Round Robin

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“Oh my new place? You can’t beat the view! A little lonely though…”

The stars dance in front of the moon and the black sky, connected and distant from the world.

A hard space wind blew and one of the stars was thrown away from the rest to be left all alone.

It was interesting to see how the stories grew evolved as they moved from person to person. What makes this activity interesting is seeing how each person brings their own ideas and twists to the stories. I think that my decision to begin my story with dialogue made it so that the story was fairly ambiguous. It ended up as more of a sad existential poem than a story. But that's OK.

I really enjoy the idea of this assignment, however I think that it is really too complicated to do in this exact manner in a high school classes because you have to rely on everyone else to be on top of things. If I was to do this in a classroom I would definitely do this as an in class activity. Perhaps taking a class period to do this in full. I think that this could be used in a beginning unit on play writing. You could do the stories in more of a play script form, giving the students practice both story writing, and the pattern of writing a play script.