{"id":7874,"date":"2022-06-21T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/supportforschools\/leadership-and-governance\/teaching-and-learning\/curriculum\/english\/reading\/narrative-blueprints\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:24:17","slug":"narrative-blueprints","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/school-effectiveness\/teaching-and-learning\/curriculum\/english\/reading\/narrative-blueprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative blueprints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blueprints: the seven basic plots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-640x900.png 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-1024x1440.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-768x1080.png 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-427x600.png 427w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-1092x1536.png 1092w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots-1456x2048.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2022\/07\/SevenBasicPlots.png 1481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Booker talks about seven basic plots in narrative fiction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overcoming the Monster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rags to Riches<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Quest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voyage and Return<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tragedy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rebirth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Becoming familiar with these plots can help children to predict when reading, make links between stories and can support them when writing to plan and organise ideas.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EXVVAphcmAxLgJecaCpEjPgB2tBvSjcGDJqm0pNMhp6p1w?e=WTENrM\" rel=\"noopener\">Download a simplified version of these &#8216;blueprints&#8217; here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueprints: the seven basic plots Christopher Booker talks about seven basic plots in narrative fiction: Becoming familiar with these plots can help children to predict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":7128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7874","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 17:22:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28343,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7874\/revisions\/28343"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}