Noticing Along the Way - Creative Writing Prompt Cards

Project Description

Join our Office of Outreach in this month’s resource focused on the journey into creative writing using poetry, nonfiction short essay prompt cards to engage in expanded writing skills for your students. This resource is focused on exploring the stories of our everyday lives through poetry, nonfiction text and short essays, giving students a space to expand their creative writing skills.
Best suited for grades 6-12.

Artistic Process
Creating

What's Included

Guiding Question

Standards Addressed

ELA Standards
ELA.6.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective techniques.
ELA.7.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.
ELA.8.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.
ELA.E1.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.
ELA.E2.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.
ELA.E3.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.
ELA.E4.0E.1: Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
ELA.C.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
using effective techniques.

About the Project Creators

Emily Cinquemani

Creative Writing Department Chair, Poetry Instructor

Emily Cinquemani’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, 32 Poems, Nashville Review, Cherry Tree, and Meridian. She joined the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in 2021 after teaching in the English Department at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing with a poetry concentration. While at UNC Greensboro, she also worked as a poetry editor for The Greensboro Review. She currently serves as a poetry editor for The Adroit Journal and is an alumna of Elon University.

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