GUIDE
AND TIMELINE FOR
WRITING
YOUR STORY (NARRATIVE)
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Use the following tools to write your
story:
1. “Writing a Short Story” packet
2. Class lessons: Punctuating Dialogue,
Show, Don’t
Tell, Word Choice, Denotation
vs. Connotation, Writing Leads, and How
to
Improve Sentences
3. Dictionaries, thesauruses, etc.
4. Teacher’s website
5. “Writing a Short Story Checklist” in
your short story
packet
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Complete the following in your Writing a
Short Story packet:
2/11/15: page 5, Genre (Activity #1)
2/12/15: page 5, Ideas and Conflict
(Activities
#2 and #3)
2/13/15: page 6, Characters (Activity #4)
2/11/15: page 6, Setting (Activity #5)
2/13/15: page 7, Plot Outline and
Conflict
Resolution
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2/25/15: Typed or written draft is due.
It must be no longer than four (4)
handwritten pages. You will meet with a partner to revise (add, delete, change). Use the checklist in the packet. |
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3/2/15:
Typed draft #1 is due. You will
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3/9/15: Typed draft #2 is due. You will
meet with another partner to help
you
edit for paragraphing, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling.
Use the checklist in the
packet.
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3/11/15: Final copy of story is due (Arial,
12-font, double-spaced). Be sure your
name is at the top and your story has a title.
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***Extra Help is available in the Monday
and Friday after school, at lunch, or in
the morning by appointment.
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