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Teaching to Write Fiction Stories – High School Semester 1

Grades

Why should you create fiction stories?
Motivations for writing your stories
Enjoy this course! (An overview of the course and structure)
Using dictation or typing for stories (especially if your students have dyslexia or dysgraphia)
Activity: Read three or more short stories
Guidelines, not rules
What is a story?
What is not (an interesting) story
What distinguishes a short story
What makes for an engaging short story
A story is not a lecture sandwich
Generating ideas for stories
Ideas into story potentials
Commercial genre fiction vs literary fiction
Activity: Devise a few story ideas
Write the first story!

Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why
The difference between the story and the story's components
Characters
Plot
Setting
Dialogue
Lousy first drafts
Revising your story
Editing your story for grammar and punctuation
Examples of common grammar problems and how to change them
Examples of common punctuation problems and how to change them
Write and revise a story

The essence of story: Goals, Motivation, and Conflict
Goals
Motivations
Conflict
Write and revise a GMC-based story

From where do story ideas arise?
How original does my story have to be?
Use this site's story prompts to activate your imagination
Using Genres to instigate stories
Generate a story premise from conflict
Writing to figure out the story
Write a story based on the newly generated ideas

The narrator of the story may be different from the protagonist
The differing Points of View
Point of View and Perspective
Activity: Read a story told from different Points of View and Perspectives
First Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Second Person
Epistolary
Choosing a Point of View
Write a story from two different Points of View
The Movie Frozen and the Power of Point of View

Your character must be active and strong
Your readers must relate to (though not necessarily like) your characters
The Protagonist
The Antagonist
The Sidekick
Activity: Using a sidekick in stories
Other Characters
Make your characters complex
Character transformation
Crafting Characters and Story Ideas

What is Plot
The Narrative Arc (Plot Diagram)
Developing plot points
The Inciting Incident - Launch your story!
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
The waves of plot during the story
Write and revise a plot-driven story

Write a story with all they've learned
Revise the story with all they've learned
Celebrate the difference in story-telling ability

Celebrate the difference in story-telling ability

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