12/19

Today we will discuss the difference between plot mapping and digging as a means of approaching a story. I will have a powerpoint for this.  You will then be given time to choose a method and write a scary story.  IF you have no ideas of your own, feel fee to use the following ideas.

1. It was a very dark and stormy night . . .
   
2. I knew there was something funny about that house the minute I stepped foot into it . . .
   
3. She seemed like such a sweet old lady. Who would ever believe that she was really . . .
   
4. It was weird. One day our teacher just . . .
   
5. It looked like a plain, old milkshake to me . . .
   
6. All of the sudden I was trapped!
   
7. If they weren't in such a hurry, they wouldn't have taken that short cut through the cemetery . . .
   
8. No one was ever really sure what was going on down in the new kid's basement . . .
   
9. One night, I looked out the window and I saw the neighbor...
   

10. Sometimes I think my friend has strange powers. Every time he's around... 

11. It was the weirdest thing I have ever experienced! It was a regular old Thursday afternoon. I was walking home from school and as I passed the old abandoned house on the hill, I heard the beating of drums. I knew I should’ve kept walking. I should have gone straight home. But my curiosity got the better of me. I took a deep breath and .....