Black History Month Endless Creative Writing Prompts

Never come up with a creative writing prompt again with this Black History Month-themed storytelling unit! Using the 'somebody wants but so then' (SWBST) approach, this comprehensive LOW PREP resource includes Black historical figure character cards, creative writing graphic organizers, writing rubrics, and more.

It makes a great addition to your Black History Month unit study; writing lessons or centers; or social studies or history class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.

ELEMENTS INCLUDE: 

• Teacher instructions
• Creative writing rubrics (teacher and student versions)
• Black historical figure cards (20 in color and 20 in B&W)
• Creative writing graphic organizers (4 options with endless creative possibilities)
• 100 common adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions
• Writing process handouts and bookmarks
• Parts of speech anchor chart

After printing the cards, select which graphic organizers you would like students to use, review the rubric with them, and send them off to write. This can be done individually or in small groups so they can bounce ideas off of one another. Students will submit their finished creative writing stories for teacher assessment.

HISTORICAL FIGURES INCLUDE:

• Bessie Coleman
• Booker T. Washington
• Dr. Patricia Bath
• Frederick Douglass
• Garrett Morgan
• George Washington Carver
• Ida Bell Wells
• Jackie Robinson
• Louis Armstrong
• Madam C.J. Walker
• Mae C. Jemison
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Maya Angelou
• Muhammad Ali
• Oprah Winfrey
• Rosa Parks
• Ruby Bridges
• Sojourner Truth
• Thurgood Marshall

THIS RESOURCE COVERS:

• Art (illustrating and coloring)
• English language arts
• Grammar
• History
• Research
• Social studies
• Writing (creative writing and storytelling)