Creative Writing and Computer Coding Exploration

This assignment is brought to you by Mr. Leeming and Ms. Anderton.

In this project you will be challenged to write a creative story with multiple people
in the class. The story will have 2 major components: writing and coding.

Creative Writing Component

Please make sure your story includes the following:

1) Multiple characters: Dynamic, Static, Round and Flat.

2) Multiple plot directions with multiple endings.
3) Literary devices including but not limited to: Imagery, Personification,
Metaphor, Allusion, and Hyperbole.
4) 3 threads of your story written by your classmates. Note: You have the final
edit of your story and are not obligated to use all the threads created by your
peers, but should demonstrate an ability to work with others.

Computer Coding (Twine) Component (All Assignments)

The goal for this assignment is to begin building your skill set with Twine and
coding to get you ready for further creative writing assignments. This assignment
is all about working with level 1 & 2 skills - Organizing and planning your work,
and learning how to link it together and create small visual changes using code. We
will cover this in class and you will be supplied with an example twine tutorial
story that will teach you how to use various tags to change your story as needed for
your product.
Level Skills Example

1 - Logic Structure Planning, organizing, Your story should be structured

branching of story from big threads to small like a
threads tree, rather than a bunch of
sections smashed together like
scrambled eggs.

2- Linking and Style Using Twine specific [[b]], [[i]], [[u]] as well as
Tags coding tags to add bold, [[framename]]
italic, underline, struck
out text, and using tags
to link and build your
stories with multiple
strands

3 - Image, Video, and Enhancing your story [[img src]], [[a href]], etc
Style customization by using
code/programming Used to embed pictures, video,
elements to add many add transitions, color,
features to your story backgrounds etc to your story.

4 - Variables, More advanced coding 1) Having users make choices

operators, Logic elements such as
statements/booleans, variables, boolean
etc. operators, etc that build
on early levels to create
unique and choice
driven stories
which impact the flow of
your story later in the game
2) Giving users true choice in
outcomes.
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Ideas are mostly

Ideas are unique Ideas are in the Ideas are not
unique, but some
Ideas are unique and creative, but beginning stages unique or creative.
may be
and creative, sometimes dry. of development Student has not
borrowed. The
demonstrating At least 3 literary and need more intentionally
story is
maturity beyond devices are used to detail. Student included any
entertaining but
Ideas grade level. 4+ enhance the story. attempts to be literary devices.
has more flash
types of literary creative and 1
than real
devices are used literary device is
content.
to enhance the used.
2 types of literary
story.
devices are
used.

No Errors: Rough Draft

Some Errors: Many Errors:
spelling, Quality.
Very Few Errors: spelling, spelling, grammar,
grammar, Character
spelling, grammar, grammar, punctuation. Some
punctuation. development is
punctuation. Great punctuation. character
Sophisticated unclear.
Conventions character Good character development is
character
development with development evident, but
development
some differences in with some character all
with clear
character type. variety in appear static.
differences in
character types.
character type.

Elements from
all 4 Story is written in
Elements from Elements of lvl
programming/co Elements from lvl Twine but uses
Programming & levels 1-3 are 1-2 are
ding levels are 1 are used in a none of the
Coding Skill Level implemented in a implemented in a
implemented in meaningful way coding/programmi
meaningful way. meaningful way
a meaningful ng elements.
way

Some of the
Story is
Story is organized story has logical
organized,
and laid out design and Story is poorly
coherent, and
coherently, but may structure but in organized,
follows a logical
Logical have cross overs or places it strands/threads
design structure Scrambled Eggs
Organization bunched up content overlaps or are mixed to the
which is
that makes it tricky crosses over point of
apparent from
to understand at making strands distraction.
Twine project
first and threads hard
home screen
to understand.