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Middle school creative writing unit plans for Microsoft Word
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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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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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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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
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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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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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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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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Hate That Cat Reading/Poetry Unit
This unit features Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech, a novel told in poems. It includes 15 lesson plans of 45 minutes each. Each lesson plan integrates reading Creech's story with writing poetry using techniques mentioned in the book. As Jack, the story's narrator, learns and writes about alliteration and onomatopoeia, children see examples of his writing and use it as a model for their own. The lesson plans contain references to other poems that can be used as "mentor texts" to children learn
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4th - 6th
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Memoir: Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students understand what a memoir is and generate ideas for writing their own memoir with the Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!. Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes a note to the teacher as well as the following documents: Essential Questions, What is a Memoir Guided Notes, Quick Writes Journal Prompts, Elements of a Memoir/Personal Narrative, Discussion Questions Relating to the Memoir, Events and Emotions Brain
Grades:
6th - 12th
Memoir: Two Examples MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students see what an effective and ineffective memoir looks like with the Memoir: Effective and Ineffective Examples MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL! Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes the following: My Memoir and Brownie the Horse. This mini unit is included in the Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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6th - 12th
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Personal History Projects
This is a self paced project for students to consider their past, present, and future. Students can choose the activities they want that would represent themselves. This is a great beginning or end of the year project for students.
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5th - 12th
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Poetry Project - Express yourself!
In this poetry project, students will analyze, write, and respond to poetry, study and identify literary devices within poetry, and complete an author study of a famous poet. All assignments will be published in a complete project folder. Included here are 3 worksheets:
-the detailed directions guiding students through the project and its components,
-the response to poetry template, which includes citations and responses, and
-the comic strip (a visual form of responding to poetry).
The
Grades:
6th - 12th
Creative Writing Unit: Creating a Children's Story
This download contains a 1-page overview of a creative writing project in which students create children's stories for a young audience. The handout explains goals and requirements for the assignment, mentions varying angles and approaches for children's stories, and includes examples of well-known books that meet these goals. Check out my other materials for grammar and mechanics, literary units, and writing instruction. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance either before or after pu
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7th - 12th
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Inquiry Unit - Arts Ed - Drama, Dance, Writing, Music, Visual Art
In this inquiry unit, students will explore their special place that makes them feel the most relaxed. They will go through a process of imagination, writing, drawing and a final art project to show their creative expression.This unit can be adapted and used with any grade, however I have used it with grades 2 - 6 successfully.This unit follows the Saskatchewan curriculum, however it can be easily adapted to other provincial and state curriculums.The unit includes a rubric, which can be used to
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Creative Writing Pacing Guide {editable}
This is a 32-week pacing guide/calendar I created for my creative writing club/course that meets once per week for about an hour and 15 minutes each time. The guide includes columns for the week/date, instructional focus, objectives, and homework assignments. Each week includes a do-now, ideas for a mini-lesson, and exercises/activities for students. I also reference many texts that would be helpful for you to use in a creative writing class. Check out my other creative writing materials!Creativ
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6th - 9th
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Magical Realism: A Creative Writing 4-Day Unit
Time to get creative! With Magic!Teaching creative writing can give students a breather from argumentative and personal writing while also developing skill and confidence that can improve those other important types of writing styles. In this lesson, students explore magical realism. Such a lesson can be paired with literature that is being read in class or can just be a fun 4-day activity to push students in their writing. The preview represents an instructional plan for this lesson over the co
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â The Magical Realism Full Lesson Bundle
Personal Narrative Rubric used with Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program
This simple rubric can be used to assess students' personal narratives. It is organized to assess students' ideas, content, organization, and mechanics and has plenty of space for teacher comments. This was used with the Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program.
Personal Narrative Rubric by Kate Hartley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli: A Complete Literature Guide
This is a complete 52 page literature guide for the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Included in the literature guide is comprehension questions and vocabulary activities for each chapter, writing assignments for each of the six traits, and sections focused on literary elements. The overall goal of the unit is to improve reading, vocabulary, and writing skills using the novel Stargirl.
Improve Reading Comprehension Skills:
*Throughout the unit, different questions will work on building
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6th - 9th
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Humans of New York: Stories
This thematic unit plan explores Brandon Stanton's famous picture blog and New York Times bestseller Humans of New York. This unit focuses on his second published work called Humans of New York: Stories. The book is highly recommended as a resource; however, the HONY website and Facebook page can be used as a substitute.This unit will help explore the topic of humanity in a fun and meaningful way. Students will enjoy looking at the captivating and meaningful photos found throughout Stanton's boo
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Humans of New York: Bundle (3 Units)
Fractured Fairy Tale Unit
Stories and non-fiction text are written from a particular point of view. The author positions the reader to respond to a story in a certain way through the use of language and point of view. Your assignment is to pick a familiar fairy tale and write a diary entry from the point of view of the antagonist.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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