Leprechauns

ST. PATICK'S DAY/ Leprechauns

This week you will be writing about leprechauns. Choose one of the following story starters. Get a piece of scratch paper and write down all the things that could happen in this story. Choose one or two of your best ideas. Now, get a piece of lined paper, copy the phrase you want to use down on your paper, and then finish the story.

Possible choices:

• The leprechaun woke up, stretched his arms out to the side, stretched his legs, then tried to flex his magic powers--but they weren't there!
• I woke up one morning and the world was green . . .
• A wizard cast a spell on all the leprechauns. From now on they'd . . .
• The blarney stone, the stone that gives the power of persuasive speech, is missing . . .
• I finally caught a leprechaun . . .
• One day I found the end of the rainbow, and at it there was, not gold, but a pot of leprechaun dust . . .

To get full credit for your story you must have the following:

1. _____ 4 papers: this paper, signed by the adult who checked your rough draft, the list of ideas, the rough draft, the final copy
2. _____ Proper form: your name and date in the corner, the title on the top line, a line skipped before you start your story.
3. _____ Paragraphs are indented 1/2 inch
4. _____ Right and left margins