Short Story Planning

Today we did an inspiration writing exercise to help plan our story. Students were also given their Story Plan sheet that should be shared with me by Monday, September 23.

To help with our understanding, this series of fun and informative videos from Overly Sarcastic Productions was shared by one of our students.

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