Plotting a Story & Author Comic

Meet in your groups. Discuss your novel so far. Complete a "plot chart" of events that have occurred in your reading so far.

• The protagonist
• The inciting incident
• Complications, conflicts, plot events that create further problems in the story. How are they dealt with? How does this help define the protagonist? Discuss.

As you discuss, and read your novel, please complete a plot chart and a character map for your protagonist.

LAB:

Remember the exercises we did about your author self? Take those out again, brush them off, and be prepared to create a little story of you as a famous author using the program Comic Life.

Here's a tutorial for the program to help you navigate.

Use Edward Gorey's "The Unstrung Harp" as a model. You should create a comic that has text on one side of the page, and a panel (or two) that includes some sort of picture. You may use drawings, JPGs from the internet, or your own photos.

HOMEWORK: Please continue reading your novel. Complete your Story Map and Plot Line for the novel. Aim to complete the novel by end of next week.