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Develop a lesson to enhance the Creative Writing curriculum through an interactive, engaging presentation. You may teach any topic you choose as long as it has not already been covered in class. Follow and complete the lesson plan format provided in its entirety, including lesson goals and objectives, motivation, materials, assessment, and step by step lesson presentation. Afterward, write a one-page reflection on your lesson, how it was received, and what you would do differently.

Expand a journal entry into: A 4-5 paragraph fictional, narrative, or expository piece OR A poem (6+stanzas, or 20+ line free verse)

This rubric is to be used to assess a student's final copy of a news/feature article.

Assignment: Identify and explain 3 descriptive techniques used in a work of literature. Explain how they are used, citing specific examples from the work.

Objective: Expand a start from the memoir unit into a personal narrative of 4-5 paragraphs using a catchy opening, varied sentence style, interesting adjectives, figurative language and elevated vocabulary.

This rubric is to be used to assess a student's final copy of an opinion article for the classroom newspaper.

This rubric is to be used to assess a student's final copy of a news article.

Students are to write a short story (500-750 words long) that demonstrates their understanding of the stages of plot and the characteristics of a short story.

This rubric is designed to assess any student presentation related to a researched topic.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of one type of rhetorical fallacy by designing a visual representation and explaining it to the class. (Springboard ELA6 2.14)

Objective: The student will create a personal narrative based on a event that that was highly anticipated. The memoir was: to be written in the first person, be a true event, and had a positive or negative effect on the writer.