Digital Tools + Creative Writing: Create an Immersive Setting

Lesson Summary

This lesson is the fourth in a series of creative writing lessons for gifted and talented students, providing challenges that allow students to write like real-world professionals while using digital tools for inspiration. Students will be guided to write long-form, text-based fiction after using visual and digital tools that help students create viable ideas for stories others want to read. This lesson addresses setting and theme. This lesson was part of a Duke TIP presentation at NCTE18 by Lyn Fairchild Hawks of Duke TIP, and Tara Ray of Ozark High School in Ozark, Missouri.

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Lesson Content

• Time: 5-6 days
• Duke TIP Creative Writing: Create An Immersive Setting Lesson Plan and  accompanying handouts
• Duke TIP Creative Writing videos, found here
• Prior lessons:
  • Lesson 1: Start a Great Story, and other Duke TIP handouts and rubrics, found here
  • Lesson 2: Create a Compelling Character, and other Duke TIP handouts and rubrics, found here
  • Lesson 3: Create a Page-Turning Plot, and other Duke TIP handouts and rubrics, found here

Student Model