Discuss: What are the features of a story?
How does a story start?
What does the story need to have?
When they mention 'plot mountain' what are they talking about?
Watch the video
Now we are going to watch it again, can you find all of this information?
Orientation - How does it describe characters? Where is it set?
A series of events - What happens first? What happens next?
Resolution - What happens at the end of the story? How do the characters feel? Has a problem been solved?
Feedback your answers in a class discussion
Choose some heroes, villains, and sidekicks that you will use for your writing
Choose a setting within the Parkihaka story for your writing.
Create events that will take place in your story that will cause a conflict
Time to solve the conflict, how will you do this in your writing?
Fill in this chart on the Seesaw activity that is assigned to you by the teacher.
Read the 'Show Don't Tell' section below.
Act out the parts in the story. You might have to play all the characters.
Choose one of your parts (or all) to add to your Seesaw activity.
Write your story.
Your teacher would like to be able to read your story. To make it easier for others to see either write your story on paper, take a photo of it and read it into Seesaw.
or write your story on paper and then type it into Seesaw.
One of the hallmarks of a great story is one where you can tell how the characters feel by describing how they look or from the things other characters say to them.
1) Act out the beginning scene of your story.
Think about how the characters are feeling. How can you show that in your writing?
2) Act out a scene in your story that shows the problem.
Again think about how the characters are feeling and how can you show that in your writing?
3) Act out the resolution in your story
Think about the final emotions your characters are feeling. How can you show this in your writing?
4) Time to write your story.