Learning to fictionalise
Groups, timing
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content
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A/V aids
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Introduction:
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Plenary
5 minutes
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In this hour we will aim to
1.
Listen carefully
2.
Narrate
3.
Fictionalise
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Aims projected overhead
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Purpose of session
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1 minute
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To write from life but camouflage it. Tell your story and watch how it
transforms
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Recounting a dramatic event
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In pairs 5 minutes each
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Talk to your partner about a dramatic event that happened to you in
the last year. Listen attentively, no
questions
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Writing
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Individual 15 minutes
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Change the names and location. Write up your partner’s experience in 1st
or 3rd person. as if it was a short story.
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Read aloud
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In pairs, 5 minutes
each
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Check with your partner that any identifying evidence has been concealed,
ask permission to make it yours
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Reading aloud
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Plenary, 10 minutes
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Read the stories to the group
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Discussion
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5 minutes
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What was that
like?
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Summary
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4 minutes
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There are stories
everywhere. With trust, you
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Handout [below]
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Fictionalising
Life experiences are a
vital source of original writing. In order to use your own and other people’s
experiences you need to fictionalise.
·
Listen attentively,
picking up facial expressions and turns of phrase
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Conceal the identity
of people
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Transform the event
into a narrative
Listen for snatches of
dialogue at crucial points in a story.
Remember plot conventions
such as a trigger, quest, climax, resolution.
Protect the identity of
your source by changing the names and locations.
Choose a genre such as
sci fi. Gothic mystery or a time period, such as the Renaissance Florence.
Transform your
characters into animals or robots.
Fictionalising
Life experiences are a
vital source of original writing. In order to use your own and other people’s
experiences you need to fictionalise.
·
Listen attentively,
picking up facial expressions and turns of phrase
·
Conceal the identity
of people
·
Transform the event
into a narrative
Listen for snatches of
dialogue at crucial points in a story.
Remember plot conventions
such as a trigger, quest, climax, resolution.
Protect the identity of
your source by changing the names and locations.
Choose a genre such as
sci fi. Gothic mystery or a time period, such as the Renaissance Florence.
Transform your
characters into animals or robots.
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