Planning outstanding narratives

English

'Alias Grace': forming opinions on characters

Emulating Atwood’s use of an untrustworthy character in ‘Alias Grace’

Conceptualising voice in fiction texts

Exploring unique narrative voices

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: analysing character

'The Yellow Wallpaper': crafting voice

Exploring voice in ‘Klara and the Sun’

Emulating Ishiguro's use of an artificial voice in 'Klara and the Sun'

Comparing dystopian voices

Creating voice in our narratives

Writing a narrative with a compelling voice

In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop narrative writing skills. In 'Writing Masters', pupils experiment using language and structure to write interesting and creative texts.

In 'Fiction: Books that Changed My World', pupils explore how authors use language for effect in their writing. In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop focus on using author's language choices to make nuanced evaluations about a text.

In this unit, pupils explore and practise emulating a range of different narrative voices. They explore narrative voice in 'Alias Grace', 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Klara and the sun' before crafting their own narrative voices. At the end of the unit, they write a narrative with a compelling voice.

Fiction: inner musings

Immoral behaviour or minor criminal offences, e.g. shoplifting, graffiti.

Depiction or discussion of upsetting content

Depiction of scary, confusing or unsettling events or characters placed in danger, including creation of a scary atmosphere through the use of music and sound.

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

'Exposition, rising action, {{}}, falling action, resolution'. 
Which is the technical term for the part of the narrative arc that is missing from the sequence?

an introduction to every character one by one

For short narratives, what might an exposition need?

Flashback -> exposition -> rising action -> climax

Which of these sequences does *not* manipulate time?

a leader pays for people to vote for them in an election

someone wears last season's fashion to a party

Which of these would be most likely to lead to ignominy?

allow for a strong sense of voice to shine through

When writing a short story, what is the least important thing to do?

a character is describing that they are homeless

the character describes how conflict developed between them and a flatmate

In order to begin with the climax in a short story, which order could these narrative events be described in?

events are described in a different order to which they actually occur.

events are described in the order events actually occur.

large chunks of time between events are skipped.

'Chronological' describes a narrative in which ...

Starting with the first, put each section of the narrative arc in chronological order.

transitioning to a past time in a narrative

transitioning to a future time in a narrative

skipping large chunks of time in a narrative

Which of these is *not* a manipulation of time in a narrative?

the part of a text where characters are introduced

the part of the text where conflict is resolved

the part of the text with the highest point of dramatic tension

a battle between a robot and human breaks out

Which of these events is the most appropriate for a climax?

Starter Quiz