| Performance Indicators
P.S. ELA-1 Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. A. Notice and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in writing. P.S ELA-5 Writing Craft: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
Short Story Writing
Compose a fictional story in which you have richly developed the indicated literary components in order to satisfy your reader (no set length). The best ensurer of a well-developed story is to review the completed story to determine if each of the Freytag’s Pyramid standards are developed.
The (indicated) components that should be developed in your story:
Setting
Characterization
Dialogue
Plot
Suspense
Point of View
Climax
The link included will assist you with understanding these short story components
Short Story Literary Definitions
You may find the student short stories located on this link inspiring. Remember the writer makes up the rules, thus your story can follow whatever course you so desire.
The final copy is due Day 20 of the fourth quarter. The story must be word processed, display a cover page expressing the standard heading, and utilize MLA standards for page numbering and spacing.
APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES OF WRITING:
Write about what you know—or would like to know
There are no new stories in the world, only fresh ones.
Observe closely; then write with all your senses.
The I in your story is not you.
If you care for a character in your story, give it a kick in the pants.
Show, don’t tell.
Share your writing.
A good critic and a good friend are two different things.
1. Brainstorming: webbing, short story outline
Reflection on life’s observations: I have never written a story in my life that didn’t have a very firm foundation in actual human experience –Katherine Anne Porter
Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tired. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new but that is enough. –Eudora Welty
2. Organizing: Freytag’s Pyramid & Consideration of Theme
3. Developing: Compose your short story…write, write, write….
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out. Everything changes as it moves. That is what makes the movement which makes the story. –Ernest Hemingway
A writer really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course, if others like it, that is a clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. –Alfred North Whitefield
4. Finalizing: Peer edit, Final Draft
