How to write a horror through tweets

This WebQuest is about writing a story using tweets and explain how these two things can combine.

When writing this type of story it is important to understand that things like a hashtag(#) or tags(@) can be used, and most important to remember that each tweet only can contain 280 characters. 

This WebQuest can be used in different types of genres, anywhere from romance to horror. This one will be focused on the genre horror. 

There will be link to the website where the tweets can be created (the link can be found under task)

This WebQuest will focus on developing your written skills, teaching the ability to think critically when reading things online because it could be fake stories. 

In this task you must write a horror story using tweets only, you can decide yourself what the story is about, as long as it a horror story. 

Writing a horror story can be scary, maybe you have experienced some scary things yourselves, see a horror movie, or read a horror story, all this can be used as inspiration when you have to write. 

Here are some ideas that can be used when writing a horror story such as, "It was dark and cold when.." "All the lights shut off.." "I heard a sound coming from.." or simple things like "The Ghost", "The scary clown" or "the dead body". 

Just remember you only have 280 characters in each tweet, which can be scary in itself ;) 

First process

We will start the lesson by talking a bit about the genre "Horror". It will start with a five-minute brain map that will be written individually and then 5 minutes talking with a peer about what you have written down. As the last thing in the warm-up will you be making chunks or small sentences from the word that you have in our mindmap, all this end in a short plenum follow up where each present one of your chunks or sentences for the class.

Second process

There will be a short introduction to the site where the tweets will be created and shown how it works. You will also receive information on how long the story should be and that its allowed to write more than that, that you can choose to write with one or two Twitter accounts, and lastly there will be some different ideas on what you can write about. 

Third process

You will have to start writing your story, using your pre-knowledge about writing and the genre horror. There will also be the opportunity to be giving feedback from either the teacher or from some of your peers. 

Fourth process

The student must be done with their story by now. Now the student will have to read the story out loud in a small matrix group with 2-3 other peers. When all of you have read your story, will each group have to choose the best story, which will be read out loud in the plenum.

After the best stories from each group have been read, will the class choose that overall best story, most scary, the one that included and most horror word? 

We finish here with a short evaluation.