Close your eyes and picture a time where you decided to tell the truth to someone. What were you wearing? How did you feel? Such prompts begin a guided imagery activity for Zach's Lie. Directions for creating an environment conducive to...

If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...

What do you imagine when you think of the sea? Put on some ocean sounds, close your eyes, and listen to a guided meditation based on the imagery from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. After class members listen to...

Sad, depressed, miserable, inconsolable, forlorn: so many synonyms have a lot of variety with their connotations. Through the guided imagery activity, writers explore the use of connotation and its influence on imagery and description by...

In this newsletter activity worksheet, students read a book and complete a newsletter activity as a novel analysis project. Students include a newsletter title, advertisements, news story, and obituary.

Reader's of Wildwood Dancing engage in a guided imagery exercise designed to encourage them to visualize the setting of Juliet Marillier's young adult fantasy novel.

This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.

Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.

Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.

Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.

Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.

Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.

Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.

Understand how learning about the past in The Joy Luck Club allows the mothers and daughters to alter their perceptions of one another. Choose one mother and daughter's experiences from part four of The Joy Luck Club to use to support...

We will gather and organize evidence from parts one and two of The Joy Luck Club and the excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to prepare to write.

Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.

Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying.