Students have been busy creating their choose your own adventure stories for the past week. These stories integrate real historical events from the time of the American Revolution. Each students chose to write from the perspective of someone from that time period. They could choose to write from the perspective of a patriot colonist, a loyalist colonist, a slave, or a Native American. Students present the reader with choices along the way that the character can make. The reader makes the choice and the story continues based on the choice.

The stories are being created in a software called Twine from twinery.org. This program allows students to create nonlinear stories. Each scenario links to other scenarios in a form that looks something like a family tree. When the story is done, it can be exported into html and can be played like a game. The choices that the reader makes is highlighted as a link, and when a link is clicked, the screen changes to the next scene.

Students are learning basic html coding through this project. This coding language is the same used on many websites. This project introduces students to coding and helps them to see that it’s not as daunting as they may assume.

We will be having a parent snack on the week after next to allow parents to experience these stories. Look for details in the latest email I’ve sent out.