Story Maps

A story map is designed to help you organize your thoughts with pictures before you write a story. Story maps are basically webs with pictures connecting all of the different ideas or topics. To help you out on your 'Day in Disney' stories we are going to be making story maps first before you begin writing. This way when you begin your story the story map will act as a guide helping you remember what events you want to write about and in what order they happened in.

To being first look at your time sheets from the 'trip' and make a star next to the events that are the most interesting that someone would want to read about in a story. For example I would like to read about the different rides you went on but I would not want to read a lot about you sleeping or walking. When you look at these events make a note if they are fun (rides, parades), necessity (eating, sleeping) or transportation (flying, walking, bus ride) because we are going to be labeling these on the story map. I will show you an example in class of a story map I did.

Please come to class with these events selected because we are going to start right on the Inspiration software that allows us to create story maps. I will teach you how to use the software and make a map in class.