Creative Writing
Objectives:
Students will create their own stories given a writing prompt.
Students will recognize and include proper punctuation and grammar including capital letters, periods, question marks, and complete sentences.
Materials:
Friends from the Other Side
by Gloria Anzaldua, paper, pencils.
Procedure:
Read
Friends From the Other Side
to students.
Ask guiding questions during the story including how they would feel if they were the character Joaquin coming to a strange new land.
After completing the story, create a web with the class based on the words “New Friend.” Fill in the web by asking students how they would make a new friend that they met comfortable.
Have students create their own stories about a new child that comes to the classroom. This new child does not know anyone and feels very uncomfortable. How would you make this new child feel welcome?
Closure:
Let students share their stories with the class. Publish their stories by mounting them on construction paper and create a bulletin board with them or laminate stories and bind them together to make a class book.
