Imaginarium: A Five Unit Program to Teach Creative Writing

INSPIRE YOUR STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY! A five-part curriculum to strengthen students’ creative writing skills The Imaginarium program gives students the opportunity to invent a magical new world. Through their writing, students populate this world with creatures, superheroes, spells, constellations, and holidays. They draw on a rich array of resources to make their worlds as robust and lively as possible—from maps to myths to cookbooks to folklore to today’s newspaper. Imaginarium flexes students’ writing, language, and communication by creating new worlds, they become more immersed in the world around them. The Imaginarium curriculum can be used by any teacher to build creativity. The program includes a wide variety of writing activities that tie to Common Core Standards for Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language, and help students develop more innovative and complex creative writing pieces. Imaginarium • Links to Common Core Standards for Writing, Speaking and Listening and Language • Flexible units that can work in the classroom, in after-school programs, or as a week-long camp • Additional resources to extend activities into other curriculum areas ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adrienne Raphel received a BA from Princeton and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she taught English literature and creative writing. She is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard. As fiction editor of Brigantine Media, she has edited both literary and young adult novels. Adrienne also works one-on-one with students through Cambridge Coaching.