Narrative Writing
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Week 3- Layout
In week 3, Writing will be focused around Narrative writing of a morphed animal. It will have a similar structure to what we did last week with fables. Here is what we will do each day:
What is Narrative Fantasy Writing?
This week, we will be writing a narrative text with fantasy elements. Fantasy is a genre of text where there is an otherworldly element, something that cannot be found in real life. You will create a morphed animal which will be a main character/element in your fantasy writing. You can add other otherworldly creatures and elements to your text. Use your imagination!
Language FEatures
- Description is very important because fantasy uses characters that don’t exist in real life and must be imagined by the reader.
-Imagery plays an important role in helping to describe places and things the reader has never seen. What would it feel, smell, look, sound, taste like? This helps the reader to understand and picture it in their own mind.
Characters
Elements of Narrative Fantasy writing
Setting
Conflict & Plot
Theme
Characters are the creatures/people in your text. DIalogue between characters is a common element of narrative writing.
Setting is where the story takes place. In Fantasy it can be a real place or something you made up, remember to describe it in detail for your reader!
Your plot and conflict is what moves and develops your story. Plot is what happens in your story, conflict is two opposing teams/forces in your story (think good vs bad).
Theme is the overarching concept of the text. Common themes are good vs evil, love, friendship and revenge.
Structure
Beginning
Middle
Ending
Your complication is resolved in this section. It does not have to be a happy outcome, however
In this section activities and events involving your main characters are expanded upon. These events are written in a cohesive and fluent sequence
Set the scene by introducing your characters, setting and time of the story. Establish your who, when and where in this part of your narrative
�Questions about any of the tasks?
He Patai?
Use the Padlet below!
This is the website to use for you to create your own morphed animal, have a go and play around creating a few different animals :)
Monday: REsearch and Animal creation
To do Monday:
My findings:Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds.
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Tuesday: Planning
Briefly describe the characters, setting and theme of your text.
Characters:
My main character is the one I created yesterday. His legs and body is really soft. The other character is the dragon. He will pull out fire and he is not that friendly.
Setting: The setting will be in a fighting stadium where they will fight.
Theme: The theme is good vs evil.
Plot & Conflict:
What will happen in the story? In what order? How will it end?
The dragon and my main charter will fight eachother to see if bad is good or evil. They will fight and then the ending will be a happy ending because they stop fighting and then they will become friends the main charter will explain to the dragon that do not do bad deeds.
One of your characters will be your morphed animal!
Wednesday: First Draft
First paragraph:
Once upon a time there lived a Zebra Cat, in a farm. People and different animals used to call him that because his head was a cat and his body was a Zebra. The Zebra Cat did a lot of good deeds ,and he told people to do good deeds. There was also a dragon who did a lot of bad deeds. He told people to do all thse stuff.
Second paragraph:
When the Zebra Cat found out he was really mad at the dragon. So he met the dragon and told him not to do that. The dragon said to the Cat Zebra that if he wins the fight he will have to do bad deeds if the Zebra Cat won the dragon has to do good deeds and help people. The Cat Zebara and the dragon agreed.
Third paragraph:
The next day they got ready for the fight. The fight took place in this fighting stadium. The whole crowd watched the match. The match started and the dragon threw fire balls. He kept doing that until his throat was in pain. The dragon got sick. The Zebra Cat was winning but then he lifted the dragon up and the dragon felt better he was really shocked.The whole crowd appleued. He said: you helped me I was a bad dragon and you still helped me. The dragon soon became nice and did good deeds.He even became friends with the Zebra Cat. The End!
Thursday: editing
SMRF the narrative writing doc (file in your writing folder). Go back to your first draft of the text and copy+paste each paragraph into the new document.
Editing process:
FRiday: Illustration & Publishing
To do Friday: