Good leads Pull your audience in right away Begin establishing the tone and mood of the story Start introducing details of the exposition ie Characters Setting Main conflict Action Lead ID: 642527
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Narrative Leads
How will you pull your audience into your story?Slide2
Good leads…
Pull your audience in right away
Begin establishing the tone and mood of
the story
Start introducing details of the exposition (i.e. Characters, Setting, Main conflict)Slide3
Action Lead
The main character is
doing
something
Gets us right into what’s happeningSlide4
Example from
This Dark Endeavor
by Kenneth
Oppel
:
We found the monster on a rocky ledge high above the lake. For three dark days my brother and I had tracked it through the maze of caves to its lair on the mountain’s summit. And now we beheld it, curled atop its treasure, its pale fur and scales ablaze with moonlight.
It knew we were there.
Doubtless
it
had smelled us coming, its flared nostrils drinking in our sweat and fear. Its crested head lifted slightly, almost lazily. Coins and jewels clinked and shifted as its body began to uncoil.
“Kill it!” I roared. My sword was in my hand and my brother was at my side, his own blade flashing.
The speed with which the beast struck was incomprehensible. I tried to throw myself clear, but its muscular neck crashed against my right arm, and I felt the arm break and dangled uselessly at my side. But my sword hand was my left, and with a bellow of pain I slashed at the monster’s chest, my blade deflecting off its mighty ribs. Slide5
Dialogue Lead
A character or characters are speaking
Good way to show the characters’ personalities right awaySlide6
Example from
Unsouled
by Neal
Shusterman
: “They signed it. The Heartland War is over.”
Janson
Rheinschild
closes the front door, throws his coat on the sofa, and collapses into an armchair, as if all his joints have become internally undone. As if he’s been unwound from the inside out.
“You can’t be serious,” Sonia says. “No one in their right mind would sign that hideous Unwind Accord.”
He looks at her with a bitterness that isn’t meant for her, but it has nowhere else to go. “Who,” he asks, “has been in their right mind for the past nine years?”Slide7
Reaction/Reflection
A character is thinking about or reflecting back on an eventSlide8
Example from
Baseball Great
by
Tim Green:
Josh wondered why every time something really good happened, something else had to spoil it. It had been like this since he could remember, like biting into a ruby red apple only to find a brown worm crawling through the crisp, white fruit. For the first time since he’d moved to his new neighborhood, he had been recognized, and his unusual talent had been appreciated. So why was it that that same fame had kicked up the muddy rumor that got a high school kid looking to bash his teeth in? Slide9
Take a peek…
Open up your free reading novel.
Share the first paragraph or two with your table group.
Categorize what type of leads your novels begin with.
Share Out: Who has an excellent example of an action lead? Dialogue lead? Reaction/reflection lead?Slide10
Let’s apply what you’ve learned…
Open up to the rough draft section of your notebook.
Try out
a couple of
the leads we discussed today.
Take your time- this is the first impression you will make on your audienceBe prepared to share with a partner at the end of class.