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High school creative writing simulations for Microsoft Word
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.
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
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
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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Grades:
6th - 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
Grades:
7th - 12th
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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.
Grades:
8th - 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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Grades:
9th - 12th
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"The Bet" Creative Writing Assignment
This is a fun way to introduce your students to the story, "The Bet." It takes an entire class period, but it allows the students to be creative and learn a little about the story before reading it. It has two requirements that must be meant in order for the students to pass the assignment. Interestingly, students comment the following day on how they recognized the importance and impact of those students striving to disrupt class. Thus far, my class environment has always improved after thi
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Narrative Guide includes requirements, rubric, and sample personal narrative
The included narrative writing guide, rubric, and sample personal narrative give students three firm guides on how to create a successful narrative that displays all the writing techniques expected, including clear characters, an immediate setting, sensory details, dynamic dialogue, a structured plot, specific word choices, strong verbs, clean punctuation and grammar, and an underlying theme that holds all these different elements together. At Writing Whiz, the goal is to create tools that help
Grades:
6th - 10th
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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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The Great Gatsby Google Tour
Engage students in the setting of The Great Gatsby through this Google Tour. This tour leads students through the real-life locations in which the novel's plot takes place. In connection with Michelle De Certeau's theories on place and space, students will explore the setting as an active character. This tour includes:1. De Certeau's theories on place and space2. Images and videos3. Specific locations4. Quotes from the text5. Interactive questions at each location6. Images and videos
Grades:
10th - 12th
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