'Writing Just So' Due Friday October 19

We have now read several of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So' stories in class. The students are taking this familiarity with a type of story of how something began and will be writing their own. This assignment is a History assignment and should reflect and communicate knowledge from chapter 2 of their history/geography text.

Here is the summary the class received in writing:

Writing Just So
Who: choose your ‘who’ from chapter 2 of your history book. (One of the civilizations) – make sure you make it clear in the story who you chose.

Invention: choose an invention from chapter 2 of your history text

Repeated Phrase: invent a repeated phrase to use through your story. (You cannot use ‘O Best Beloved or ‘Great Grey Green Greasy Limpopo River all set about with fever trees’, or any other that Kipling invented.)

Illustration: You may make a beautiful, meaningful illustration to go with your story - the more beautiful and meaningful, the better. Your illustration should be on a separate, white sheet of paper from your text. If you do not want to do a full sheet illustration, you can do as many beautiful, meaningful small illustrations until they all equal a full sheet size. It is hoped that you will have a full sheet of beautiful, meaningful illustration to share with the world, and hang on the bulletin board.

“All good stories have a beginning, middle, and an end.” This is the first line of chapter 2 in your textbook. Your story should be a ‘good story’. (Your story is about the invention you chose and how it came to be invented.)

The class added this:
a beginning - describes the setting, and introduces the characters and the problem
a middle - builds up the problem and begins a solution
an end - solves the problem and concludes the story

Dialogue: Your story needs to have talking in it. This makes it even more interesting to read.

The grading rubric/ point break-down is designed from these components.