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Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters Unit PlanTexas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters Unit Plan
Publisher
Texas Education Agency
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Unit Plans
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For Administrator Use
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Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Lexile Measures
1130L
Unit Plan

Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters

Curated by ACT

A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with believable characters in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Imagine 3-D Characters, Show and Tell, Build Your Main Character Read about a Main Character, and Draft your Story.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Additional Tags

believable characters, creating characters, texas gateway, texas gateway: writing a short story with interesting and believable characters, writing an engaging short story with interesting and believable characters, narrative writing

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

Common Core

W.9-10.3.b W.9-10.3.a

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Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters

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Activity

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Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

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Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

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You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
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Unit Plan

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Write a Short Story

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Young scholars compare two paintings, depicting urban life in America in the 1940's, answering a series of questions, then create a short story about the paintings' characters. They compare 'Nighthawks' and 'Nightlife.'
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