高二英语选修oMduel教案.doc

Period 4: Writing a fantasy story Objectives To learn to write a fantasy story in English Procedures ▇ Learning how to write a best selling fantasy story To begin with let us have a discussion on how to write a best selling fantasy story. I think the following ten tips are important. 1. Create a main character. 2. Create a Quest. 3. Create a Motley Bunch of Companions. 4. Create a Wise but Useless Guide. 5. Create the Land 6. Create the Enemy 7. Make it long. 8. Skip the hard parts. 9. Lead up to a cataclysmic battle. 10. Kill almost everybody. ■Writing your own fantasy stories The Swamp by Shoshana Leffler, age 11, Bronx, New York Flying in and out of the clouds, a black hawk circles the swamp. He doesn’t make a sound, but rides the currents like a king silently surveying his land. I tuck my coat closer around me. The hawk is still fresh in my mind. He seems to be scrutinizing me and watching my every move. His black body stands out against the sky. But when he goes away the color in the sky also changes to a darker shade. Now that he is gone everything is quiet. But I know it will not be that way for long. It’s very still where I sit, at the edge of the swamp on a rotting log. The log is rough and jagged where the ridges run on the gray bark. Empty-looking tangled branches of a hemlock seem to form a crisscross pattern. In between the branches grow dry leaning grasses. The delicate branches look like snowflakes and I think of winter coming to the swamp. Near me hay-scented ferns are turning yellow and brown. They droop lower and lower toward the ground, waiting for the day when they will lie fallen under hard ice and snow. That day will come, but for now I rub my hands on the soft leaves. They leave a summer smell on my hands, a smell of freshness and warmth. Tiny white and brown mushrooms grow in patches in the shade. These dwarf-sized mushrooms with round heads seem to be hiding an endless secret. They keep me deep in thought. All of a sudden I