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How will we make our legends sound interesting?

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How will we make our legends sound interesting?

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How should we order the information? What information should we include?

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How should we order the information? What information should we include?

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Taken and adapted from 'The Girl of Ink and Stars' by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Published by Chicken House

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o   Opening, build up, dilemma or problem, resolution, TWIST, ending.

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might help you plan

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make sure the events of your story engage the reader.

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character and setting, what was life like before???

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what happens? Introduce the villain and how do they change things for the MC?

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what does the MC do to fix things?

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Does something unexpected happen?

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How has life changed or does it go back to normal?

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Are there connectives that lead from one paragraph to the next?

Fronted adverbials? In these days / But one day…

Use the reactions of the characters.

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in place of names – eg, he / Yote / the fire demon.

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a story passed down from long ago.

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again, long time ago.

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using more interesting vocabulary

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sentences of three help here – There was no forested border, no forgotten territories, and songbirds sang in every tree. She journeyed underground through a waterfall, drenching herself in the water to protect herself against the flames,  and walked until…

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some just 1 sentence for emphasis.

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use it wisely /sparingly

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Simple, compound / complex sentences.

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with clauses and phrases. Eg drenching herself to protect herself from the flames

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We'll discuss these more

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colons, semi-colons and commas

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difference between the island and the fire realm.

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such as Yote being proud and sending his fire dogs

Arinta was sad.

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What do we need to do once we have written our legends?

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What do we need to do once we have written our legends?

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Check that it flows, and that punctuation and grammar is correct.

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correct any spelling or grammar mistakes

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Check that you explained everything – that the reader isn’t left with loose plot threads.

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make it better – improve vocabulary and ideas.