Goal: Create a purposeful original companion scene with a sustained perspective.
Prepare: Ordinary story/contrast; own Day 31–34 work if genuinely available, or new blank page.
- Choose and begin · 5 min. Choose a moment to retell, continue or challenge, and a reader/purpose. Begin an own line immediately. Use a wholly imagined observer; no autobiographical disclosure or imitation of a community’s voice is needed.
- Read/model or source access · 8 min. Read C01–C03 and show how voice selects details and addresses a reader. Model two opening proposals: a close third-person question or a first-person object image. Neither is compulsory; an own safe form is welcome. Two new opening proposals to discuss, not copy: close third person, ‘Mara stopped at the doorway; the rows were quieter than the page in her hand’; first person, ‘I folded the programme until the word FINAL disappeared into its crease.’ Choose what each observer can notice and what value the image might suggest. An own third approach is welcome.
- Explore or independent plan · 12 min. Plan the narrator’s attention, value and limitation through a few chosen details. Decide which established source moment anchors the companion, and where your own fiction begins. Make one structure decision without needing a completed planner.
- Make a response · 15 min. Draft an own companion (about 350–500 words as an eventual flexible guide) or a described scene sequence/signed/spoken/AAC-composed equivalent. Sustain a viewpoint through action and language rather than explaining every feeling. An unfinished purposeful passage is usable.
- Review · 6 min. Self-read for consistency or ask a willing reader one specific question. Record only an actual comment; lack of a reader does not stop revision. Make one chosen craft change if useful.
- Keep/next move · 4 min. Keep the draft or precise unmade plan and a source/own-invention boundary for the teacher. Plan more composition time if needed.