Imagine that Mia gets to visit Franco in Chile or that Franco gets to visit Mia in New York City. Write an original story about their visit together. Use ideas from the letters and dialogue in your story.

Narrative Writer’s Checklist

Be sure to:

• Develop a real or imagined experience.
• Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.
• Organize events in order.
• Use transitional words and phrases to sequence the events.
• Use dialogue and/or description to:
• develop events.
• show how characters respond to situations.
• Use concrete words, phrases, and sensory details to describe the events.
• Include a conclusion.
• Use ideas and/or details from the passage(s).
• Check your work for correct usage, grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

Now write your narrative on your answer document. Refer to the Writer’s Checklist as you write and
proofread your narrative.