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🌀 Portal Story Challenge! 🌀

Can you spot the features of a portal story?

We've been diving into portal stories in class — stories where characters travel through a portal into another world. Now it's your turn to show what you've learned!

Your challenge:

  1. Find a portal story (from a book, film, or even a game — think Narnia, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Coraline, or Minecraft).

  2. List at least 5 key features that make it a portal story.
    Use what we've discussed in class — think about:

    • The ordinary world at the start
    • The portal itself (what is it? how does it work?)
    • The new world (how is it different?)
    • The main character’s reaction
    • The problem or quest they face
    • How they return (or don’t!)

  3. Bonus Challenge:
    Write a short paragraph describing your own portal idea.
    Where would your portal lead? What kind of world would be on the other side?

 

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