This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade ELA.
In this lesson, students participate in a segregation experiment, then reflect on and explore their feelings and reactions through poetry.
For this lesson, students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories.
Students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories. This is the second lesson in a two-part series.
In this lesson, students write a self-portrait poem, giving the reader an indication what they are like on the inside, instead of picturing how they look on the outside.
Lesson plan where students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.
In this lesson, students create a brochure on how to succeed in school.
In this lesson, students use Aesop's fable "The Dove and the Snake" to learn the importance of sensory language and sentence structure in creative writing while practicing the steps and procedures to good writing.
In this lesson, students create a magazine advertisement for the spring water, which causes a person to live forever, in the novel "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt.
In this lesson, students respond to daily autobiographical writing assignments that will be published in a book.
This article emphasizes the importance of focus on composition in the writing process.
In this lesson, students construct a necklace in order to visualize a plan for including a central idea, supporting facts, and a clincher sentence in a written piece.
In this lesson, students write and share a symbolic poem about simple things that stand for deeper subjects.
Many factors contributed to the eventual success of the American colonies as they revolted against British rule. American leadership, the timely support of international allies, and international respect and recognition played major roles in the struggle for independence. Several documents and engravings held by the National Archives help to illustrate these important factors that led to the founding of the United States.
This lesson focuses on the American Revolution, which encouraged the founding fathers' desire to create a government that would, as stated in the Preamble, insure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense.
Students will explore how an artist emphasized the narrative in a work of art that depicts a single moment from the story. They then write a newspaper article, using visual clues in the painting to imagine how the narrative depicted many have unfolded.
This resource details ten exercises to prepare students for writing a narrative essay.
In this lesson, students explore how word choice, line length, punctuation, and rhythm contribute to the overall effect of a poem.
In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.
This horror story begins when three lighthouse keepers realize that a derelict ship heading for their tiny island is filled with thousands of giant rats. The ship runs aground and sinks; the famished rats scramble onto the island, and, in time, they break into the lighthouse. The besieged men struggle to stay alive. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students create a timeline with 4 important national and world events in their life, and write an essay about their life including those 4 events.