
Baker for always including your students and making it a fun and safe place for students to go in your class room. She has had an incredible time in your class. She makes learning fun and Lyric absolutely adores her! Lyric Bakerįrank Delgado: Thank you for making my daughter’s first year in public school a great year. Kaylin TumerĬandace Buikema: She goes above and beyond for her students.

We are so thankful to have such an amazing educator in our small town schools.

Your upbeat, energetic personality makes every interaction you have with people, a happy one. Kate Leihsing: Thank you for being a bright light in this world. Grobe for caring so much about your students and being such a positive role model! You are extremely appreciated! Lindee Poper Ernesto CastanedaĬarrie Grobe: Thank you Mrs. Johana Castaneda: She had an affinity for helping others, or maybe those who needed special attention or care. Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Riley Bally Oh, fun fact.Michelle Bally: Thank you for being a kind, hardworking, and motivating figure for your students. Whereas the Three Act structure we're all taught as the foundation of Western literature is centered on domination, this Four Act structure is centered on revelation. Conflicts in this Four Act structure are instead among the events that happen as a consequence of what is discovered. I have no problem with conflict in stories when conflict in and of itself is not the engine of the narrative. No, I’m suspicious of a system of thought that centers conflict. ATOMIC ROBO is an action comic and boy oh boy there are conflicts! Hell, over a thousand years of wuxia stories follow this structure and they’re filled to the brim with conflicts. These stories can still have conflict of course. What I like about this approach is that it centers discovery as the indivisible unit of narrative instead of conflict.

(4) Issue 5: “Drawing Together” / Triumph over the Conspiracy. (3) Issue 4: “Changing” / Destroyed by the Conspiracy. (2) Issue 3: “Understanding” / Chase the Conspiracy. (1) Issues 1 and 2: “Bringing into Being” / Introduce the Conspiracy, Discover the Conspiracy. And, as it turns out, I’d been writing ATOMIC ROBO stories roughly in this vein for years without knowing it.

(4) Jueju, 結句, or "drawing together": Assimilate our preconceived notions of the scene as originally depicted with our newfound knowledge to learn a greater truth.Įach of these would represent one line of your poem, but there's no reason each one can't support a whole act of your story. (3) Zhuanju, 転句, or "changing": Alter our perspective on the scene to reveal new or unexpected details. (2) Chengju, 承句, or "understanding": Add details about the scene. (1) Qiju, 起句, or "bringing into being": Introduce a scene. I threatened you with looking at another kind of narrative structure. Last time we talked about the failure of imagination at the core of narrative centered on conflict.
