Lesson:  How do I move my story with events?

HOW DO I MOVE MY STORY?

 SAMPLE TEXT:

 One hot afternoon, I was resting on a pile of hay in the loft of a barn.  Lambs and little piglets were sleeping underneath me.   Not a creature stirred.  The only sound I heard was the buzz-buzz of a lazy fly around my  head.  Suddenly, something disturbed the peace.
 

 “ACHOOOO!”  The fly landed right on the end of my nose.  I sneezed so  hard that the fly went sailing through the air toward the loft opening.  The  spider resting on its web in the doorway bounced as the fly tore through the  silk.  All at once___________________________________________ . . .
 


1.  Complete the storyline.  What could happen next?  Action moves a story  when one event CAUSES another.
 

2.  Complete the following CLOZE passage.
 

 One ________________, in a large _________________ I
                       (time of day)                                         (place)
 angrily kicked over the ________________.  This disturbed the                                       (object)  __________________ who ______________________.  This bothered
(character)                         (tell what this character did)    

the _____________________ who ________________________.  No
        (another character)                 (tell what this character did)
 sooner did this happen than I stumbled into the ___________________ and
                                                                            (another place)

said, “ _________________________________________________.”
               (what would you say?)
 

Hearing this, all the _______________________________  reacted by

__________________________________.  Finally, I ____________________________________.