In part two of our One Year novel series, we tackle the beginning blocks of your story: the premise! Here's how you can construct a strong yet concise premise for your novel using JotterPad.
We just made this little infographic to visualize the breakdown of using our novel writing roadmap to write a novel in one year.
Here’s my Barrissoka version of that novel cover that’s been trending over at Twitter.
Want to write a story that works? Learn how to plot your novel using the Save the Cat! Beat Sheet in this post! (Free worksheet included!) #writingtips
Exploring using Notion for writing? Here's a step-by-step guide on creating a Notion writing project tracker template that serves your needs.
This Wonder novel, by R.J. Palacio character study pennant is all you need to teach and promote the memorable characters found in the book. Wonder is an amazing novel study for young readers. The Wonder pennant is a reading and writing activity. Your students will list character traits using the background organizer on the pennant. here is a pennant for each character (Auggie, Summer, Miranda, Olivia, Justin, Jack, Charlotte, Julian, Mr. Tushman) and two pennants with the book title. Your students will love the opportunity for creativity. The pennant can be used any time of the year. Give your students a relevant and modern experience while promoting kindness, anti-bullying, community, differences, tolerance, and most of all belonging. Leave the pennant up all year long! Wonder Character Study Banner Includes: Ready for you to easily line up by using the directions on how to assemble. The preview shows more! Includes: ★ pennant printables – each flag is a character. The sketchnotes style is very appealing. The line art is perfect for your students to add color and design. Here is your list! Auggie Jack Miranda Summer Justin Julian Mr. Tushman Charlotte Olivia (Via) Wonder We're All Wonders ★Classroom Décor ★Bulletin Board ★Hallway ★Showcase Display Directions are clear and explicit. Looking For More Pennant Activities? Check These Out: Women’s History Month Biography Research, Pennant, Make Your Own Pennant Banner Created by Danielle Knight, © Study All Knight ™, The Knight Stuff, LLC
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As an introduction to my series on Organic Architecture, I thought I’d start out with the ol’ granddaddy of plot structures: Arch Plot. You probably already know all about this plot structure, but to make sure we’re all on the same page, I wanted to do a quick overview. Arch plot has lots of names....
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November) starts today, and while I plan to continue blogging throughout NaNo, I wanted to make sure I gave you something good to keep you happy during my crazy month. *smile* Of course, whether or not you’d define today’s post as anything good might depend […]
Suzanne Collins biography, graphic novel style! Students should enjoy reading, right!? And there's a reason why young children love picture books: images are appealing. Do I prefer reading a graphic novel version of my favorite books? Not really. But, that doesn't mean none of my students do. In fact, I would say quite a few of them would prefer it. If I want my students to enjoy reading, I need to offer plenty of choices. The same with writing. Some kids are happy to write a classic book report. But some aren't. So why not give them choices? With the recent announcement on the Hunger Games Fireside Chat of Sara Gundell's comic-style biography of Suzanne Collins (author of The Hunger Games), (see picture) this reminds me that there are so many appealing ways to entice students to read rather than the traditionally printed book. I offer loads of choices in my high school classroom because we all have different tastes. I do love reading comics and have Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Close to Home, and Frazz books for students to read. Of course I offer the classics along side them, but I would much rather have a student read something over nothing. We need to admit that it is OK to allow these choices in our classroom. Students DO learn from reading non-academia texts! Reading the Guiness Book of World Records is still helping my students' reading skills. How? Because they are reading! It doesn't matter what they are reading. The act alone and repetition of it makes them better readers. It is the same with writing. The more they write, the better writer they become. So why do we assign the boring 5-paragraph essay over and over again so they learn to hate writing? I don't know (well I do...because we are forced to). It's crazy. I would rather assign them more relevant and personally-connected pieces because 1. they will enjoy it, and 2. the chances of them copying & pasting text from the internet is less likely. Here's a free download for you: comic strip panels to use to assign a comic bio or book report. Download all of the pages here: I created them using Pasq.com's Comic Life program. You can head to my teacher store to find additional ideas for literature- and history-based learning. Sample pages:
The Three-act structure. The definition of three-act structure is a narrative model that divides a plot up into three sections
After reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio, students worked in small collaborative groups to create character posters about each of the characte...
Want to get your kids to read more? Try a graphic novel! Find the best graphic novels for kids ages 6 - 16 that will get them reading.
Jami Gold's Writing Worksheets: Help for all writers, from newbies to experts and from plotters to pantsers.
Reworking the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet - the expert in writing books, short stories and novels. Save the Cat® is your platform for writing screenplays, outlining your story, and authoring software, books, and courses.
