Narrative Writing

As a culminating task for our narrative unit, students are being asked to write their own short stories, demonstrating knowledge of the narrative writing form.

Here are some ideas I proposed to get them started:

-use one of the stories you started during our literacy centers.

-use the ‘narrative cue cards’ to determine your plot, characters, setting

-write ‘fan fiction’ (choose a famous story, text/movie/media: Harry Potter, One Direction, Twilight, Mario & Luigi, Minecraft world, Star Wars, etc and write a story based on those characters and in that setting).

-write within a genre: mystery, fantasy, spy, ghost story, etc.

-play with Point of View: write from an unusual perspective! An inanimate object, a tree or natural object, the viewpoint of a villain like Darth Vadar, a Creeper etc)

-come up with your own idea!

Students are again using the writing process to organize themselves: brainstorming, first draft, peer edit, final copy. They are being given 7-8 in class sessions to work on it. After that, they must complete on their own time by the due date. 

The final copy is DUE MONDAY MAY 13th.

CRITERIA

-include a SUPER first sentence to interest the reader

-include obvious setting and characters

-include a plot with a clear problem and solution

-use vivid description that engages the reader’s senses (sight, sounds, smell, etc)

-use interesting words (no boring words like 'good' or 'bad')

-use dialogue to add drama

-include an interesting title that makes the reader curious

-spell common words correctly