{"id":5592,"date":"2025-10-01T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:09:58","slug":"short-story-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/2025\/10\/01\/short-story-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Creative to Analyze Short Stories in ELA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, students have chosen a short story to do a creative project about, electing to either recreate a scene with some sort of visual art, design\/illustrate cover art, or rewrite the ending\/write a second-chapter to the story. Regardless of which story or creative option your student chose, all projects have two writing components: one that requires the use of figurative language and one in which students analyze and explain their artistic choices. In doing so, students are practicing analyzing the story\u2019s plot, symbols, mood\/tone, and theme. Students will present their project to their classmates on Thursday\/Friday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To engage with your student, you could ask them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what short story they are doing their project on,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which project option they chose,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what their favorite\/least favorite short story has been and why.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"henry the duck\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/44\/2025\/10\/IMG-0847-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For fun, ask your student about the blue duck in this photo!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, students have chosen a short story to do a creative project about, electing to either recreate a scene with some sort of visual art, design\/illustrate cover art, or rewrite the ending\/write a second-chapter to the story. 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