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Provide a Grade 10 end-of-year worksheet packet of 10 varied activities (about one hour each) covering reflection, vocabulary, media/text analysis, data, creative writing, and review.
Prompts a research and creative-writing response about trees, carbon storage, and climate change for advanced/gifted science students.
Prompts a research and creative-writing response about Tule fog for advanced/gifted science students.
A digital 'roll a story' creative writing tool built in Google Sheets that randomly generates a character, plot, and setting combination (10 million possible combinations) to prompt student story writing.
Teach students to incorporate vivid setting descriptions, character development, and dialogue into creative/narrative writing, using picture-based writing prompts.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and modern debate over cursive writing, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Lesson slideshow teaching techniques for creating suspense in narrative writing (foreshadowing, vivid setting, imagery, pacing) for middle/high school creative writing.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and styles of documentary filmmaking, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and identity of the Italian fashion house Fendi, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about what students and teachers experience at fashion academies, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and identity of the Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A one-page creative writing prompt asking students to imagine and describe a day in their life set in a different century.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about language endangerment and efforts to preserve endangered languages, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A short creative-writing prompt activity centered on the Giant's Causeway (a geological rock formation), asking students to imagine finding 'the Giant's boot' at the site and invent a backstory.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about Diagon Alley, the fictional shopping street from the Harry Potter series, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about ancient Egyptian mythology and its gods and beliefs, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A short creative-writing activity connected to mythology, using the phoenix as a prompt for descriptive and poetic writing.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the language-learning app Duolingo and its approach to education, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the domestication history and care of pet rabbits, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and appeal of detective fiction as a literary genre, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A short creative-writing prompt in which students respond, in letter form, to a fictional letter from an alien asking about life on Earth.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the domestication and care of ferrets as exotic pets, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history, culture, and attractions of Florence, Italy, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A Google Slides/PowerPoint deck of 24 flash-fiction creative writing prompts to give students short, timed writing practice, explained with a slide on what flash fiction is and directions for use.