Creating suspense 13- 15 year olds

In this resource Johnnie Young has found during his 35 years of teaching creative writing that students love to write about suspense but in practice they often go in too quickly and then find it hard to regulate the suspense. This resource, which has been carefully crafted for 13-15 year olds, shows a simple straightforward overall structure and plan and then an example of an outline plan fleshed out. The students therefore have a choice about how to use it:

1. Try to think of their own scenario or
2. Write out, develop and expand the outline plan fleshed out in their own words.
   An opening is provided to help kick start the activity.