Arlene F. Marks

Story Crafting

Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing Skills in the High School Grades

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Produktbeschreibung

The "Literacy: Made for All" series is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques. STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, editing, polishing and sharing of short stories and longer prose fiction.

Produktdetails

• Literacy: Made for All
• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781475807332
• ISBN-10: 1475807333
• Artikelnr.: 39687576

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in Toronto, Arlene F. Marks found her storytelling muse at the age of 6, and she has been writing and sharing her imaginative tales ever since. She is also a retired educator and veteran teacher of the craft, having authored two literacy programs for the classroom, as well as From First Word to Last: The Craft of Writing Popular Fiction. During her life, she has worked as everything from a travel agent to a fashion consultant. However, her first love and current obsession is writing speculative fiction.Arlene lives with her husband on the shore of beautiful Nottawasaga Bay. She spends an inordinate amount of time following her characters around the universes in her mind, but she can be lured away from them by dark chocolate... and interesting owls to add to her collection. www.thewritersnest.ca

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Implementing Literacy: Made to Order Aims and Objectives of
Literacy: Made to Order How to implement Story Crafting PART I: GETTING
STARTED Introduction/Aims and Objectives Skill 1: Establishing an Ideas
File Students learn how to develop and use an Ideas File as a source of
writing inspiration. Skill 2: What Happened Before and What Happens Next
Students explore the causes and effects of a variety of story-triggering
incidents or situations and practice turning them into story ideas. Skill
3: Establishing the Theme of Your Story Students practice growing
underlying themes that can help their fictional tales deliver important and
powerful messages to readers. Skill 4: Creating the Illusion of Reality
Students learn how to make characters, settings and plot events behave or
transpire in realistic ways. Skill 5: Understanding Dramatic Conflict
Student authors practice putting multiple conflicts into a story to make it
interesting and exciting for the reader. Skill 6: Understanding Story/Scene
Structure Young authors learn how to construct a fictional scene and
practice putting scenes in the best order to create an interesting story.
Skill 7: Writing Descriptively: Wake Up Your Senses Young authors reawaken
their senses and establish a vocabulary of sensory words and phrases to
enhance their descriptive writing. Skill 8: Writing Descriptively: Use
Figurative Language Student authors practice using similes and metaphors to
make their descriptive writing more evocative. Skill 9: Writing
Descriptively: Use Descriptive language Students learn to recognize and use
words with specific connotations in order to make their writing more
effective. Skill 10: Putting Everything Together (Writing Assignment)
Students take a story through the entire process from outlining to Final
Draft. PART II: WRITING THE SHORT STORY Introduction/Aims and Objectives
Skill 1: Building a Strong Main Character Students practice the techniques
that authors use to bring fictional personalities to life on the page.
Skill 2: Constructing a Solid Dramatic Conflict Dramatic conflict is the
backbone of any story. Student authors practice building and developing the
strongest possible level of dramatic conflict in their stories. Skill 3:
Creating an Interesting Setting Students practice developing and using
realistic, well-written settings to strengthen and deepen every element of
their stories. Skill 4: Structuring a Story Effectively in Scenes Students
learn how to make their stories flow interestingly from beginning to end.
Skill 5: Setting Up the Story Student authors practice writing opening
scenes that will lay a strong foundation for the rest of their story. Skill
6: Hooking the Reader Students practice creating story openings that will
'hook' the reader's attention from the very beginning of a tale. Skill 7:
Major Writing Assignment Students are now ready to put together all the
writing skills they have learned in a story-writing assignment which will
be revised, edited and polished and handed in for evaluation. PART III:
WRITING LONGER FICTION Introduction/Story Lengths Skill 1: Adding Minor
Characters to the Cast Young authors learn and practice how to put minor
characters to work in their stories, ensuring that every character pulls
his/her weight. Skill 2: Giving Characters More Depth Students practice
building more realistic characters that readers will identify with and care
about. Skill 3: Adding a Subplot Student authors learn how to deepen and
enrich their stories by adding well-integrated subplots. Skill 4: Working
with Settings Young authors practice putting their story settings to work
in various ways, making their stories more engaging for the reader. Skill
5: Step-building Dramatic Tension In longer fiction, dramatic tension keeps
readers turning pages. Students learn and practice how to build tension
using a tested story structure. Skill 6: Major Writing Assignment Students
are now ready to put together all the longer fiction writing skills they
have learned in a story-writing assignment which will be revised, edited
and polished and handed in for evaluation. PART IV: THE WRITING PROCESS: A
SUPPLEMENTARY LIBRARY OF FICTION WRITING TOOLS Introduction: How to Use the
Fiction Writing Toolkit Tools 1-23