Tag: Character Profiles

Children’s Writing Clubs W/C 2nd March

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Progress on our fables topic!

Monday

Monday CJS Club: This club made excellent progress on their fables during this session. We reminded ourselves how to build and create a character bio and everyone made one for a character in their fable. This then led on to more ideas for the fables themselves and many of the children began penning their first drafts! We also discussed the different ways we could present our fables when they are finished, including traditional picture books, zig-zag books and scrolls tied with ribbons! Fantastic effort from everyone today!

Tuesday

11 Plus Zoom Group: We also moved onto creating characters for our fables and one fable was finished in the first draft!

Bransgore C of E Primary School: More progress on fables with character bios being created today.

Wednesday

11 Plus Zoom Group: Lovely progress with on-going stories plus character bios for our fables!

8-11 Zoom Group: Several mini fables coming out of this group each week, as well as working on character bios today!

CJS Wednesday Club: Progress for our fables in the form of character bios today!

Thursday

Burton C of E Primary School: This week we created character bios for our fables which we will write next week!

Children’s Writing Clubs W/C 28th May

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What have we been up to this week? Launching a collaborative writing project and starting by creating characters!

Monday

Monday Zoom group: The new collaborative book idea was explained to this group today and voting commenced on four options we have in creating a short story collection together. The idea is everyone will write their own story and will come up with their own character but the stories all have to be connected some way. We did some character work today to get started! The options are:

  1. An OBJECT is passed through the stories and every story must include this object somehow
  2. A SHARED EXPERIENCE on a train – everyone creates a character who then responds to something that happens on a train
  3. A SHARED EXPERIENCE in a town – we collectively create a town and everyone creates their own character, we agree on an event and each character responds to the event
  4. A SHARED LOCATION – everyone creates a character and writes their own story but all the stories must connect with a shared location

Monday CJS club: Voting for the collaborative short story collection idea and character creation! We also had character interviews where the group get to ask the ‘character’s questions in order to get to know them better. As you can see, the bios are wonderful!

Tuesday

Tuesday 11 Plus Zoom group: After working on character ideas last week, this group got to vote on the collaborative project idea today. They also carried on creating characters, adding back stories and motivation and more. Fantastic. I’m very excited about the characters being created in this group!

Tuesday Bransgore School: This group also voted on the collaborative idea, and started character bios. We had a few ready for interview and will do the rest next week! Here are a few examples:

Wednesday

Wednesday 11 Plus Zoom group: Voting for the group project idea and progress on their previous group story, plus creating characters from scratch OR adding more detail via back story, motivation and more…

Wednesday 8-11 Zoom group: This group also got to to vote on the collaborative book idea and then returned to creating characters for it!

Wednesday CJS club: We voted on the collaborative idea, and finished the interviews we started last week! More work on character bios. Here are a few examples: