Leprechauns-Creative Writing

Introduction

Introduction

It seems as if we had a visitor in our classroom over the weekend. A small red headed fella covered in green. He seemed to pay a visit to our classroom library and messed up our book shelf, left gold dust on our floor and he also left green foot prints all over our white board! That rascal, he did how ever leave us this letter:

"Top 'O the mornin to ya! I thought I would stop by and see the 2015 lads and lases of Ms. Albamonte's 3rd grade class, but it looks like you were not in. I stoped in to ask if you all had seen my pot of gold? It seems to be missing! I had to travel all the way here from Ireland because I cant seem to find it ANYWHERE! I did not mean to make a mess of your room I was just looking for my gold. Any ways, I must be off and continue my search for my pot of gold. Hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick's day and PLEASE let me know if you find my pot of gold.

Yours Truly,

Liam the Leprechaun"

Wow class, a real live leprechaun all the way from Ireland was in our class and we missed it! Hopefully he finds his pot of gold after traveling all this way. Best of luck to Liam the Leprechaun.

Task

What Needs To Be Done

Well class it seems that Liam did not leave us with much information in his letter so this is where you come in. I want you to finish writing Liam's story. How did he get here? How did he lose his pot of gold? Does he ever find it? There are a ton of different ways you can be creative when writing this story. Your story will need to following:

Introduction paragraph
Details and description
Dialogue between characters
Conclusion
Bonus Work: draw a picture of Liam the Leprechaun to go along with your story

Get creative and have fun with creating this story for Liam the Leprechaun!

Process

The Writing Process

Step 1: Choose one of the follow to organize your thoughts before you begin writing:

Option 1: Option 2: Option 3:

Organizing your thoughts will help to make the writing process easier.

Step 2: Begin writing your first draft of your story.

Step 3: Edit and profread your story. Make there are no spelling errors or grammar mistakes.

Step 4: Write your final draft. Make any changes or additions to your story if necessary.

Step 5: Have someone else, a parent or peer, profread your paper. Having another set of eyes look at your work is always a good idea.

Step 6: Bonus work, this is not required but it is an option for additon points. You can draw a picture of Liam the Leprechaun. Be creative!

Step 7: Turn it in!

Evaluation

Rubric

1-5 points

6-8 points

9-10 points

Oranization

of

Wrting

Story is not oranized in proper paragraph form. Lack of flow between thoughts.

________ pt(s)

Story is organized into paragraphs. Each paragraph is its own thought. Transitions between thoughts are present.

_________ pts

Paragraphs are organized very well. Begining with an intro and ending with a conclustions. Story flows well because of great transitions.

_________pts

Grammar

and

Puncuation

4-5 spelling and puncuation mistakes.

_______pt(s)

2-3 spelling and puncuation mistakes

_______pts

Awesome job! There is 1 or no spelling or grammar mistakes.

_________pts

Content

and

Description

The story is lacking content. It is hard to picture the story because of minimal discription. No dialaug between characters.

________pt(s)

The content in the story has description making it easier for the reader to picture the story and characters. There is some dialaug between characters.

_________pts

The content in the story is full of description. It is very easy for the reader to visualize this story. There is more then one time in the story that dialaug is used.

________pts

Bonus Work ___/3 pts

Total Points ___/30pts

Conclusion

Liam the Leprechaun traveled all way from Ireland to try and look for his pot of gold and made it a point to stop by our classroom, how cool! Best of luck to him as he continues his search and thank you to all of you for writing such creative and unique stories about our Irish friend Liam.

Credits

Pictures

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1…;

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1…

Charts and Organizors

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1…;

Standard

3.W.3.3: Write narrative compositions in a variety of forms that –

Establish an introduction (e.g., situation, narrator, characters).
Include specific descriptive details and clear event sequences.
Include dialogue.
Connect ideas and events using introduction and transition words.
Provide an ending.

http://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/standards/enla/correlation-3r…;