For this presentation, you will create and share a tier list with the class. Your job is to tier anything—yes, anything—using between 5 and 10 items. You may use the traditional letter tiers (S, A, B, C, D, F) or invent your own (e.g., “God Tier,” “Emotional Damage Tier,” “Why Does This Exist Tier,” etc.).
Your topic must be school-appropriate, but beyond that, you have complete creative freedom. Your items should have some kind of theme—but remember, this is Creative Writing: even the lack of a theme is… a theme.
Try to make them interesting, strange, or unexpectedly profound.
Cereal
Fast food sauces
Writing utensils
Classroom chairs
Fruits ranked by emotional support potential
Explore the dramatic, the existential, or the academically traumatic.
Assignments that broke you spiritually
The stages of academic grief
Group project NPC archetypes
Reasons you’re tired (ranked by accuracy)
Lean into the weird.
Times in your life you accidentally felt like an NPC
Random noises your house makes at night
Things you could probably fight (and things you absolutely couldn’t)
The personalities of your phone battery percentages
Types of silence (e.g., “Teacher Waiting Silence,” “Awkward Hallway Eye Contact Silence”)
If you overthink everything, embrace it.
Human emotions ranked by texture
Days of the week as villains
Concepts that should not have power over you (but do anyway)
Weather patterns inside your brain
Create a visual tier list (Google Slides, Canva, or paper), present it to the class, and explain why each item belongs in its assigned tier. Be creative, be weird, be thoughtful, be funny—your choice.