Sure Thing Lesson Plan

Choosing Your Adventures

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to create stories that have alternative outcomes à la the structure of Sure Thing

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1

Structure:

Ask if students have heard of Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Explain the concept of the books, then divide students into small groups and give them about ten minutes to explore this website, which defines and gives multiple examples of immersive branching storytelling. Ask a couple of groups to define the concept, and then ask other groups to discuss to what degree Sure Thing does...