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Higher education creative writing unit plans
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
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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AP English Language Unit 5: Complete Unit Plan and Activities CED Aligned
Introduce the Unit 5 skills of AP Lang in this complete, ready-to-teach, 3-week unit. By the end of this unit, students will be ready for the Unit 5 Progress Check. This also works as a stand-alone memoir study and composition unit for any high school English Class. On a personal note, this is my favorite project I do with my AP students because their writing is so memorable and personal. They treasure the pieces the produce in this unit.***BUT WAIT! Before you purchase this unit alone, know tha
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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Creative Nonfiction Writing Unit -- Common Core, Journaling, Portfolio
This 9-week Creative Nonfiction writing unit is geared toward the upper levels of high school. I derived this unit from my own experience in the University of Iowa's prestigious writing courses.
All the materials you would need to teach this unit can be found in the book "Tell it Slant" by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paula. All of the short stories assigned in this unit can be found in that book, and many of them can be found online as well.
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**A six-page syllabus, outlinin
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
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
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
Creative Writing 101: A Full Semester of Plans in a Single Drive Folder
Written by a teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing. Student tested and beloved! Detailed daily lesson plans, ready-to-print materials, a focus on contemporary writers -- this puppy's got it all!Students have loved this course in the past! These lessons make room for them to express themselves, help them get over any fear of poetry, and get them to write poems they're proud of.This purchase includes: 1. POETRY: A Creative Writing Unit Plan-A unit plan doc with daily lesson plans (and essential
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Writing 101: A Full Semester of Plans (Bundle Version)
Written by an award-winning teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing. Student tested and beloved! Detailed daily lesson plans, ready-to-print materials, a focus on contemporary writers -- this puppy's got it all!This purchase includes: 1. POETRY: A Creative Writing Unit Plan-A unit plan doc with daily lesson plans (and essential questions, CCSS, and all daily materials conveniently linked in document)- A ready-to-print poetry packet containing the following poems: “O Captain, My Captain!” by Walt
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Beowulf AP Literature
This fun and creative unit is packed full of different activities that keep things fresh and keep the learning flowing. Students are first introduced to the time period and complete a couple of assignments to familiarize themselves with any necessary background information. For different sections of this poem, students have different projects to complete that will require them to use close reading skills. At the end of the unit, students look at exemplar essays and then produce their own essay i
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" Mini Unit!
#Longfellow #Romanticism #Poetry #AmericanLiterature
Looking for supplies to fill in your American Romanticism Unit? Need items to fulfill your poetry unit? This mini-unit takes Longfellow's "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" and puts it in your students' hands! This COMMON CORE lesson pack helps students understand the author, poems, and literary devices.
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Biography with study questions!
*TWO* Study Question worksheets that help with poem analysis!
*FIVE* worksheets that deal wi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Odyssey Complete Student Packet
"The Odyssey" Complete Student Packet is a visually engaging packet with exciting activities. The packet includes introduction notes on mythology and hero quest; a long-term journal prompt assignment; reading check questions; note space for literary elements, characters, plot, and theme; an art-technology project; teacher overheads and notes; and optional movie notes on O' Brother Where Art Thou? with essay question (NYS Regents Exam Critical Lens). The bottom-line is this is a complete Unit t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
FICTION: A Creative Writing Unit Plan
Written by a teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing! This product provides everything you need to teach the reading and writing of fiction to your students. Road-tested and student-approved! All texts inside were selected for their accessibility and student-friendly language. The authors included are from diverse backgrounds with a focus on contemporary fiction. Everything in this comprehensive, half-semester unit plan is ready-to-roll and designed to help you reclaim your weekends!This purchas
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Creative Writing 101: A Full Semester of Plans (Bundle Version)
POETRY: A Creative Writing Unit Plan
Written by a teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing. Road-tested and student-beloved! Everything you need to teach your students how to understand and write poems. All resources inside are written in student-friendly language. Everything in this comprehensive, 3-week unit plan is ready-to-roll and designed to make your life easier!This purchase includes:-A unit plan doc with daily lesson plans (and essential questions, CCSS, and all daily materials conveniently linked in document)- A ready-to-p
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Creative Writing 101: A Full Semester of Plans (Bundle Version)
The Magical Realism Full Lesson Bundle
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 following represents an instructional plan for this lesson over the course of 4 60-minute class perio
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
ZINES: A Creative Writing Unit Plan
Everything you need to teach your students how to make beautiful zines of their own original writing. Road-tested and student-approved! All resources inside are written in student-friendly language. Everything in this comprehensive, 3-week unit plan is ready-to-roll and designed to make your life easier!This purchase includes:-A unit plan doc with daily lesson plans (and essential questions, CCSS, and all daily materials conveniently linked in document)- The following ready-to-print materials fo
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Creative Writing 101: A Full Semester of Plans (Bundle Version)
Introduction to . . . Flash Fiction (55 slide unit + Edpuzzles & Writing Mats!)
A collective of exciting lessons that support pupils in identifying the skills necessary to creating 'flash fiction'. Throughout this unit, students are not only introduced to a variety of fascinating flash fiction texts but provided with the skills to write their own!This works perfectly as a linking unit for reading and writing or simply as fun, memorable and useful English lessons. ‘Inspiring’ and thought provoking resources; these will enable pupils to connect with their learning and improve
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Stephen King Elements of Horror: "The Man Who Loved Flowers" Short Story & Essay
Looking for a compelling unit on horror that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Students love the work of Stephen King and with good reason! His writing is accessible, compelling, and impactful. But reading well-written horror stories with your classes accomplishes way more than just grabbing their attention. What’s great about literary horror when it’s taught the right way is that it really give
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Teaching w/Movies: See You Yesterday Mini Unit (Distance Learning)
What's included in the unit?- Previewing QR code quest- Viewing Guide- Movie Predictions Activity- Movie Review Assignment- Podcast Project- Extension ActivitiesCommon Core StandardsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Hero's Journey: Using Jungian Archetypes to both Create & Analyze Fiction
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RL.11-12.3
RL.11-12.4
RL.11-12.5
RL.11-12.7
RL.11-12.10
Almost every great story ever written, told or passed down from generation to generation has had one or more of a few common structures. These structures create the framework of the tale. One of these structures is The Hero’s Journey.
Some have called The Hero’s Journey a quest. A quest is a search for something of importance, accomplished often by traveling. The object of the quest could be anything of value. It
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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MASSIVE BEOWULF / EPIC HERO UNIT! Everything you'll need!
Here is my ENTIRE Beowulf unit... and I'm pretty darn proud of it! This material works best for Honors students, but it can work with a regular classroom too. The slideshow is extensive and covers everything you'll need for class review of Anglo-Saxon history, epic poetry, Beowulf, and supplementary texts. There are handouts, activities, group work, tests, projects! Many of my document files come in DOC and PDF so you can make edits if you need to. Check out the individual listings to clarif
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
The Hunger Games Engaging No-Prep Chapter 1 Characterization Activity
This activity includes PRINT AND DIGITAL versions! The digital version is made with Google Slides and is compatible with most LMS systems.In this no-prep activity, students will analyze Katniss’s personality and motivations through a characterization silhouette activity. Students will answer the questions attached to different body parts and draw a corresponding symbol to represent their written answers about Katniss. Then, students will practice their writing skills by writing two journal entri
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Beowulf & The Canterbury Tales | Early Brit Lit Bundle | Activities & Assessment
This bundle provides exactly what you need to plan an engaging unit about early British literature using Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales as anchor texts.This bundle includes...Beowulf Resources:An introductory webquest on Google Forms (links included)12 bellringer tasks on Google Slides to begin class each day4 differentiated writing prompts + a mastery learning rubric to assess your students analysis of the textA student-centered project on Google Slides connecting the idea of literary archety
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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