V° SECONDARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS by Delma Saavedra Jaramillo https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk You are going to watch the video about how to write a great short story. en-us 2017-09-23 22:52:16 UTC 2017-09-24 03:06:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png You are going to write the story in two periods of classes. delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190484998 2017-09-23 22:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190484998 CONTEST WRITE A STORY delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190485593 Write a story using from 300 to 400 words.]]> 2017-09-23 23:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190485593 1. Stasis delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486075 This is the “every day life” in which the story is set. Think of Cinderella sweeping the ashes, Jack (of Beanstalk fame) living in poverty with his mum and a cow, or Harry Potter living with the Dursley’s.]]> 2017-09-23 23:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486075 2. Trigger delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486168 Something beyond the control of the protagonist (hero/heroine) is the trigger which sparks off the story. A fairy godmother appears, someone pays in magic beans not gold, a mysterious letter arrives … you get the picture.]]> 2017-09-23 23:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486168 3. The quest delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486273 The trigger results in a quest – an unpleasant trigger (e.g. a protagonist losing his job) might involve a quest to return to the status quo; a pleasant trigger (e.g. finding a treasure map) means a quest to maintain or increase the new pleasant state.]]> 2017-09-23 23:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486273 4. Surprise delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486383 This stage involves not one but several elements, and takes up most of the middle part of the story. “Surprise” includes pleasant events, but more often means obstacles, complications, conflict and trouble for the protagonist.
Watts emphasises that surprises shouldn’t be too random or too predictable – they need to be unexpected, but plausible. The reader has to think “I should have seen that coming!”

]]> 2017-09-23 23:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486383 5. Critical Choice delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486681 At some stage, your protagonist needs to make a crucial decision; a critical choice. This is often when we find out exactly who a character is, as real personalities are revealed at moments of high stress. Watts stresses that this has to be a decision by the character to take a particular path – not just something that happens by chance.
In many classic stories, the “critical choice” involves choosing between a good, but hard, path and a bad, but easy, one.
In tragedies, the unhappy ending often stems from a character making the wrong choice at this point – Romeo poisoning himself on seeing Juliet supposedly dead, for example.

]]> 2017-09-23 23:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486681 6. Climax delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486842 The critical choice(s) made by your protagonist need to result in the climax, the highest peak of tension, in your story.
For some stories, this could be the firing squad levelling their guns to shoot, a battle commencing, a high-speed chase or something equally dramatic. In other stories, the climax could be a huge argument between a husband and wife, or a playground fight between children, or Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters trying on the glass slipper.

]]> 2017-09-23 23:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190486842 7. Reversal delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190487135 The reversal should be the consequence of the critical choice and the climax, and it should change the status of the characters – especially your protagonist. For example, a downtrodden wife might leave her husband after a row; a bullied child might stand up for a fellow victim and realise that the bully no longer has any power over him; Cinderella might be recognised by the prince.

]]> 2017-09-23 23:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190487135 8. Resolution delma_idioms https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190487604 The resolution is a return to a fresh stasis – one where the characters should be changed, wiser and enlightened, but where the story being told is complete.]]> 2017-09-23 23:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/delma_idioms/gkv47mvzk8fk/wish/190487604