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8th grade critical thinking creative writing unit plans
Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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End of the Year Activities, Worksheets, Memories & Reflections for Middle School
23 End of Year activities to allow students to reflect on the year, plan for the summer or their break, to set goals for next year, to write journal entries about their goals and plans for the future, to get to know their peers better, to draw and be creative (selfies! Instagram memories! Tablet photo fun (draw)!), to write letters to their future teachers and write a letter to give advice to future students. This is a great way to summarize the year for intermediate and middle school students,
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year, Art Lessons, Worksheets & Activities Bundle
Narrative Writing Unit - Personal Narrative- Google Classroom Distance Learning
In this detailed, CCSS-aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about narrative writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write personal narratives about an interesting experience that taught them a lesson. In their personal narratives, students will include key elements of narrative writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Through the study of a mentor text, pre-writing activities, draft guidelines, revision mini-lesso
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5th - 8th
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Argumentative, Narrative, Informative, Research, & Expository Writing BUNDLE
This awesome writing bundle includes every resource you need to teach an entire year of writing for grades 6, 7, and 8. Buy it now, while it is offered at a steep discount of 30% off!These resources all include digital versions for Google Drive. They all get frequent updates. Click the links below to check out the individual Common Core aligned products that are included: ♦ Argumentative Essay Writing♦ Informational Essay Writing ♦ Narrative Writing Workshop♦ How to Write an Essay Requiring Text
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6th - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Writing & Creating a Children's Book; Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 - 12 - Adult
Creating a Children’s Book – Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 – 12 – University – Adult, is an exceptional journey by which students will research, strategize and use technology, critical thinking and art to make a complete and professional picture book. This project will be fun. It will also be challenging and by the time it is finished, students will definitely understand more about the picture book industry, the types of books that sell, how a book is actually put together, and how many decision
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Descriptive Writing Unit: Place Paragraph (Google Classroom Compatible)
In this seven-day Descriptive Writing Unit students utilize the steps for writing (pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, and publishing) in order to describe a place in a detailed paragraph. Lessons and mini-lessons include: effective pre-writing, writing lead sentences, putting details in order, using transitions, avoiding overused words, writing descriptive sentences, self-editing, and peer editing. Digital Version Included - This resource includes a traditional PDF version of the student
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 3 Writing Units BUNDLE - Persuasive, Descriptive, & Myth Writing Units
Slam Poetry Mini Unit
Looking to add slam poetry to your poetry unit, but too swamped to plan it out? I’ve got you covered. This one-week slam poetry mini-unit is designed to be inserted into your poetry unit, and is packed with 5 days of my best slam poetry lesson plans. It will take your students through brainstorming, drafting, performance-planning, and performing all in a week. It’s the perfect unit to give your students a taste of slam poetry (and get them begging for more). You’re students will never think
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6th - 12th
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Opinion Writing - Writing a Persuasive Business Letter (Google Classroom)
In this engaging 10-day Opinion Writing Unit students write a business letter about a school issue. Writing as a concerned student, students will write a letter to their principal (that they do not necessarily need to send to him/her) based on their opinions. The unit begins with building background on opinion writing. Then, students practice how to differentiate between fact and opinion before completing an opinion and support match-up. Next, students select a school issue to write about.
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5th - 8th
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Historical Thinking Bundle: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
This bundle contains 7 Historical Thinking lessons and a 4-5 day culminating group project where students are required to apply the skills from these lessons in a fun, critically engaging way. This means roughly 2 weeks of fully planned materials that will help your students develop their historical thinking skills!Included in this Unit Bundle:Introduction to Historical Thinking lessonHistorical Significance LessonContinuity and Change LessonCause and Consequence LessonHistorical Perspective Les
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Grade 6-8 Cursive Writing Foundations Unit (Printable + Google Slides™)
This Grade 6-8 Cursive Writing Basics Unit has EVERYTHING you need - worksheets and slides - to teach cursive writing. The unit includes a teacher guide to help you fit all the useful teaching content included together.This comprehensive package is designed to transform cursive writing into an exciting journey of discovery. The slide deck begins with plenty of reasons justifying why cursive is an important skill - for reading historical documents, reading signs in daily life, signing your signat
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Grade 6 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Writing a Graphic Novel FULL UNIT - Print and Digital Lessons Included!
Want to switch up your narrative writing unit? Try Graphic Novels! Not only do students get to express themselves through writing and tell a story, but they get to illustrate it too! Graphic novels have all of the same things needed in a narrative or story, so they are still learning the necessary concepts, but also doing something that feels like fun!This Writing a Graphic Novel Unit includes: 8 Full Lessons including:Graphic Novel Assignment Sheet and Grading RubricWhat is a Graphic Novel Less
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4th - 10th
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Fake News: Media Literacy Writing Unit
This fun and engaging unit explores the current world of fake news. Through mini-lessons, students will learn strategies for identifying fake news and put them into practice through various activities. They will also apply their knowledge of non-fiction text features of an online news article to create their own fake news. This unit is sure to keep students hooked with the real-life connections and creative writing process. A differentiated version of the fake news article writing piece is inclu
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Language Writing Units Volume ONE
Podcast Study: Mars Patel Season 1
Need an engaging lesson to inspire your students to write descriptive narratives? This lesson takes your students into a deep analysis of a mysterious podcast show. Why is this great for narrative inspiration you might ask? Students are forced to use their imagination for the characters, setting, conflict and more. Included:** Digital student responses added**•MAKING PREDICTIONS PAGES•AUTHOR'S MOOD•CHARACTER TRAITS•NOTE TAKING PAGES•RESPONSE QUESTIONS•DIGITAL RESPONSE PAGE•THEMES PAGE•DÉCOR PAG
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Podcast Study: Mars Patel Bundle (Season 1, 2 & 3)
STORY ELEMENTS BUNDLE | CHARACTERS, SETTING, PLOT, ENDINGS in NARRATIVES
This bundle combines five of our top-rated story elements products designed to help teachers and students be incredible story readers and authors through building a deep knowledge of CHARACTERS, SETTING, PLOT, THEME, MOOD, CONFLICT and RESOLUTION when dealing with NARRATIVES.All at a heavily discounted price and a bonus freebie for good measure.Read the reviews for yourself, as you will not be disappointed.YOU MIGHT ALSO❤️VE THESE ENGLISH RESOURCES ❤️ Year-Long Visual Writing Prompts Collection❤
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3rd - 9th
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A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library - a complete novel study
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation required by the teacher. It contains several interactive activities that engage students in critical thinking. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts, and it aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, decoding new words, predicting, critical thinking, analyzing, understan
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5th - 8th
Podcast Study Growing Bundle
Now you can meet all your literacy needs using podcasts! This is a growing bundle so make sure to come back for more!Bundle Includes:Mars Patel Season 1Mars Patel Season 2 Mars Patel Season 3Young Ben Franklin Six Minutes SN 1/2Ghost of Jessica Majors *new*Podcast responses (Good for early finishers)Narrative Podcast Responses Pod-Cast Opinion ProjectPodcast recommendations Podcast Discussion Groups
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4th - 8th
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Among the Hidden - a complete novel study
Among the Hidden is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation from the teacher. This book is great for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, supporting a position, understanding point of view, recognizing imagery, creative writing, skimming and scanning for quotes, doing book reports, and solving puzzles.This resou
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5th - 8th
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Decision-Making Lessons: A TPT Best-Selling Unit on Dangerous Teen Decisions!
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Decision Unit!!If you work with 6th through 12th grade teens, these decision-making lessons are so powerful! I consider this one of my BEST Health units since it deals with the consequences of teen decisions! Your students will LOVE this-it's so relevant to their lives and the world we live in today!Articles are shocking, revealing, often heart-breaking, and very relatable for teens!>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of b
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6th - 12th
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Fractured Fairy Tale Narrative Writing Unit: Middle and High School
This is a bundle of all the products I created to use with my students for our narrative writing Fractured Fairy Tale Unit! My suggested use of the products is as follows: 1. Use the "Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Project" to introduce the narrative unit (directions included in product) 2. Use the Elements of a Fairy Tale with the presentation and guided notes. 3. Use the "Writing Project" file to read 6 classic fairy tales adapted from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm while guiding
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Podcast Study: Mars Patel Bundle (Season 1, 2 & 3)
Need an engaging lesson to inspire your students to write descriptive narratives? This lesson takes your students into a deep analysis of a mysterious podcast show. Why is this great for narrative inspiration you might ask? Students are forced to use their imagination for the characters, setting, conflict and more.Included:Season 1,2 and 3 are included and have the following pages per Season **Digital Option for season 1,2 & 3**•MAKING PREDICTIONS PAGES•AUTHOR'S MOOD•CHARACTER TRAITS•NOTE TA
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4th - 8th
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Fable, Fairy Tale, Myths, Legends Unit
This comprehensive unit is a fantastic resource to use with a variety of fables, fairy tales, myths, or legends of your choice. Students will discover how life lessons are learned from understanding fables and how fairy tales influence society. They will also be able to identify connections to cultures that legends originated from and realize how myths illustrate the belief systems and customs of the cultures that created them. Here is what is included:★Essential Questions★Vocabulary Word List★
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6th - 10th
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Prosthetic Leg Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Prosthetic Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning the history and uses of prosthetic legs, students use the engineering design process to build a prosthetic leg that is interchangeable for multiple people. This design challenge is followed by a research extension to design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Lesson Sequence: Introduce real-world careers of biomedical engineers and show a video on fabricating a prosthetic legRead about the history of prostheticsLearn important concepts related to prosth
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5th - 9th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
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