Creative+Writing+Unit

Kyle Colbert Creative Writing 7 th  grade Language Arts Topic: Writing Day 1 The students will be working on creative writing in the classroom. Each student will click this [| __link__]  and go to the word generator website. The students will generate five words at random and write those down onto a scrap piece of paper. The generator can be set at easy, medium, or hard words. The definition of each word is give below the word. If the students need more clarification [| about what the word means __click here__] , and type in the word in. Once the student has five words written down the student must come up with a short one paragraph story that involves all five of the words that were generated. The students will type the story on Microsoft word or Google docs whichever is available.

Day 2 Once the story has been completed the students will make either comic or video using either

[|__Comic__] [|__Animoto__] The students must choose whether they want to make a comic of the story they wrote or a video of the story. Students additionally have the choice to search on the best for other ways to create and find other media outlooks to express their story through. This day will be give to the students to express and create their stories.

Day3 Once the students have created their stories in however the method they have chosen. The students will upload their media and post it to the classes [|__Edmodo__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Once all students have uploaded their projects the students will be given time to look at the other work and comment and talk about which projects they liked and why. At the end of the class I will post a poll for the students to then vote on the most creative story. [|__rubric__]