Creative Writing High School: Dystopia and Horror Lesson Plans
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Are you teaching Creative Writing or would you like to infuse your ELA course with Creative Writing options? These units will allow you to hit on standards that work for any ELA course while helping students develop their voice and style and dive into engaging texts. Representative authors include:Price $43.20Original Price $48.00Save $4.80
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16 days of lesson plans around the popular genres Dystopia and Horror. Great any time, but perfect in the month of October right around Halloween. Students will read informational texts about the genres, read 4 stories, 2 from each genre, and have multiple opportunities to write in each genre preparing them to write their final story with rubric included. Includes links to prezi, Google Slides, and multiple handouts that include everything from a dice game to a detailed characterization handout. Students will love the opportunity to delve into stories that showcase some of the traits of their favorite movies and books. You’ll love getting a variety of stories to read from for their final assessment. Happy haunting!
Looking for more Creative Writing Resources? Check these out:
- Creative Writing High School Curriculum with Distance Learning Solution
- Habits of Mind: Class Introduction
Units:
Stories:
- Write Your Own Dystopia with Example Reading
- Historical Fiction
- Travel Stories and Integrating Quotations
- Southern Gothic Literature and A Rose for Emily
- “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison: Themes of Privilege, Bias, and Racism
- Naturalism vs. Realism with Plath & Chopin
- High School Story Choice Board
- Short Story Bundle
Poetry:
- Color Poem with Colors Passing Through Us
- Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka Poetry
- Nature and Tone
- Favorite Place Poem with Nikki Giovanni’s “Knoxville, TN”
- Phenomenal Woman Poetry
- Tongue Twister: Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance
- High School Poetry Choice Board
- Poetry Bundle
Independent Reading:
- Critical Theory: Independent Reading through a Lens
- Unfamiliar Genre Independent Reading & Writing Project
Rubrics:
- Short Story Rubric
- Poem Rubric
- Speaking & Listening Rubric
- Claim, Cite, Clarify Rubric
- Group Work Rubric and Self-Assessment
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