AS YOU ARRIVE
• Begin reading pages 481-487 in your A&B textbook
• You may skip over the activities and the part entitled “The Stolen Watch” for
now
TODAY’S GOALS
• Learn the plot elements necessary for creating a story
• Analyze strategies for creating mood through a setting
STORY CRITERIA:
• Depiction of events through time
• Connectedness
• Tension
• Resolution
• Use these four elements to develop the plot in your open form writing
GROUP ACTIVITY 1: PLOT
EVALUATION
• In your unit 1 groups
• Read “No Cats in America” on p. 188 and “The Stolen Watch” on p. 482
• Answer questions 1 &2 on p. 483
• Answer questions 1&2 on p. 487
GROUP DISCUSSION: LITERACY
NARRATIVE PROGRESS
• In your unit 1 groups
• Share your literacy narrative brainstorms and setting descriptions with your
group members
• Each member should read out the ideas that they have come up with for
their literacy narrative
• If you run into problems or are unsure if a particular topic will be acceptable,
please feel free to ask for help
• This will be a short activity. Your goal here is not to write out any answers but
to get ideas for your literacy narrative by seeing what your classmates are
doing
OPEN FORM PROSE TECHNIQUES
Story criteria/plot development
• Depiction of events of through time
• Connectedness
• Tension
• Resolution
• Writing as problem solving
Creative vivid characters and settings:
• Concrete language
• Figurative language
• Dialogue
JOURNAL ENTRY 2
• Focus: Literacy Narrative Introduction
• Now that you have brainstormed for your literacy narrative as well as seen
what other group members will be doing, begin working on the introduction
for your literacy narrative.
• You can do this by continuing to brainstorm, writing out the best ideas you
have to outline the whole narrative, or by beginning to actually write out the
first few paragraphs of the literacy narrative itself. In that case, consider this
to be class time you can devote to writing your essay.
• Keep in mind, your introduction is the most important part of the essay to
engage readers and will set the tone for the rest of your story
GROUP ACTIVITY 2: HILLS LIKE
WHITE ELEPHANTS
• In your unit 1 groups
• Read the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” (link on the class website)
and answer the questions below:
1.
Who are the characters in the story? What do we know about them?
2.
What does the characters’ dialogue reveal about them? What does it
keep hidden?
3.
In what setting does the story take place? How might the setting be
related to the bigger picture?
4.
How does the story build tension? Is this tension resolved?
5.
What do you think is the main problem that the story is addressing?
HOMEWORK:
• Bring Everyday Writer textbook to class on Wednesday
• Read A&B p. 172-178, 490-492
• Literacy Narrative First Draft: (Due Wednesday)
• For homework, you will bring in the beginning of your literacy narrative. This first
draft should be 400+ words and include the introduction of your literacy
narrative as well as the first important event or two of your plot
• This first draft will be typed, double spaced, and in MLA format