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Narratives and myths and legends
This document provides guidance on writing myths and legends narratives, including using the past tense and second/third person, setting the scene in the introduction, outlining the problem, response, and outcome. It recommends adding vivid verbs and descriptive adjectives and provides examples of conjunctions to join sentences beyond "and". The overall purpose is to entertain, motivate, or teach readers through engaging storytelling techniques.
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- 1. The Purpose is toentertain, motivate or teach Myths & Legends Narratives Written by Jacqui Sharp http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.com Clipart courtesy of http://clipart.mrdonn.org/an cientgreekgods.html
- 2. Write in secondperson You Write in third person • She • Her • He • His •Their •Him •Them •They •It
- 3. lived • Past lives • Present had •Past has • Present King Minos lived on a lovely island called Crete. King Minos lives on a lovely island called Crete. King Minos had a powerful navy. King Minos has a powerful navy. Write in the Past
- 4. • Write atitle • Write an introduction – Set the scene and mood – Introduce characters – Use second or third person – Use past tense • Theseus and the Minotaur • King Minos lived on the lovely island of Crete with his beautiful daughter. He got bored easily so regularly he would go and attack Athens on the other side of the sea.
- 5. The Problem orConflict What was the problem? When you write the problem make it interesting! The King of Athens offered him his children to be eaten by the Minotaur. The King of Athens, offered King Minos, seven girls and seven boys every nine years as an offering to the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a favourite of King Minos so he liked the idea of a regular sacrifice. http://www.telescopictext.com/
- 6. What happens next? What happens after? What happens later? What happens finally? When they arrived in Crete… Therewere locked in the maze. Not long after… Finally they set sail back to Athens but after a while they…. Response Action The nine years passed quicky and Prince Theseus offered to take the place of one of the children and kill the Minotaur.
- 7. Write a conclusionand or a resolution here… Does it have a summary or a moral? They all set sail for Athens. On the way they stopped off at a small island to stock up on supplies. The Princess insisted on coming to the island. It was a very quiet island with nothing to do so the Princess fell asleep. All the people of the island gathered around to gaze at her beauty. Theseus left her there as he had fulfilled his promise of taking her away so that people could admire how beautiful she was.
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- 9. Action Verbs expressaction Look at your sentence, is a person or an object doing something. Ask yourself the question ‘Can you <insert word>?
- 10. Use Vivid Verbs WalkedPlodded Stomped Talked gossiped nattered chattered Listened snooped eavesdropped Think considered contemplated Get fished hooked What are vivid verbs? They are Power Words!
- 11. Adjectives: describes objects,people http://www.brianpcleary.com/words/index.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar.shtml
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- 14. Have I Yes/No Writtenin the past tense? Written in second and third person? Written an introduction that sets the scene? Said ‘What the problem is? Said ‘what the response was (happens next and after)? Said what the Action was? Said what the Outcome was? Have I used other conjunctions for ‘and’? Have I used vivid verbs? Have I used interesting adjectives?
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