Northern Muses: Writing Your Second Original Story

Good morning,

This week, for your Work on Writing, you will be planning your second original story. As before, this planning stage will have two parts: 1) Independent Brainstorming and 2) Peer Conferring. Please record the Learning Intentions and Criteria in your Reading Log notebook (the back of your last good copy).

Notes:
1) for this story, all character names and personalities must be original (no peer names)
2) the storyline must be significantly different from your first story

Learning Intention: I can plan a story that contains original, interesting characters, setting(s) and problem.

Criteria: 1) details about character traits
2) details about the setting(s), and
3) details about the story problem and resolution

Strong Recommendation: Use the brainstorming as a powerful tool to plan out your story. When you are finished brainstorming, you should know your characters very well and be excited about developing their problem.

1) Below your Learning Intention and Criteria, brainstorm your story ideas. If you like, here are some brainstorming ideas (story writing). In addition, here is a site to help you come up with ideas, from Scholastic.

2) Peer Conferring: (for this story, you may do this with a peer of the same gender). Share your brainstormed ideas with your peer. Your peer is to ask questions and give suggestions to help you brainstorm more details.

Here is the rubric I will be using to mark your brainstorming assignment.

	1	2 Minimally Meeting	3 Fully Meeting	4 Working towards
Notes	very few notes or phrases very difficult to follow	a few notes or phrases might be difficult to follow	brief notes on all areas easily followed	many concise notes storyline very easy to follow
Setting/ Time Period	· no setting identified	· setting & time period identified	· clear setting and time period	· details about setting & time period
Characters	· no description or names	· names and/or ages of characters	· well described e.g. appearance	· unique, very well described (appearance and personality)
Story problem	· predictable, no details	· stated but few detail	· some interesting details about problem	· many details about problem · development
Resolution	· no clear notes about how the problem is solved	· some clear ideas about how the problem is solved	· clear and details about how the problem is solved	· many details about how the problem is solved