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6. Use Pfeffer’s story and your class-constructed model story, your notes, and your graphic organizers as you and your partner draft a story opening together. You might begin in the middle of the action, or you might begin with characters in dialogue.
7. Participate with another partner pair in sharing and responding to ideas for refining your story opening. Mark the draft, and take good notes so you will remember what you discussed.
8. Use your models and your notes while you and your partner continue drafting your story. Don’t be afraid to modify the original plot line, as long as you and your partner agree.
9. Participate again in sharing and responding to ideas for refining the middle of your story. Remember to take good notes.
10. Reread the endings of your model stories. Remember that your goal is to write a story with a well-developed resolution. With your partner, draft an ending for your story.
11. Participate in sharing and responding to ideas for refining your story ending. Again, take good notes.
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