Writing A Short Story - Weather

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Grade Level

• Middle School

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Subject

• Science

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Length of Time

• 1 Hour

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Description

• This lesson plan is an additional assignment from the lesson plan: Learning About Weather. Students will write a short story on the weather they chose in the lesson plan on Learning about Weather.

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Goals

• Students will learn:
  
  * To use the information they wrote about on the topic they chose in Learning About Weather
  
  * To write a short story
  
  

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Materials Needed

• * Science book
  
  * Encyclopedia
  
  * Notecards or notebook paper
  
  * Pens and whiteouts
  

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Procedure

• First, students will use the information they wrote in the lesson plan: Learning About Weather.
  
  Then, they will write a short story using the information. They need to choose a theme, setting, characters, and plot.
  
  When they have completed their short stories, you can collect their papers and grade them.

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Grading

• You can grade on the accuracy of the information about the weather. You can also check on correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence and paragraph structure.

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