Writing Narrative Prompt

These are pictures of boats that have been used by Cubans trying to get to Florida, just like in our story Refugee. 

1. Make a list of what resources (stuff) you can see that they have used to build their boat

•   Metal sheet 

•  Can 

•  Wood 

•  Bark for rope

• Plastic

• Car motor 

• And Motorbike motor 

2. The journey between Havana and Miami is 510km - the same as driving from Auckland to Palmerston North. In this kind of boat, that trip would take almost 2 days. What kind of resources (stuff) do you think the people would take with them in the boat to survive the 2 days?

•  water

•  Fishing rod 

•   Fuel

•  worms

•  Clothes 

•  Blankets 

• and  big long plastic sheet 

3. If they had room, what resources do you think the would take that would help them once they arrived in the United States of America? Explain why they need that thing.

•  Seed to grow

• Clothes to sell  

•  Wood to build a house

Now you are going to write a narrative using one of the pictures above (you choose which one!). 

Think about our story Refugee while you are planning…

Remember the structure for a narrative is 

Paragraph 1	Introduction	Hook the reader in with dialogue, quickly introduce the characters and what is happening. What, who, when, where, how, why.
Paragraph 2	Orientation	Talk about the characters, how the characters know each other, explain through dialogue why they are going on a boat, etc
Paragraph 3	Problem	Something bad that happens
Paragraph 4	Solution	How that bad thing is overcome
Paragraph 5	Conclusion	How they get to Miami (at least ONE character has to get there in the end!).

Remember you can have more than one problem and solution - have as many as you want, as long as they make sense! 

Don’t forget your dialogue (people talking or thinking), similes and metaphors, difficult words, punctuation like ? ! “ “ ; : - / … 

**bonus points if you can put in some Spanish, or a reference to them using pesos**

Use this box to brainstorm your ideas and plan out your story.
Paragraph 1	Introduction	people
Paragraph 2	Orientation	About the people
Paragraph 3	Problem	There is a war
Paragraph 4	Solution	There are going to go to the usa
Paragraph 5	Conclusion	Two died

Character 1:  Name: Agerash Age: 13 Details about them:  good Nice    Like to eat  fat

Character 2:  Name: yum Age: 8 Details about them: Skinny    hungry   sad   Good looking

Character 3:  Name: malo Age: 56 Details about them:  old  dark  tall  happy

Character 4:  Name:  Age:  Details about them:

There is corruption in the Soviet Union the Soviet Union is called Russia people are starving and lots are dieing in Cuba because the Cuba Relied on the Soviet Union for money the cuba sold sugar cane sugar to the of Soviet Union to get money and when the Soviet Union became corrupt. so the Cube  had no money and starved Some people tried to run out of Cuba and some of them got caught and sent to jail.   

‘Wake up Agerash it time to work on the boat,’ said Malo. Malo was an old man. He was in his 50s. He was tall, always happy and had dark skin. Soon after Agerash  woke up and ate some food their family is very poor and can only eat can beans then he went to the shed to help the dad with the boat. The boat looks like it compiles metal and plastic. Then yum came and said good morning then malo told yum to go home. 

On the day 'Let's go’ said Mole the family packed up the go to florida Play set the rust buckets on to the water and sail the way what are bike motors. They sailed to Florida a few days after. They were in Florida and lived ever after.