After a few days of no writing prompts, it was time to write more of our short story. Lesson 5 - Developing the Rising Action - led us to this event. We first completed a skill drill (see image), and then wrote to the prompt: Write the first event of your rising action. Use details to show what your character does and says as his or her problem begins to get worse. If we had time afterwards, students were allowed time to conducted a tiny bit of research on the fear of Friday the 13th!

Homework:
* Independent reading process (20 min/night; blog by Sunday night)
* Bring materials for ind. reading next Wednesday