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Kraznir. LO: to learn what a prologue is : to create a prologue for our own Kraznir story. Prologues. Prologues are the beginnings of stories and plays. They tell us what is going to happen in the story, but leave a cliffhanger to get us hooked on the story before we read it.
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Kraznir LO: to learn what a prologue is : to create a prologue for our own Kraznir story
Prologues • Prologues are the beginnings of stories and plays. • They tell us what is going to happen in the story, but leave a cliffhanger to get us hooked on the story before we read it. • Look at the opening to the play ‘Blood Brothers’: the whole story is told in twelve lines.
Prologue to ‘Blood Brothers’ • "So did you hear the story of the Johnston Twins,As like each other as two new pins,Of one womb born, on the self-same day,How one was kept, and one given away?Did you ever hear tell of that young motherWho stood and watched brother parted from brother;Who saw her children wrenched apart, That woman, with a stone in place of a heart?Then bring her on, come let’s seeThe author of such cruelty.And judge for ourselves this terrible sin.Bring on the mother, let the story begin.
Riddle… You hear it speak because it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What am I? A bell!
Your Prologue • You should introduce the situation – rumours about Kraznir’s attack. • How you chose your team, was it chosen by you or the Queen of Slimsil? • Introduce yourself • Describe yourself and explain why you have been chosen as the leader. • Describe the members of the team LO: to write a prologue for Kraznir, focusing on AF1: interesting overall piece AF3: organise paragraphs effectively. AF5:varied sentence structure
What would we include in our prologue? • PLAN: Four paragraphs. • Para 1: • Para 2: • Para 3: • Para 4:
Improving our work LO: to try to improve our prologues, focusing on varied sentence structure and interesting vocab.
Read this passage and try to improve it. • Doughty is a strong man he should be king of all men he is that strong. The other members of my team our Touchfire the Wizard. He is a tall stringy man but very nice he is well respected. Littlejohn is a valuable addition as he is very quick but he needs to get his sleep so it will be interesting to see how he handles the pressure.
