Your short story should be 500-1000 words long. Before submitting your story, make sure you story has
• An exposition, rising action, complicating incident, climax, and a resolution.
• Character Development – at least one character from historical time period studied this year (colonies, Revolutionary War, Writing of the Declaration, etc.)
• A setting – time and place should match the character you are using.
• Developed plot – the conflict/problem should be historically accurate for your character choice.
• Sensory details and rich description to capture the reader's attention and develop a mood.
• A narrator with a consistent point of view.
• Dialogue to move the plot and show the characters’ ideas and feelings.
• Consistent verb tense.
• Appropriately selected and implemented active and/or passive voice
• Correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling 1700 ot 1750 year