Explaining how to create an effective Narrative Piece...
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Explaining how to create an effective Narrative Piece...
Included with animations and attractive photos...
perfect for Grade 6 and upwards...
Also includes Homework at the end of PPT...
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This presentation introduces point of view in stories. First person and third person are introduced, with review and questions. Suitable for students ages 8-12 or those learning English as a second language.
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This presentation introduces point of view in stories. First person and third person are introduced, with review and questions. Suitable for students ages 8-12 or those learning English as a second language.
Find more stories and activities for teaching point of view here:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Exploring-Point-of-View-Stories-and-Activities-1632599
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories, those contained within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told by a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson.
In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.
All of the stories within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories.The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Doyle suggests that the short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes tend to point out social injustices, such as "a king's betrayal of an opera singer, a stepfather's deception of his ward as a fictitious lover, an aristocratic crook's exploitation of a failing pawnbroker, a beggar's extensive estate in Kent." It suggests that, in contrast, Holmes is portrayed as offering a fresh and fair approach in an unjust world of "official incompetence and aristocratic privilege".The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains many of Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1927, he submitted a list of what he believed were his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories to The Strand Magazine. Among those he listed were "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (as his favourite), "The Red-Headed League" (second), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (fifth) and "The Five Orange Pips" (seventh). The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 because of its alleged "occultism",but the book gained popularity in a black market of similarly banned books, and the restriction was lifted in 1940.
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1. Plot/Structure – Describe the plot of the story. Avoid making comments or interpretations about behavior and actions by the characters, just stick with describing what happens in the story. Are there other stories you know of that is similar to the plot of this story?
Most stories, as we’re familiar with them through movies, have the structure of a beginning, middle, and end. The plot is essentially the action of the story, where one event or action leads to another event or action, which leads in a long string of actions that arrives at a final confrontation. After the final confrontation, there is the resolution and denouement. This story telling structure is embodied through a model known as Freytag’s Pyramid, which maps out a traditional plot like this:
2. Point of View – Who is telling this story, a first person or third person narrator? How would you characterize this narrator?
In any literary work, whether it’s a short story, poem, or novel, the point of view from which a story is told is an important element to keep in mind, because the ‘point of view’ determines who the narrator is, the narrator being the one who’s telling the story. We often assume that it’s the author who is telling the story, but it’s not as simple as that. There are 3 basic types of points of view and an author has to choose which one he or she will use. The 3 types are as follows: first person, second person, third person.
3. Characters – List and describe the primary characters of the story. Focus on specific details about each character, such as certain behaviors and/or things they say.
This is probably the most familiar of all the literary elements and the one we immediately react to when reading any story. The analysis of a character is one of the core activities of most literary interpretation and it’s hard to cover all the ways we go about analyzing a character, most of which you’ll learn to do through consistent practice and engagement with the works we read in this class. In the most general sense, what we look at in a character is their behavior, the actions they take and/or the decisions they make. We look closely at what they say in order to get a sense of their view of a situation, or their view of the world; we also focus on how they interact with other characters, asking ourselves if a certain act or decision has aggressive implications, or was meant well but with unfortunate consequences. These are things to pay attention to, along with what they say through dialogue, which is also revealing about a character. There’s no end to the ways we look and react to characters we’re presented within a story, one reader may love and identify with a certain ...
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3. SHORT STORY
• It is an artistic form of
prose fiction which is
centered on a single main
incident whose aim is to
produce a single dominant
impression.
4. What makes short story
different from other
prose fiction particularly
novel?
5. A novel can take a more
meandering path but writing
short stories means beginning
as close to the climax as
possible — everything else is a
distraction.
6. A short story conserves
characters and scenes,
typically by focusing on just
one conflict, and drives
towards a sudden,
unexpected revelation.
11. Find inspiration from
real people
• Keep the amazing, the unusual, the
strange, the irrational stories you hear
and use them for your own purposes.
• If you have trouble understanding or
finding attributes of a character, turn
to your life. You can easily borrow
attributes of people you know or even
strangers you notice.
13. Write a Catchy First
Paragraph
• The first sentence of your
narrative should catch your
reader’s attention with the
unusual, the unexpected, an
action, or a conflict. Begin with
tension and immediacy. Remember
that short stories need to start
close to their end.
14. Note the difference.
• “I heard my
neighbor through
the wall.”
• - Dry and uninteresting
• “The neighbor
behind us practiced
scream therapy in
his shower almost
every day.”
• -The second sentence catches
the reader’s attention. Who is
this guy who goes in his shower
every day and screams? Why
does he do that? What, exactly,
is“scream therapy”? Let’s keep
reading…
16. Developing Characters
• In order to develop a living,
breathing, multi-faceted character,
it is important to know way more
about the character than you will
ever use in the story.
17. Here is a partial list of character details to
help you get started.
• Name
• Age
• Job
• Ethnicity
• Appearance
• Residence
• Pets
• Religion
• Hobbies
• Single or married?
• Children?
• Temperament
• Favorite color
• Friends
• Favorite foods
• Drinking patterns
• Phobias
• Faults
• Something hated?
• Secrets?
• Strong memories?
• Any illnesses?
• Nervous gestures?
• Sleep patterns
18. For example, let’s say I want to develop a
college student persona for a short story that
I am writing. What do I know about her?
• Her name is Jen, short for Jennifer Mary Johnson.
She is 21 years old. She is a fair-skinned Norwegian
with blue eyes, long, curly red hair, and is 5 feet 6
inches tall. Contrary to the stereotype about redheads,
she is actually easygoing and rather shy. She loves
cats and has two of them named Bailey and Allie. She is
a technical writing major with a minor in biology. Jen
plays the piano and is an amateur photographer. She
lives in the dorms at the University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire. She eats pizza every day for lunch and loves
Red Rose tea. She cracks her knuckles when she is
nervous. Her mother just committed suicide.
20. • First Person. The story is told
from the view of “I.” The narrator
is either the protagonist (main
character) and directly affected
by unfolding events, or the
narrator is a secondary character
telling the story revolving around
the protagonist.
Choose a Point of View
21. • Second Person. The story is told
directly to “you”, with the reader
as a participant in the action.
“You laughed loudly at the antics of
the clown. You clapped your hands
with joy.”
Choose a Point of View
22. • Third Person. The story tells what
“he”, “she,” or “it” does. The
third-person narrator’s perspective
can be limited (telling the story
from one character’s viewpoint) or
omniscient (where the narrator
knows everything about all of the
characters).
Choose a Point of View
24. • Dialogue is what your characters
say to each other (or to
themselves).
• Each speaker gets his/her own
paragraph, and the paragraph
includes whatever you wish to say
about what the character is doing
when speaking.
Write Meaningful Dialogue
25. • “Where are you going?” John cracked his knuckles while he
looked at the floor. “To the racetrack.” Mary edged toward
the door, keeping her eyes on John’s bent head. “Not again,”
John stood up, flexing his fingers. “We are already maxed
out on our credit cards.”
• “Where are you going?” John cracked his knuckles while he
looked at the floor.
“To the racetrack.” Mary edged toward the door, keeping her
eyes on John’s bent head.
“Not again,” John stood up, flexing his fingers. “We are already
maxed out on our credit cards.”
27. • Rather than feed your readers
information about the weather,
population statistics, or how far it is to
the grocery store, substitute descriptive
details so your reader can experience the
location the way your characters do.
• It can be helpful to make some sort of
time-line to help you decide what should
happen when and where.
Use Setting and Context
29. • Your story should consist at least of an
introduction, initiating incident, rising
action, climax, falling action, and
resolution. You can draw or write a
visual with very simple descriptions of
what should happen in each of these
stages. Having this done will help you
keep focused when writing the story,
and you can easily make changes to it,
so that you are able to keep a steady
flow as you write the full story.
Set Up the Plot
30. If you are having trouble deciding on a plot, try
brainstorming. Suppose you have a protagonist whose
husband comes home one day and says he doesn’t love
her any more and he is leaving. What are actions that
can result from this situation?
She becomes a workaholic.
Their children are unhappy.
Their children want to live with their dad.
She moves to another city.
She gets a new job.
They sell the house.
She meets a psychiatrist and falls in love.
He comes back and she accepts him.
He comes back and she doesn’t accept him.
She commits suicide.
He commits suicide.
She moves in with her parents.
The next step is to select one action from the list and
brainstorm another list from that particular action.
31. • Conflict is the fundamental element of
fiction, fundamental because in literature
only trouble is interesting.
• Conflict produces tension that makes the
story begin. Tension is created by
opposition between the character or
characters and internal or external
forces or conditions. By balancing the
opposing forces of the conflict, you keep
readers glued to the pages wondering
how the story will end
Create Conflict and Tension
32. Possible Conflicts Include:
• The protagonist against another
individual
• The protagonist against nature (or
technology)
• The protagonist against society
• The protagonist against God
• The protagonist against himself or
herself.
33. • This is the turning point of the
story–the most exciting or
dramatic moment.
• It is “the moment” the reader has
been waiting for. In Cinderella’s
case, “the payoff is when the
slipper fits.”
Build to a Crisis or Climax
34.
35. In short fiction, it is difficult to
provide a complete resolution
and you often need to just
show that characters are
beginning to change in some
way or starting to see things
differently.
Find a Resolution
