This document provides a plan for a student to complete a writing course requirement consisting of two pieces totaling around 600 words each. It recommends starting with an editorial and also including a short story where the narrator's perspective changes, like in The Tell-Tale Heart. A five-step plan is outlined for the short story involving introducing characters, establishing a situation, revealing a relationship, reaching a crisis, and developing the story to an outcome. It reminds the student they need two pieces of writing that are paragraph formatted and use various writing techniques while sparingly incorporating dialogue.