Writing Challenge! Emotional Journeys

We’re going to practice writing stories in a very tricky way! Can you do it? We’ll see!

Benchmark: 4-5.SoA.1.3

Identify verbal, physical, or situational cues that indicate how others may feel.

Usually when we write a story, we decide who the characters are and what they’re going to do. Then we might ask how they feel during the story. Are they sad? Are they mad?

This challenge is extra hard because I get to pick how your character feels at the story’s beginning, I get to pick how they feel in the middle, and I get to pick how they feel at the end.

It’s your job to come up with a story that matches. Can you do it?

Beginning

Middle

End

Here’s a short example!

Ben spent all day long looking forward to his baseball game. When school ended, it started to rain and the game was cancelled! Ben felt disappointed.

Ben’s mom picked him up. His little brother kept singing in the car even though Ben asked him nicely to stop. Ben got more and more frustrated!

Ben said to himself, “I’m gonna be the bigger man and ignore him.” He let out a big sigh and counted to 10...twice! Ben was chilled out and ready to play video games.

Okay, get your writing paper. Are you ready? You have two choices.

Pick one, take some think time, and then start writing!

B

A

Furious

Cheerful

Annoyed

Discouraged

Excited

Calm