K has been in a writing class this semester.
Class discussions included:
* Story Cube storytelling games
* character development: skills, flaws, wants/goals, secrets, backstories
* creating dialogue
* Hero's Journey Story Structure:
- Ordinary World setting
- Call to Adventure
- Portal/Entry into the Special World
- 3 or more Tests
- false victory
- separation & betrayal
- false defeat
- final climax / the hero rises (combine original w/ new skills)
* ways to build worry, suspense & mystery
* Editing the "Worst Paragraph in the World"
(grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, clarity)
She read her story to the rest of the class, plus parents and friends, and did a great job. It's an awesome story about kids who are spies and involved in some high tech secret adventures.
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