Objective
Create an illustrated story to be presented at a Story
Telling Exhibition.
- You might want to write a fantasy adventure, a leaving home
story with animal heroes, or the story of a young person who
decides, or is forced, to leave home. You are only limited by
your own imagination.
Pre-writing Steps
Step 1 - Think about and Determine Plot Elements
Plot ~ What Goes into a Plot? Plot is the sequence
of events in a story.
Writing narratives about journeys and quests requires development
of stories with the following elements in place.
- Exposition
· is the information needed to understand a story
· the background information, history or context.
- Complication
· is the catalyst that begins the major conflict
· in the journey story it might include the reason for
leaving and the breaking of ties
· explore the feeling of being lost
- Rising Action
· events that move the story to the climax
- Climax
· is the turning point in the story that occurs when
characters try to resolve the complication.
· explore the struggle and/or danger that the character
goes through
- Resolution
· is the set of events that bring the story to a close
· learning how to live with change
Create point-form notes outlining your ideas related to the plot
elements for your story.
Step 2 - Brainstorm details related to the characters
in your story
Character
Characters are either major or minor and either static (unchanging)
or dynamic (changing). The character who dominates the story is
the major character.
Readers can learn about characters in many ways, including:
- physical traits
- dialogue
- actions
- attire
- opinions
- point of view (including what others say or think about a
character)
There are no limits on the types of characters who
can inhabit a story: male or female, rich or poor, young or old,
prince or pauper. What is important is that the characters in a
story all have the same set of emotions as the reader: happiness,
sorrow, disappointment, pain, joy, and love.
Use the prompts above to brainstorm details about
the characters in your story. Create point form notes or a concept
map outlining your ideas.
Step 3- Brainstorm details related to setting
Setting
Writers describe the world they know. Sights, sounds, colors, and
textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints images
on canvas. A writer imagines a story to be happening in a place
that is rooted in his or her mind. The location of a story's actions,
along with the time in which it occurs, is the setting. Setting
is created by language that helps to develop a picture in the reader's
mind. How many or how few details we learn is up to the author.
The best authors use language and details that deliberately engage
the reader's imagination.
Theme
The central message of the story.
Use the prompts above to brainstorm details about
the setting of your story. Create point form notes or a concept
map outlining your ideas.
Step 4- Inspiration diagram of story ideas
Use Inspiration or some other concept mapping
software to create a diagram or web of your story ideas. Include
details related to each of the elements of plot, character, setting
and theme. Submit your diagram to the teacher's drop box.
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