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Fiction Writing for Middle Schoolers - Semester 1

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Why write fiction stories?
Enjoy this course! (An overview of the course and structure)
Finishing and Posting Your Story
Dictating or typing your stories (especially if you have dyslexia or dysgraphia)
Building blocks to a story
Activity: Read three or more short stories
Story Premise
Create and write a great short story
Recap and Reflection: Writing Fiction, Building Blocks, and Story Premise
Mark optional lessons complete
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Why Write Fiction

Guidelines, not rules
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
Critical Thinking: Character & Conflict Creation
Reflection on the process
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Story Components working together

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
Critical Thinking: Revising (problem solving)
Activity: Choose a story idea to write, revise and edit
Revise and edit a story
Revise and edit a story
Recap and Reflection: Editing and Revising
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Revising and Editing

Let your imagination go crazy!
Meaning and Purpose
Creating a bunch of ideas quickly
Use this site's story prompts to activate your imagination
Narrowing your ideas down to the most promising
Critical Thinking: Brainstorming & Story Ideas
Activity: Choose a story idea
Take your premise and write a story
Take your premise and write a story
Reflection: From Crazy Ideas to a Completed Story
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Creating Story Ideas

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!
Critical Thinking: Plotting / Outlining (cause and effect)
Activity: Create a plot and an outline for each section of the story
Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end
Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end
Reflection: The Journey of Writing Your Story
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Plot a Beginning, Middle, and End

Who tells the story?
The Points of View of a Story
Omniscient
First Person
Third Person
Second Person
Critical Thinking: Drafting (perspective shifts)
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
Write a story from 2 different points of view
Compare your stories
Recap and Reflection on Point of View
The Movie Frozen and the Power of Point of View
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Point of View

Creating interesting stories every time
Goal
Motivation
Conflicts
Critical Thinking: Evaluating Evidence (details that “prove” emotion/stakes)
Activity: Create a character with a goal, motivation, opponent, and conflict
Write a story using Goal, Motivation and Conflicts
Recap and Reflection: Goal, Motivation and Conflict
(Optional) Christian Writing Supplement: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict

When things get too deep, just write a fun story
Critical Thinking: Endings (comparing alternatives)
Activity: Create a list of story ideas, including characters, plots, and twists
Write your fun story
Write your fun story
Mark optional lessons complete
Celebrate the difference in your story-telling ability

Planning your story

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