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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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Banned book writing prompts.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Banned book writing prompts.
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Exploring the Abandoned Farmhouse
Using video games to teach poetic imagery.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Banned book writing prompts.
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Banned book writing prompts.
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Banned Book Writing Prompts
An introduction.
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Banned book writing prompts.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Banned book writing prompts.
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What Is Lost
In praise of listening.
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The Suitcase in the Mirror
Adventures with Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
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On the Importance of Repetition in Poetry
How the poetry of Robert Hayden & the rap music of Drake can encourage close reading.
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Why Hurts Is a Verb: A 14 Million Year-Long Story
The nebulous origins of one student’s pandemic poetry.
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The Mysterious Bird of Fire
Writing collaboratively with kids.
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The Semester-Long Story
Nurturing perseverance & a sense of exploration.
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Show and Don’t Tell
Using flash fiction to teach personal narrative.
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You Must Change Your Life
Demystifying and remystifying poetry in the classroom.
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The Poetry of Prepositions
Teaching Robert Burleigh’s Hoops.
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Canon in a Flash
Reshaping the canon with flash fiction in the creative writing classroom.
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Escaping the Revision Trap
How gamifying the writing workshop gets results.
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Survival Island
Using a workshop approach with high school writers.
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Remaining Nameless
How writing anonymous personal narrative essays transformed a Bronx classroom.
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Some Victorious Answer to Everything
Bill Murray & Ferlinghetti’s “Dog" as an invitation to write new poetry.
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Walking, Watching, and Writing
How a 17th century Japanese master taught 50 Georgia sophomores the art of contemplative writing and living.
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Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose
Giving the languages we live with the attention they deserve.