How to Write Fiction Creative Writing Unit for Teens

This educator’s bundle is a comprehensive creative writing unit designed for high school students to unleash creativity and develop their writing skills. It’s crafted to inspire and guide students through various stages of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas to polishing final drafts. The 90 pages include worksheets, answer keys, slide presentations, and should take around 3 weeks of classtime to complete.

This unit includes writing exercises, techniques, and tips curated to help students explore different genres, develop characters, build compelling plots, and refine their writing style. It may be used with or without reading a book following the Hero’s Journey framework.

This bundle includes a step-by-step pacing guide and teacher instructions with 10 activities:

1. Deconstructing the Hero’s Journey (PDF) (Available as a standalone on Teachers Pay Teachers)
2. Types of Genres and Micro-Fiction (PDF)
3. World-Building and Plot Development (PDF)
4. Character Development (PDF)
5. Time Writer (PDF)
6. Literary Devices Learning Activity (PDF) AND an engaging 41-slide lecture formatted for PDF readers, Keynote, Google Slides, and Microsoft PowerPoint, not available with the standalone assignment, but included in this bundle.
7. Peer Review Process (PDF)
8. Final Drafts (PDF)
9. Quiz (PDF)

And Bonus Lecture Slides with Activity: Developing Dialogue

This unit aims to cultivate a passion for writing, nurture individual voices, and instill a lifelong appreciation for storytelling among high school students, empowering them to become confident and proficient writers and communicators in the digital age.

All of the files are labeled in the Zip drive numerically to keep everything organized. The Learning Literary Devices and the Deconstructing the Hero’s Journey are also within the main zip file with numbers to keep everything together numerically.