Journal 6

• Pick one element from the storybook (magic, story, lesson) that engaged you as a reader.

• Explain what it is by example and effect.

•Characters and their Internal and External Conflicts.

Use your animal invention from previous journal

• What does this character want/need more than anything? Consider the setting they are in. Remember that your audience are children.

• Holly the Hippo wants to dance in Broadway’s Footloose production.

• What will happen if he/she doesn't get what he/she wants? • She will have to go back to Lazy Lake with her friends and

family saying “I told you so.”• What is this character's biggest fear? Remember that your

audience are children.• Fear of not proving her parents wrong, fear of not being as

good as the flamingos who are casted for Footloose production.

Imagine your character is speaking to his/her parent/friend/teacher about

his/her greatest fear. Remember that your audience are children.

Write at least four lines.

Give your character a voice.

• Holly the Hippo says:“I’m not a flamingo. I don’t have long legs.I’m round and plump, shaped like an egg.What if I can’t twirl and turn, plie and jump?Or glide with grace, but instead plop like a humpty hump?”

Use your object invention from previous journal

• What does this character want/need more than anything? Consider the setting they are in. Remember that your audience are children.

• EXAMPLE: Winston the Whisk wants to compete in the local writing competition for pencils.

• What will happen if he/she doesn't get what he/she wants? • EXAMPLE: He will miss the opportunity to become a novelist. • What is this character's biggest fear? Remember that your

audience are children.• EXAMPLE: He will need to work in the IHOP kitchen with the rest

of his family for the rest of his life where his love for books will not be realized.

Imagine your character is speaking to his/her parent/friend/teacher about

his/her greatest fear. Remember that your audience are children.

• Winston the Whisk says:“Beat this, mix that, whip this, stir that. That’s the life of a

whisk.But I just want to read this, wonder that, create this, write that. The world of stories, adventures, and beauty is where I want

to live, not the world of meringues, pancakes, and whip cream.”

Give your character a voice.

Write at least four lines.

HOMEWORK

• For each of your two invented characters create an antagonist.

• Creative Name for the Antagonist• How does this antagonist get in the way of the

protagonist’s goal?• Create a voice showing that they are going to

get in the protagonist’s way (4 lines.)