This lesson supports college-bound students in writing compelling personal statements. Students will go from blank page to finished draft as they brainstorm, develop, and analyze personal statements.

Students will identify something they have inherited from their families, conduct interviews, and write a narrative essay. This lesson is especially well suited for English Language Learners.

Students enter The Poetry Laboratory, no lab coats required, and use methods of observation and playful strategies to embark on the process of writing poetry.

Discover what’s possible through writing. In this lesson, students will write a thrilling new story about their future selves inspired by their curiosity and imagination.

Working as budding archaeologists, students use artifacts as inspiration for several short writing pieces.

Students explore multiple STEM disciplines and the importance of scientific modeling, all in context of an upcoming zombie apocalypse. They'll write technical notes and create an ongoing narrative.

A mock crime scene kick-starts this lesson, getting students to hone their inferencing skills and serving as inspiration for crime stories.

A student’s guide for evaluating evidence and learning to spot misleading and false information.

Students will work in a collaborative, constructive setting to create a vision for your classroom as a safe space for students and teachers.

In this workshop, students will create a pourquoi tale, or origin story, of how a local delicacy came to be.

Through writing, drawing, mapping, and researching a chosen fruit, students will become more familiar with the often complex history of food and how people access it.

The pen is mightier than the sword. In this lesson, students learn there's no better evidence of this than the poetry behind social movements.

Students will collect dirt, map their neighborhood, and listen to music that explores low sound, depth of soil, and the psychological landscape of New Orleans.

Students (virtually) explore a local cemetery and write a monologue from a famous person buried there, including facts from their research and imagined details from a mapping exercise.

Students will craft an argument about a controversial topic they hold a personal connection to and record their argument to persuade their audience.

In this lesson, students are challenged to reevaluate the way water and land are represented on a map.

Students write ekphrastic poems, exploring and creating connections between text and image.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives. This lesson will support students in processing the changes in their everyday lives and help them to identify the creativity their community has exhibited.

Over the course of this lesson, students produce memoirs, poems, and essays that explore what it means to be a member of the LGBTQIA community in America today.

In this lesson, students explore the genres of historical and speculative fiction before they reimagine a time they felt powerless and write a different outcome.

Invite students to write about their personal experiences with social media and online platforms with this lesson from 826NYC.

Students will read a poem by Eve L. Ewing and learn to write a poem that retells or reimagines an experience.

Your students will use free writes, writing games, cheesy pop lyrics, and revision strategies to learn how to make connections between all of the points on their journey of writing a poem.

Using Twitter as a storytelling medium, students will improve their understanding of perspective, editing for brevity, and the importance of word choice.

In this lesson, students will construct a short narrative told through concrete poems.

By examining patterns in engaging published stories and applying a set of meaningful prompts, students will learn how to develop well-rounded characters that readers really care about.

Inspired by George Ella Lyon’s original poem, this lesson guides students through naming the people, places, and things that have shaped them.

Few expressions of gratitude are more meaningful than a personalized letter. In this lesson, students reach out to essential workers and return their acts of service and kindness by giving thanks.

Students will tell stories about their neighborhoods and create maps that document change. The end result is a better understanding of a map’s ability to demonstrate the history behind fixed points.

In this Lesson, students will further their understanding of how language can impact identity through the process of naming.

In this lesson by a young adult author and self-confessed superfan Lisa Lutz, students will learn letter-writing tips and create a fan letter.

In this superlesson, students isolate DNA, design planes, build lairs, and engineer safe transport to help a hero save the day. Students will also take technical notes and explore new forms of poetry.

Over a flexible series of activities, students will learn to draw details from real life to create unforgettable characters and compelling stories.

Students examine relationships between art, poetry, politics, and current events, and reflect on personal experiences while writing social justice poetry.

In this Lesson, students will learn how to write comedy sketches inspired by "Monty Python’s Flying Circus."

Students will learn to see home in a fresh way, to walk through doors and open windows they never noticed, and to find the stories that home holds.

Emotions play a big role in how we remember places important to us. Students explore this notion by writing memoirs, using plot, dialogue, and description to bring their stories to life.

In this lesson, students experiment with the multimodal composition of Instagram and use this social media platform to promote a social justice issue.

Students become script detectives in this lesson, searching for the underlying structure of every play. Student then draw from memories to inspire original plays.

In this lesson, students explore the graphic novel genre with a focus on plot and character development, scripting dialogue, and visual composition.

What happens when we start from a place of gratitude? In this lesson, students will use Ross Gay’s "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" as a catalyst for a daily gratitude journal.

Imaginary friends come in all shapes and sizes! Inspired by the new Paramount Pictures movie, IF, students will create their own imaginary friend to take with them on their next adventure.

In this lesson, students have an opportunity to write a letter expressing their views on issues that matter to them most surrounding an election.

By examining patterns in engaging published stories and applying a set of meaningful prompts, students will learn how to develop well-rounded characters that readers really care about.

In this lesson, students will use descriptive language to write a poem about a favorite animal.

Students will work together to produce a newspaper for the fictional Flood City. In the process, they will take on the roles of editor and journalist to source, draft, and present their newspaper.

In this lesson, students will use mentor texts to hone their revision skills before turning to their own poetry drafts.

In this lesson, students will learn about different types of rhymes, identify rhymes in lyrics and generate rhymes to use in their own lyrics.