7 STEPS TO WRITING YEAR 7 EXCITING ENDING

7 STEPS TO WRITING YEAR 7: EXCITING ENDING

EXCITING ENDINGS • It’s important to leave your reader with a sense of satisfaction at the end of your story. • Your reader needs to feel like it was ‘worth it’, taking the time to read your story all the way to the end. • Does this mean that all stories need to have a happy ending…No. not necessarily. • The reader just needs to feel like the ends of your story have been tied up and that your main character has had their problem (their pebble, rock and boulder) has been resolved.

TYPES OF EXCITING ENDINGS 1. Action climax 2. Character resolution 3. Circular ending 4. Surprise ending 5. Humorous ending 6. Surprise ending

THIS LESSON… We will be: • Learn about the different types of exciting endings. • Start getting some practice writing exciting endings.

WARM UP ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS • To be quite honest, some endings are just utter rubbish. • We’ve all watched movies and read books and gotten to the very end and be like “What the!? That can’t be how it ends!” • Let’s look at a couple of famous endings and look at how they could have ended… https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=wp. Lv. Goi 1 Oo

ACTIVTY DISCUSSION • What are some movies you have watched or books that you have read that you didn’t like the endings to? How would you have changed them?

ACTIVTY THINKING BACKWARDS • You will be given a series of sentences that are the very last line of a story. • Rather than moving from start to finish, you are going to read the last line of a story, then come up with possible ideas about what the story

SHE NEVER DARED DO IT AGAIN, SHE KNEW I WOULD BE WATCHING.

AS THE CLOCK STRUCK MIDNIGHT, I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF.

I CLOSED THE SAFE DOOR. MY SECRET WAS SAFE AT LAST.

ACTIVITY YOUR TURN! • You will be given a series of stimulus sentences and you have brainstorm at least 3 different ways of ending the story. • You will have 2 -3 minutes for each scenario. • Are you ready?

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PUNISHED IN A DETENTION FOR SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T COMMIT

YOU FIND A SEALED ENVELOPE ON THE GROUND