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Harriet Tubman Follow the North Star

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Honor Black History Month with a spotlight feature on Harriet Tubman. After learning about the path the Underground Railroad followed, scholars imagine themselves on it, and share their experience and feelings through writing. 
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Worksheet
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My Feelings

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students make a list of all the things that make them sad, happy, lonely, angry, afraid and silly. Students then write 6 short poems and put them together to make their own personal book of poems.
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Writing
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Narrative Essay

For Students 7th
In this writing worksheet, students write a narrative essay about a time in their life where they felt unprepared for an assignment or test.
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Writing
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In Goal for the Rockets

For Students 4th - 5th
In this narrative writing worksheet, students complete a story that has already been started for them. Students create the middle of the narrative and the closing. There is space to write a two-page story.
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Writing
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Sea Shore

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of children playing at the sea shore. They write a story about the beach scene.
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Creative Writing Story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this creative writing worksheet, students consider the stories they are writing as they respond to 6 short answer questions designed to help them shape their stories.
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Advertising in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Persuasive Texts

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Beginning a persuasive writing unit with your middle schoolers? Approach it through something that persuades us all: advertising! Through studying video and print advertisement, your class will practice Common Core skills for reading...
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Blogging to Create a Community of Writers: Lesson 2 of 6

For Teachers 6th
Using this lesson plan on blogs, you can lead your class through the process of setting up a blog, writing a blog entry, editing their work, and more. There is a link to the blog site used, and attachments of blog entries.
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Writing Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. In this creative writing lesson plan,  students write about the scene in the painting and tie in  their original stories into tales from the life of...
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A Picture's Worth 500-700 Words: Neoclassical Painting Analysis and Creative Write

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers survey Neoclassical art and create a narrative based on their analyses. Focused questions and relevant background information provided by the Getty Museum provides a great foundation for students to understand art...
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Writing
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Hide and Seek

For Students K - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, learners write a story using an illustrated word bank with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
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Writing
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Favorite Day

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this language arts activity, learners write a story about their favorite day of the week. There is an illustrated word bank. Students chose from nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.
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Worksheet
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Volcano Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students explore volcanoes. Students work in groups and have twenty-five minutes to write a narrative about volcanoes using twelve words provided.
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Lesson Plan
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Colonial Writing Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write from the perspective of a child in the colonial period. In this writing lesson, 4th graders create a fictional character living in the colonial period and write about daily life from their perspective.
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Writing a Storybook

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. In this book making activity, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Students utilize these...
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You Are What You Wear

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students, after analyzing interactions between groups/societies, effects of causality/change over time, forms of imaginative writing and utilizing art media to conveying messages/meaning, examine the relationship between clothing and...
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Lesson Plan
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Outline a Travel Narrative

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are taught how to outline a fictional narrative essay. They review the definition and structure of narrative essays. Students use the activity to brainstorm specific ideas for narrative essays. They are given a...
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Demystifying Mood in Creative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how writing is affected by mood and emotions. They learn proper mood descriptors and read sample pieces of writing to better explain mood.
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The Power of Autobiographical Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of injustice. In this nonviolent resistance lesson plan, students discuss how autobiographical writing may be used to promote justice. Students read an excerpt from Gandhi's autobiography and determine how...
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Writing
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Join The Circus

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy learning exercise, students use a picture and word bank to draw a picture depicting what they would like to do in the circus, then write about it.
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Story Writing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students work in groups to create a story that will be presented to the class.  In this story writing lesson, students complete a project planning sheet, work together to create a story that includes a hero and at least two other...
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Quick Writes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers write on a variety of topics, maximize creative and expository writing skills, develop focused writing, organize ideas, incorporate detail in writing, and exhibit varied and precise word choice.
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Activity 5: Creative Writing/Expression About Child Labor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research child labor using Internet resources. They present the information in a creative writing piece and post it on Chalkboard.

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