Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
speech function
speech as action
punctuation
character voice
dialogue purpose
telling stories
M T Anderson
The Suburb Beyond the Stars
In most narratives, characters will want to talk to each other. But why? What are they doing? In this activity, we look at how characters tell stories and why they tell them. We use a snippet from M.T. Anderson's The Suburb Beyond the Stars as a model.