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High school creative writing assessments for Google Apps
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
Editable Spanish Project | Spanish 1 Tener Expressions
This editable project is perfect for a Spanish 1 class in middle or high school. Students are prompted to create a visual presentation about the uses of the verb tener. Students will review their school schedule, school supplies, tener idioms, and more!Topics covered:*Uses and forms of the verb*Description of daily class schedule (Primero todos los días yo tengo...)*Description of class supplies for each class (Para la clase de historia yo tengo...)*Tener idioms (Tengo calor, tengo sueño...)*Ten
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Spanish 1 Mega Activity Bundle
Haiku Poetry Lesson - How to Write a Haiku Assignment Haiku Templates and Rubric
Teach students the history of haiku and about writing haiku poetry with this haiku poem workshop! This lesson includes haiku templates and a haiku rubric for assessment. Suitable for distance learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Writing Haiku Poetry Workshop:✏️ Haiku Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®✏️ Guided Note for Haiku Poetry Lesson - Digital & Print✏️ Haiku Writing Assignment Instructions - Digital & Print✏️ Differentiated Haiku T
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4th - 10th
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Creative Writing Project: Rewrite a Fairy Tale | Editable, Printable, & Digital
Have students rewrite a fairy tale in this imaginative, fun, and scaffolded project for creative writing students! Teach point-of-view and other story elements without spending days helping students get over their writer's blocks with this Rewrite a Fairy Tale Project.For this fairy tale rewrite project, students will learn about point-of-view before applying a new one to a well-known children's story by rewriting a tale from the villain's perspective. Using the included slideshow, teachers will
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing: Complete 9-Week Class & Curriculum for High School
Free Verse Poetry Lesson - Poetry Writing Workshop with Pages for Blackout Poems
Explore free verse poetry with this poetry writing workshop! Students will read modern free verse poems with the option to write blackout poetry, a collage poem, or an illustrative poem. Includes an editable poetry rubric, assignment instructions, and digital worksheets for distance learning!Included with this Free Verse Poetry Writing Workshop:✏️ Free Verse Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®✏️ Free Verse Poetry Informational Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Writi
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6th - 11th
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Hero’s Journey Unit - Hero’s Journey Worksheets and Creative Writing Project
Your students will love this Hero’s Journey Unit! Includes Hero's Journey worksheets to explore Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and apply it to fan-favorite films PLUS assignment instructions, graphic organizers, and an editable rubric to develop students’ own Hero’s Journey outline Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! ⚡︎ Save 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡︎ Included with this Hero’s Journey Bundle:✏️ Hero’s Journey Informational Handout - Digital & Pri
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6th - 9th
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Questions, Satire Writing and Analysis
This famously incendiary short story can be a great unit for Halloween, or, if you're feeling spicy, Thanksgiving. I think there's always room for "A Modest Proposal", like there's always room for pie. Spoiler: the proposal is that starving poor people should eat their own babies. Sound crazy? Outrageous? Ludicrous? It is, and just wait until your students get to delve into this meaty story and understand the deeply moving message it holds. This is a classic for a reason. Included:Link to the st
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9th - 12th
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High School Creative Writing Project: Author Study | Imitate An Author's Style
Give students choice, freedom, and the chance to study any author of their choosing with this High School Creative Writing Project: Author Study! This Author Study Creative Writing Project is great as a capstone final project for any high school Creative Writing class or even as a deep dive with mentor texts. In the first step of this high school Creative Writing project, students will select one author to study.After choosing an author to study, students will need to analyze their author's styl
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing: Complete 9-Week Class & Curriculum for High School
Multi-Genre Project for Secondary ELA
Wondering how to implement a multi-genre project but you're not sure where to start? This multi-genre project includes EVERYTHING secondary ELA teachers need from start to finish. This multi-genre project begins with students reading and analyzing the famous poem "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman. Students work to identify the themes, then use one of the themes to spark their entire project! Students completed projects will include a reading response to the poem "The Hill We Climb" along with
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Figurative Language Unit Bundle | Teach, Practice, Assess!
Looking for engaging, no-prep resources to practice figurative language in your ELA classroom? Download my Figurative Language Unit Bundle to teach, practice, and assess figurative language with your students!⭐ UNIT OVERVIEW⭐ : Begin by giving your students a pre-test to see what they know. Then, use the included resources to instruct your students on common figurative language types using the provided presentation and CLOZE notetaking sheet. Practice with engaging activities like a hands-on sor
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7th - 10th
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Write Your Own 1 Act Script - Drama Assessment *Google Drive* w/ Examples/Rubric
This assignment is a great resource to extend your students' involvement with drama! Students will create their own play script to show their understanding of drama structure and conventions. This assignment will also help students develop their creative writing skills! Students will create their own characters, outline a plot, and write a one act script for their original play. I used this as a final assessment for a drama unit. Items included in this product (all are editable Google Docs in a
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7th - 12th
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Six Traits Rubric & Peer Review Checklist - Narrative & Creative Writing
Use this editable rubric and peer review checklist to help secondary students develop both narrative and creative writing pieces. The rubric focuses on the six traits of effective writing and the peer review checklist includes both the six traits and essential components of the beginning, middle and ending of narrative and creative writing pieces. The text is editable for teachers who wish to make adjustments. This is an excellent teaching tool to use with your students! Includes PDF to print an
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9th - 12th
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Create a Newspaper Project | Nonfiction Organizational Patterns & Text Features
This project assesses student knowledge of both organizational patterns (text structures) and text features in an interactive and engaging way! This self-paced assignment walks students through the process of creating their own front pages of a newspaper. In order to accomplish this, a directions page, rubric and 4 newspaper templates are included in this resource. This resource can be used as a formative or summative assessment.What is included?6 slides (created for Google Slides)Instructions s
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5th - 9th
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Editable Spanish School Life Proficiency Assessments | Spanish 1 La Vida Escolar
This editable set of proficiency based assessments is perfect for a Spanish 1 class in middle or high school. There is one assessment for each of the 3 modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational (plus a second option for interpretive!) Students will review their school schedule, school supplies, the verb tener, and more!Your resource will download as a PDF, and you will be prompted to click a link on the first page if you'd like to access your own editable version wi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Spanish School Life Activity Bundle | La Vida Escolar
“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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Independent Reading Creative Analysis Check In
Give students 21 unique ways to show what they are thinking about while they are reading ANY novel. From what a character would leave on a voicemail to what questions they want to ask the author, this download will get students thinking creatively and critically about what they are reading.The assignment is currently formatted so students choose from a list of 4-6 activities per week over a 4 week period, but could easily be modified to fit your pacing.This EDITABLE Google Doc will let you chang
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Assessments-Book Clubs-Close Reading-Literary Analysis
Real Life Writing Lessons, Templates, Assignments & Rubrics: Google Slides
Need to cover expository writing? Looking to connect with kids over real topics they care about or can creatively engage with? Real Life Writing Lessons covers Writing: MemosInvoicesThank You CardsProduct Reviews Police Reports Emails Business Letters & More! Each Writing comes with a template, suggestions, examples, and an assessment with a rubric. This set is made in Google Slides for editing purposes, and ease of sharing with students.
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8th - 12th
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Slam Poetry Unit Introduction Activities for Middle School and High School ELA
Introduce students to the world of slam poetry as you review poetic and literary devices, create a shared definition of spoken word poetry, and generate topics for writing using "top ten lists." Teaching poetry can be a fun, interactive, student-centered experience that engages every learner! Grab this digital and print, no prep resource to get started or check out the product bundle for the FULL slam poetry unit!★ Click here to receive a guide full of my best tips for building slam poetry excit
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8th - 11th
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CBM Written Expression Progress Monitoring Probes & Score Sheet
Written Expression Progress Monitoring Probes and paper score sheet! Features: Includes step by step instructions Great for progress monitoring for students with written expression IEP goalsReady to use right away!Based on CBM Written Expression Progress Monitoring ProceduresIncludes 5 different probes that are applicable for all ages! Editable!Easily log Total Words Written, Words Spelled Correctly, and Correct Writing Sequences at the bottom of the sheet! Interested in a FULL written expressio
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1st - 12th
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Also included in: CBM Written Expression Progress Monitoring Bundle
Write Horror Shorts- 2 Stephen King hooks & Creative Writing Supports
My students are engaged by horror and anything weird and wonderful! This unit works really well around Halloween and can be used throughout the year too. Although high school students are sometimes nervous to do creative writing, it motivates and liberates them to be creepy! This unit is the best possible way for students to apply all of those literary terms they have learned. They realize literary terms are actually the building blocks of any story. I even enjoy the marking of this unit!This
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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,
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Piggy's Eulogy: Characterization Activity Lord of the Flies chapter 11
This assignment requires students to write a Eulogy in honor of Piggy in first person as one of the characters in the book! It includes a list of requirements, examples, and a rubric. This activity can be used after chapter 11 or after reading the whole book. The assignment is in a Google Doc, so it's ready to post on Google Classroom right away! Perfect for Distance/ Virtual/ Hybrid Learning.Please help my little business grow!Did you know that you can receive $ credit towards future TpT purcha
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: BUNDLE of Lord of the Flies by William Golding Resources!
Whitman vs. Hughes: "I, Too" and "I Hear America Singing" Activity Pack
This activity pack gets a lot of mileage out of two short poems! It contains a sequence of engaging activities that helps your class with analyzing literary terms like metaphor, understanding author's purpose, comparative and analytical writing, and using critical critical thinking skills to make high level connections between the text and the real world. Included Activities: 1. Guided Reading Questions: Both poems are included with side-by-side questions. The sequence of questions are aligned
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10th - 12th
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The Crucible Novel Study Literacy Stations Digital Google Slides ™
This is a great way to culminate a study of your drama unit. I have created a series of 8 learning stations for the drama The Crucible. Each one is creative and thought provoking. Each learning station offers a quick intense self guided lesson. Add the movement of the stations, the visuals of the instructions, and the tactile experience of creating, and you have an assignment that complements every learning style. It can also be used as a group of Common Formative Assessments. Students are organ
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7th - 12th
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