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4. What words or phrases could you include from each sense (taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing) in your story? What vivid verbs and connotative diction help
readING LINk show that sense? What figurative language could you use? Investigate how the author
of your independent reading book uses sensory details. Record your favorite sensory words, phrases, and sentences from this book in your Reader/ Writer Notebook.
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5. Consider your plot. What is the main conflict or problem? How will it be solved? How can you add a twist? How will you introduce the setting and characters? How can you build to the climax?
Writing Prompt: Draft a short story, adding the elements you’ve brainstormed as you write. Be sure to
• Sequence events logically using elements of plot.
• Use characterization and dialogue to develop conflict.
• Use language purposefully (e.g., figurative and/or sensory details and a variety of sentences).
Return to any of the texts in the unit to reinforce these elements in your writing.
Save this writing prompt response so that you can revisit it when generating ideas for the original short story you will create for Embedded Assessment 2.
Independent Reading Checkpoint
Prepare a short oral presentation about the basic elements of the plot in your independent reading book. Describe a major conflict in the story and how the author addresses it in the story’s exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution.
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