Story Architect Adventure
Discover the essential building blocks of any exciting story: characters, setting, and plot. Challenge yourself to design and create your very own mini-adventure by bringing these elements to life with imagination and creativity.
The lesson goal is in this spark, your learner will identify the main components of a story: character, setting, and plot, explain the role of each story element in creating a narrative and construct a simple story using tangible representations of story elements.
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Learning Guide
Step-by-step guidance. No preparation required.
- 1
Introduction5 Min
- Ask what makes a story exciting.
- Move on when Student shares at least one idea about what makes a story.
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Visual Learning: Story Blocks8 Min
- Guide them to observe the image.
- Move on when Student engages with the image and describes a few elements they see.
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Discussion6 Min
- Explain character, setting, and plot.
- Ask about the main character.
- Ask about the story's setting.
- Ask what happens next in the image.
- Move on when Student can identify a character, a setting, and a potential event from the image.
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Activity9 Min
- Set out paper, crayons, and scissors.
- Brainstorm ideas for character and setting.
- Draw their main character.
- Draw their story's setting.
- Draw an exciting plot event.
- Move on when Student has completed their drawings/creations for their character, setting, and initial plot idea.
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Summary2 Min
- Celebrate their story creation.
- Move on when Student shares one key takeaway or a favorite part of the lesson.
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