Cooperative Story Writing

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To­gether you are going to fin­ish the short story.
  • Read the be­gin­ning of the short story. Con­tinue the story, mak­ing sure to in­clude the item that was drawn from the story box in your nar­rat­ive.
  • Once your time is up, pass your story to the next mem­ber of your group. Now, read the story you've re­ceived and con­tinue it, in­clud­ing a new item from the story box. This ro­ta­tion con­tin­ues until every­one in your group has con­trib­uted to each story.
Locker 160 by Lee Bus­seln

It was my idea, I guess, in the first place. "Let's put a hate note in someone's locker," I said to Julie, half as a joke. We were wait­ing for bio­logy class to begin. She smiled and raised her eye­brows. "An­other one of your great ideas, Karen? Whose locker do you sug­gest we put it in?"

locker -  is a small, lock­able stor­age com­part­ment often found in schools.

to raise one's eye­brows - to show a suprised ex­pres­sion.

Sen­tence starters
  • Little did I know that…

  • Sud­denly, out of nowhere…

  • From the mo­ment we laid eyes on the [item from the story box], we knew that…

  • With a heavy heart, we…

  • Over­whelmed by her feel­ings...

Ad­vise for writ­ing a short story
  • use vivid lan­guage by using ad­ject­ives

  • nar­rat­ive per­spect­ive /

first-​person nar­rator (in this case)

  • make use of dia­logues

  • de­vel­op­ment of sus­pense

  • cli­max / turn­ing point

  • (open) end­ing





Cooperative Story Writing

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