The student will:

• Understand why we write.
• Learn and practice the five stages of the writing process: Prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.
• Know the parts of a narrative: characters, setting, conflict, point of view, plot, theme, and solution.
• Understand what is involved in prewriting: selecting and narrowing a topic, gathering ideas, and creating a story web.
• Learn strategies for starting a story.
• Decide the point-of-view of the story.
• Explore how to describe setting and characters.
• Understand how to introduce the conflict and theme.
• Learn the proper way to write dialogue as well as how to balance dialogue and action.
• Know when to end your story.
• Understand how to edit and revise the story.
• Learn specific strategies for checking for spelling and punctuation errors.
• Write and publish a final draft.