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Writer's Quest, CYOA

Last Monday was the first day for Writer's Quest, CYOA. Students are excited to work on Choose Your Own Adventure Stories this term. Students took turns reading aloud from a CYOA book called  Colonial America: An Interactive History Adventure by Allison Lassieur. As a group they decided their own fates in the character of a young man in Colonial Philadelphia just before the American Revolution. Students gasped when they thought their decision might result in their own demise.  Later students did a writing exercise where they had to come up with a story starter then work with a classmate to end another student's story starter (they weren't given their own). Each team was charged with writing a different type of ending. Here are a few samples from last week (more to come next week). Spelling and punctuation have been edited for clarity. We'll get more into language mechanics as the term progresses. The Twist Ending: completely unexpected turn of events There was a b