Creative Writing Unit

1. CREATIVE WRITING
MS. BACK’S 9TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASS
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to develop creative writing
skills by collaborating and interacting with other
students, to create a Multimedia PowerPoint
presentation about a narrative story.

2. LESSON 1: TEACHER LECTURE
 What is creative writing?
 How do people write creatively?
 What is the purpose?
 What can you write creatively
about?
 When is creative writing used?

3. CREATIVE WRITING PROVIDE GUIDED NOTES/PRINT OUT
 Creative writing is a form of writing that is written with a descriptive and creative mind.
 There are many styles of creative writing, such as: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, novels, and more.
 The purpose is to not only express ones deepest thoughts, but to also entertain, educate, and spread
awareness.
 Within creative writing, we can write about anything: a story, an experience, friends, a hobby, a memory,
an event and even the “what if” scenarios.
 Creative writing should almost always be used, because the amount of detail a writer incorporates, a
reader can visualize the writing through second hand experience.
ANY QUESTIONS?

4. CREATIVE WRITING EXAMPLE:
by Stacie Williams
Vampires
 Vampires are everywhere and there is no escape at all. So we get together and try to come up with a way
out. All the while they are circling us all bloody and still hungry for more. The big problem is while we
are trying to save ourselves more keep coming. When out of nowhere pops this big strong half human
and half vampire man starts howling and has a really awesome looking sword and some guns too. He is
known as the dark stranger. We were glad to see him he also had some buddies with him so we knew it
was going to be ok. That is until they were coming for us and not the vampires. It turns out we were the
bad guys and the vampires were the good guys weird huh. Except I didn't believe they were good I think
the stranger was wrong and was there because he couldn't resist human blood no more.
(Williams, 2009)

5. VIDEO
(Weber, 2014)

6. CLASS DISCUSSION
 How would you describe the room you are currently in?
 What can you hear? Smell? See? Touch? Or taste in this room?
 What are other topics or experiences you could creatively describe? Your
room? The gym? A restaurant?
 Assume you are the writer of a top selling book, what do you believe you
would be writing about?

7. MULTIMEDIA POWERPOINT GROUP PRESENTATION:
 Form into groups of threes to produce a 5-7 slide Multimedia PowerPoint presentation.
 The presentation needs to be a creative writing on a real or imagined experience.
 As a group express your newly learned creative thinking and writing skills.
Directions:
1) Form into groups of threes.
2) Pick a real or imagined experience to creatively write about.
3) Be descriptive.
4) Use the graphic organizer to organize your groups thoughts.
5) Use pictures that go along with your story/experience.
ANY QUESTIONS?
PowerPoint Guide

8. GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Please fill out the graphic
organizer I handed out as an
outline for the group
PowerPoint assignment.
For a little fun here is an
audio of a song that
incorporates, descriptive and
creative lyrics.
(Storyboard, 2017)

9. REVIEW
 How can you increase your proficiency in creative writing?
 What does creative writing entail/involve?
 What is figurative language?
 What is a narrative?
 What is a biography?
 What is a dialogue?

10. EXTRA CREDIT
For extra credit, follow the link to
watch a few of the poetry slam
creative writing examples. Create
your own creative writing poem
and present it during class.

11. REFERENCES
 Storyboard. (2017). 33 Free Storyboard Samples. Retrieved July 17, 2017, from
https://www.sampletemplates.com/business-templates/free-storyboard-templates.html
 Weber, S. (2014, February 19). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQryzslnio
 Williams, S. (2009). The Never Ending Vampires. Retrieved July 17, 2017, from http://www.creative-
writing-
now.com/the-never-ending-vampires.html
 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1063/CreatingPowerPointSlide.pdf