Week 1: Introduction to this Course and to Writing Stories

Weeks 2 and 3: Story Components

Story and story components

Characters

Your character must be active and strong

Plot

Setting

Dialogue

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

Weeks 4 and 5: Editing and Revising

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

Weeks 6 and 7: Creating Story Ideas

Let your imagination go crazy!

Creating a bunch of ideas quickly

Use this site's story prompts to activate imagination

Narrowing ideas down to the most promising

Activity: Choose a story idea

Take the story premise and write a story

Weeks 8 and 9: Plot a Beginning, Middle, and End

The story plot needs a beginning, middle, and end

Planning the story

Planning the story versus outlining an essay

More benefits of planning the story

The steps to planning the story

Writing the beginning of the story

Writing the middle of the story

Writing the end of the story

The Plot Diagram

The Inciting Incident - Launch the story!

Activity: Create a plot and an outline for each section of the story

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

Weeks 10 and 11: Which Point of View?

Who tells the story?

The Points of View of a Story

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

Compare the two stories

The Movie Frozen and the power of Point of View

Weeks 12 and 13: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict - Creating Great Stories

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

Weeks 14 and 15: Fun Story

When things get too deep, just write a fun story

Activity: Create a list of story ideas, including characters, plots, and twists

Write a fun story

Celebrate the difference in story-telling ability

Activity: Choose a story idea

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Teaching to Write Fiction Stories – Middle School Semester 1

Activity: Choose a story idea