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Adventures in Fantasy: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive Writing, Grades 5-9

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Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing that stimulates a student’s creativity and imagination. Filled with mini-lessons, reading projects, and hands-on writing activities, the book shows teachers step-by-step how to introduce students to the “magic” of creating a complete story in the fantasy/adventure genre. Before fleshing out their stories, however, students are asked to construct actual maps of their `fantasyland’ – and then to write a travelogue describing the setting in vivid detail. This initial fantasizing encourages students to be wildly inventive in creating the drama, ogres, villains, heroes and heroines featured in their story, and on the way they learn about the mythic journey.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Chapter 1: A Hero’s Quest, a Writer’s Journey 7 How to Use This Book 9 An Adventure in Fantasy 10 Genres of Fantasy 11 Epic, High, or Heroic Fantasy 11 Adventure Fantasy 12 Dark Fantasy 12 Fairy Tales 12 Magical Realism 12 Magic 13 The Hidden Force 13 Magic’s Moral Component 13 Magical Words 14 Magical Tools 14 Practitioners of Magic 14 Chapter 2: Threading the Theme 15 Thinking About the Theme 16 Understanding Basic Themes 16 Theme Thread: What Do You Have to Say? 16 Additional Theme Threads 17 Chapter 3: Forming the Fantasyland 23 The Fertile Crescent, from Book Two in The Taylor Thomas Trilogy: The Rock of Jerusalem, by Mr. Gust 24 Map-Making Assignment 25 Map-Making Prompt 26 Forming the Land 26 Character Domains 26 Determining the Terrain 26 Villages and Places 26 Embellishing the Map 27 Chapter 4: Setting the Surroundings 41 Riding Horseback Through a Storm on the Grasslands, from Eragon, by Christopher Paolini 42 Landing in a Valley near the Great River, from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, by C. S. Lewis 43 Daybreak on a Mountain and in a Meadow at Noon, from The Temple of Light, by Mr. Gust 43 The Travelogue Assignment 45 Travelogue Prompt 46 Travelogue Guiding Outline 46 Travelogue Rubric 46 Travelogue Reader Response 46 Using Sensory Words 47 Creating Sensory Phrases 47 Setting the Mood 47 Traveling the Transition Trail 47 Keeping the Action Moving 48 Setting Description Practice 48 Chapter 5: Crafting the Characters 65 Contrasting Gandalf and Bilbo in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien 66 Introducing Zanadar from The Temple of Light, by Mr. Gust 66 Crafting a Cast of Characters Assignment 69 Character Description Prompt 69 Character Description Guiding Outline 70 Character Description Rubric 70 Character Description Reader Response 70 Types of Characters 70 Fantasy Characters and Creatures 70 Character Illustrations 71 Naming Characters 71 Character Qualities 71 Character Description Graphic Organizer 71 Personality Traits 72 Character Actions: How Do They Move? 72 Character History 72 Character Voices 72 Theme Thread: Contrasting Characters 72 Chapter 6: Plotting the Path 121 James Henry Trotter’s Trip Across the Atlantic, in James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl 122 Taylor Thomas’s Trip Around the Fertile Crescent, in The Rock of Jerusalem, by Mr. Gust 123 Plot Line Assignment 124 Plot Line Prompt 125 Plot Line Rubric 125 Plot Line Listener Response 125 The Linear Path 125 Linear Plot Line Graphic Organizer 126 Mission in Motion: The Complication 126 The Circular Path 126 Theme Thread: Traveling Inward 126 Theme Thread: The Resolution 126 Chapter 7: Wording the Wonders 151 Before Beginning 152 Point of View 152 Transitions and Transitions of Time 152 Story Showing 152 Show, Don’t Tell: What Did They Do? 153 Can You Fantasize? Prove It. Show It! 153 Dynamic Dialogue 153 Speaker Tags 153 Tagging Your Speakers 154 Quotations and Indents 154 Say Do . . . Do Say . . . Say Do Say . . . Talk and Feel . . . Think and Talk 154 Figurative Language 154 Personification 155 Similes 155 Be a Master of Metaphor 155 The Sounds of Words 156 How About a Little Alliteration? 156 The Land of Assonance 156 Whack! Bang! Ping! Onomatopoeia 156 Chapter 8: Sketching the Scene 185 On Camazotz, in A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle 186 In the Subterranean City Telos, in The Temple of Light, by Mr. Gust 191 Sketching the Scene Assignment 193 Get the Whiteout Out! 193 Scene Sketch 193 Scene Summary 193 Scene Summary Rubric 193 Chapter 9: Starting the Story 203 Starting the Story Assignment 204 Chapter 10: Trimming the Tale 227 Writers’ Workshop 227 Readers Respond 228 Conferencing and Connecting with Students 229 Revising 231 The Mechanics of Revision 231 Proofreading 231 Chapter 11: Booking the Boon 235 Booking the Boon Workshop 236 Bookmaking 236 Bibliography 243 Index 245

About the Author :
John Gust teaches fifth grade at a magnet school in the Los Angeles Unified School District and serves as adjunct lecturer/teacher trainer at various local universities. He has published numerous books on topics ranging from self-esteem enhancement, to character development, to systems thinking, to communication skills and multicultural education. Gust's first attempt at storytelling was a personal narrative titled Round Peg, Square Hole: A Teacher Lives and Learns in Watts. Currently, Gust is writing a fantasy trilogy for young adults. For more information about John Gust, his writing workshops, and his other books, please visit www.johngust.org. John Gust teaches fifth grade at a magnet school in the Los Angeles Unified School District and serves as adjunct lecturer/teacher trainer at various local universities. He has published numerous books on topics ranging from self-esteem enhancement, to character development, to systems thinking, to communication skills and multicultural education. Gust's first attempt at storytelling was a personal narrative titled Round Peg, Square Hole: A Teacher Lives and Learns in Watts. Currently, Gust is writing a fantasy trilogy for young adults. For more information about John Gust, his writing workshops, and his other books, please visit www.johngust.org.

Review :
Using this book's framework parents or teachers can create story writing projects that could take up a number of weeks and actually be fun for an entire class or family. (RoundTableReviews, 05/01/08) Using this book's framework parents or teachers can create story writing projects that could take up a number of weeks and actually be fun for an entire class or family. (RoundTableReviews, 05/01/08) Using this book's framework parents or teachers can create story writing projects that could take up a number of weeks and actually be fun for an entire class or family. (RoundTableReviews, 05/01/08) Using this book's framework parents or teachers can create story writing projects that could take up a number of weeks and actually be fun for an entire class or family. (RoundTableReviews, 05/01/08)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470639863
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive Writing, Grades 5-9
  • ISBN-10: 0470639865
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 272


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