12 Creative Writing Lessons for Upper Grade Levels

Lesson 1:
Write a fictionalized account of being an eyewitness to an historical event.

Lesson 2:
Write a five paragraph essay on the listed topic. Start with an outline, materials provided to start organizing your ideas. It is important to write down several main points you'd like to express before writing to ensure these points are included in your essay. We often forget the important message we hoped to convey in a piece. This allows us not to forget, or at least allows us to choose to leave certain information out of an essay.

Paragraphs should have a supporting statement that starts your paragraph. Define your points in the following sentences. Your final sentence in your paragraph should sum up your topic, and offer a transition into your next topic.
Write your essay on the following topic: Why every student today should be computer literate.

Lesson 3:
Choose one classic villain in children's literature, perhaps your favorite, and write no less than one full page about the villain and their attributes. Be comfortable sharing why this particular villain is your favorite and why.

Lesson 4:
Write a five paragraph essay on the following topic: What makes a good teacher?
What do you think are the main attributes that a good teacher should have? What teaching methods might they have and how would you like your teacher to act to your class? Write no less than ¾ of a page in response. 

Lesson 5:
Write a paper that describes why or how advertising pays. Use examples from commercials, advertisements in the newspaper, on the Internet, etc. Make sure to share what companies you've decided to utilize in your paper. This should be no less than one page.

Lesson 6:
What is the "public interest"? Does it have the same meaning in advertising that it does in medicine, government and law? Write no less than one page in response to the question.

Lesson 7:
Write at least one page in answer to the following question: How to motivate children to achieve.