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Some story titles will ask you to write a story based around a sentence, e.g.
Sentence prompts like these will usually give you a piece of information: some conflict, a location or a character. To be RELEVANT you need to base your plan around the information you’ve been given. Try to ‘break down’ a sentence prompt like you do with long multiplication questions in Mathematics. Let’s study some examples:
1. Write a story beginning with the sentence: “Help! Fire!”
Simple! To be relevant, I’d need to base my story around a fire (an environmental conflict)
This prompt actually gives me two pieces of information. Can you see what they are? Move your mouse over the Baldworm buttons to find out if you're right.
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3. Write a story beginning with the line: ‘They locked him away twenty years ago."
This one is a little trickier. What does the title tell us?
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You could do all sorts of things and still be relevant, for example:
- The person who says ‘They locked him away twenty years ago’ could narrate the story of what happened to this man all those years ago, like your Dad telling you a story about what he did when he was a boy.
- The person who says ‘They locked him away twenty years ago’ could team up with the person they’re talking to and free the man.
Once you’ve worked out what information you’ve been given, begin to plan the story!
(c) Nick Hitchen 2007 |
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Last updated on
August 14, 2007
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