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High school creative writing literature circle microsofts
Complete Memoir/ Nonfiction Unit
Recently Updated in February 2023-- New & Improved! Now includes Day-by-Day Instructions for this 3-week unit-- No prep needed!This Memoir Unit is always a huge hit in my high school English classes! Many of my students consistently say it is their favorite unit in the class This bundle includes 3 different PowerPoint presentations focusing on memoir writing. The first one I use is the "Show, Don't Tell" presentation where students are introduced to the idea of writing in a more descriptive
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
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
The Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer Guide
2 sheets list the steps of the hero's journey in a graphic organizer and provide a blank template for students to fill in for example stories that follow the hero's journey. This can be used as a planning tool for developing their own hero's journey stories or to analyze how other stories fit the hero's journey.
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6th - 12th
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Lamb to the Slaughter Ela Unit, Slides, Seminar, Choice Board, Activities
End the year strong with our fully-fledged, week-long ELA unit on "Lamb to the Slaughter," crafted for middle school teachers. This resource is an exceptional choice for end-of-year activities, substitute teacher plans, or as a focused mini-unit, suitable for grades 6-8 but easily adjustable for broader use.What’s Included in This Comprehensive Unit:Text and Film Study: Access the engaging CommonLit text and use our detailed guides to compare it with its film adaptation, enhancing comprehension
Grades:
6th - 9th
Characterisation - Different types of Protagonist
This upload looks at the construction of the protagonist using profiles such as 'the 'hero's journey', the Aristotelean protagonist with a fatal flaw, the mediator and the protagonist, the anti- hero, the master/slave dichotomy, and it looks at power relations more generally in creating the protagonist and their situation. The upload pinpoints characteristics and qualities that make a protagonist identifiable. The upload includes questions that elicit responses on the type of protagonist, their
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Odyssey Longing Letter Creative Writing
This ready to go creative writing assignment is perfect for breaking up traditional instruction when teaching The Odyssey. It presents Penelope's longing for Odysseus and instructs students to use Homeric language to create a similar type of letter.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Creative Writing Workshops - Transitions
This upload involves a series of lessons on transitions in narrative. It looks at flashbacks and how to prepare for and come out of a flashback. It also looks at movements forward in time and space as well as looking at changes in point of view. After brief instructions and examples a series of tasks are outlined which should consolidate the students understanding of techniques to create transitions in a narrative.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
65 Book Report Ideas
Included is a list of 65 different book report ideas I have compiled from several different sources. The choices include ideas which should draw the interest of different types of learners. I require my students to turn in one book report per month by the last day of the month. They must choose one of these ideas and can not repeat an idea over the course of the year. I also posted this list to my website for parents to access.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Time and the Structure of Fiction
Under the heading 'Time and Structure,' I look at key areas of storytelling such as, repetition, pace, waiting, time pressure and processes of association. Each topic is explained with examples given of fiction that relies on specific techniques. There is also analysis of techniques that can be used to create this type of structure, or there are ideas on why these structural techniques are incorporated. Each section includes a story topic that should consolidate the techniques, or concepts dis
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
The Lord of the Rings Movie Companion Project
You love the magical ambiance and journey where hobbits take you through the battle of good vs. evil for the win as saviors of Middle Earth. For presentation use, with essential questions and projects too. Is there a right way to watch a movie? Should it be in chronological order or in order of movie release? Perfect for Middle through high school options, and for GT, advanced, or gifted students too.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Secrets and Structure of Stories
These lessons take students through a series of exercises to help them understand the importance of secrets, dramatic irony, and the use of symbolism rather than explanation. Lessons break down the types of secrets and who is privy to them that propel or structure a plot. Lessons involve guided group discussion and writing activities.
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Using Genre to develop a Story Structure.
This lesson allows students to think about generic conventions and how they might use them in developing individual stories. It shows how working within a genre can give them the scaffolding to explore individual ideas. It uses reading, discussion, guided story topics and reflection.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Poetry Quick Write PowerPoint
Quick Writes are a powerful instructional tool that can be used any time during instruction. Leverage this amazing best practice with the Poetry Quick Write PowerPoint. This 87-slide product includes poignant poems written by Langston Hughes to Emily Dickinson - along with Quick Write Student Directions and Quick Write Turn and Talk Protocols. Each Poetry Quick Write can be employed as a writing activity, a Brain Break, or an amazing lesson launch. You and your students will love this! Seve
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Quick Write PowerPoint Jumbo Bundle
25 PLUS Writing Prompts for Any Novel
25+ Writing Prompts for Any Novel!
The writing prompt choices contained in this document not only allow students to use their high-order thinking skills to analyze the literature they read, the choices also help students have FUN while learning!
The writing prompts can be used for various purposes: journal entries, writing exercises (such as “set” beginners, free-writing activities, bell-ringer entires, etc.), reviews for previous reading assignments (including instructions for illustration
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Rhetoric Practice Bell Ringers (Ethos/Logos/Pathos)
These single-slide bell ringers give students an engaging opportunity for them to practice using rhetorical appeals by randomizing scenarios (1st slide) or randomizing rhetorical approach to the same situation (2nd slide). After writing their short pieces, students should share with their nearby classmates and in a whole-class environment. Creates an opportunity for discussing the role and efficiency of persuasion in a variety of real-life scenarios. It includes 2 student slides. (Original form
Grades:
6th - 12th
Podcast
This is an end of unit assignment that can be used as an assement tool as well. It allows students to work in collaborative groups and to recall information about a novel as well as from podcasts previously listened to within class.
Grades:
9th - 12th
TPT: Fantasy Unit(Learning Targets, lecture notes, quiz, and 2 writing projects)
Unit includes:Writer's workshop project: Personal dragons as metaphor Writer's workshop project: Narrative fantasy planning sheetFantasy and Characterization notesQuiz for "The Smallest Dragon boy"Unit learning targets printable for studentsAll documents are Goggle Classroom/print ready. This is a complete Fantasy Genre Unit for Language arts. I used this with the Holt Elements of Literature 7th Grade text, but this could be adapted for other texts, ages, or stories. I supplement things that are
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Never Bored with Our Own Board Games--End of Year Project / Literature Circles
For an end of the year project in my English 10 course and my AP Literature courses, students select a novel for Literature Circles and create a board game based on that novel. This packet includes a grading sheet.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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On The Come Up -- Journal Prompts (full novel)
This download includes 29 original, text-based journal prompts for Angie Thomas' novel, On The Come Up. Each prompt includes a quote from the assigned reading (I currently have it broken down into 21 days of assigned reading, but you can modify that if you wish) and asks students relevant questions regarding their own life experiences.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky -- Nonsense words, Sound Devices, Biography
Jabberwocky is a poem that many children love due to the sing song cadence of it. However, when it comes down to understanding what is being said, they are at a loss. This unit introduces Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in three contexts. First as a standalone poem in it's entirety. Next, in the context of Stanza of Anglo Saxon Poetry in which Carroll defines the nonsense words. And lastly as Humpty Dumpty defines it in Through the Looking Glass. The goal here is to show introduce students to an aut
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Grades:
8th - 9th
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) study guides and exam
Here is a fully editable and in-depth 75-question multiple choice test with creative writing prompt, and three study guides on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective whodunit. The questions focus on plot details, characters, themes, literary devices, and detective story genre techniques. The study guides also make connection to Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin and theatrical versions of the novel. A strong culminating exam after careful study of Conan's literary gem.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Narratives: 5 senses remediation activity
One of the standards for writing narratives is using descriptive vocabulary and using the 5 senses to create imagery. This handout organizes 5 centers that I did in my classroom to cover the sensory standard for narratives. My students absolutely loved it! You can select you objects for each center based on what the students are going to write about for their narratives. For example, my students wrote narratives that were set during the fall time, so the stations have fall candle waxes for smell
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Short Story for Close Reading, Syntax, Grammar
This story allows for close reading, as well as, analyzing the purpose, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, etc.
Parallel sentence structure, dashes, hyphens, vocabulary, and italics are the grammar skills that are practiced through the reading of this story.
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6th - 10th
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