I always understand things better once I've taken them apart and put them back together. This applies to things that shouldn't actually be taken apart, like old pocket watches, and to more abstract creations, such as stories. In this vein, Jason Ohler's description of creating story cores illuminates a process for understanding stories in more depth.
The structure for this analysis is simple: challenge, transformation and resolution. An author can gain perspective on his or her story by breaking it down into this components and then extending it into a story map.
The part of this chapter that stood out to me was the comment by Ohler, "When teachers use story mapping with their students, an amazing thing happens: students talk about their stories rather than their technology." The fact that this can be given to students as a tool and that it can also be used as a form of assessment is extremely useful.
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