Fictional Narrative Your short story should be 1–2 pages long.
Before submitting your story, make sure you story has
• an exposition, rising action, climax, and a resolution
• a setting, plot, and theme
• imagery to create mood
• a narrator with a consistent point of view
• dialogue to move the plot and show the characters’ ideas and feelings
• consistent verb tense
• a variety of sentence structures—simple, compound, complex
• correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
Refer to the rubric to make sure you turn in your best work.

Read the following excerpt from the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday: the young plains culture of the kiowas withered and died like grass that is burned in the prairie wind. there came a day like destiny; in every direction, as far as the eye could see, carrion (animal carcasses) lay out in the land. the buffalo was the animal representation of the sun, the essential and sacrificial victim of the sun dance. when the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the kiowa people. which phrase in the passage most strongly contributes to its overall tone? a. day like destiny b. lay out in the land c. far as the eye could see d. withered and died like grass