Category: Lesson Plans
Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
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The Onion
Helping students find inspiration in the ordinary.
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A Place for Us
Student poetry that looks back to move forward.
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Call Me by My Name
Poetry and translanguaging in the multilingual classroom.
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In the Beginning Was the Word and the Word Was Blue
Exploring the blues through poetry and song.
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Banned book writing prompts.
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Tools for Rethinking the World
Using surrealist and science fiction techniques to liberate the imagination.
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Back to School with Sijo
Six teachers expand poetry’s horizons with this Korean form.
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Mockingbird
Using one-sentence poem trickery to inspire student writing.
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Moving Mountains with Teaspoons
Accessing memoir through fragments.
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Costuming Characters
Crafting believable stories inspired by real-life experiences.
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Metaphor as Medicine
Creative nonfiction for pre-med students.
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Mis Antepasados / My Ancestors
Using creative writing to spark language learning.
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Exploring Faerie
Creating fantastic setting through mapmaking & sensory description.
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Bob Dylan in a Corvette Driven by a Cat … or Something Like That
The gift of a personalized story.
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Let There Be Light!
Writing to describe sense of sight.
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Playing with Fire
Poetry to motivate and inspire students in difficult times.
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Walking the Road
An extended narrative prompt for creative writing students.
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The Power of Empathy
Exercises in humanity.
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Flexing Our Rhyming Muscles
Introducing the ghazal.
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The Slowest Writing in the World
We use a needle and thread to learn to write.
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Write Your Own Lord of the Flies with Dyslexia
\/尺⌽┻𝝣 7≠レ尺 ≠⌴乙 レ≠尺⌴ ≠𝞝 ┻冊𝝣 𝞝レ⌽3.
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What Does It Mean to Live Ethically? Teaching the Climate Crisis in Writing Classrooms
A conversation with Emily Raboteau.
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How Long Peace Takes
Writing about world issues using the work of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Is This Poetry?
Teaching Ron Padgett's poem "Nothing in That Drawer."