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Suspense Story
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by Wendy Rooney 11 years, 5 months ago
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Writing Focus:
- Students hear and discuss good writing.
- Students write sentences to generate writing ideas.
- Students write scary stories.
- Students use a word wall to spell high-frequency sight words.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/index.html - Interactive Venn Diagram
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Horror-Story - 12 Tips to Writing a Scary Story
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Get an idea. How bad is it when a horror story has no great idea to get it started? To get these ideas, try to think of them just as you're starting to drift off to sleep. Try to think of the things that you wouldn't want coming out at you from those shadows, and then begin to think of what might happen if they did. For example: "Oh my gosh! I would not want an evil monster to slowly open the door to my room trying to make me like them! That would be horrible!" could be something you'd be thinking about.
Words That Set the Mood
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A truly horrifying story establishes an eerie atmosphere right from the beginning. An effective writer will send signals to the reader that the story will be scary and depressing using such vocabulary as "gloomy," "somber," "dreary," "forbidding" and "creepy." You can also ascribe scary characteristics to inanimate objects to heighten the mood. Buildings can appear "intimidating" and a forest can look "menacing."
Words That Evoke the Five Senses
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A tale is even scarier when readers can see, hear, touch, taste and smell things in the story. A place can exude an "acrid," "pungent" or "choking" stench. The protagonist can hear strange "clanking" sounds or a scary character can speak in a "dark," "steely," "sepulchral," "sibilant" or "guttural" voice. Use hues such as "pitch-black" and "ebony" to describe things that are dark. A drink or item of food can taste "sour," "fetid," "foul" or "rancid." Objects can feel "slimy" or "grimy."
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Words That Heighten Suspense
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H. P. Lovecraft, a famous American horror novelist, wrote that "the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." A writer can increase fear in a reader by not giving away every detail of a monster, ghost or place. Establishing something as mysterious builds suspense, as the reader fills in the blanks with his own imagination and desires to continue reading to find out more. Ambiguous descriptions, such "an amorphous creature," "hazy air," "opaque waters," "tenebrous valley" or "unintelligible sound" create a disturbingly unfamiliar atmosphere for the reader.
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Words That Show Fear
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A scary story needs a protagonist frightened out of her wits. Words like "horrified," "horror-struck," "petrified," "panic-stricken," "appalled," "witless" and "aghast" will do; however, representing the signs of a protagonist fears are even better. Perhaps she has "droplets of sweat" on her forehead, her knees are "knocking" or she is "trembling," "quivering," "shuddering," "quailing" or "quaking." You can describe her as "transfixed" or "paralyzed" in place.
Read more: Vocabulary Words for Writing Scary Stories | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_8153801_vocabulary-words-writing-scary-stories.html#ixzz29NJpqciE
http://www.athropolis.com/mp3pics/sc-story.htm - Write a Scary Story Template - Interactive
http://www.slideshare.net/adrodgers/scary-stories - Scary Story Power Point
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