Willow
narrative structure (who/where/what/how — WWW)
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- THEN - NEXT - FINALLY ---
"A pile of threads isn't a nest," she'd say, "and a pile of events isn't a story."
The writer chose: a brave girl, one stormy night, in a mountain cave. Now the story had a place to begin.
Beginning, middle, end — the threads crossed and held.
No story is finished on the first try, and that's fine.
The WriteRise ensemble
Willow is part of WriteRise's distributed-narrative cast. Each character embodies a different curricular primitive; together they teach the full subject.
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Penna
Planning / POW (hero) — a quail who maps her notes into a plan before writing; planning IS the writing strategy
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Reeza
Opinion / TREE — a fox who stacks up 'because' reasons for what she thinks; reasons ARE argument
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Facta
Informative — an owl who gathers facts under one main idea; main-idea-with-details IS informative writing
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Snippa
Revising / editing — a beaver who snips and reshapes a draft to say more, clearer; revising IS improving
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Cheeri
Self-regulation — a cricket who sets a goal and cheers herself on; self-talk IS SRSD self-regulation
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Ms. Quilby
The workshop keeper (mentor) — a calm heron who frames each strategy and never red-pens a draft
