Progressive Story

A progressive story is when you start a story and other people finish it. Today, Mrs. Hojnacki’s fifth grade class did progressive stories. We brainstormed a list of topics. Our topics were hunting, sports, kidnapped, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, spooky stories, and gator wrestling.

I chose gator wrestling. We wrote for 5 minutes.  Then we moved on to the next desk. The next student to sit at the seat read what was on the paper and then they wrote for another five minutes. We switched stories several times. The last writer was the first writer.  They finished the story and added a title.

Writing a progressive story is fun.  You don’t know what is going to happen in the story until you get back to your desk. We are going to do this again.  We are actually writing three of them online with other classes. Mrs. Hojnacki signed up for a Write Your Story.  We are working with three or four other classes on three of the stories.  We will draw progressive pictures to add to our stories.  We are the second or third writer for each story so we don’t get to finish or name any of them.  We like our stories better than the ones we are doing online.

Please check back to see our stories in this blog on Friday and after November 12.

--Gaven