A brief guide to engaging students in narrative writing by having them program robots to act out their stories.

This lesson gives students the opportunity to learn iMovie and integrate their knowledge into creating a book trailer. By creating the book trailer, students are showing their ability to integrate media into a presentation and analyze various parts of literature. Photo from iphotostock.com

This lesson is to teach students about different apps they can use to create their digital stories based upon the script that they wrote. In this lesson, they will explore different video-making apps and begin to create their video using their script and storyboards.

This lesson is to teach students about different apps they can use to create their digital stories based upon the narrative that they wrote. In this lesson, they will explore different video-making apps and begin to create their video using their narrative and storyboards.

This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, including works from the early silent period, documentary and avant-garde films, European art cinema, and contemporary Hollywood fare. Through comparative reading of films from different eras and countries, students develop the skills to turn their in-depth analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship. Syllabus varies from term to term, but usually includes such directors as Coppola, Eisentein, Fellini, Godard, Griffith, Hawks, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Tarantino, Welles, Wiseman, and Zhang.

Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher is the perfect, bite-sized mentor text for narrative writing!

"Why You're Never Too Old to Build Castles in the Air" by Miles Howard is a charming blend of persuasion and narrative with a dash of research. It's approachable and accessible in every way-- from the conversational writing style tot the topic of adult Legos. Bring this one into an argument unit or a personal essay unit!

A great first lesson to introduce your students to writing creative scary stories!

This resource will be used to write a narrative story. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of literary elements and elements of a fairy tale. 

This one week lesson plan outlines daily activities for a lesson using Adobe Spark to create a final digital telling of student's narrative stories they wrote in class. This lesson adds a technical element to the overall lesson and works as an assessment of storytelling digitally and otherwise.