Composition - Write a Prologue of Our Favourite Story (Tuesday; 27/10)

K: Know the context of a story we're reading.

U: Understand the features of story writing.

D: Write our prologue.

 

Words of the Day

1. Foreshadow

2. Delineate

 

Let's Begin!

Let's look at a sample of a prologue:

 

 

Let's look at some notes:

1. Different character speaking = Different paragraph.

 

2. Purpose of one sentence paragraph:

   - To attract reader's attention.

   - To emphasize the importance of the scene. 

 

3. Omniscient point of view: narrator has access to all aspects of the story, including each character’s knowledge, thoughts, feelings, actions and backstory.

 

4. "Remember the dialogue rule," reminded Ms Farah. 

     Students nodded and answered, "There are 4 steps." 

 

5. Mr Lee thought, 'If I'm thinking, I can use the single apostrophe.'

 

Task 1

In a new page of your composition book, write a prologue of the current book you're reading OR your favourite storybook.

The word count is at least 250 words.

 

Remember some tips:

1. Use black/blue pen.

2. Finger-spacing for each new paragraph.

3. Skip one line for each new paragraph.

4. Count your words and list the total at the end of the essay.

5. Use your imagination! :) 

 

You have 30 minutes for this task.