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Creative writing Common Core W.11-12.8 resources
Write Your Own Film Review - Fun Persuasive Writing Assignment, CCSS
This is a fun persuasive writing assignment in which students write a movie review. Students will: Use rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), cite sources, analyze plot elements, and support their argument with evidence. You can have students analyze their own movie or you can assign a movie that you watch as a class. Product includes: OverviewLesson PlanRhetorical Devices Graphic OrganizerPlot Analysis Graphic OrganizerCriteria handoutWriting sheetsNote: You can also get this item in our Cr
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Bundle - 8 Fun & Engaging Resources to Practice Writing
Science Fiction and Fantasy Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.This bundle includes both my science fiction and fantasy creative writing units. Over a months worth of work for a discounted price!Your students will love the assignments given to them.With the fantasy unit, students will develop their own world, mythology, and characters before writing a short story akin to Lord of the Rings.With the Science Fiction unit, students will create a space hero fit for his or her own movie. T
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Thematic Unit: Immigration & The American Dream | Lit. & Synthesis Essay Writing
Want your students to feel more empathy for people whose lives are not like their own? Even though they might know that opening the “golden door” for those “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is a foundational value of this country, many students don’t have first-hand experience with immigration. Seeing the stories in the news or knowing some facts and figures won’t help them relate to the human beings who are working so hard to make it here and won’t challenge them to care about what hap
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9th - 12th
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Horror Creative Writing Unit
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.In this 2-3 week unit, students will be challenged with developing their own horror villains, spooky settings, side characters, and stories. You will find that this unit has been broken down into lessons asking students to participate in several fun, rigorous, and engaging activities, such as:Creating their very own horror villainCreating a horrific setting for their storyCreating a short story that follows Freytag's Pyra
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Fantasy and Horror Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
Creative Writing Activities - Engaging & Common Core Aligned for Grades 6-12
Creative Writing Activities - Engaging & Common Core Aligned for Grades 6-12
This set of six creative writing activities is perfect for any creative writing course or unit for students in grades 6 - 12. Engage your students in writing exercises such as rewriting stories from alternate perspectives, personifying objects, scripting a talk show interview with a celebrity, creating a scary story mini-book, composing color poems, and developing characters.
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*a writing inventory to star
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6th - 12th
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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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MyPerspectives Unit 2: The Individual and Society
This resource is a concise and engaging unit plan on American Literature with the theme of the individual and society. Students explore the question: what role does individualism play in American society? Through various texts, activities, vocabulary, assessments, and tasks, students engage with American Literature in an innovative and informative way. Texts in this unit include but are not limited to: The poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot, excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau,
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Complete Creative Writing Bundle
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.This bundle includes all three of my creative writing units. Over 2 months worth of work for a discounted price!Your students will love the assignments given to them. With the fantasy unit, students will develop their own world, mythology, and characters before writing a short story akin to Lord of the Rings.With the Science Fiction unit, students will create a space hero fit for his or her own movie. They will also devel
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Things They Carried - Empathy Building Unit
The series of activities in this unit are designed to enhance empathy for your students to situations, people, cultures, and places they may have never experienced before. Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, is an excellent literary resource, in particular with setting, narrator, and characterization, imagery, syntax, and more, as well as developing deeper understandings of the themes of war, post-traumatic stress disorder, battlefield violence, social and political inequities, and men
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10th - 12th
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Poetry Research Project Contemporary Poet Study
Looking for a poetry project that includes both research and creativity? That allows you to differentiate by giving students choices? That cuts down on the possibility of cheating? That makes assessment faster and more fun for you? That diversifies and modernizes your curriculum? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this poet study project is for you! This resource provides students with a list of 40 contemporary, diverse poets to choose from. Students will study the poet’s life and wo
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9th - 12th
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Fantasy Creative Writing Unit
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing. In this three week unit, students will be challenged with developing their own fantasy worlds, cultures, mythology, characters, and stories. You will find that this unit has been broken down into lessons asking students to participate in several fun, rigorous, and engaging activities, such as:Creating a map of their very own fantasy worldCreating multiple fantasy characters, including a hero, villain, and mentorCreating
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Fantasy and Horror Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
Writing Bundle: Argument Writing, Narrative Writing, Prompts, Lessons, Rubrics
Struggling to make your yearly plans for writing both practical and fun for your students? Students can be very resistant to writing instruction. Some are bored out of their minds by years of useless, monotonous exercises, and have stopped believing that they can actually learn to become better writers. Add to that their short attention spans and need to have fun, and it can feel like teaching writing is an impossible task. Others have learned a simplistic formula like the 5-paragraph essay and
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Modified and Modern Fairy Tales (Printable)
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. All supporting materials are provided in both Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive 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), end
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9th - 12th
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Asian Literature Unit Plan
This resource (81 Slides) encapsulates Asian literary works of authors from Vietnam, India, China, etc. Students will be taught about the Asian Diaspora and how the literature and even paintings of Asian authors and artists reflect the diaspora. This resource includes creative activities, discussion questions, and links for short stories, interviews, videos, etc. used. BONUS: Includes a literary element mini-lesson where students analyze ten main literary elements.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: World Literature BUNDLE: 4 UNITS ( YEAR LONG)
Villain Origin Story Unit Plan: Printable Handouts
This resource accompanies the Villain Origin Story unit plan which is a fun, interactive unit that allows students to explore villain backstories and creatively develop their own complex villains with complex origin stories. It includes a step by step writing workshop template which students can follow to create their own villains and write their own villain origin stories.(0ver 40 pages of printable handouts, activities, rubrics, etc all of which are ready to print and use!)
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7th - 12th
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Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.The workbook includes:A cover pagePre-reading research activity regarding t
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7th - 12th
Earth Day Creative Writing Activities for High School: Digital Resource
Are you searching for a meaningful activity to celebrate Earth Day with your high school students? Look no further! Our Earth Day Creative Writing Form is here to inspire passion for sustainability and environmental awareness while nurturing creativity and critical thinking skills in our students.What's Included: Inside, you'll find a range of writing prompts tailored for high schoolers, covering poetry, short stories, essays, and more. We've also included Earth Day-inspired challenges to spark
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7th - 12th
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Science Fiction Creative Writing Unit
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.In this three week unit, students will be challenged with developing their own science fiction worlds, cultures, mythology, characters, and stories. You will find that this unit has been broken down into lessons asking students to participate in several fun, rigorous, and engaging activities, such as:Creating the lore of their very own science fiction galaxyCreating multiple science fiction characters, including a hero, v
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Science Fiction and Fantasy Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
Narrative Writing: Villain Origin Story Step-By-Step Workshop & Rubric
This resource accompanies the Villain Origin Story unit plan which is a fun, interactive unit that allows students to explore villain backstories and creatively develop their own complex villains with complex origin stories. It includes a step by step writing workshop template which students can follow to create their own villains and write their own villain origin stories.
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7th - 12th
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Science Fiction and Horror Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.This bundle includes both my science fiction and horror creative writing units. Over a months worth of work for a discounted price!Your students will love the assignments given to them. With the Science Fiction unit, students will create a space hero fit for his or her own movie. They will also develop a space crew, a menacing villain, a galaxy ready to explore, and an action packed plot to bring it all together.With the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elvis Presley Biography Flip Book | Pop Star Writing Activity | All Grades
This flip book presents students with various writing prompts inspired by the life and music of Elvis Presley. It serves as a creative springboard, sparking imagination and helping students to think outside the box when developing their ideas.Beyond music, this comprehensive flip book delves into various subjects such as history, culture, and entrepreneurship. It serves as a versatile tool for teachers to integrate different disciplines into their lessons, fostering interdisciplinary connections
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Bias in the Media Project — Making an Advertisement (ARGUMENT + PERSUASION)
This is a COMPLETE PROJECT PACKET, including the grading rubric, student samples, a "frequently asked questions" section for your students (and self!), and step-by-step checkpoints for students throughout the project timeline. The document is editable once you make a copy in Google Drive so you can adjust any specifics such as instructions, due dates, objectives, etc. (that way you can tailor this so it works with your classroom and school expectations). THE PROJECT: Students will be able to uti
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fantasy World-Building Questions
PDF Worksheets.Students can use this detailed questionnaire to help them with creating their own fantasy world! These questions ask students to think critically about the world they are creating. Students will figure out the lore of the world, the magic system in place, the creatures that inhabit the land, the government's function in the kingdom, and so much more!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fantasy and Horror Creative Writing Units (Bundle)
PDF Lesson Plans and Activities. B&W copies included for easy printing.This bundle includes both my fantasy and horror creative writing units. Over a months worth of work for a discounted price!Your students will love the assignments given to them. With the fantasy unit, students will develop their own world, mythology, and characters before writing a short story akin to Lord of the Rings.With the horror unit, students will create a horror villain fit for his or her own movie. They will also
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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