Recap and Reflection: Goal, Motivation and Conflict | Create Great Stories

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Fiction Writing for Middle Schoolers - Semester 1

Grades

Why write fiction stories?
Enjoy this course! (An overview of the course and structure)
Assignments and Grading
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
Write your first story

Write your first story

Create and write a great short story

Recap and Reflection: Writing Fiction, Building Blocks, and Story Premise

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

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

Reflection on the process

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

Revise and edit a story

Recap and Reflection: Editing and Revising

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

Take your premise and write a story

Reflection: From Crazy Ideas to a Completed Story

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

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

Reflection: The Journey of Writing Your Story

Who tells the story?
The Points of View of a Story
Omniscient
First Person
Third Person
Second Person
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

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

Write a story using Goal, Motivation and Conflicts

Recap and Reflection: Goal, Motivation and Conflict

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

Write your fun story

Celebrate the difference in your story-telling ability

Recap and Reflection: Goal, Motivation and Conflict

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