5/8: The Search for a Lost Treasure (500 words)
5/1: Write a story (not a list of sentences) that has one sentence that begins with every letter of the alphabet
4/30: Embellishing a Problem (200 words)
4/28: Poem (Sonnet form)
4/23: Fish Out of Water story: a narrator has one or more encounters in a Completely Different World than the one he/she normally inhabits (400 wd)
4/17: One of the 10 worst things that could happen on the way to school (list of 10 + 200 wd story based on one of the list)
4/16: My Fable with "the Moral of the Story" (2 to 3 paragraphs)
4/14: Making a Scene (dialogue for family conflict)
4/7: Life Changes (using sensory observations to describe a life change) (200 words +)
4/3: Showing a Story (telling a story using only sensory observations) (300 words +)
3/31: Revision of previous work
3/26: Story with Intense Emotion
3/19: Unexpected Encounter with Celebrity
3/17: Kissing the Blarney Stone
3/12: "The Rules Don't Apply to Me"
3/10: Advice to my future 11-year-old
3/6: Story Final Draft due
3/3: Story: First Draft
2/27: Story; The Middle of the Story
2/26: Story Proposal; Beginning the Story
2/24: Choice: Fan Fiction (Revised story) OR Story of Revenge
2/20: My Perfect World (250 words)
2/19: My Music (response to lyrics)
2/17: The Rest of the Story
2/12: Mystery Story (revised draft)
2/6: Mystery Story (rough draft)
2/5: 3 Phases of your mystery story
2/3: Mystery Story Hook with peer questions
1/30: Letter of Apology for that which "Sorry" isn't adequate
1/29: Biography of "Trevor"
1/27: 3 lists + Story "Character, Setting, Time, Challenge"
1/23: 3 lists + Story "The Verbing Noun"
1/22: Frozen Moment; Response to Inauguration
1/20: Character Sketch
1/15: #1: Dialogue with friend about embarrassing CD #2: What happens to the missing socks
1/13: MICE assignment (Milieu, Idea, Character, Events) for the story involving your character
1/9: Character development assignment: Describe 1) your character's room or house and 2) your character's mother
1/8: Story of disillusionment (saved, not turned in); 3 leads and their revisions for that story (turned in)
1/6: First assignment: One sentence story with peer questions, followed by 2-paragraph revision; haiku; rant
