Celebrating Student Fiction
GRADE 8s TAKE THE NaNoWriMo CHALLENGE
For thousands of writers around the world, including our own Grade 8s, November is National Novel Writing Month “NaNoWriMo”
After first considering stories they love, writers who inspire them, and topics/issues that matter to them, our Grade 8s turned on their creative juices and developed their own story ideas. They set personal writing goals (e.g., word count or improving specific writing skills) and planned out the foundations of their stories: plot, characters, and context.
Through focused writing at home and school, and sharing their writing with peers and their teacher for feedback, these students racked up a combined total of 180,000+ words!
In January, whether or not they had completed their novel, each student imagined it finished – and published. In a “Meet the Author” event, each student displayed a mock book jacket/cover and shared their writing, as well as their thoughts and ideas about the writing experience, with the school community.
