Blood Story

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Blood Components RAFT

Directions: A RAFT is a writing strategy with four parts: the ROLE, the AUDIENCE, the FORMAT, and the TOPIC.

Your role is a story-teller.

The audience is students in grades 3-5.

The format is a fictional short story.

The topic is how the circulatory system functions. Include all the key vocabulary, such as: RBC’s, WBC’s, blood types, plasma, etc.

In a land very small where cells rarely get more than seven and a half micrometers tall there lived a lymphocyte, a white blood cell, named Lym he was part of the plasma that protects from within. The cities of Blood were crowded and streets filled with crime but red blood cell citizens hardly ever whine good old Lym, the greatest sheriff known in the circulatory system, kept all the hooligans from resistin’. The white blood cell police always keep the blood in check not an antigen gets by not even a speck. The red blood cell folks transport the oxygen from the lungs to the organs and tissues they work all day long removing the issues. The heart is the boss always keeping the tempo never leaving arteries or veins empty. The capillaries allow the oxygen to disperse equally not ignoring a soul. Sheriff Lym was patrolling Pulmonary Lane one fine day and found some nasty old clots blocking the way, he said to them “Ya’ll quit that obstructin’” they dispersed right away no need for deduction. The rest of his evening was quite swell he visited the nose, the arm, and the foot as well nothing was bothered yet but a flower was destined to bloom in but half an hour. The response was quick and surely it did sparked an emergency call by the kid, “The pollen!” Lym cried as he rushed to his feet “its an allergic reaction all antigens must be beat!” The battle was long and the pollen was resiliant, but the cells fought hard the commander must have been brilliant. As time passed the antibodies formed by the dozens, by the hundreds, and by thousands and more soon the sypmtoms started to...