale Heart," I have created a lesson where students will pair with others
Grades:
6th - 9th
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