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Which of these is more
interesting? Why?
THE CHALLENGE STEPS
For everyone
The Comfort Zone: this is the minimum expectation for each activity
The next step
The Confidence Zone: Push yourself to do a little bit more and take an
extra step to improve your level/ grade
Pushing Boundaries
The Fire Zone: Challenge yourself to go beyond your own
boundaries and see how far you can go!
Warm up
Write down 2 alternatives for the following
past tense verbs (said, run, walk)
Use two of your verbs from the 1st
question in a complete sentence.
Look at the image: describe what
would happen next using 5 verbs.
Writing the senses
1.
What do you see? (describe the colour, what other object
or thing does it look like)
2.
What do you hear? (move it around in your hand- what
does it sound like? Compare it to something else that you
might hear sometimes)
3.
What do you smell? (describe what it smells like to you
using at least 3 adjectives)
4.
What do you feel? (describe what it feels like in your
hands. Use a simile: as ……as……)
5.
What do you taste? (close your eyes and think about how
you would describe the taste).
What is the problem?
What is the problem?
What is the problem?
What is the problem?
Building a Story
Now let’s create an interesting setting for challenge for
your character using our story builder:
1.
Roll the dice for character. Write this in your book.
2. Roll the dice for place. Write this in your book.
3. Roll the dice for the challenge/ problem. Write this in
your book.
4. Roll the dice for the object. Write this in your book.
Now use these FOUR random things to plan the
beginning of your story with a partner
YOUR TURN
NOW WRITE THE STORY YOURSELF
- It has 6-8
sentences using all
of the story items
- It has 5 sentences
using at least three
of the story items
- It used 3 senses in
the description
- Some attempt to
include a problem
- It has 6 sentences
using at least three
of the story items
- It used 4 senses in
the description
- There is a clear
problem
- It used 5 senses in
the description and
had a clear problem
and setting
- There is an
engaging and
interesting problem
CRITICAL BUDDIES
- It has 5
sentences using
at least three of
the story items
- It has 6
sentences using
at least three of
the story items
- It has 6-8 sentences
using all of the story
items
- It used 5 senses in
the description and
had a clear problem
and setting
- It used 4 senses
in the description
- It used 3 senses
in the description
WRITE ONE EBI (even better if) AT THE BOTTOM OF THEIR WORK