Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Gone
Michael Grant
high concept narrative
showing crowd emotion
background characters
characterisation
dialogue
word choice
representing a crowd
maintaining tension
mobs
project
This lesson continues examining the structure of the first chapter of Gone. How does the author use one or two people to represent the feelings of the crowd, and use the scene to introduce character traits of the hero? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.