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What makes a story a Story?

What makes a story a Story?. What is your favorite story? . Examples: Little Red Riding Hood Spiderman American Girl Series Boxcar children. Why were those your favorite stories? Why were they not your favorite stories? . What is story? . Explain as best you can!.

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What makes a story a Story?

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  1. What makes a story a Story?

  2. What is your favorite story? • Examples: • Little Red Riding Hood • Spiderman • American Girl Series • Boxcar children

  3. Why were those your favorite stories? • Why were they not your favorite stories?

  4. What is story? • Explain as best you can! a narration of a series of event in a persons life Something to listen to at bed time. A series of events told to an audience A form of dance

  5. Good Job!

  6. Sorry Try again

  7. The answer is …. • A story is a narration of the events in the life of a person or the existence of a thing, or such events as a subject for narration (according to Dictionary.com).

  8. Explore the parts of a story. What goes into a story? There are many parts to making a story but the first key is to have an imagination which everyone has and can use. So what else makes a story? Click the following to see Settings Characters Dialogue Plot Climax Push me last!

  9. Characters:Heroes, Anti-heroes, and Narrators • Character: These are people or animals that the story is about. • Heroes: The good guys in a story the ones who save the day. • Anti-heroes: The bad guys in the story they are usually trying to defeat or foil the heroes plans. • Narrator: This is the person who tells the story or keeps it going. It can be the hero of the story.

  10. Settings • This is where the story takes place. • Examples: • A house • A countryside • A Castle • A far away land • Another country

  11. Dialogue • This is a conversation during the story to keep it going. It usually occurs between two characters.

  12. Climax Plot A good story looks like this. Plot Resolution Conclusion Introduction

  13. Climax • This is the turning part of the story.

  14. Now it is your turn! In class we are going to each write our own stories! During this project you will be using the class wiki so be prepared to check grammar. Ok you ready here we go…

  15. Assignment • First make a list of brainstorming ideas for your own story about the best day ever and then go to and create your own word cloud. This is an example of what yours should look like with the vocabulary words we learned today! www.wordle.net

  16. You can do a online poster of you story to present in the class. The Website is . There is also an example on the class wiki so check it out. www.glogster.com

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