Fantasy Story Drafts: Day 2; The Hobbit quiz

Complete this quiz (the bulleted questions below) for The Hobbit, chapters 5 through 7.

• Summarize each chapter: chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 7
• Identify what part of the hero's journey these chapters deal with and explain why.

Your quiz is due by the end of class. Please send me a copy of your summary through GOOGLE DOCS: bradley.craddock@rcsdk12.org.

When you are done with your quiz, please continue to write your fantasy draft. By the end of class today, you should have written 1-2 pages (double-spaced...) and have completed:

• A scene or two (or more) of your fantasy story. Remember that you want to follow the hero's journey in your plot:
• Status quo (exposition; the beginning; describe your character's normal setting...what's life like in this town, this family, this land, this castle, this magical place?
• Call to adventure: Interrupt your character's status quo by a call to adventure. Give your character a reason and purpose to start a quest (see posts below for help or ideas!)
• Mentor/teacher/guide: give your protagonist a mentor or guide who can send your hero out on their own with a little knowledge or skill. Give your character some help or advice before departing.
• Departure: your protagonist must leave his/her status quo and leave home to accomplish the task set before him/her. Departure is usually into an unknown land, or into the dark forest, or into the ancient forbidden castle. This usually includes a journey (and you MUST describe your new setting...it's new, after all.)
• Approach: give your character 1-3 problems to solve. Problems in fantasy stories are often battles with monsters (the Dwarfs fighting the Goblins or Bilbo fighting the spiders), escaping from a trap (Bilbo & the Trolls, for example), solving a riddle (Bilbo & Gollum), or using one's wits to survive (Bilbo & rescuing the dwarfs from the elf king); Each approach is part of your rising action. I'm expecting 3 in your story. Each scene needs to be described. See advice below.
• Crisis/Failure: your character should after the second trial or problem, fail to defeat the last trial.
• Again it might be helpful to write an outline for your plot. You do not have to write your scenes in order. You might wish to start with a battle scene first, then focus on the other scenes from this list. 
• Remember to use effective diction and specific details when writing your setting or scenes. 
• Use imagery when describing a setting (sound, sight, taste, touch, smell, etc.)
• Use dialogue to develop characterization (remember that characterization is created by describing a character's physical traits, mental or personality traits, learning about a character through what a character says or thinks about the character, or what a character says or thinks about him/herself. I.E. Dialogue!
• Describe your actions by choosing effective verbs. Here's a list to help you.
• If you need a name, try this name generator.
• Other plot help, if needed.
• Fantasy tropes
• Inspirational pictures.
• Write.

HOMEWORK: Please read chapters 8-12 (to page 220) of The Hobbit. We will be completing this book by the end of next week.