The Legend of Saint George and the Dragon

Dragons don’t write, knights do!

Saint George’s assignment 2015

You must create a piece of writing You can write a poem or a fiction short

story You can also write a flash story (about 50

words)

You are free to choose the content

You should be original, creative and put all your writing skills into action

(interesting content, accurate vocab and grammar, correct spelling and

coherence)

get inspired but don’t cheat! Saint Google can help you but cannot work for you! Try by finding a beginning of the story and then you

continue, don’t cheat, St Google can also split and tell the teacher the source! There are lots of tools to detect plagiarism.

http://www.googlepoetics.com/

get inspired by 1 word!

http://www.oneword.com/

get inspired by music and images!

http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/

do a bit of brainstorming!

organize the ideas that come out!

http://popplet.com/

make stories out of photos!htt

p://5card.cogdogblog.com/

steal … like an artist!

Story starters:

steal the beginning!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

get prompts to start your work!

http://corbettharrison.com/writers_notebooks.html%23topics

get inspired by other stories!

http://www.100wordstory.org/category/stories/

hints to follow when you’re stuck:

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

interesting writing proposals

http://www.lightningbug.com.au/Activity%20page/activity%20page.htm

do you need names for your characters?

http://www.babynamescountry.com/ http://www.last-names.net/

check vocabulary Thesaurus Wordreference

grammar grammarly

and spelling select the the language English

(UK) in your word processor

sourcesImages:

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Sources of inspiration: http://www.scoop.it/t/english-stuff/?tag=writing

Main source: http://www.slideshare.net/ShellTerrell/motivated-to-write-inspiring?from=new_upload_email

Mónica VallinCol·legi Sant Miquel dels Sants

@MonVall