TELLING+YOUR+OWN+SHORT+STORY

Write a short story of your own. This can be about anything topic of your choice. Below are ideas for you to review if you wish. Your short story will be given to a class mate for he/she to find the elements of a short story (see rubric below). Make sure your short story includes the short story elements studies in class including:

-Setting/Exposition: Where is the story taking place? Who are the main characters? -Climax-What is the climax of the story? -Resolution:How was the story wrapped up/end? -Characters: Who is the protagonist? Is this character round or flat? How do you know this? -Theme: What is the theme of the story or life lesson? -Point of View: What is the point of view of the story? How do you know? What pronouns are used to tell this?

Ideas for starting a [|short story]

More story starter ideas: Short Story Leads: Hooking the Reader Begin a story in the middle of a conversation. “If you don’t put that away right now, you and I are gonna have problems,” Carla snarled as Janet scribbled in her writer’s notebook. Janet stared at her round face, squinting eyes, and muscular arms crossed in front of her chest for just a second, snarled right back at her, and continued to write furiously. All the other students around the playground were quiet. “Just who do you think you are?” Mrs. Fleming asked as April slammed her notebook on the desk. Begin with a description: Millie’s face turned red when she entered the room. Stapled on the walls all around were pictures of her. There she was holding the first place trophy high above her head after her team won the state basketball tournament. Above the dresser was a poster-size photograph of her eighth grade graduation; she was standing proudly at the podium delivering her class president’s speech. To the left of the door was a collage of all her school pictures dating back to first grade, her gap-toothed smile framed by her dark face and tangled brown hair. How had someone she had never seen before created such a monument in her honor? Jason’s house was a lot like a museum. There were pretty, breakable objects everywhere and you weren’t allowed to touch a thing. Begin with background information (exposition): Kevin was accustomed to being first. Since he had started track, a sixth grader on the high school team, he had always been a champion. As long as she could rememer, Dimein’s name had always been mispronounced by the teacher on the first day of school.