It’s a Mystery - End of Unit - Planning Your Story
Completion requirements
Unit 5
What Are the Traits of a Good Mystery?
Activity
It's a Mystery - End of Unit Activity
For your end of unit activity, you are going to finish writing your story.
All events in the story need to be important ones. Do not include events that are uninteresting or do not advance the story.
To ensure your story has a purpose, make an event plan. To select important events, write your story backwards. Begin with the solution to the problem. How did your character arrive at that solution? Write out each step. Use the words because and so for each event.
A Mystery in the Woods
Character: A trapper named Muchalat Harry
Setting: The mysterious forest in BC holds a secret.
Harry has the perfect life working as a trapper in Northern BC along the coast.
However, when he finds a large footprint, he begins to realise that things are not quite as they seem. Will he find the solution before it is too late, or will his demise become another legend?
What does Harry want? To find the animal that made the footprint.
Solution: So, he never went trapping in that area of the woods again.
Because the creatures left the camp unguarded, then Harry ran to his canoe on the river.
Because their campsite was littered with large bones, Harry thought the creatures would eat him.
Because Harry was lost and sleeping, he did not notice when he was picked up by a large Sasquatch.
Because he is unfamiliar with this part of the woods, he becomes lost.
Because a barking dog and a large mysterious footprint leave him with some curious questions, Harry sets off to find some answers.
Click each coloured row for information about the activity.
- Review your favourite mystery story in the Unit.
- Look at how the sequence of events work in the story.
- Look at how the author reveals information and clues about the characters and the mystery.
- Write your plot events backwards as in the example above.
Refer to the previous lessons where you planned and wrote various elements of your story.
After you have written your story, find a family member or friend to peer edit it. You may use this checklist here.
- Use the story plan you wrote in Assignment 5-1.
- Use the corrected introduction you wrote in Assignment 5-2.
- Refer to how to write a conclusion and the conclusion you wrote in Assignment 5-4.
- Use the corrected dialogue you wrote in Assignment 5-4.
Download PDF
- Download the document 5-8 Story.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
- Click the "Open with" button.
- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view the document 5-8 Story.
Save
How to save a file:
- Scan the document to your computer.
- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your Planning a Graphic Story - Before You Begin file in this format: jsmith_graphicorg and save the file to your Documents folder.