Week 1: Introduction to this Course and to Writing Stories

Weeks 2 and 3: Story Components

Story and story components

Characters

Your character must be active and strong

Plot

Setting

Dialogue

Activity: Create characters, a plot, and a setting

Write a story based on the characters, plot and setting you've created, including dialogue

Weeks 4 and 5: Editing and Revising

Writing is Re-Writing

How to revise your stories

How to edit your stories

Examples of common grammar problems and how to change them

Examples of common punctuation problems and how to change them

Activity: Choose a story idea to write, revise and edit

Revise and edit a story

Weeks 6 and 7: Creating Story Ideas

Let your imagination go crazy!

Creating a bunch of ideas quickly

Use this site's story prompts to activate your imagination

Narrowing your ideas down to the most promising

Activity: Choose a story idea

Take your premise and write a story

Weeks 8 and 9: Plot a Beginning, Middle, and End

Your story plot needs a beginning, middle, and end

Planning your story

Planning your story versus outlining an essay

More benefits of planning your story

The steps to planning your story

Writing the beginning of your story

Writing the middle of your story

Writing the end of your story

The Plot Diagram

The Inciting Incident - Launch your story!

Activity: Create a plot and an outline for each section of the story

Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end

Weeks 10 and 11: Which Point of View?

Who tells the story?

The Points of View of a Story

Activity: Create a story idea and describe how it would be written in each point of view

Write a story from 2 different points of view

The Movie Frozen and the power of Point of View

Weeks 12 and 13: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict - Creating Great Stories

Creating interesting stories every time

Goal

Motivation

Conflicts

Activity: Create a character with a goal, motivation, opponent, and conflict

Write a story using Goal, Motivation and Conflicts

Weeks 14 and 15: Fun Story

When things get too deep, just write a fun story

Activity: Create a list of story ideas, including characters, plots, and twists

Write your fun story

Celebrate the difference in your story-telling ability

Activity: Read three or more short stories

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Fiction Writing for Middle Schoolers - Semester 1

Activity: Read three or more short stories