Boys will love this curriculum created for writing about battles! It contains 12 easy self-guided lessons covering the basics of creative writing: character, setting, dialogue, and plot development. Each lesson has a handout to practice the new concept, writing story time, and either a battle craft or activity.  Activities include:

• Putting together an easy backyard obstacle course
• Learning military lingo, artillery names, and ranks
• Making a clay diorama of the battlefield
• Hosting a Nerf gun war
• Drawing maps and
• Illustrating the story

Literary tools to enhance writing are incorporated: onomatopoeia, show don’t tell, similes, and comic relief.

This course can be used in one 60 minute lesson or two 30 minute lessons per week.

Ages 8-12