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Teacher Resource
Writes of Passage in the classroom
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Individual Stories:
Although the game is designed for cooperative storytelling, teachers may at times simply assign students individual stories instead. Each student would draw a character card, a genre card and a setting card, as in the game rules, but would not be part of a group writing situation. Instead, each student would be responsible for his or her own complete story. This technique could be used for making homework assignments. |
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Character Cards:
Students can be asked to compose quick descriptions or stories about the pictured character on a character card. A teacher may ask the entire class to write about one card, or assign separate cards to individual students. |
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Genre Cards:
After receiving two genre cards, a student could write the same story twice, but fitting each effort into the appropriate genre. For example, a student who received the Mystery and the Western genre cards would first write a mystery story. After completing that story, the student would use the same characters and follow the same basic plot, but change the story to make it a Western. In this manner, students will come to a greater understanding of the differences between genres. |
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Setting Cards:
Students could be asked to describe a scene based on the setting cards they received. Rather than write a story, each student would concentrate on painting a picture of the surroundings for a story. For example, one setting card includes "parking lot" as one of its three settings. The student drawing this card would be asked to conjure up a mental picture of the parking lot, and then to describe the cars parked there, the condition of the concrete (or asphalt), the number and types of cars, the landscaping, and the adjacent buildings. This exercise concentrates on the power of descriptive writing. |
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