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How to do it : Individually, have students prepare the PLAN of their story.
- Choice of style for the story ( suspense, drama, romantic, funny…)
- Choice of characters : physical description, psychological profile….
- Setting : location, point in time, feeling of the place and time.
- Sudden event : something happens…but what???? For you to decide!
- Have students appeal to the reader’s SENSES
(sights you can see, odors you can smell, things you can feel in you hands, sounds you can hear,
dishes you can taste).
- Detailled description is the key-word here.
- Students should write about one page as a first draft.
THEN
- Divide the class in teams of three or four, depending on the number of students you have.
- Students hand their first draft to either side partner. They read the story and continue it
on the disturbant event that ends the first draft.
- Students hand their first draft to either side partner. They read the story and continue it
- Students collaborate on their partner's story
(for a quarter to half a page,
always ending in suspense…).
- You might also want to allow a certain period of time instead.
- Ask students to sign or initial their parts.
- Ask them to switch stories until all the first drafts are back in their first author’s hands.
- Still in teams, the students read the story aloud (just for their team) and vote
on one team story.
- After this is done, you have a representitive from
each team read their story aloud to the class.
- The class must then vote
to select THE class story.
- Students should not be allowed to vote for their own team.
Then, the real fun begins!
- Submit your story for other students to work on.
- Read other students' stories and add to them.
- Participate as often as you wish.
- Teachers could also decide to run a multi year project that would lead to a real story
(that could even be published).
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