SHORT+STORY

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Culminating Writing Activity Guidelines:

Need ideas? Here are some interesting prompts: o Setting the “Stage”: Think of the most interesting, exotic, or strange location. Remember, short stories are SHORT, so nothing too grand! Write about it and be detailed! Specifics to consider: what it looks like, what is done in this place, how one would get to this place, what it smells like, what time the sun sets or rises, how long ago it was built, created, or found, what unique noises can be heard there, etc. o Choose one of the short stories we read and rewrite the same story in a different character’s point of view. o Write a short short story to accompany the following title: “The Joys of Styrofoam” o Write a short short story using as many of these words as possible: skateboard, flamingo, popsicle, mythological, velocity, tyrant, exhausted, delicate, bubble.

PICTURE PLAY POWERPOINT: [|Short Story picture prompts.ppt] The short story quest packet can be found here: [|short story picture quest.doc]