Clickety Clack - Students at work

All I hear right now is the sound of fingers on computer keys. My students are busily writing away like mad. Even the students who struggle to write anything are busy pounding out word after word.

The period before we just had the students participate in the next event in our minecraft story. The princess had been captured by bandits and they had to assault a castle to rescue her.

The Princess in her jail cell

Even before this event students have been writing far more than in any of my previous years of teaching how to write short stories.

An announcement that a short story would have to be a minimum of 750 words would be met with groans and complaints. Even before we began today's writing session the average length of story was over 1100 words.

Of course, the bigger question will be is the quality any better?

Watch this space for more details in the future.