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Prompt For this project, you will be writing a story based on the picture prompt to the right. Take a good, hard look. Think about who the main character will be in your story (Pirate or the Pirate Muncher?), what the setting is, and who the characters are. Next, think about what problem they will have to overcome.

Before you start writing your narrative story you need to plan it! Story Plan Before you start writing your narrative story you need to plan it! Beginning Characters Setting Problem Middle Attempt #1 – Fail Attempt #2 – Fail End Attempt #3 - Solution

Here’s an example of what a good story plan looks like:

Beginning The beginning of a narrative story should introduce the characters, describe the setting, and explain what the problem is.

Beginning Questions By the end of your first paragraph you should be able to ask yourself these questions and answer “Yes” to each.

Writing Your First Sentence

Review Characters Pirate Captain Johnny Dolittle Horrible Sea Monster Setting Tiny island in the middle of the ocean Problem The pirates are stuck on a horrible sea monster!

Middle The middle of a narrative contains the attempts that fail. These are things that the main character tries to do to solve the problem that don’t work.

Strategy To write the attempts that fail we’ll be using a strategy called TIEFET. You’ll use this amazing structure twice in the middle to write two fantazmonious attempts that fail.

Middle Attempt #1 - Fail Attempt #2 - Fail

End The end contains the final attempt to solve the problem which works, resulting in the solution.

T – Transition I –Idea E – Event’s Action E – Emotion S - Solution Strategy To write the end of your narrative you’ll be using a new strategy: TIEES.

Completed Narrative

Congratulations! I feel so accomplished.