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Developing Stories. The Big Picture Weekly Objectives. To investigate a text from a different culture thinking about the relationships between characters, their culture and their attitudes and beliefs Record questions and thoughts about a text. Learning Outcome.
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Developing Stories
The Big PictureWeekly Objectives • To investigate a text from a different culture thinking about the relationships between characters, their culture and their attitudes and beliefs • Record questions and thoughts about a text
Learning Outcome To write a story from a another character’s viewpoint
Success Criteria • My story reflects the character I am writing about • I can use techniques to develop suspense • I can create a feeling of EMPATHY in my reader
Empathy is….. Feeling what the character/s is/are feeling in a story.
Who is this man? What kind of character does he have? What role do you think he will play in our story?
Examine character Look at story structure How does the writer develop EMPATHY The Story Techniques for a good story How does the writer build up suspense?
The Story Mountain 4 3 2 5 1
The Story Mountain 4. Climax; the exciting part 3. Dilemma : problem 2. Build Up 5. Resolution Events are concluded 1. Introduction: characters and setting
Objective: To examine how writing can be adapted for different audiences and purposes vocabulary Sentence structure
Little Red Riding Hood Extract 1 Key Features
Tasks • Role play the initial conversation between the caretaker and the boy 2. Record thoughts about the story including: Questions about the text, questions to the author, caretaker, boy 3. Find examples in the text which create empathy and suspense. Begin a word bank of exciting vocabulary and phrases to use in your story
Questions for the caretaker Questions to the writer My prediction of how the story will end Wordbank of words and phrases which build up empathy or suspense The Cannibal
Plenary • What have you learnt today?