You will now review your notes and sources, and plan, draft, revise, and edit your writing. You may use your notes and refer to the sources. Now read your assignment and the information about how your writing will be scored; then begin your work.
Your Assignment:
Your school writing club is creating an online magazine that is a collection of fictional stories about “The Great Outdoors.” You choose to write a story that is several paragraphs long to include in the online magazine. For your story, imagine that you are hiking in Grand Canyon National Park. In your story tell about an exciting adventure that you have during your hike.
The online magazine will be read by parents, teachers, and the other students in your school. When writing your story, find ways to use information and details from the sources to improve your story. Make sure you develop your character(s), the setting, and the plot. Use details, dialogue, and description where appropriate.
Narrative Story Scoring:
Your story will be scored using the following:
1. Organization/purpose: How effective was your plot, and did you maintain a logical sequence of events from beginning to end? How well did you establish and develop a setting, narrative, characters, and point of view? How well did you use a variety of transitions? How effective were your opening and closing for your audience and purpose?
2. Development/elaboration: How well did you develop your narrative using description, details, dialogue? How well did you use relevant details or information from the sources in your story?
3. Conventions: How well did you follow the rules of grammar usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling?
Now begin work on your story. Manage your time carefully so that you can
plan your multi-paragraph story.
write your multi-paragraph story.
revise and edit the final draft of your multi-paragraph story.
Word-processing tools and spell check are available to you.
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