Last week, students finished writing short stories within their table groups, based on prompts that were provided to them. As a group, they filled out a plot graph and wrote a rough draft of a short story by contributing a sentence, before passing their paragraph organizer to a table mate to add their own sentence. This process was repeated, until a 5 paragraph / 25 sentence story was written. We then shared the stories with the rest of the class.
This week, students are using skills learned in last week's collaborative story writing task to create their own short stories. The plot graph portion was due Monday. The paragraph organizer will be due Tuesday, the rough draft Wednesday, and the final draft Thursday. Stories will be checked over by the teacher before students move on to the next stage. Peer assessment will also be a part of the process. All materials and resources are available in the classroom (hard copies). The rough draft and final draft may be written on lined paper or Google Docs.
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