Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Becoming Better Writers #1 - Plotting the Story Arc

Dear 3B,
thank you for your patience in waiting for our supplementary lesson recap!

In our first supplementary lesson last week, we learnt about

THE STORY ARC!

A story arc is meant to help you to organise your story according to :

Introduction : introduce your characters

Rising Action : events that lead up to the climax

Climax : the TURNING point of the story (usually, the problem )

Falling Action: what happens after the main event, leading up to the ending

Conclusion : how the problem is solved

During our lesson, we watched two short films and discussed their story arcs.

Challenge yourself!

  • Try explaining to your parents/siblings what a story arc is and what it is used for.

  • Share with them how you would go about plotting a story arc (e.g. how do you decide which part of the story is the climax?, etc)

  • Can you try to plot the story arc for both films to test your understanding of  the Story Arc?

Links to the 2 movies

Short Film #1 - Lifted : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY1_HrhwaXU

Short Film #2 - One Man Band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5x9LUbWvRo


All the Best!! Let's see how well you do! ;)

Love,
Ms Priya

11 comments:

  1. Oh yes just finish HM ~homework
    Yessss I challenged myself
    READY for tommor

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  2. Thank You for putting up the links.My brother wants to thank you too:).I have challenged myself.

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  3. the assignments look challenging.i will try my best to do it.

    Do we have to draw the story arc on the paper?

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    1. thank you.i have challenged myself.

      to inform all my name that i will put on the blog will be char char(some of them call me that)but i might put charmaine. thanks

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    2. and i done my work :)

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  4. Thank you Ms Priya for putting up the links.I have challenged myself.

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  6. I will also try my best to do the assignments and thank you for putting up the links.:)

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