In this lesson, students consider the difficult problems facing the queen Penelope at home during The Odyssey. Students brainstorm sensible solutions to the problems, then write Penelope a letter offering advice.
In this lesson, students work on writing strong transitions for their personal writing. Students examine several transitions and try to improve them before moving on to revising their own rough drafts.
In this lesson, students review the concept of dialogue and write original dialogue based on a prompt. Students then work in pairs to revise their writing for clarity and quality.
In this lesson, students review the writing process before using it to write poems. Students prewrite and complete a first draft before revising, editing, and proofreading their writing.
In this lesson, students go step-by-step through the process of writing an effective cause-and-effect essay. Students first take notes on what a strong cause-and-effect essay should do, then begin to write.
In this lesson, students complete a creative writing assignment to create a closing argument for a character from the short story of their choice that involves controversy. Students can choose to write in defense of the character or to prosecute them for what they did during the story.
In this lesson, students learn what makes a strong topic sentence in writing, then practice writing their own topic sentences.
This lesson plan gives students a step by step process to write a mystery story. Students first read and analyze the characteristics of a mystery, then take a try at writing their own.
In this lesson, students choose real-life occurrences from their personal history and turn them into tall tales by exaggerating the details of the story.