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10th grade creative writing simulations
The Mystery Case- Guide
Description: Step into the thrilling world of crime-solving with "Murder Mystery: The Case of Principal Tiger". This engaging and immersive classroom activity challenges students to become detectives as they unravel the mysterious murder of Tiger Pride High School's beloved Principal Tiger.In this comprehensive murder mystery game, students will work together to examine evidence, question suspects, and ultimately identify the culprit responsible for Principal Tiger's untimely demise. Set against
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5th - 12th
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War of 1812 Simulation
In this simulation, students will explore the causes, key events, and effects of the War of 1812. Students will play as a merchant in the early 1800s who experiences interference with their trade, prompting them to join the military. Through 7 rounds students will need to strategize, make choices, analyze primary sources, watch short videos, and hopefully experience some luck to make it through the war. The Google Slides provided will guide you and the students through each round which has a c
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6th - 12th
Weather and Climate Forecast Role-play Worksheet ESL
Hello teachers! This time I come with this new resource for your students to practice the weather vocabulary and also to make your students feel like they are on TV presenting the Weather. This is perfect to work on distance learning, just make sure you share the PDF or the screen with them and let the creativity flies. It was created with ESL students in mind, it can work for children, teenagers, and maybe adults.OBJECTIVE:Students will have a worksheet with 6 steps they need to follow in order
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Project British Culture and Politics
This workbook contains a project on British Culture and Politics. It encourages students to discover the system and challenges then to come up with their own party and to get as many votes as they can from their classmates, all based on their ideas and campaign.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Business Letter Writing Practice VALENTINE'S DAY
These Valentine's Day themed writing scenarios are not your typical romantic love letters. Students will enjoy writing their business letters based on fun, creative writing prompts and fun situations. There are two scenarios. Each scenario has a writing assignment for a good news letter, a bad news letter, a letter of introduction, and a persuasive letter. The teacher can specify the formatting, the prompts are provided. You might want to check out Business Letter Format BUNDLE. It includ
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Letter Writing Scenarios and Prompts for Business Communication
Write Your Own Scifi Adventure Game Creative Writing Game
A creative writing game designed to take students on a fun, imagination fueled sci-fi journey. Students will write their own sci-fi adventure in this fun creative writing game. They will become the authors of their own sci-fi adventures in this thrilling write- your-own-adventure. Students will work individually or in groups. Using dice, students will use the randomly chosen suggestions to create their own story. This Product Includes:74 Page PDFThree 9-Part Sci-fi StoriesGuided Creative Writing
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â High School English Bundle Grammar Writing Literature Holidays Myth Rhetoric
The Wave- Character Guide and RAFT Writing Exercise
This character guide is a comprehensive list of the major characters students will encounter in Todd Strasser's novel The Wave. The guide ends with a cubing activity that asks students to adopt the POV of an assigned character before answering three questions. Characters can be chosen after students roll a die.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â The Wave- Quizzes, Writing Exercises, & Simulation
Character Motive Lesson and Cards (Drama Club, Theater, or Creative Writing)
This activity helps students to understand what "motive" means in regards to characters. It's simple, discussion based, and very easy to use. This activity works great with both creative writing classes and drama clubs. After a short lesson, students will have the opportunity to review fictional situations and discuss character motives with each other via nine task cards. There are no right or wrong answers. Students are encouraged to think outside of the box and get creative as they come up wit
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4th - 12th
Greek Myth Writing Game Journey Through Ancient Greece
Part roleplaying game and part creative writing exercise, students work together to create a journal of their travels. This is a creative writing game that asks students to roleplay as time travelers documenting what they find. Working in teams, students will use cards and dice (online version provided) to guide them through their journey. Randomized suggestions help students to imagine the creatures and people they encounter. This Product Includes:17 Slide PPTIntroduction slidesDigital card/dic
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â High School English Bundle Grammar Writing Literature Holidays Myth Rhetoric
Creative Writing stimulates Art Imagination
Writing can inspire art and art can inspire writing. This is a sampling of creative ideas which can easily be expanded upon to encourage imaginative writing and art making. Through several writing samples and step by step drawings ala Damon Reinagle, author of DRAW ALIEN FANTASIES and DRAW MONSTERS, students can clearly see the connection between art and creative writing.
These ideas can be utilized to stimulate the creative juices of middle schoolers and high schoolers as well.
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5th - 11th
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Witches of Thornwood
Witches of Thornwood is an interactive, ELA-focused variation on the traditional social studies "React to the Past" project. Set in a fictional colonial town in a world where magic is real and dangerous, students will be assigned roles in the village and use many different English skills to persuade others on whether or not they should legalize witchcraft. The recommended time for this project is 2 weeks with 45-minute classes. The project is highly modifiable and works best with highly creative
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8th - 10th
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Netflix Presentation - Writing Activity
Writing Project!Now you can have your own Netflix Platform inside the classroom.You can personalize the profiles and pictures, the title of the serie and the description of the episodes. Students can write their own Netflix Serie or just create a timeline of what they did during the school year. If you want to see more about it, check my Instagram @myflashideas
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Sample or Teaching Model of a Personal Narrative or Personal Memoir
When teaching personal narrative or personal memoir, teachers often wish they had a sample narrative to use as a model. Many stories are too complex or do not fit the plot structure that we expect them to use. Here I created a personal narrative, true to my life, that models and helps students identify many writing techniques we expect students to use, like using transitional phrases, sensory details, dialogue, strong verbs, specific nouns, specific verbs, descriptive writing, and clear elements
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6th - 10th
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Beowulf Interpretation Project
This project takes Beowulf beyond the pages and illustrates to students how the aspects of this Epic Poem from 1,000 years ago still applies in our world today. This project allows students to tap into their creativity while demonstration understanding of various literary tools with more than a quantified multiple choice quiz.
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9th - 12th
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Fun activity to use with Margie Goldsmith's "Thrill of the Chase."
In this activity students create their own poem, using Forest Fenn's poem as a model, to provide clues to a hidden treasure. Students will then give the poem to a family member, friend, or peer to try and find their treasure.After the "hunt," students will reflect on the experience analyzing how easy or difficult their clues were and if the hunt was more satisfying than the find.This activity can be extended by having students discuss their word choices and revise for clarity or nuance. The ca
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9th - 10th
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Early American Literature Dinner Party
After studying various authors and works from American literature pre-1800, assess student understanding with this interactive project. Students must assemble a guest list of authors who bring some of their writing to share at the party. Students also set a play list for the party and write their own imitation poem to contribute to the entertainment. Full directions, rubric and resources included.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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World's Most Influential People Survivor Debate- history presentation
This is a great stand-alone project that involves research, oral presentation, important historical figures, and role-play. I use this in my comparative civilizations 12 class. Students love the creative take on researching important people in history and go all out with the costumes, and use of dialect and mannerisms while giving quality presentations. This can he used in any social studies or English classes. I have students peer mark and provide comments and I assess the presentations as well
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7th - 12th
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Writing Postcards Simulation Ancient Greece
In this simulation, students will have the opportunity to role-play as Ancient Greeks, writing postcards to friends and family back home describing the sights and experiences they are having in the city. The postcards come in four different sets, each with a different level of difficulty to accommodate students of different ages and abilities.This resource includes Postcards with the images of 7 famous Ancient Greek Buildings: Parthenon, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Erechtheion, Temple of Apollo, T
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6th - 10th
Also included in:Â Writing Postcards Simulation - Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece
Writing Revisions: Amazing Race
Revisions: Are you looking for a fun way for your students to revise their writing beyond the basics? This is a writing event your students will remember FOREVER! Students will race around to 7 different stations by using the location clues provided (route info). At the station students will complete a revision task (road block) and a team challenge (detour)! This activity was created based on the infamous TV series, The Amazing Race. Please note: set-up is required, BUT totally worth it!
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4th - 12th
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Modes of Persuasion & Advertisements!
Engage your students in these modes of persuasion lesson through a Google Expeditions virtual reality tour, real media campaigns, and a mini-project simulation. For their final product, students will be asked to create a written product description for one of the "struggling" products. This lesson will use/include: 1. Google Expeditions VR2. Thematic discussion questions3. Written ads, commercials, and podcast ads4. Quick check questions along the way5. A digital spinning wheel to allow the stud
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6th - 11th
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Rhetoric - SOAPS, RAFTS chart for writing
This chart can help students write in different modes as they consider the "SOAPS" elements of writing: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Subject.
Use this to guide students as far as "Role/Speaker" and "Format/Purpose" when coming up with writing prompts.
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8th - 12th
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Will You Write in My Yearbook?
During those last exciting days of the school year, a long-awaited tradition is the distribution of yearbooks --and the student celebration of collecting and giving messages. Often these messages are full of happy send-offs and good memories shared. But sometimes students feel overwhelmed with the demands to write something quickly, and by default, they may come up with remarks that are trite, illegible, and sometimes, even inappropriate.
This packet gives you a set of activities to help th
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9th - 12th
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1920's Radio Simulation
Have students create their own radio program for the roaring 20's. This is a great collaborative way to make the 20's come to life for students.
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9th - 12th
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Functional Skills - English - Footballers Wages Are Ridiculous!
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials or English sessions.These particular worksheets focus on the ongoing debate of Footballer wages and how much they earn compared with other occupations. Tasks include reading through an example of an online forum, leaving their own post, replying to other members co
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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