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Teacher: Who can tell me what makes a good story? Will?
Will: Well, if it has a great action scene in the very middle of it.

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Teacher: A great action scene. Good.
Student: A hook that could, like, get you into the book before you

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quit it.
Teacher: So you have kind of the reader that wants to be sucked into

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the story and be aware. Very good. Any other ideas on what makes a
good story? Stuart?

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Stuart: Make the story kind of make sense.
Teacher: The story needs to make sense. Have you ever read a story

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that you just read it and you said, “What was that about? I have no
idea. It made no sense at all!” You want a story to make sense. Very

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good. Do stories have to be true?
Class: No.

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Teacher: No. What kind of stories can you have? Sarah?
Sarah: Fantasy.

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Teacher: Huh?
Sarah: Fantasy stories.

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Teacher: Fantasy stories. Victor?
Victor: Fiction.

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Teacher: Fiction. Ellie?
Ellie: Biography.

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Teacher: Biography. Elias?
Elias: Um, Greek mythology.

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Teacher: Greek mythology. Cameron?
Cameron: Maybe a novel?

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Teacher: A novel. So, yeah, you have all different kinds of stories,
and we want stories to have all their parts and make sense. We want

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them to be fun to read. We want to be able to hook our readers, and
they need to have all their parts.