1. “Choose Your Own” Input
Interactive Fiction
“Choose Your Own” Input
About me?
About you?

2. About me Rachel Emery Spanish Teacher in Winnetka, IL
5th and 6th grade Intermediates
Srtaemery.weebly.com
@Srta_Emery
Materials (free) on teacherspayteachers

3. About you What is your experience writing for your students?
What is your experience with Interactive Fiction (Choose Your Own Adventure)?
Level, language, age of students?

4. What makes interactive fiction good CI?
PQA (What would you do? Why?)
Future tense (What will he/she do?)
Past tense (Reflect on where character has gone, what character doesn’t know that we do)
The more pictures, the better (to signal/represent the language)
Make a story that parallels a novel you’re reading. (“Brenda Brown y la excursión de escuela terrible”)

5. Logistics/How to create
Start a story, create a suspenseful/ urgent moment, and give the audience a choice.
Make two separate text boxes with the choices.
Make the slides that will come next after each choice.

6. Once you’ve created the slides you want to jump to next, highlight text of box you want to jump from, click Hyperlink...

7. You want to link to somewhere within the document, so click “Document” then “Locate” and select the slide you want to link to.

8. How to hyperlink in Google Slides
Highlight text, select ‘link’,
then ‘slides in this presentation’
and select the slide you want to link to

9. Example... Elena y el mensaje raro
“Elena has been home alone all day. When she tries to order food for herself, she gets a mysterious message, and everything goes haywire. You choose what happens next!”
Go to Elena CYOA ppt

10. What makes interactive fiction good?
Characters: Protagonist with a quest, buddy, wise mentor, “big bad”(Karen Woodward)
A cool setting, acquiring helpful objects, find treasures along the way (Robin Rivera)
Choices: two bad options, being kind or self-serving, offering a seemingly unintelligent choice (which turns out to be better), giving only one choice
Quick decisions: answer the phone or not, open the front door or not, hide or run from something
Inklewriter: Website that keeps track of your storylines?

11. When one line of plot gets boring, dead-end it:
Hide in the closet, find Narnia, begin Narnia books.
Surprise birthday party
It was all a dream…
Movie director says, “Cut! That was great!”
It was all a prank (older brother).
Death by various ridiculous means
Mom says, “The end. Now go to sleep.”
Lost in a maze?
“Y la selva los devoró.” --La Vorágine

12. My Take-aways
It doesn’t have to have an ending, or even traditional plot. As long as things keep happening, your kids will just want it to keep going.
Ask your students what they think happens next, then add it to your story!
When you’re done for the year, have students predict what will happen next in a Chalk Talk.

13. Can you come up with: Setting Character Problem/Quest First choice
Google Image Search: “Choose Your Own Adventure Books”