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creative writing

Unit One-Developing Your Voice: Blogging and Memoirs
WordPress
Writing Activities:
Random Stimulation
Childhood Place
Story Starters
Writing About Images
​100 Journal Writing Prompts
Character, Character On the Wall
Confess a Secret
Embellish an Advertisement
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Unit Two-Poetry
Poetry Unit Plan
Poetry Introduction
Poetry Writing Lessons



Resources:
Blogging Basics 101-Blogging Basics
5 Beginning Blogging Mistakes You Can FixAdvice for Blog Design and Blog Goals​
8 Top Teen Bloggers
Free Software
20 Blog Post Topic Suggestions
10 Teen Blogging Topics
Top Blogging Topics
100 Lifestyle Blogging Topics
​​50 Things to Blog About






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Poetry Resources:
​Rhyming Dictionary
How to Write Poetry-Creative Writing Now
Definitions of Poetry by Poets
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Poetry Terms and Definitions
​Literary Elements Mapping
Found Poems:
Planning Page
​A Cool Kid Like Me
​Never Lonely Again
Tyrone the Horrible
LOve Poems:
The Mystery of Love
​What is an Ode?
Writing an Ode
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode: To a Holstein
Acrostic, Blank Verse, Sestina
Writing Different Types of Poems
Ballads, Narratives
​How to Write a Narrative and Ballad
Writing Down the Bones:
Unit One
Week 1: Intro, Beginner's, First Thoughts
​Week 2: Writing, Composting, Artistic
Week 3: A List, Fighting Tofu, Trouble
Week 4: Elkton, Tap, We Are Not the Poem

Unit Two
Week 1: Man Eats Car, McD's, Obsessions
Week 2: Original, The Power, Baking
Week 3: Living Twice, Writers, Listening
Week 4: Don't Marry, Don't Use, What Are
Unit Three
Week 1: Syntax, Nervously, Don't Tell
Week 2: Be Specific, Big Conc., Ordinary
Week 3: Talk Is, Writing Is, One Plus One
Week 4: Be an Animal, Make State., Action
Unit Four- Start on p. 131
Week 1: Goody, No Hindrances, A Meal
Week 2: Use Loneliness, Blue, Going Home
Week 3: A Story, W Marathons, Claim
​Week 4: Trust, Samurai, Rereading, I Don't Want, Epilogue
Podcasts for Creative Writing:

​Dead Robots Society
The Writer's Voice-Fiction from The New Yorker
The Fiction Podcast-New Yorker
​Poetry Podcast-New Yorker

Unit Three-Short Stories
Short Story Unit Plan

Writing Activities:
Character, Character On the Wall
Confess a Secret
Childhood Place
Embellish an Advertisement

Group Story
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Historical Fiction
Jumble Story
​Show and Tell
The Invisible Scene
​Writing Dialogue Exercises
​Dialogue Workshop
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Short Sory Tools:
Answering Questions-Character Development
Clustering-Character Development
Plot Diagram Tool
​Short Story Prewriting
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Short Story Planning
Short Story Checklist
Rules For Writing Dialogue
Resources:
Advice to New Writers
How to Write Great Short Stories That Engage
Short Story Definitions
Elements of a Short Story
​Elements of a Short Story Notes
Writing Dialogue-8 Tips
Short Stories To Read as Examples
Coping Stones
Split Cherry Tree
The End Of the Party
The Killers
Law Of Life
This is What it Means to Say Phoenix
Through The Tunnel
To Build A Fire
Wheeling

Unit Four : Twitterature/Micro Fiction/Flash Fiction and Final Project

Unit Plan-MicroFiction
Introduction to Microfiction
Twitter Fiction-What Is It?
​Nanoism- A Twitterature Online Magazine
Writing Effective Flash Fiction
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How to Write Good Flash Fiction- Scroll to section on "How To"
Final Project Proposal

Final Literary Journal 2019
Resources For Twitterature, Flash and Microfiction:
Twitterature Definition
Twitterature Examples-The Guardian
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Twitterature Examples-Mic
Prompts for Writing Flash and Micro Fiction
​Writing Prompt Generator
Micro Fiction Examples
Examples of Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction Magazine
Flash Fiction-Literary Hub

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    • UNIT THREE: TRAGEDY-WHY ALWAYS ME?
    • UNIT FOUR: WHERE AM I GOING?
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