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Performance
Task

Essential Question

How does genre affect the way a story

is told?

Write a Short Story

PROMPT Consider all the different ways the stories in this module were told. How will
you tell your own story?

Imagine that your school library is having a story-writing contest. The winning story
will be printed, copied, and made available in the library for the whole school to read.

Write a short story for the contest. Use the texts in this module as your models for
good storytelling.

I will write a story about .

Make sure your story

 begins by introducing the setting and the main character
or narrator.

 includes dialogue and descriptions to show how
characters respond to events.

 uses narrative techniques based on examples from the

module’s texts.

 uses transitional words to clarify the sequence of events.

 provides a satisfying ending that develops logically from
the story events.

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