内容正文:
找准伏笔,续写照应
--How to echo the foreshadowing in continuation writing
For continuation writing,
what’s your biggest problem of getting a high score in
a limited time?
Lead-in
情节欠合理: 缺乏与原文情节的照应
语言欠丰富生动: 缺乏
与原文语言风格的照应
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
○find out the foreshadowing(伏笔) by reading the
original story carefully;
○design vivid and logical plot based on foreshadowing;
○polish your writing by echoing the original language
style.
Learning objectives:
Activity1
Plot analysis
In our weekly staff meeting, our editor Ashley was not pleased with the quality of our reporting. “Our readership is way down. We need better stories for this Thursday’s school newspaper. Does anybody have any ideas?”she said.
I handed her my article about our basketball team beating Deerfield High School the previous night by one point.“Sports stories are fun,”she said,“but not good enough for the front page. We need something to really get people's attention.”
After our meeting, we left the newsroom together and heard someone screaming,“Perry is missing!”Perry was a big red parrot and had been our school mascot(吉祥物) for ten years. He played an important role in students’ lives, both in and out of class. He had also been a constant presence at school events, inspiring a sense of unity among students.
Everyone gathered around Perry's empty cage, heartbroken. Suddenly, a student from the crowd came over and showed me a photo. “You’re a reporter for the school paper, right? I happened to take this yesterday,”he said. In the photo was a Deerfield High School basketball player with something large hidden under h