Fictional Narrative Writing Task

7th grade prompts (actual prompts used in prior STAR writing tests): Scoring: Your writing will be scored on how well you: tell a story about a fictional event; develop a plot with a beginning, middle, and end; develop a setting and characters; and use appropriate strategies such as action, descriptive detail, and, perhaps, dialogue to make your story interesting. use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

Read the following writing tasks. You must write a narrative about one of the following topics. Imagine that in the year 2011 the worlds technologies suddenly stop working. Write a narrative about a day in the life of a person if this occurred. You may write in first and/or third person. Imagine that you have just moved to a city under the sea. The next morning you decide to explore. Write a story about what happens next. Write in first person. Imagine that you are an artist (for example, a musician, a write, a dancer or a sculptor). One day, you wake up with an idea for a new work of art that you feel will be your best. Write a story about the creation of that work. (Write in first person.) And another: While cleaning out a closet, you discover a treasure map. Write a narrative describing what happens the day you try to find where the map leads. (Write in first person.)