Students--perhaps inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure-style books--really enjoy writing choice-based stories for each other. This lesson is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for both meaning and story structure and then apply it to their own writing. Finally, students will have a piece of writing to share with classmates that is both exciting and different.
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6-Trait Overview for this Lesson:
The focus trait for this writing assignment is idea development; students will learn about and use literary devices to tell their original stories.
The support trait is conventions;
students will need to be consistent with their use of verb tense with this style of story, and their stories will probably benefit from small snippets of dialogue, which should be punctuated correctly.