Creating Our Class Story

The podcast is giving reminders for working on a group story. Ideas are created on a shared Google Doc. After editing, stories will be shared with other groups for comparison. The important components of a narrative are reviewed, such as characters and settings. The story can have a problem with a solution or a major event with a conclusion. Descriptive words and answering important questions will make the story better. More directions will be given in future podcasts. Good luck with your stories! Hello class. So today's podcast is just going to give you a couple reminders for working on your group story. So this is going to be a collaboration of all your ideas that you're creating on a Google Doc that you share. After you guys have created your own story and edited it and made it the best it can be, you will share it with other members of the class, with the other groups, and then you guys are all going to compare and contrast the story. But before we get to comparing and contrast, we are going to review the important components of a narrative. So as third graders, we know that a narrative needs a few important ingredients to make it the best it can be. First and foremost, a narrative has to have characters. And when we choose our characters, we need to know what type of characters we're having. Are we having a happy character, a sad character, an emotional character, an aggressive character? So when you and your group are deciding the characters, I want you to jot down a few qualities that each character in your story will have. Nothing you write is going to be set in stone. You can change it. You can add characters. You can decide that character wasn't going to work with your story. But just to get started, so get all your creative juices flowing. After you decide on your characters, talk about some settings you might want your story to take place. And be descriptive about the settings. Talk about how the setting looks. You can even go into how the setting might make you feel. For instance, if it was a haunted story, the setting might make you feel scared, something like that. After that, you need to decide if your story is going to have a problem with a solution or a major event with a conclusion. So you might choose that your story is going to have an event with a conclusion. That's fine. You might choose that your story is going to have a problem with a solution. That's great, too. So you guys should come up with a variety of options. You're brainstorming. You're getting set to write your story together. And you're all creative. You're all great writers. And I can't wait to read this. So just before you get started, remember a few things. Descriptive words. Think of how the character will feel, what the place will look like. You might want to make a little suspense. Who, what, when, where, why. All these questions. When you answer them, it's going to make your story better. So this is just the start of it. But look forward to more podcasts where I tell you the directions. I can't wait to read these. Good luck.