Description

Practical fiction-writing skills your storyteller needs!

With Writing Fiction [In High School]: Bringing Your Stories to Life, your students will gain these essential skills:

• Create empathetic protagonists
• Hook readers
• Select a point of view
• Build scenes
• Ramp up the conflict
• Describe settings and characters
• Critique themselves and other writers
• Write engaging dialog
• Write to get published
• And much, much more!

Can be self-taught with guidance or used in co-ops

• A two-semester course for English credit
• No prerequisites needed
• 13 fact-filled chapters, approximately 300 pages
• 85 practical lessons 
• One of only a few fiction texts uniquely designed for high school teens
• Written to the student in a conversational tone
• Gain insight into stories for literature courses
• Hundreds of age-appropriate fiction examples from classics to recent novels
• Optional manuscript track for teens who have already written a story

Click here for a free sample of the textbook.

Find the PAPERBACK version of the teacher’s guide on this page.

And here’s the DIGITAL version of the teacher’s guide. >>