Name: ______________________________
Guided Writing: The Town
In-Class writing assignment
You will answer the questions below with the first thing that comes into your mind.
We will read your answers out loud and the teacher and students will give you
suggestions if you have chosen an answer that will make your story reach a dead end.
Then you will write the story that you have begun to create. Turn in whatever you have
at the end of class.
1. You are driving down a ( ___highway ____ country road ). You are on your way
to a town you’ve never heard before for a job interview.
2. What time is it?________________________________
3. What do you see from your windshield? ___________________________
4. A storm begins. What kind of storm? ___________________________________
5. You can barely drive because of the snow/rain/hail/ tornado dust. You see an exit
sign: The sign says: _____________________(name of a town) Population:
_______
6. You decide to get off the highway until the storm abates. You drive into the town
and park at the _____________________________________________________
7. No one answers you when you ask for directions to the hotel/ restaurant/bar/ etc.
except one person who seems troubled.
8. Describe this troubled person:
9. The troubled person tells you something extremely troubling about the town.
What is it?
10. When you hear what this is, do you try to flee the town? What do you do?
Write a story.