Backstory, building the picture and rounding the story

3/3/2015

Stories that drop you right in the middle of the problem are exciting, think of any James Bond film. However, good films and writers will tell you more of the backstory as the film or novel goes on. It could even create more stories on their own, think Batman Begins. This is called backstory technique. Below is a sample from the text we are reading Holes.

Back at school, a bully named Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley. The teachers never took Stanley’s complaints seriously, because Derrick was so much smaller than Stanley. Some teachers even seemed to find it amusing that a little kid like Derrick could pick on someone as big as Stanley. On the day Stanley was arrested, Derrick had taken Stanley’s notebook and, after a long game of come-and-get-it, finally dropped it in the toilet in the boys’ restroom.

We revisited our old friend, Boris, and his adventures at Camp Fort Street to create a backstory of how he ended up there.

Back in class, after his big breakfast Boris was struggling to hold it in. He was wriggling and jumping about trying to take his mind off it. He had raised her hand but he knew it was hopeless. The teacher would never let him go to the toilet. The class thought it was amusing and started taunting him, “shakey booty!”

Read the comments below to sample 5/6M's work.

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Cherry

3/3/2015 02:32:54 am

Back at home, a boy named Bob always loved talking about cars. Bob's friends never listened to what he was saying, because he was just another kid. Most strangers thought it was crazy how much he talked about cars. On the day Bob was arrested his Mum threw away all of Bob's toy cars, and after a long hour of pleading she threw them in the garbage bin.

The End

3/3/2015 02:33:22 am

#first

4/3/2015 02:59:42 am

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3/3/2015 02:47:04 am

Back at the park, Jeff couldn't resist to go to lolly world. His mouth was watering and he was panting and drooling more than the to pugs ahead of him, the Rottweiler ahead of him and husky running up to bite Jeffs butt because Jeff had sausages hanging out of his back pocket. Jeff saw the husky, the pugs and Rottweiler began to chase him. Jeffs only hope was to run to the lolly store were no dogs were aloud and so he did. As Jeff set foot in the store, sirens and streamers went on there was a voice that said " congrats you are the one millionth customer and your prize is two minutes to grab all the lollies you can and it is free you also get a trip to camp lolly world."

The Legend (Nadia)

9/3/2015 06:24:11 am

Sounds really fun! YUM.....SWEETS!!!!!!

Blob

3/3/2015 02:48:04 am

Back at the farm, Billiey slept in and on the farm sleeping in is a BIG NO,NO. So Billiey was sent to clean the horse poop.while Billiey was cleaning it, he had to poop,badly.Billiey wasn't allowed to leave until it was all done,no excuse.so Billiey didn't pooped in the horses food,by accident of course.he panicked cleaned up the poop then ran away.that night Billiey came home.his parents asked him why he ran away but he didn't say anything.after all that he told them and his parents said"don't worry we do that all the time." Then he went to sleep.

3/3/2015 02:48:54 am

#third

Little Mac Attack whi is AWESOME

4/3/2015 11:55:40 am

In English class Ellie was told to write a story about Barramundi. She started to write sentence by sentence . As she went to go to the teacher Mr Mc with her finished story about Barramundi she realised she forgot a word and a spelling mistake. Dun Dun Duunnnnn. She rushed back to her seat eager to get it correct but what she didn't know is that the word that she thought was incorrect was correct. Proudly coming up to Mr Mc with her finished work. Until Mr Mc spotted something so she got sent to the principals office for not spelling Barramundi correct even though it was on the board.

mike has a bozo sitting next to him

9/3/2015 05:59:11 am

Back at class, after getting bugged by his over inthuesiasticstep mum Liam in his mad mad mood went to the school bathroomand found a pile of POO!!HE took his pocket knifeout then he STAB STAB STAB!!! The poor peice of poop. He felt much bertter after that.

9/3/2015 06:17:12 am

Back at book club,after drinking way to much water. Amber was jumping around the libary like a mad chicken. No matter how much she tried not to think about it , it would never work. Every single time she asked the teacher she knew the awsner would be NO!!! All the kids in the class thought it was funny, so they kept on saying things like this....."WATER FOUNTIN!!!!, BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!,You know you wanna go!". The class kept calling her jiggly pants.

Gabi

9/3/2015 06:32:12 am

Back in detention, Ally's teacher always shouted at everybody. The principal never believed anybody who told her he shouted at them even if they were doing the right thing. On that very day, Ally was sent to camp.
"You're in big trouble!"
Ally's teacher had asked her to come to him and sit down infront of him. Ally walked to the fornt of the room, Ally felt funny feeling in her belly and the tingling slowly moved odwn to her rear end and she had let it go on the teacher's desk.

savanna556

9/3/2015 06:34:40 am

Back at home,after her big drink break miss Happy was trying to hold it in.She was wobbling and wriggling and trying to take her mind off it.She whent to the teacher and said:
"can i go to the toliet"
then her teacher said:
"no"
then the big bad principal came to take miss Happy but then it happened...

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