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October 14 - 16, 2015
Do Now: In your
journal Brainstorm:
The Setting & Characters for a “Poe” style story that you will write.
Father of Horror – Edgar Allen Poe
Planner: RL8.1 & RL8.2 W8.3 Poe AnalysisNarrative WritingHomework: Finish Reading The Raven, Annabell Lee, and The Tell Tale Heart
Den Time Schedule Assembly Schedule
Success Criteria:
Determine the central idea of the text and analyze the development of characters, setting, plot, theme, conflict by completing a graphic organizer.
Provide evidence for your analysis – by quoting the text with page number and quotation marks.
Learning Target 8.1 & 8.2
Reading Literature – Key ideas and details with evidence
8.3 Write Narratives to develop real or
imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well structured event sequences.
8.6 – Use technology to publish your writing.
I can begin to brainstorm a story that emulates the style of Poe (or another favorite author).
Writing
October 15 & 16, 2015
Agenda:
Narrative Writing Review and Practice
You will need your journal and a pen/pencil.
In your journal, write about what you see in the pictures. Think about setting, characters, and events. Is there a conflict? What is it? You will have 1 min per picture.
What’s the story?
Now It’s Your Turn
Imagine you are in the picture: Brainstorm:
Who is there with you? (characters) What is happening? (events) What is the weather, time of day, time of year?
(describe it) (Setting) What is the conflict? (problem) Who is this conflict between? How do you want to end the conflict?
(resolution)
Beginning, Middle, End
Using your brainstorm, now determine the order of your narrative. In your journal,
Draw the graphic organizer Put your story in order (beginning, middle, end) A bulleted list is fine
You have 5 minutes for this take
The Raven Both Annabell Lee
Compare/Contrast
Locate the following elements in the story and write them in your journal:
Characters Plot Setting Conflict Theme
While you read on Actively Learn – The Tell Tale Heart
Element Description and Evidence with Page Number
Characters
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme
In your journal …
The Interactive Raven
In your e-mail you’ll find a link to: The Interactive Raven
Go there http://teachersfirst.com/lessons/raven/
The Raven
In your journal – write a summary: A summary is retelling the MAIN ideas of a story or article, in your own words, using as few words as possible. Try this:
The Raven Summary
Identify it Verb it Finish the Thought
The book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munos Ryan
Explains, recounts, compares, justifies, tells (etc)
The story of a young, wealthy, Mexican girl who relocates to the USA in order to rebuild her life from the tragedies experienced by the death of her beloved father.
A sleepy voice suddenly chimed in from the
door to the kitchen. ‘You can say that again. Life is one big, nasty curveball.’” p. 242
This paragraph spoke to me because of the metaphor “Life is one big, nasty curveball” … this seems to be true for all of us. Life just isn’t always fair.
Pg. 242
Open your e-mail
Open and save the word document “The Tell Tale Heart” to your H: Drive
Click on Review – Comment so you can highlight and comment
Locate the following elements in the story: Characters Plot Setting Conflict Resolution
The Tell Tale Heart
Turn to your elbow partner
Share the following findings: Character Setting Plot Conflict Resolution
What about theme?
Discussion
Let’s try that again. This time I’m going to ask
you to complete a Story Map. You’ll still want to highlight the elements in
your word document. This will help you complete the map.
Listen carefully …
The Pit & the Pendulum
The Pit & The Pendulum
Complete your PowerPoint with your 7 – 15
best pictures. Be ready to tell us why you selected the pictures.
We will vote for the best team.
Annual