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High school creative writing unit plan microsofts
Formal Letter Writing Unit | Business Letters | Email | Distance Learning
This best-selling 100-PAGE DIGITAL resource contains everything your students will need to learn how to write outstanding FORMAL LETTERS and EMAILS in 2024 that IMPACT upon their audience. This INTERACTIVE unit contains - Easy-to-follow, engaging instructional slides - High-quality tutorial videos - A range of writing samples for students to follow - Assessment tools, rubrics, and checklists - A range of graphic organizers, templates and tools for reluctant writers - Everything is entirely EDI
Grades:
4th - 9th
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Creative Writing: Character, Setting, Dialogue Sketch Unit (19-Days),Common Core
This is a 19-Day creative writing unit which contains the following printables and presentations:
Instructional techniques for sketching character, setting, and dialogue.
Peer critique forms for all techniques.
PowerPoint presentations with examples.
Rubrics for self and teacher evaluation.
Brainstorming and practice activities (keys included).
This is aligned to Common Core for English 9-10 & 11-12.
However, the unit can be stretched down to the middle school level.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AR
Grades:
8th - 12th
Imagined Life Podcast Complete Unit Plan, Close Listening, and Literary Devices
Imagined Life is an incredibly engaging podcast and perfect for use in the English classroom that will allow your students to hone their close listening skills and then ultimately apply what they've heard to their own creative essay styled after the podcast! Named Best Podcast on the Human Condition, Imagined Life will thrust your students into a unique story of obstacles and growth while using narrative elements that model the power of a well-told story. Each episode details a famous person's l
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Humor and Comedy Writing Unit Plan
This is a 5-10 day humor writing unit plan for secondary English, college writing, or creative writing students. It’s meant to teach the theory and structure that go into humor writing along with plenty of practice activities.Humor writing takes a specific set of writing skills, and it can translate to a well-paying job for those who are especially good at it. Even students not destined for standup stages or sitcom writers’ rooms will benefit from studying the elements that make writing funny. T
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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9-12 High School Personal Narrative (Family Narrative) Writing Unit
*** FREEBIE IN THE PREVIEW! Open up the preview file to snag your free copy of the writing process anchor chart printable! ***This download includes everything you will need to teach personal narrative writing through the writing of a family narrative for even the most inexperienced high school writer. The scaffolded instruction works to bring writers up from middle school to high school quality in their narrative writing throughout the process described in the 2 weeks (10 days) of lesson plans.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Memoir: Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students learn how to write an outstanding memoir with the Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit: All-in-One DEAL!
Students select a memory to retell in writing, and this unit will help them to re-create the event in such a way that the reader experiences the emotion of the moment. Perfect for the beginning of the year but also a great unit to do any time.
A two-page outline of all the documents is included. Also includes title-divider sheets to keep things organized in a binder or file fo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Fractured Fairy Tales Unit- 40 lessons reading writing film making-US Spelling
Fairy Tales are short stories that can be used with children of all ages. Most children will have some background knowledge of at least a few fairy tales which makes this genre of writing accessible to all.This unit of work is aimed at Grade 5-7 but can be easily adapted lower or higher - in fact, I have included vocabulary lists from Grade 4 upwards!This unit includes:* Unit planner (8wks or 40lessons)* An Immersion /Introductory Lesson* Detailed lesson plans (with specific skill focuses listed
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PreK - 10th, Staff
Informal Letter Writing Unit | Email | Messages | Postcards | Invitations & More
This 100-PAGE DIGITAL and PRINT resource contains everything your students will need to master the SKILLS and PROCEDURES of writing INFORMAL LETTERS in 2024 for various purposes and audiences.This INTERACTIVE and EDITABLE unit contains⭐ Easy to follow, engaging instructional slides⭐ High-quality tutorial video.⭐ A range of writing samples for students to follow⭐ Assessment tools, rubrics, and checklists⭐ A range of graphic organizers, templates and tools for the reluctant writer⭐Everything is co
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Creative Writing: Illustrated Children's Story, 10-Day Unit, Common Core
This is a 10-Day Creative Writing Unit that will allow you to teach students how to write illustrated children's stories. The unit begins with the concept of moral truths or lesson in fables, and focuses students on identifying these concepts. Next, students will write their own children's stories, critique them with the included forms, and then write final copies with illustrations. This unit is aligned to Common Core for ELA 9-10 & 11-12; however, it can be stretched down to the middle sch
Grades:
7th - 12th
Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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Creative Writing Fixed-Form Poetry Bundle | Slideshow lessons & rubrics included
This resource contains 10 resources on teaching 11 different poems in a creative writing class or a creativie writing unit. This unit contains the following resources, bundled at a discount price: Diamante Poem LessonConcrete Poem LessonDouble Dacytl LessonBallad LessonHaiku & Cinquain LessonLimerick LessonSonnet LessonVillanelle LessonTaunt & Boast LessonRhyme Scheme & Meter LessonEach file comes in both PDF and Microsoft Office (Word and PowerPoint) format and you have editing righ
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Dead Poets' Society and Poetry Unit
This product contains materials for a poetry unit inspired by the film Dead Poets' Society. It includes the following things:
• A chart for the student to record pertinent information about when the poem was read or recited and by whom and why this particular poem was chosen for this particular event. This chart should be used as the springboard for a discussion of how these specific poems help reveal the theme of the movie.
• A copy of each poem for the students to annotate.
• AP style questio
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9th - 12th
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Satire: Writing a Satirical Argument Like Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Following examination of the persuasive satire Jonathan Swift perfected in "A Modest Proposal," your students will create their own satirical arguments to address controversial issues of today, whether at the local or global level. This complete unit contains nine pages of materials for the instruction of persuasive satire, including a 2-page overview of the assignment itself, including the writing prompt, steps for organization of ideas, tips regarding tone and style, discussion of possible top
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10th - 12th
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Entire SEMESTER of FUN Writing Warm-Ups #2!!
*Save 20% by getting: Entire YEAR of FUN Writing Warmups!Do you need some fresh bell-ringers for your classroom??Your students will be EAGER to get started each day with these FUN warm-ups that promote WRITING and CREATIVITY!! And YOU will have one less item on your to-do list, freeing up your time to work on everything else.I've spent MONTHS perfecting this item, ensuring it has the most RELEVENT and ENGAGING activities for our students (yes, my students will be using this too). There are 18
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Teaching and Study Guide for any Version
NOW 202 PAGES OF MATERIALS!
Mrs. W's Romeo and Juliet guide was created to work with any version of Shakespeare's play.
This comprehensive unit includes everything you need to confidently teach Romeo and Juliet.
Pre reading activities provide essential background knowledge, during reading activities include questions, quizzes and writing. Post reading includes testing options and additional writing activities. All handouts now n PDF
Also includes two power point presentations.
PLEASE
Grades:
8th - 12th
Short Story Unit on Writing Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
This is a 7-page, short story unit in which students are tasked with developing an original horror, science-fiction, or fantasy story following proper formatting and guidelines for narrative, description, and dialogue. The download includes a 2-page overview of the assignment itself, including draft deadlines, prompt specifics, tips for narrative writing, and additional requirements; a 2-page handout providing narrative style tips paragraph structure, use of dialogue, attributions, verb tense co
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8th - 12th
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Full High School English Unit Plan | John Green | The Anthropocene Reviewed
HS English Essay Unit | John Green | The Anthropocene Reviewed | Creative Writing | AP Language | Suitable for 9-12 grades If you are anything like me, you love John Green (and your students love John Green too, even if they only know him as “that guy with the puffy hair from the Crash Course History videos”). Personally, The Anthropocene Reviewed, a collection of essays based on his podcast of the same name, is my favorite of his work. When I read it, I immediately knew I wanted to incorporate
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Memoir: Sensory Details, Show Dont Tell MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students write vividly with the Memoir: Sensory Details, Show Dont Tell MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL! Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes the following: Sensory Details Team Activity, Sensory Details Chart, Show Dont Tell Guided Notes, Show Dont Tell Examples and Practice, More Show Dont Tell Practice, and Show Dont Tell Team Activity. This mini unit is included in the Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Limetown Podcast- Episode Questions, Projects/Essays, and Project Based Learning
This is a 6-8 week deep dive into the Limetown podcast.- You can choose to shorten this by removing the weekly projects OR final project and/or essayEach week, you will listen to one episode and complete the corresponding work: The work for each episode will include the following:2 pre reading questions ( /6) - 3pts ea.4 multiple choice questions ( /4) (rubric included on final page)3 short answer questions ( /9) - 3 pts ea.1 project ( /16)= 35 points totalProjects are divided into 5 c
Grades:
9th - 12th
Early America Lit UNIT - Native Americans, Puritan, Rationalists, & Romantics
This is a massive powerpoint that should last you at least two months teaching American Lit. It chronologically starts with Native American oral tradition stories from 1400 and ends in the 1800s with Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne (a perfect stopping place if you plan to teach The Scarlet Letter). This unit you're purchasing is primarily focused on covering background history, literary and writing terminology, author background, and student response questions to the literature. This unit has jus
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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