Sample Lessons Outline

This is only a suggested outline.  It is in NO way  meant to be the only way to do this project.  It is simply to provide you with some ideas.  Please feel free to take them, revise, adapt or pitch!

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson One
Time Frame: 1-2 days

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Inspiration Template
	Our Region's Great Sites

Connections

• Introduce the idea of writing realistic fiction.  
• May want to read an example.  
• Discuss the project idea of five students having an adventure at a Kentucky landmark or location.
• Brainstorm a list of possible sites within your region where the story could take place.
• Assign the students the task of choosing one location and write a paragraph as to why this would be a good setting for a story.
• Have students share their paragraphs with the class.
• Vote to determine the setting for the story.

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Connections

• Brainstorm a list of sites of interest in your region of Kentucky
• Use books, websites or other related materials to gain information about these places
• Discuss types of activities or adventures which might occur in these settings
• Vote on a setting for the story
• Follow-up with having students  research facts about the setting you choose to include in the story.

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Connections

• Divide the class into five groups.  Assign each group a character.  
• Have students list personality characteristics of their character.
• Have students list possible actions this character might do at the setting which you've chosen.
• Using student generated lists brainstorm a list of ways characters can behave and change over a period of time.

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Connections

• Ask the Library Media Specialist to assist the week or two before by reading some realistic fiction or mysteries with the class.  Encourage your students to check out realistic fiction or mysteries from the library.
• Discuss the various problems and plots of books students have checked out.  
• Review the setting and details about your chosen location.  List and discuss possible events and problems which could occur at this site.
• Choose a problem for the story.

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Connections

• Could teach a lesson on dialogue during this section.
• In small or large groups have students write about various events.
• Have students share.  The ideas will not necessarily all connect or flow together.  As a group discuss all ideas and begin to revise using thoughts from each group to create the story line. 

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Connections

• Once the story is to a point of needing a solution assign students to individually write a way to solve the problem.
• Have students share their individual solutions.
• As a group decide on how to combine ideas for a class solution to the problem.

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• Discuss the importance of an introduction and conclusion and the necessary parts.
• As a group write sentence by sentence each paragraph.  May allow individual students to submit one sentence at a time building on the sentence before.