In this lesson, following a reading of "The Canterbury Tales", students create travel brochures that detail various people and places that are encountered on the way to Canterbury.
This lesson plan provides a selection of writing prompts for students to choose from, centered around baseball.
In this lesson, students will analyze a narrative writing prompt and determine how the purpose and audience will influence their approach.
In this lesson, students will analyze a narrative writing prompt in order to determine their approach to the writing task.
In this lesson, students will gather materials in preparation for writing their own narratives.
In this lesson, students will finish reading "The Flight of Apollo 11" by Kenneth F. Weaver and also utilize audio and video sources to round out their material for their own narrative drafts.
In this lesson, students will work in pairs to read and discuss part of the article, "The Flight of Apollo 11" by Kenneth F. Weaver. Students will examine the photographs and discuss the article and photos in their groups.
In this lesson, students read he novel "Out of the Dust" and respond to FCAT-like questions about the novel and write a free-verse poem modeled after the author's.
This activity can be adapted among grade levels, and involves students practicing describing objects by their properties.
This resource examines five useful prewriting strategies with examples of how to use them.
This resource discusses different prewriting and writing exercises.
In this lesson, students practice effectively communicating by writing two letters describing a prom date to two different audiences.
In this lesson, students read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and keep track of five of Franklin's virtues for a week. When completed, they write a five-paragraph essay that discusses their attempt to reach moral perfection.
Created By: Hillary Brady, Digital Public Library of America - Time Period: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) - Subjects: US History; Native Americans - Remixed By: Nicole Cockey - The writing task described here can be used as a diagnostic to assess students' inferential and narrative writing skills. Teachers should asses students' ability to drawing inferences based on what the primary sources explicity show and say. Teachers are also assessing students' narrative techniques, include establishing point of view or perspective, sequencing events coherently, vivid use of language language, and resolution. As a diagnostic, this writing activity should be performed on demand after students have had sufficient time to examine and analyze the primary sources.See "Text Set Exploring Identity, Culture, Agency through Boarding Schools" for more details.
In this lesson, students read the poem "Snowbound" and work in pairs to compile a collaborative list of refuge attributes. They then create a graphic display of a personal refuge and write a descriptive paragraph.
In this lesson, students develop creative stories with a life lesson and illustrate them by putting together pictures.
In this lesson, students practice identifying the elements of both Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English) sonnets and try their hand at writing their own original sonnets in one of these styles.
In this lesson, students write a survival story as a pre-reading activity for the novel "Lord of the Flies".
In this lesson, students review writing compound sentences based on an experiment in creating a soda.
In this lesson, students use Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" as a model to write a modern-day morality tale.