Narrative writing (A1)

Content and structure

You start a new paragraph for every new idea and for every change of time or place.

Your story has the following parts:

Your story has a title which catches the reader’s attention¹.
Exposition: You you tell your reader what they need to know so they can understand your story. Who are your main characters? Where and when does your story happen (= the setting)?
Conflict: Something happens in your story which creates a problem for your characters.
Rising action and climax: Some events follow, which increase² the tension³. We call the point of the highest tension in a plot⁴ the climax.
Falling action: After the climax, life in your story gets back to normal (or to a new normal).
Resolution: You bring your story to an end and show how things have changed.

Spelling:
- Do all sentences start with a capital letter?
- Do all names of people, places, days and months start with a capital letter?
- Did you write the word “I” with a capital letter?
You use different of grammatical structures correctly. For example:
- There is / are …
- Things your characters sometimes / often / always / usually do (Present Simple). Things your characters are doing at the moment (Present progressive).
- Quantifiers: many / much / some / any / a lot of / a few / a couple of
- Questions
You use a wide range of vocabulary correctly and you paraphrase words you don’t know. You don’t use German.
- You use different adjectives.
- You use interesting verbs and nouns.