Animals Narrative Task

You will now review your notes and sources, and plan, draft, revise, and edit your writing. You may use your notes and go back to the sources. Now read your assignment and the information about how your writing will be scored; then begin your work.

Your Assignment:

Now that you have completed the research and readings for your part of the new class book, your teacher has assigned you with the task of writing a narrative story article about animals. The audience for your article will be the students, teachers, and parents who will read the book.

Now you are going to write a story to include in the book. For your story, imagine you are locked in a zoo on a Friday night. In your story, tell what happens once the zookeepers leave and the animals comes out. The story should be several paragraphs long. When writing your story, find ways to use information and details about animals you learned about in your research. Make sure you develop your characters, the setting, and the plot. Use details, dialogue, and description where appropriate.

Narrative Story:

Your story will be scored using the following:

1. Organization/purpose: How effective was your plot, and did you maintain a logical sequence of events from beginning to end? How well did you establish and develop a setting, narrative, characters, and point of view? How well did you use a variety of transitions? How effective was your opening and closing for your audience and purpose?
2. Development/elaboration: How well did you develop your narrative using description, details, and dialogue? How well did you use relevant details or information from the sources in your story?
3. Conventions: How well did you follow the rules of grammar usage, punctuation, capitalization and spelling?

Now begin work on your narrative story. Manage your time carefully so that you can

• Plan your multi-paragraph narrative story.
• Write your multi-paragraph narrative story.
• Revise and edit the final draft of your multi-paragraph narrative story.

Word-processing tools and spell check are available to you.

You are being asked to write a multi-paragraph narrative story, so please be as thorough as possible. Type your response in the space provided. The box will get expand as you type.

Remember to check your notes and your prewriting/planning as you write and then revise and edit your narrative story.