English language arts
Character Creation: Build Someone Worth Reading About
Students fill in a character profile, match traits to showing details, and write the opening of a story about their new character.
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English language arts
Dialogue That Sounds Real: Punctuation, Tags and Action Beats
Students fix punctuation errors in sample dialogue, learn action beats, and write a short conversation in which one character wants something.
English language arts
Plot Structure: Sorting the Story of the Missing Cash Box
Students read an original short story, sort its events into the parts of a plot, and plan a plot of their own.
English language arts
Poetry Forms: Haiku, Acrostic and Free Verse
Students learn three poetry forms from original examples, count syllables, and write one haiku, one acrostic and one free verse poem.
English language arts
Point of View Experiments: Whose Eyes Are We Looking Through?
Students identify first, second and third person narration in one scene, then rewrite the scene from two different viewpoints.
English language arts
Revision Workshop: Cut, Swap, Sharpen
Students diagnose problems in a weak draft, revise it under a word-count limit, write a paragraph under numeric constraints, and give partner feedback.
English language arts
Setting and the Five Senses: The Laundromat at Closing Time
Students find sensory details in a model passage, rewrite bland sentences, and describe a school location using four or more senses.
English language arts
The Sandwich Incident: Point of View in Humor
Students read an original humorous first-person story, analyze how the narrator’s point of view shapes what we know, and rewrite a scene from another character’s view.
English language arts
Three Prompts, One Story: Writing From Words Alone
Students choose one of three word-only story prompts, brainstorm with a planning table, write a short story, and check it with a self-assessment checklist.
English language arts
Tiny Stories: Six-Word Stories and Flash Fiction
Students study original six-word stories, count words, compress a sentence to exactly six words, and write a short flash fiction piece.
English language arts
What They Say vs. What They Mean: Dialogue and Subtext
Students analyze an original dialogue where a character hides her feelings, then write a short scene with subtext of their own.
Arts
Write an Original Monologue: Plan, Draft, Revise
Students study an original monologue, learn the steps of playwriting, plan a character and write their own short monologue on paper.