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STORY IN A WEEK Tales of Utopia

MIDDLE _ BEGINNING _ END Work Sheet


 * Describe the start of your story. || * Introduce your characters:


 * What do they want?


 * Where are they going? ||
 * What happens in the middle of your story? || * How will all your story and characters develop?


 * Plot Twists and Turns?


 * How will you lead up to the climax? ||
 * Outline the climax...How does the story end? || * Is your ending what your readers are expecting?


 * Have you used foreshadowing throughout your story ||

=Need Group leaders, Promoters, Illustrators, Editors=

A set of short stories/fables (each student contributes one story to a final compilation) Your story must include a quote you select...from Animal Farm. Write a short story of 700-1000 words.


 * Day 1- Mini Saga - must begin NLT January 4 **


 * **Mini Saga's - Selecting a theme for your story **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Commenting on other's Mini Sagas**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Writing a Mini-Saga**

A mini saga is a <span class="IL_AD">story that is told in exactly 50 words - not 49 or 51 but exactly 50 words. 50 <span class="IL_AD">words is not a lot. With some discipline and creativity, you can say a lot in 50 words. Many writers start their books using mini-sagas. They are great way to kick ideas around without too much fuss

I hope this lens inspires you to write your own mini saga. Here are a few benefits of writing a mini saga:


 * Benefit #1**: Writing a mini saga expands your creativity. When you have too many rules, most people give up!. When you have to put everything in 50words, you have to 'leave behind' a lot. That's where the creative juices start flowing.


 * Benefit #2**: Writing a mini saga stretches your thinking. What will you write about? You have to think about topics that will fit in 50 words or squeeze them to fit in 50 words. That puts thinking on overdrive mode.


 * Benefit #3**: Writing a mini saga enhances your discipline. Deciding what to write about, deciding what to leave behind and putting it in 50words requires discipline throughout."


 * Here are some samples.**


 * It hurt at first, to have something chewing on my face, but as The alien continued...and I moved into shock...the pain began to subside. Quickly, I thought there must be a way out of this dilemma, so, I pulled out the tobbasco and sprinkled it on his tongues.**

//It was the teacher's fault. He was always introducing irrelevant material. I think it was to avoid actually teaching the students anything. His stories were amusing but did we learn anything important. Most of us believed not, until the day the pirate came back with the large headed single eyebrowed very attractive wife of our teacher.//

//He dialed the number again. It was wrong number. That’s three times in a row! Something was wrong. The number seemed OK. Just when he was about to give up, he figured out, he found that the last two digits were interchanged in his phone book. That explained it all!//

//John was a regular in that train. Today seemed different, probably because of Sally who was in New York for work. They started the conversation casually but both became very close in less than thirty minutes. They exchanged phone numbers, of course. John promptly called a day later – “Wrong number!”//


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Day 2 - Understanding your themes and prewriting - January 5, 2012**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab Test**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://nmsutopia.wikispaces.com/file/view/themes.pdf"]] [|themes.pdf] contains themes from animal farm or..Choose one below**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**THEME 1** **- Class Stratification**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**THEME 2** **-Propaganda and scapegoats**
 * [|MORE THEMES]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|More on Propaganda]** **- Utopia and what happens when you try to develop the ideal**
 * **[|THEME 3] - UTOPIA**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Homework - Beginning, Middle, and End**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Plan your story - Beginning, Middle, and End**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Write your stories - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|use this website] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Things to remember**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**show don't tell**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**You may write beautifully, but without a plot your readers will quickly get bored!**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**include images if you can...royalty free ones -** **royalty free images**
 * **pics 4 learning**
 * **FlickrCC**
 * [|copyrightfreeimages]
 * Image Quest


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Day 3 - Writing, sharing and editing your story - Friday, January 6, 2012**
 * * Rough Drafts are due** you must bring a hard copy...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Editors will revise and edit**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Adobe Dry Run?**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Write Final Drafts**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Edit and share with partner - Continue to revise - Final Drafts due Day 4**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Prepare slide and presentation for Friday activity with Dean Groom**
 * **Day 4 - Share final drafts with editors...editors make final cuts**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Day 5**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Editors prepare book for final publishing**
 * Promoters prepare promotional commercial/skit/presentation to sell your book

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">**Utopian Story Rubric**


 * Category || 0-2 || 3-5 || 6-8 || 9-10 ||
 * Introduction || The reader’s attention was not caught in the first paragraph. || A catchy beginning was attempted but was confusing rather than catchy. || First paragraph has a weak “grabber”. || First paragraph has a “grabber” or catchy beginning. ||
 * Organization || Ideas and scenes seem to be randomly arranged. || This story is a little hard to follow. The transitions are sometimes not clear. || The story is pretty well organized. One idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are used. || The story is very well organized. One idea or scene follows another in a logical sequence with clear, interesting transitions. ||
 * Closure || The story trails off with no resolution or sense of what will happen. || The story has a common or forced ending which the reader accepts. || The story comes to a clear resolution or deliberately leaves us wondering. || The story comes to an intriguing or satisfying conclusion and we can predict what sorts of things could happen next. ||
 * Conventions || The final draft has 5 or more spelling, usage and/or punctuation errors, even in common aspects. || There are 4 spelling, usage and punctuation errors in the final draft, some in common aspects. || There are 3 spelling, usage or punctuation errors in the final draft, in more complex aspects. || There are only 1 or 2 spelling, usage or punctuation errors in the final draft,perhaps resulting from risk-taking. Character and place names that the author invented are spelled consistently throughout. ||
 * Neatness**/images** || The final draft is not neat or attractive. It looks like the student wanted to get it done quickly and didn’t care what it looked like. || The final draft of the story is readable and the wiki page is attractive. It looks like parts of it might have been done in a hurry. At least one image has been incorporated. || The final draft of the story is readable and the wiki page is neat and attractive. It may have one or two errors, but they are not distracting. It looks like the author took some pride in creating their story and wikipage. At least one image was incorporated. || The final draft of the story is readable and the wikipage is clean, neat, and attractive. It is free of errors and misspelled words. It looks like the author took great pride in it. At least one images were incorporated on the page. ||
 * Requirements** || Many requirements were not met. || Most (about 75%) of the written requirements met, but several were not. || Almost all (about 90%) of the written requirements were met. || All of the written requirements were met. (deadlines met, length of story, and see above) ||