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12. Reread your draft and find each detail of the setting. Consider where you might add sensory details to make the setting believable for the reader, and revise accordingly.
13. Reread your draft and consider where you might use dialogue to reveal information about the characters and to move the plot along. Revise and add dialogue or substitute text with dialogue. Aim for at least five sentences of dialogue.
14. Using your Language Practice as a guide, make sure that you have included at least two parentheticals to add information or description, and at least two parentheticals in dialogue to indicate who is speaking.
Peer Review
15. Reread your draft and check your work against the list of different parts of a good short story that the class created. Take notes on any missing elements and discuss areas where you agree that you need to revise. Make a plan for revision.
16. Join your other partner pair in sharing and responding to thoughts and suggestions about your writing. Use their feedback on your story to help you discover additional ideas for revision.
17. Use your notes and the feedback from your writing discussions as you revise your short story.
Editing
18. Edit your story to correct errors and prepare your work for publication.
ACTIVITY 4
Independent Writing
WRITING PROMPT: Write a short story that meets the requirements listed in Learning Targets and the Scoring Guide. Be sure to
• Establish setting
• Include clear sequences of events
• Develop a well-defined narrator and/or characters
• Choose and maintain a definite point of view throughout the story
• Include descriptive sensory details to make the setting and characters clear and
interesting
• Use dialogue to show character and move the plot
• Use parentheticals to add information or description
You may want to use the graphic organizers from the earlier activities to help you create plot and characters for your new short story.
Revisit the web that you and your partner created for Activity 3.Think of twists on other stories that you know, or go through your own portfolio and then brainstorm ideas for a story that you want to write. Complete your story, revise as needed, and prepare it for sharing with peers. As in the story you wrote with a partner, include at least two parentheticals to add information or description, and at least two parentheticals in the dialogue to indicate who is speaking.
Writing Workshop 4 • Narrative Writing: Short Story 13
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