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Creative writing Common Core RL.11-12.3 resources
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe, Interactive Poetry Activity, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Make Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem, “The Raven,” come alive for your students with this 44-slide lecture and five pages of lesson materials that include detailed directions, a full-text version of Poe's gothic poem, links to a high-quality audio version, "Faux Poe" creative writing assignment, and answer key. The interactive lecture (Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions included) inspires students to dig back into the text, think critically, and decode Poe’s structure and technique.These mate
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8th - 11th
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Creative Writing: Complete 9-Week Class & Curriculum for High School
Take the stress out of planning a high school Creative Writing class with this complete, 9-week elective course curriculum bundle! This Complete Creative Writing Class Bundle includes everything you need to teach creative writing skills, poetry analysis, and engage students in a variety of writing at the high school level!In this engaging 9-week elective creative writing class, students will learn and apply literary terms, analyze mentor texts, and write their own original poems and stories. Thi
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Bundle Writing, Reading, & Understanding Poetry
Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Volume 1
This (and ALL of my poetry resources) IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2 is also available; it includes my newer resources that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching poetic devices and figurative language, reading/interpreting poetry, and writing original po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans
All of the sixteen stories for these lesson plans can be downloaded from our website for free in a reader-friendly PDF that we've created.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off. Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellThe Monkey's Paw by WW JacobsThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Hitch-Hiker by Lucille FletcherThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonLamb to the Slaughter by Roal
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.This is the complete complete collection: the seven units comprised the entirety of my fifteen hour writing camp. This is a $25.50 dollar value.
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6th - 12th
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" Activity Pack
Spend a few days with what’s been called Poe’s “perfect” short story: “The Cask of Amontillado” from my American Romantic and Transcendental Writers Unit and my American Literature Bundle (please do not purchase both). Students develop their vocabulary and their literary analysis skills before spending some time analyzing Poe’s use of setting and irony. Students wrap up Poe’s story with a flash fiction gothic horror story assignment and/or a test. All teacher notes and keys included. CCSS aligne
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Gothic Fiction and Horror (Google Drive)
Save time without sacrificing rigor in the high school Creative Writing classroom with this low-prep, Common Core-aligned unit plan and these all-inclusive resources for engaging students fully in the narrative writing process. Materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, printable versions are available.) Included are the following:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring understanding(s), learning target(s), academi
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Modified and Modern Fairy Tales (Google Drive)
Help high school Creative Writing students better understand the conventions of the fairy tale genre and prepare for the drafting of modified fairy tales with this comprehensive, low-prep, standards-aligned unit plan. Supporting materials are included. This resource is made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, a printable option is available.) More specifically, the following are included:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring
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9th - 12th
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Student ♥ Engagement Bundle of Language Arts Lessons for Middle and High School
Rigorous, standards-based lessons your students will love! ❤ ❤️ Preview this Student Engagement Bundle for junior high and secondary English Language Arts.
So, one day I was thinking about my shop from my customers' perspective. It occurred to me that a buyer might want to know which products were some of STUDENTS' favorites. Frankly, one of my biggest goals in lesson planning is to incorporate student interest and enjoyment, so my lessons as a whole always have that in mind. But - if my s
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7th - 10th
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Best Short Stories for High School: 189 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lessons
Included are full sets of lesson plans for 16 fantastic stories for high school. Each story includes six different lesson plans.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off.Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Murder by John SteinbeckGuests of the Nation by Frank O’ConnorThe Little Room by Madeline Yale WynneAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceA Good Man is H
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8th - 12th
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Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle
The Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle has everything you need to help your students dive deep into Gothic short stories! This bundle is meant to be paired with any Gothic short story you choose! In this bundle you will find...1 Fear Survey: (4 pages) Students will take an extensive survey to figure out which innate fear is the strongest in them! Once students have completed the fear survey, they will read about their fear and then answer reflective questions. This survey is a great tool to he
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9th - 12th
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Best Christmas Stories for Middle & High School: 70 Pages of Lesson Plans
In conjunction with our free PDF of the Best Christmas Stories for Middle & High School (found on our website), we have created a complete set of lesson plans for all six stories.Lesson plans are for the following stories:A Christmas Memory by Truman CapoteA Klondike Christmas by Jack LondonThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgThe Gift of the Magi by O HenryThe Kit-Bag by Algernon BlackwoodThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara RobinsonStories are not included in lesson plans but can b
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6th - 12th
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“Earth on Turtle’s Back” & “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” Creation Origin Myths
It’s back to school, and you’ve decided to begin the year with Native American Literature because they offer great opportunities to enhance your classroom management strategies and they add cultural diversity to your curriculum. But you don’t have good resources, and you don’t have time to make them. Worse, you know you need a major grade within a month, but you don’t have time to make an assessment. Worst of all, you know you could enhance your classroom management simply by offering a project
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle
This bundle includes a full semester curriculum map; six three-week, standards-based unit plans; and all instructional materials for supporting high school Creative Writing students as they generate original works of fiction. Not only does this bundle provide everything a teacher needs to carry out the curriculum to fidelity, but it substantially reduces prep work so teachers may invest more time developing positive relationships with students and offering personalized support as they work to ac
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9th - 12th
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Dystopian Short Story
Looking for an engaging short story unit that will inspire your classes to make a difference in their worlds?In this classic of dystopian fiction, Ursula Le Guin describes a city where people celebrate happily without a care in the world—except for one child, kept in miserable conditions.“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a great choice for getting students to think about their own role in perpetuating injustice in the world. It’s also a wonderful text for teaching point of view, setting, a
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Fantasy Fiction and Tall Tales (Google Drive)
Save time without sacrificing rigor in the high school Creative Writing classroom with this Common Core-aligned unit plan and these comprehensive, low-prep materials for engaging students fully in the narrative writing process. Materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, printable versions are available.) Included are the following:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring understanding(s), learning target(s), academi
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9th - 12th
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Engaging Lesson Teaching Theme: Digital Art Gallery & Urban Legend Activity
Engage your students from behind a screen with this Google Slides product in which students will move through a virtual art gallery to learn about theme!Through 4 interactive exhibits with "clickable" buttons, students will:Learn what theme isLearn what the purpose isAnalyze a Pixar Short for themeAnalyze a written example in this engaging, student-centered experience. At each exhibit, there is a checkpoint question for students to answer on their student response slide that they can turn in to
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Engaging Short Story Unit GROWING Bundle - Distance Learning
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin | Literary Analysis | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for a fun, rigorous unit on Kate Chopin’s classic story?With bellringer freewrite prompts, questions for close reading and discussion, and creative writing exercises, this mini unit will get your students discussing big ideas and engaging in a close reading of this classic story of a woman’s failed search for autonomy in 19th century America. The plans in this resource work for interactive notebooks as well as learning stations. If you have time to complete everything here, there is enou
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9th - 12th
High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
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9th - 12th
American Literature Gothic BUNDLE - 2 Weeks Edgar Allan Poe Halloween Ideas
Over 2 weeks, engage your students in a study of Gothic literature using some of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works! What's Included in this Gothic Literature Unit:Unit-at-a-glance suggested calendarDetailed lesson plansBinder cover for material organizationFull text for "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Masque of the Red Death"Presentation introducing Gothic literature and Edgar Allan Poe and a poster assignment to make modern connections to scary moviesOther presentations about unreliable
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8th - 11th
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In Cold Blood Resource Bundle - UPDATED
I collected all my best-selling resources on In Cold Blood here - one stop shopping! The bundle includes: the study guide, the close reading assignment, the comparative analysis essay, the creative writing/defense of Dick and Perry assignment, the Capote synthesis assessment plus I have thrown in my In Cold Blood and Capote Viewing Guide as well as my Visual Argument Project as a bonus. I have added a literary theory element for each part of the book where students pick if they want to analyz
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9th - 12th
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Character Development Graphic Organizer and Writing Activity Digital | Print
Looking to introduce characterization, character traits, and character development with a fun and engaging activity? Use this creative and collaborative writing activity to introduce students to the techniques authors use to develop their characters!What's the Activity? Students start the activity with a fun and collaborative writing activity in which they develop a character and write a postcard from that character's perspective. In the postcard, students use direct and indirect characterizatio
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6th - 12th
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*A Halloween Lesson for High School**Poe's Gothic Writing in "The Raven"**
Welcome to Mud and Ink! This is a place for high school English teachers looking for powerful lessons on reading and writing. If you're looking for a rigorous, yet Halloween-themed lesson for the upcoming holiday, check out this lesson on "The Raven"!
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most world-renown story tellers and poets in the genre of Gothic fiction and poetry. This lesson takes students through a variety of tasks and addresses several of the Common Core State Standards.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Fall Lessons and Activities for Secondary ELA
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