Most good stories follow an effective organizational pattern, as illustrated in the textbook's story-building chart. which phase of the story-building chart answers the questions, "what did you or the characters see, hear, feel, smell, or taste? " and "how are the characters reacting to what's happening? "

Action/Conflict

When we look at stories and when you are able to describe what it is a character did by manner of the character’s seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting, you’ll know that these are all verbs (thus actions).  Additionally, in stories, characters will react to what is happening to them or around them, and these happenings occur in the form of conflict. 

.the definitions

.the number of syllables in the word

.the pronunciation of the word

.the parts of speech

.the foreign translations

1. the details that would clarify the authors purpose for writing would be after the "haley collected used soccer jersey and sent them to guatemalan children." part, he would say, "and you can also donate today to save ". so far in the text, you can see no such thing. if, near the end the author persuades you to donate to guatemalans, then you know that the author's reason to write is to persuade you.

2. what details would make the text more engaging is to see the guatemalan children's reaction to getting free jerseys.

3. the details that convey the author's attitude would be an opinion by the author, for example, if he said, "haley was a very nice girl " or, you can find the attitude by finding parts of haley's personality that he highlights. you can strengthen your tones by using more descriptive words, and simplify long sentences as much as you can.

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