Narrative Pre-Write Graphic Organizer
Step 1: Choose a scene from your selected text and determine the type of change or twist you want to use in your narrative. Make sure it’s a significant enough scene to give you a sufficient plot line.
As you’re filling out the graphic organizer, be sure to answer in complete sentences.
Step 2: The next step is to describe your setting. Are you sticking with the original or changing to an alternate universe? Then consider the point of view of your story.
Step 3: This step is where you describe the new or updated conflict and characters in your story. What new characters are you adding? How will the conflict change with the addition or subtraction of characters?
Scene
What scene in the story are you re-writing?
What type of “change” are you implementing?
Setting
Where do the events take place?
What does it look/feel like?
What do you need to keep from the original scene?
(Focus on the actual physical space.)
Point of View
Explain why you will write your story in first or third person.
Who is the narrator?
How will their personality influence the perspective of the story?
Character
address their physical appearance
address their demeanor
address how they carry themselves
Step 4: Design your plot. Are you going to organize your story in a traditional plot structure or bring in another organization structure? How will you create interest and tension in the scene?
Characterization
Character
address their physical appearance
address their demeanor
address how they carry themselves
Character
address their physical appearance
address their demeanor
address how they carry themselves
Conflict
What is the main conflict?
What kind of conflict is it?
Plot
Exposition: prepares you for the events to take place
Rising Action: create the mood as the tension is building
Climax: turning point of the story
Falling Action: protagonist and antagonist experience the consequences of the turning point
Resolution: brings the story to a close
Selected novel is the old man and the sea by Ernest Hemmingway
