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Story Lab: Empoword, Chapter Two

 For this story lab, I read the Empoword chapter 2, which is about the basics of story writing. I wanted to read this section so that I could get ideas on how to teach story writing in my future ELA classroom. I really enjoyed this resource, and it gave some cool activities and suggestions. One idea would be to have students write 3 stories based on the cropped pictures! It had some zoomed in photography, and each story would have a different point, even though it's ultimately the same picture.  I also liked how it gave the basic story arch, and plot sequence. That includes things like rising action, falling action, climax, etc. However, they mention that this is only one way to tell a story. It's the most common, but it's also kind of boring. You can adjust things about the plot to add interest and originality to a story. For example, you can start at the rising action, and loop back around to the exposition. I like all the graphics that they used and the charting. I feel...

Extra Credit Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part B

 These notes are from Twenty-Two Goblins: The Girl and the Thief  translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1917) = A love story! Kinda lol Again, the frame narrative starts with the king and the goblin Could I make it a love story in a love story?  If the princess gets the riddle correctly, she gets to save and marry the prince! The riddle: A merchant has a beautiful daughter: modest, pretty, and charming  He tries to marry her off, but she doesn't like men! Great character She didn't want a husband, and would rather die than talk about marriage Then, the story switches There is a thief, and he is noticed by the king The king tries to trick him The king pretends to be a thief, so the thief treats him kindly The thief brings the king to his house, and treats him like a guest The king runs away, and brings an army to kill the thief The thief destroys the army--he's a really cool fighter Now, the king fights with the swordsman!  The king wins, and takes the thief to be execu...

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part A

These notes are from Twenty-Two Goblins: The Three Delicate Wives translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1917) Since this story is a frame tale, it has the usual goblin and the king.  If I rewrote this story, maybe I could give it a different setting/ narrator I've been wanting to do teen tales, so maybe I could do a halloween type story I could keep the goblin, maybe have the background be teens in a graveyard, doing dares when they run into trouble. Then they die/disappear if they answer wrong Anyway- here is the riddle King has 3 wives  Crescent, Star, Moon He goes to a magic garden and drink a magic type wine (blood of Love?)  Crescent is the first wife to fall a lotus-petal falls and wounds her she faints until a servant fans her with water to wake her up king wants on her  Now, Star is injured While sleeping moon beams burn Star There are blisters on her skin Servants dress her wounds Moon is next!  She is walking down the hall Hears a noise, and gets bruises on h...