PPT-Creating a short story

How big will it be What will the population be like Above ground or below Plants Water Ice Other materials not found on earth Light Dark Warm Cold If you are using a setting on earth now give more specific details for the location you have chosen. Genre Intro. What do we already know about short stories?. What short stories have we read?. Which authors or short stories do we know?. Why do writers write short stories?. What is the purpose of a short story?. What is a short story?. Have you ever read a short story?. If so, which one?. What are the parts of a short story?. . Short stories usually lack detail. .. Short stories are brief.. Short stories use P.A.C.T.S . to establish the narrative. . …written and in the form of video.. Short, Short, Fiction. There is a genre of short story called “Flash Fiction”, or “micro-Fiction”. In the far east they are referred to as “Smoke Log Stories”. You may have heard these stories being called “Post Card Stories”.. Ms. . Cross. You will be quizzed on these terms at the end of the . unit . and must be able to define them during activities throughout the unit. . Short Story:. A fictional tale of a length that is too short to publish in a single volume like a novel. Short stories are usually between five and sixty pages; as a result, they can be read in a single sitting. Usually, short stories concentrate on a single event with only one or two characters. . . Pages 1-276 in text. . . . Parallel Reading: . Short Stories by . Tolstoy. . ENG II – World Literature. Weeks 1-6. S. trategize. O. rganize. Outline. The classic short story. Modernist approaches to short fiction. The context for short fiction in modernism. Katherine Mansfield. D. efinitions. E.M. Forster, . Aspects of the Novel. :. [Story] is immensely old – it goes back to Neolithic times, perhaps to Palaeolithic... The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping round the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. The [storyteller] droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next they either fell asleep or killed him.” . “Battle Royale”. Choose Your Own. Concepts to be Learned: . Main focus-- 1. . . Genre and Text Structure- . What elements make up an effective short story? What is the structure used within the short story? How does diction and syntax play an integral part in creating atmosphere, mood, and/or tone. PROOF ONE:. One of the main characters are named . Fortunado. . In the end, this character dies.. PROOF TWO:. Montressor. jokes that he is a mason when . Fortunado. asks for a sign, and . Monstressor. “The Interlopers”. . Read the poem ‘A Poison Tree” by William Blake.. *. After you have read the poem. . underline. all the words you don’t understand, and look them up in a dictionary.. Bell Work 4/1/19 What makes a good short story? What elements does a well written short story include? Write 5-6 sentences about your spring break! Announcements Book Response Poetry Quiz AZ Merit RPS update Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. DEFINITION. Short, brief. Fictional. Prose. Narrative, story. CHARACTERISTICS. Few. characters. Single. effect. often moral. theme. didactic. instructive. CHARACTERISTICS. Dictates of the . FORM:. Setting. English. What you need. A pen, paper, book or a device.. Learning intention. T. o understand the structures and features that define a short story..  . What you need to do. Continue to record ‘new vocabulary’ as you progress through the lessons..