🦃 🍂Keep your students engaged and learning all Thanksgiving week long—with no prep required!🦃 🍂

This 3-day Thanksgiving ELA Bundle gives you a complete set of print-and-go lessons that build creative writing, figurative language, and perspective skills while keeping students excited and focused before the holiday break.

Each activity works beautifully for one class period, and comes with everything you need—lesson plans, organizers, rubrics, and extension options.

🍽️“Guess What’s on My Plate” – A Thanksgiving Poetry Menu

Students personify Thanksgiving foods in a playful poetry writing challenge.

They’ll write descriptive poems filled with imagery, tone, and voice without naming the food. Classmates must infer what’s on the plate using poetic clues.
✅ Focus: Figurative language, tone, imagery, and inference
✅ Perfect for: A quick creative writing day or sub plan

🎈 Thanksgiving Parade Pitch – Design a Float Everyone Will Remember

Bring the magic of the Thanksgiving parade into your classroom. Students become parade float designers and “pitch” their ideas to "parade organizers" using persuasive and descriptive language. Includes brainstorming sheets, sentence frames, and an optional art crossover for multi-day extension.
✅ Focus: Descriptive & persuasive writing, symbolism, creativity
✅ Perfect for: A high-engagement writing + art activity

🦃 Thanksgiving from Another Point of View – Creative Writing Lesson

Students write from the perspective of an unexpected narrator—a turkey, parade balloon, pumpkin pie, or even a wishbone! They’ll explore tone, personification, and point of view to bring a unique Thanksgiving story to life.
✅ Focus: Point of view, personification, tone, and voice
✅ Perfect for: Creative writing, short narratives, or pre-break fun

💡 Why Teachers Love This Bundle

✅ No prep, print-and-go or post-and-go—ready for that hectic short week
✅ Three complete lessons to fill your Thanksgiving week meaningfully
✅ ELA skills that stick: figurative language, persuasion, POV, tone, and voice
✅ Built-in flexibility—use individually or as a themed mini-unit
✅ Engaging, creative, and standards-aligned for middle school writers
✅ Save money when you buy the bundle vs. individual lessons

📦 What’s Included

• 3 full lesson plans with objectives, teacher scripts & rubrics
• Student organizers and writing templates
• Printable or digital for Google Classroom
• Extension and differentiation ideas for each activity
• Optional creative/art crossover project
  

🎯 Standards Alignment (Grades 6–8)

• W.3: Write narratives and descriptive texts with purpose and structure
• W.4: Develop and strengthen writing through planning, revising, and editing
• RL.4: Interpret figurative and connotative meanings
• SL.1: Engage in collaborative discussions
  

Save time, save money, and keep your students learning happily all Thanksgiving week!

🦃 🍂 Bring creativity, laughter, and literacy to your classroom before the holiday break.

Be sure to check out The Literacy Mixtape for your middle school ELA essentials