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High school The New Year creative writing resources for Google Apps
Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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New Year 2024 Reflection & Goal Setting Activity for Secondary
Happy New Year 2024! In the middle school and high school classrooms, we don’t often get the opportunity to create fun memory books or make projects to celebrate holidays. But reflecting, synthesizing, and goal-setting are important parts of the learning process and why this New Year Activity is so wonderful. This personal one-page reflection worksheet activity is perfect for any secondary subject or class! The students use countdown-style numbered lists to write about their 2023 and set goals f
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: All About Me Activities ENTIRE YEAR Bundle
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
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3rd - 12th
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New Years Resolution 2024: Happy New Year Activities & 2024 Goal Setting
Perfect for the first day back from winter break, celebrate new years 2024 with your middle school and high school students with this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES reflection and goal setting one pager activity! This fun, creative, and engaging new year's resolution activity encourages students to reflect on the people, experiences, and accomplishments that made this year GREAT while setting goals for the new year. ***This New Year's activity is fully editable, so you can edit the years on th
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6th - 12th
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All About Me Activities ENTIRE YEAR Bundle
Building strong relationships with your secondary students is vital to successful learning! So, I put all the best ways to connect and get to know your students in one great BUNDLE! Included in this bundle is the Beginning of Year All About Me, the Back to School Meet the Teacher, the New Years Reflection and Goals Activity, and the End of Year Reflection Activity. All four of the activities are similar in design, but specific to the time of year, so they are great for showing growth throughout
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6th - 12th
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Social Media Templates for ANY text - TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Text
Five 2023 social media templates in both DIGITAL (Google Slides or PowerPoint) and printable versions. These reusable and highly engaging templates for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Messenger are perfect for ANY novel study, creative writing task or even history class!Carefully designed on the 2023 versions of these popular Apps. Also includes editable exemplars to show students what success looks like.Happy teaching :)
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5th - 12th
Also included in: FULL Unit for ANY Novel & Independent Reading (Digital & Print)
Micro Fiction, Fun Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Micro Fiction – Flash Fiction – Two-Sentence Stories – Sudden Fiction – Twitter TalesWhatever you want to call them, super-short stories are a super-fun way to spend a single class period as you introduce teens to the idea that an entire story can exist within just two sentences.Use this 20-slide overview lecture with eight compelling examples from four different genres (drama, horror, sci fi, and romance) to get your students’ creative wheels turning. (Slide deck is included in Prezi, PDF, and
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8th - 11th
Meme Caption Writing Prompts (Fun End of Year Activity)
This Google Slides document includes 30 slides with different memes with text boxes for students to practice their creative writing by coming up with captions for the different pictures. Students love being able to create captions and it really helps with engagement!There is also a blank slide included so you can insert your own pictures as well as individual meme pictures that can be copied and pasted to use in whatever you like at the end of the document.
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3rd - 12th
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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 Unit Prompts Activities & Projects for Middle + High School
This Creative Writing Workbook includes 25+ different creative writing projects + activities for students to complete! It is designed for grades 6-12 and includes student descriptions, student examples, brainstorming pages, and rubrics for each project!This resource provides teachers with a unique way to present creative writing projects to students. The journal is organized by fiction and non-fiction, and allows students to work independently while simultaneously creating a portfolio of their
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6th - 12th
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Figurative Language STATIONS - Group Activities - Print & DIGITAL
Figurative Language Stations with Task Cards: Would you like your students more clear on figurative language and sound devices? Motivate them with this must-have creative STATION work! Now includes a DIGITAL version! You get EIGHT different stations with task cards and inviting student handouts for each. Students identify and analyze figurative language, and then brainstorm to apply their knowledge in imaginative ways. Clear and specific teacher guidelines are provided to make set up and grad
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6th - 9th
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Song Lyric Analysis Worksheets for Figurative Language in Songs and More!
Do your students struggle with figurative language and poetic elements because they just don't "get" poetry? Connect it with something they can relate to - music and songs! These engaging song lyric analysis activities will not only give your students a better understanding of figurative language and literary devices, but will also build critical thinking skills through interpretation and creative expression.Topics covered: In the mini-lesson and activities, the following 9 elements of figurativ
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Halloween Narrative Writing & Learning Stations
HALLOWEEN WRITING ACTIVITIES: Halloween is the perfect opportunity to engage your students in a creative writing assignment. This resource takes students through a process-based approach that has them experiment with various elements of fiction. They will be building so many narrative writing skills and having a great deal of fun while they do! Be sure to check out the preview for a detailed overview.This resource includes:✅ Learning stations for experimenting with point of view, setting, atmos
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Creative Writing Prompts - Digital Story Starters - Narrative Writing
Spark creativity with this set of engaging, digital story starter writing prompts. Includes 35 unique story starters to inspire your secondary students and help them flex those creative writing muscles! These prompts are ideal for displaying in class and/or sharing with students digitally. ⭐ INCLUDES:PDF versionGoogle Slides version Google Slides version with embedded 10-minute timer⭐ DIGITAL SHARING IDEAS:Post the PDF or Google Slides file in Google Classroom (or your LMS of choice) and let stu
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6th - 10th
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Six Word Memoir Unit l memoir project
Six word memoirs are a unique and impactful genre for students to explore. You can say a lot in one line, if you give that one line a lot of thought. This six word memoir pack gives you a chance to introduce and experiment with the genre as well as extend it into your novel study and research units. After all, if a person can write a six word memoir about their own life, they can also write one about the life of a character in a novel or a person they’ve researched. Inside this packet, you’ll fi
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7th - 10th
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Back to School or New Years Goal Setting Activity - One Word of the Year
Start the new school year or semester strong with this easy-yet-meaningful One Word of the Year activity kit! Perfect for Back-to-School goal setting or New Year's resolutions, this kit will work year after year for your high school or middle school students to find focus and inspiration. This kit includes printable PDF sheets for hand-created signs & Google Slides for designing custom phone lock screen reminders! Greatness is practicing reflection and goal-setting.The greatest gift you can
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
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 a
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9th - 12th
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Memoir Writing: Using Mentor Texts for Student Voice and Assessment in ELA
Reading and writing memoir are powerful ways to have students experiment with narrative writing and have a chance to explore some groundbreaking nonfiction reading. Whether your students are in the midst of a literature circles unit or wrapping up a great novel, have you considered adding a memoir writing element to your curriculum?This mini unit is designed around a metaphor: the footprint. They’re what we leave behind us, no matter how muddy, messy, small, or imperfect, and that’s our legac
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8th - 11th
2024 New Year Activities for Goal Setting & Growth Mindset 6-12 + Digital
Teachers, use this 2024 New Year WORKBOOK for middle and high school to motivate, inspire, and encourage students to be their very best this year! This resource works with ANY subject area grades 6-12. THIS RESOURCE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT 2024.New Years Eve sparks an invisible transformation when people realize it’s time for a NEW beginning and a fresh start. Goals are set, resolutions are made, and motivation is at an all time high! Your students aren't any different! Seize this opportuni
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6th - 12th
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Las doce uvas de la suerte // La nochevieja lesson plans in Spanish
This lesson plan bundle is appropriate for Spanish 1 students and beyond. It contains three versions (with varying levels of detail and range of vocabulary) of a Spanish-language reading about the Spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes at midnight on December 31. In addition to the three readings, it containsa Wordoku puzzle with Nochevieja vocabularycomprehension questionsdiscussion questionsa writing activityseveral video-viewing activity descriptionsan #authres Infograph reading activity with
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Winter holidays for Spanish classes
New Year 2024 Vision Board SMART Goal Setting Digital Activity
Teach your students how to create a vision board for the new year! This is a fun and interactive digital activity that can be used for BACK TO SCHOOL or for the NEW YEAR! Your students' vision boards will be a cohesive, beautiful reflection of their goals/dreams for the new year!About this product:This product comes in a GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER.The vision board is an editable Google Slides activity.It outlines how to put together a vision board, how to draw inspiration and capture thoughts, impressi
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4th - 12th
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Mood and Tone: DIGITAL Interactive Activities with Google Slides
There are tons of mood and tone activities on Teachers Pay Teachers, but this is for those of you going DIGITAL! This is perfect for 1:1 classrooms. These activities stem from some common misconceptions my own 6th graders had about mood and tone. I found a lot of them confused characters' feelings with the mood of the text. Also, they have a hard time determining how tone and mood are different. These will help them with that!The activities are as follows:Students view a clip from This is Us to
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Lisa S.
Short Mentor Texts and Sentences for Secondary Writing & Close Reading
Short Mentor Texts for Middle & High School: Showing, not telling, is important not only for effective writing, but also for effective writing instruction. Mentor sentences and longer mentor texts are perfect for this, as they provide exemplars that students can use to examine author craft. Once they identify what good writers do, they will imitate the techniques in their own writing. These mentor texts, then, can be used to build skills for both close reading and writing. Be sure to check t
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7th - 12th
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