Narratives

This is for students who would like to explore a fun story making website. Create a comic story
 * More fun stuff for home. **

**Writing narratives: Assessment Task. Due Friday Week 8** Look at this picture. It shows how a short story should be written.

Your task this week is to write a short story called The Chase

You can use this scaffold for narrative texts to help you write your story

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Sometimes it's easier to write a narrative +by looking at pictures. Go to this website and choose an illustrator you like. Use the pictures as inspiration for your own story.

Copy your username and password to the website for 1st time log-in. @http://storybird.com/accounts/login/

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Study notes Study notes

Digital storytelling eduactional use of DS wiki for DS wiki

Task 1 Do you know the story of Cinderella? Go here to read, listen and watch the animation. Use the narrative scaffold to plot the story of Cinderella. This story came from Big Universe which is a site that lets you read and write online (best for junior classes, must sign in.

steps: kids write an autobiography (using questionnaires etc) Then develop a story about themselves on ONE day in their life that expresses their life journey.

Do this narrative writing task. In this task you will add some adverbial phrases, similes and conjunctions to make a boring story more interesting. Then you get to choose the ending and a title. Romance story
 * Task 2**

**Task 3** Finished? Ok you can do this fun narrative activity. In this fun Tale, you help to make a digital story for 11 year old boys. You help write the PLOT (What happens in the story) You add the right videos for each action You add sound effects ( the right sound for the action)

Please note: **you must press the PLAY button** to see the action and listen to the sounds. Tony's Adventure

Task you can do at home (if you have internet) Manga animation now. First learn about character, settings and plot. Then you choose the right dialogue and onomatopoeia sounds Manga

Make a manga story Tale Manga Great!

Easy story building tale picture this
 * Elements of a Short Story**

What is a short story? Elements of a Short Story Setting- time, location, conditions, mood, atmosphere in which the story takes place. Character Conflict Point of View Omniscient- all-knowing or all-seeing
 * Short work of fiction.
 * It's a Novella or a "mini-novel"
 * Generally centers on one climactic event.
 * Usually develops only a single character.
 * Can be read in one sitting.
 * Narrower focus and scope.
 * Essays are a short piece of non-fiction
 * There is only one main event
 * There is only one main character that the reader follows
 * Setting
 * Character
 * Conflict
 * Point of View
 * Theme
 * Plot
 * An acronym I use to remember this is Sally Can't Corrupt the Politics of The Party
 * Historical- time period
 * Geographical- location; land, weather, elements
 * Psychological- personality, mental state, mental instability
 * Place
 * Time
 * Conditions- weather, landscape, culture, society
 * Mood or Atmosphere
 * Individual- round character- all aspects known, 3D
 * Protagonist- main character; often the good guy.
 * Antagonist- to offset the main character. For example, Fred in __//**A Christmas Carol**//__ by Charles Dickens; often the bad guy.
 * Developing- dramatic changes throughout story
 * Static- Stereotyped flat characters who aren't very developed
 * Foil- opposing characters that have similarities and differences from antagonists
 * Characterization- how characters are established, how they are described, etc.
 * External- outside of self
 * Internal- inside oneself
 * Physical- Man vs. Man; weather, disability, other people, nature
 * Classical- Man vs. Circumstances, fate and destiny
 * Social- Man vs. Society, ideas, practices, customs, social or cultural situations
 * Psychological- Man vs. Ideas of right or wrong and sense of identity
 * Innocent Eye- often a child who's judgment is different from an adults
 * Stream of Consciousness- floating along with the protagonist but has random thoughts
 * First Person- I; from the protagonists eye, get to know the protagonist well but don't know what he/she is thinking
 * Third Person- he/she: like Harry Potter
 * Omniscient Limited-reserved for only one character
 * Omniscient Objective- as if a camera is following the characters

Theme- what the reader takes away from the story Plot Freytag’s Pyramid
 * Controlling idea or central insight.
 * //**Underlying meaning or main idea.**//
 * Thoughts about a topic.
 * View of human nature.
 * Examples: importance of self-acceptance, coming of age, second chances, and don't judge a book by it's cover
 * Exposition (Introduction)
 * Rising Action
 * Climax
 * Falling Action
 * Resolution

Writing a story

Novice writers are often given this advice on how to structure their short stories:

It's good advice for any writer.
 * Put a man up a tree
 * Throw stones at him
 * Get him down

**Short Story Plan **
==**Start with a situation - a problem to be resolved for your protagonist ( the man up the tree). **==

Then present the problems that can occur (throw some stones):
 * Misunderstandings / mistaken identity / lost opportunities etc

The final step is to show how you can solve the problem - get the man down from his leafy perch - safely.
 * Love triumphs / good conquers evil / honesty is the best policy / united we stand

OK but what do I do now ?


 * 1) Choose a theme (what are you trying to say? Why write this?) Always keep this theme in mind..don't get distracted.
 * 2) Time frame? The best stories are in a very small time frame...time shouldn't drag on and on.
 * 3) Characters? Just two or three main characters..any more and you lose the plot. You don't need to tell us each person's background at the beginning..show us, don't tell us their character (through their words and actions). Brief physical descriptions only. (Look at Roald Dahl's work to give you an idea.
 * 4) Dialogue is VERY important. But every word that is spoken must give us information about plot or character.
 * 5) Help us to see what is in your head: Use imagery. Use figurative language too.
 * 6) Plot: there must be a beginning, a middle and an end. (intro, complication, series of events, climax, resolution)

OK, but where to start? sizzling starters.