Fictional Book Assignment                                DUE DATE 5/17 & 18/ 2012

Total Points = 100

Students will write and publish a fictional book for their end-of-the-year project.

The project is designed to give students the opportunity to sit in the writer’s chair and experience the planning and forethought of writing with the reader in mind.

Here are the requirements:

1. Students will produce a Overview Sheet (WILL UPLOAD TEMPLATE) (50 POINTS)
2. Minimum 4-page typed story (50 POINTS)

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Overview Sheet Will Address the Following:

I) To include a brief description (2-3 sentences) for each of the Plot Elements

Ø      Exposition

Ø      Rising Action Major Conflict

Ø      Climax

Ø      Falling Action

Ø      Resolution

2) To include a brief description (2-3 sentences) of the Characters

3) To include a Theme Statement (1 sentence)

4) To include Author Online (ref. Textbook for examples).  Include a brief description (3-5 sentences)  Details should be important and relevant to how the author began writing

Ø      Make mention of relevant details that make connections to the story

Ø      Make mention of the author’s literary device/character development preferences as they are relevant to the story

5) To include the Story Background section (ref. Textbook for examples) - a brief description (3-5 sentences) of the specific details important to understanding the story

6) To include a 5-7 sentence reflection about how you realize the reader and the writer are ONE.

7) To include an Author’s Purpose Statement (1 sentence explaining your purpose for writing this fictional piece.

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Layout

• 1 margins (top/bottom & left/right) This is a recent change from 1 1/2
• 8 ½ by 11
• Size 12 font
• Ariel, Calibri, or Time New Roman font *Comic if compliments story
• Double Spaced
• Typed pages – minimum of 4 pages, maximum 8
• Title page, prologue page (which is optional), and separate illustration pages are NOT included in the 4-8 pages count.

Cover Page

·        Title (must have)

·        Illustration (optional)

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Checklist

Literary Devices

• Use of Figurative language (highlight them)
• Use of Descriptive and Sensory Details
• *show 2 examples of irony (highlight them)
• *Use of foreshadowing is optional – try it (highlight them)

Text Features

• At least two (2) examples of text features per page
• At least  2 footnotes for the story

Illustrations

• At least 2 for the story
• *If illustration(s) take more than 1/3 of the page, then that page is not counted as a full page.

Conflict

• Along with an external conflict, show the character(s) experiencing inner conflict as well.

Ending

• Will the reader have to predict the ending as in “The Lady or the Tiger”?
• Will the ending have a twist to it as in “Ransom of Red chief” or “Tell, Tale Heart”?
• Will the ending have a predictable resolution as in “The Scholarship Jacket”?