Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Picture Prompt (snowman)  Prompts Added March 2012  or Prompt from list in your composition book.

2. Sharing Headlines and Stories
3. More on Memoir
       Example
       Questions to Ask for Story
4. Work on your own memoir.

Questions for Story Ideas

Setting:  Where does the story take place?  How is the place important to the story?  What needs to be explained?  What is going on?

Characters:  Who are the characters?  Which are important to the action of the story?  What do we need to know about them?

Initiating Action: What initiates or begins the action?  What causes a character to do something?

Attempts:  What attempts does the main character make?  To do what?  Why?

Results:  What are the results of the character’s attempts?  Does the result initiate a new action?

Responses:  How does the character respond to or feel about the initiating action, the attempts, and the results?

Dialogue:  What do the characters say to one another?

----  From Narrative Writing by George Hillocks