These ideas will enhance student writing,
and
understanding of story. Students will learn through
doing to "spotlight" author's techniques in writing, and
to be able to "predict" what technique an author might
use in order to create an interesting plot.
1. Find Something: Explore
"it" (using the 5 senses)
"Do something" with it!
2. Lose Something
3. A stranger arrives...
4. Receive a letter...
5. Write a letter...
6. Learn a secret:...Keep it!
7. Learn a secret...Tell it!
8. Face "trials" in order to:
a. learn something
b. go somewhere
c. get something
9. Journey away from "home" and have to find your way
back:
a. through time
b. through space
c. through other dimensions
10. Be visited by supernatural beings (animal, vegetable, alien)
11. Sing a song about how you feel or what you see/know
12. Dance a dance about how you feel or what is going on
13. Try several ways to solve a problem:
a. Try #1 fails
b. Try #2 fails, etc.
c. Try #____ succeeds! How?!
14. You think something/someone is one thing...and it
turns
out to be different!
15. Receive a gift
16. Take something
17. Change a mind
18. Comic scene in a comic story
19. Serious scene in a comic story
20. Overhear a conversation that gives new information
21. Fall in love
22. Flashback(s)
23. Messenger arrives
24. Dream something
25. Now think of some of your own!
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