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Openers
Open your sentences with different words
!!Connectives
!!A Few Seconds Later.
Adjectives
Misted,Musty.
Adverbs
Patiently,Curiously,Immediately,Frantically.

Story Mountain
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The Gas Mask
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Character
Name - Meg Grandma

Personality interested in WW2. Bold. Smily. Likes

her best book
Description - Strong and healthy old and wrinkly

Similes:
Struggling like a fish out of the water.

OPENING
Description of the setting and the main characters
what is going on where and why?
there in grandma`s room digging around for a ration
book for WW2 class history topic. She finds a gas
mask and puts in on.

CLIMAX
This is the most dramatic part of the story - the most
exciting part. What is happening how do the characters
respond?
Looking around Meg was startled she looked like she was
standing on grandma`s street she herd bombing in the
back ground. She looked over on what looked like
grandma`s house and it was all broken down! That`s when
she saw a little girl under a hiding under a table she was
covered in white ghostly powder. she ran over to the girl
and did not even pause to stop and think when she arrived
she saw that her foot was stuck under the table! she
lifted the table up so the little girl could clime out.

BUILD UP
Beginning to know the characters: some action, building
up to the problem more detail about the scene,
building tension to the main issue!
The mask smelt of moth balls and the mask starts to fog
up and she can`t see anything! The world looked like
shapes all swirling around. She sounded like Darth
Vader. Suddenly the world stops swirling she was a bit
nervous about taking the mask of but she did it any way.

Connectives
Use these at the start and in the middle
of your sentences
But
A few seconds later
At that moment

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Ambitious Vocabulary
Use adventurous words to make your
writing come to life

Adjectives Fussed,Curiously,Disgusting.
Adverbs Rummaging,Patiently,Muttering,Transfixed.
Powerful verbs Scurrying,Raced,Clambered,Reached.
RESOLUTION
The problem is beginning to be solved. It might be part
one of a number of problems.
the little girl took out her best book and gave it to
Meg. Meg starts talking to her when, in the distance, a
man yells to put her mask on.

ENDING
All problems are solved. How do the characters feel?
She puts the mask on, and again, the world swirl`s around
and funny shapes appear in front of her. It stops swirling
and she takes her mask off. she is back in grandma`s room
and her grandmother finds out she has her ration book
(her best book) in her hands! Then and only then Meg finds
out that her grandmother was the little girl!