Getting the story started

We talked about different ways we could start our adventure stories today.

Here are some of the beginnings we came up with.

Describe the setting
The busy streets of Bangkok rushed past the windows. It was cold. The a/c was turned up too high and Seb lifted his bag so that it covered his shivering body. Cane was nearly asleep and his head rested against the window. He started snoring and Seb gave him a gentle nudge in the ribs. Cane woke up with a jump!
"Get away from me you horrible dragon!" he screamed.
"I'm not a dragon!" said Seb.
"I was having a horrible dream, and a dragon had just eaten my left foot!" said Cane.

Here's another description of setting, this time with some dialogue

Cane lifted his hand, looked with concentration and brought his hand down in the shape of a pair of scissors. Seb held out a clenched fist.
"I won, I won!" screamed Seb delightedly.

Start with some dialogue

"Stop copying what I'm doing in Rock, Paper, Scissors, " exclaimed Cane.

Which do you prefer?
Are there any other ways we could start a story?

Adventure stories on the wiki?

I've just set up a page on the wiki for us to store any adventure stories you have written and edited.

Go here to go to the wiki, then log in and paste in your edited story.

I will then be able to set up a new page for you.

Then readers from the class can read and help you edit the story.

3W authors, get writing!

(Remember that this is an optional project for today)

Story Maker

We are reading Treasure Island, a classic adventure story.

I was looking for websites which help you write a story. Here are a few:
Learn English
Readathon
Story elements to write about (includes sound)

Which do you prefer? Why?

Here is a website which Miss Caswell recommended which has mystery stories.

Here is a pirate adventure. If ye keep yer wits about yer, ye may end up speakin jus like a foul mouthed pirate yerself!

Audio books for free!!!

Yes, here are some audio books which you can listen to for free.

Here is the site for Treasure island, which we are reading in class.


The stories are the original versions, so may have lots of old fashioned words, but give them a try.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers for this tip.

Link to pirate adventure story

Follow this link to the pirate adventure story which we used in class.

You can choose the exciting events you want, to make your own adventure story.