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Grades level iconsGrades 5–6
Session time icon4 Sessions; 50 Minutes Each
Genre information iconFantasy/SciFi, Narrative
Resource type iconProjects

Time Travel is Nerve Wracking: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing

Rebecca Darugar, 826NYC
1. Character Development
2. Setting and Story Mountain
3. Drafting
4. Workshopping and Revision
In this project, alternate universes, crazy scenarios, and compelling characters abound as students take ownership of the science fiction genre and write short sci-fi stories of their own.
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Setting and Story Mountain

Students use posters as inspiration to jumpstart a science fiction world of their own creation. After brainstorming plot and setting, students draft opening paragraphs.
What Your Students Will Learn

Students develop an understanding of conflict, climax, rising action, falling action, and resolution, and use characters’ motivations and desires to drive plot.

Common core standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.D Download Resourse Icon
Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4 Download Resourse Icon
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5 Download Resourse Icon
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10 Download Resourse Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.D Download Resourse Icon
Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4 Download Resourse Icon
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.5 Download Resourse Icon
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.10 Download Resourse Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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What Your Students Will Produce

Students establish the desires and actions that will drive their stories using a Story Mountain and write the opening to their stories.

What You Will Need

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