Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story
This lesson is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for both...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Writers' Workshop
Learners draw on their understanding of different types of narratives to inspire and enrich their own storytelling. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
New York Times
New York Times: 650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing [Pdf]
A wonderful collection of 650 writing prompts organized into categories and issues, e.g., role models, family, memories, race, gender, sexuality, social media, etc. Each prompt is linked to an article on that topic. W.9-10.10 Write...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, students write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then they...
Other
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Step by step guidelines to the process of essay writing. Basic, but helpful.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Narrative Essay
Need help picking out the elements of a narrative? Check this site out from Capital Community College, and you'll see some background information, a sample essay, and directed questions to ask yourself about a text. W.9-10.3 Narrative,...
Other
Expressive Essay: The Use of Psychodrama as Therapy
A well-written example of an expressive essay. Deals with drama as a means of therapy for deaf patients. An excellent model of expression in essay-writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop:favorite Person & Song
Do you have a favorite person--a friend or a family member? Do you have a favorite song? Think about putting your favorite person and your favorite song together in a fictional scene. Make an interesting piece of writing by using really...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Memory Game for Kids
Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal memory before writing about it. If they need help with a memory, they can click the magic button to help spark their memory. Their writing should include sensory details.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Utah Education Network
Uen: All About Me Story
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Mary Wore Her Red Dress
Learners will be able to write and illustrate a personal narrative after listening to the story "Mary Wore a Red Dress". Samples of student work are included.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Point of View (Narrative Perspective)
This site goes over several tips involved in writing a particular point of view, or narrative perspective, including first person and third person.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Story Quilt
In this lesson plan, students will write narrative paragraphs about specific events in their lives. Then students will paint images and symbols from their paragraphs onto pieces of fabric, which will be used to make quilts.
EL Education
El Education: Blanca Rosenberg
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
New York University
Collected Visions
Photos from our past connect us to certain thoughts, feelings, and stories. Share your story on this growing collection of personal family snapshots and essay or read those of others.
EL Education
El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
EL Education
El Education: Diseased
This fictionalized journal was created by a high school student in Denver, Colorado. It tells the haunting story, through a combination of text and images, of a young woman who is stricken with tuberculosis (and later HIV). This...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Slavery in the American South
Article and activity in which students explore the distressful conditions of slavery in the South, answer questions based on the reading, and then participate in writing first person slave narratives for class discussion.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Point of View
From the University of Victoria's writing tutorial site, this section provides a multiple-paragraph discussion of point of view.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Telling Your Story
A lesson in which learners gain empathy for people who lived during a historical time period by writing a first-person story with experiences that would have happened during that time.