Working Over Language: Recognizing Clichés Explore an activity that introduces students to the topic of clichés. They will practice...		Writing a Character Sketch Challenge your class with a creative writing activity that will teach your students how to...
Promises: Writing a Poem In this activity, students will learn why some events anticipate other events. Then they will...		Victory for the Victim: Writing a Short Story Students will imagine a situation in which a victim can emerge victorious, and will then write...
Writing Weathergrams Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own...		Fortunate Misfortunes: Writing a Short Story Explore an activity that presents a lesson about a blessing in disguise, after which students...
The Naming Business In this activity, students will learn the importance of great names for people, products, and...		Let's Change the World: Writing a Play or Story Explore an activity that asks students to think about transformations and the ways in which...
Composing Great Titles The purpose of this activity is to raise students' awareness of the advantages of a good title...		Questions About Your Future: Writing a Personal Letter Explore an activity that invites students to look seriously at their future by composing...
Success and Failure: Writing an Essay In this activity, students will explore how they measure success and failure in themselves and...		The Final Shot In this creative writing activity, students are given a short prompt that describes an exciting...
Winning by Losing: Writing an Anecdote In this activity, students will learn about the concept of the paradox and why some paradoxes...		Hot Tuesday Students are asked to imagine the hottest day of the year and then write a story about it.
More Than Enough: Writing an Essay Students will learn about hoarding and will consider why a person would want to hoard objects...		Moe's Café
Recognizing Malaprops Students will learn about malaprops in this activity. They will write two paragraphs about the...		A Distant Land Students will imagine a fantasy world and write a short story about what might happen there.
The Locked Locker: Writing a Nonfiction Narrative Explore an activity that presents an example of a nonfiction narrative and directions for...		Too Much Person In this creative writing activity, students are asked to imagine a person who has too much of a...