FICTION: A Creative Writing Unit Plan

Everything you need to teach the reading & writing of fiction to your students. Road-tested and student-approved! Authors included are from diverse backgrounds. Focus on contemporary fiction. All texts inside were selected for their accessibility and student-friendly language. Everything in this comprehensive, half-semester unit plan is ready-to-roll and designed to help you reclaim your weekends! Written by a teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing.

This purchase includes:

• A unit plan doc with daily lesson plans (and essential questions, CCSS, and all daily materials conveniently linked in document)
• Ready-to-print handouts on how to discuss fiction, the parts of a metaphor, and how to spice up the verbs in your writing, and point of view
• Interactive lessons on point of view and setting
• Slides for mini-lessons on character, setting, and plot/story structure-
• Slides of targeted journal prompts for each lesson
• Original activity using the New Yorker Fiction podcast that encourages independent listening and small-group discussion
• Links to creative writing games to play with students

Texts provided in this unit plan:

• “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
• “The School” by David Barthelme
• “Self-Reliance” by Edith Pearlman
• Student’s choice: “You Are Now Entering the Human Heart” by Janet Frame, “My Life is a Joke” by Sheila Heiti , or “Roy Spivey” by Miranda July

What customers are saying:

• “This is a great unit and it has served me well with my students… it took a load of work off my shoulders in preparing for this unit. Thank you so much for putting this together.”
• “Good presentation of material and I love the detail included in each lesson… I felt prepared to answer questions about the history because of the complexity of the docs and slides provided.”
• “What’s not to love?.. The kids could follow with this resource, no problem.”