Teach students how to write creative works, such as short stories and personal essays, using a concrete approach and interspersed lesson activities! This bundle includes the lesson slideshow, plot breakdown, Andzej Sapkowski's "A Grain of Truth" with questions, a personal essay planner, a short story revision checklist, and a personal essay revision checklist. . Students will learn:

• Gardener and architect approaches to planning
• Freytag's plot pyramid
• Promises, progress, and pay offs
• Types of setting and worlbuilding
• Principles and types of character writing
• Show, don't tell strategies
• Short story writing
• Personal essay writing