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Narratives
Perspectives on
Relationships
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Quick Write:
 Write
a summary of a narrative that
created an impression on you. This
narrative could be a short story, a song
with a story, a movie or a television story.
Include the main events in the
narrative, and also explain what it was
about this narrative that was so
memorable.
 Share
your narrative in trios.
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Characteristics of a
Narrative
 Using
the narrative you wrote about as well
as the narrative your peers shared, list the
characteristics of a narrative.
 Share
trio.
these characteristics with your same
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Read to Get the Gist:
Excerpt from Bone Black by
bell hooks
Quick Write
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What is happening here?
 Who
are the characters? What do you know
about them? How do you know?
 Share
quick write in pairs
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Significant Moments:
T-Chart
 What
three moments strike you as most
significant to the text? Explain why those
moments are significant.
 Share
significant moments in pairs.
moment why?
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Reread excerpt from Bone Black
Write About question:
Why does bell hooks
burn herself?
 Use
evidence from the text to support
your response.
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After Our Discussion
Based
on the discussion we just
had, would you change the
answer
you
wrote
from
homework? If so, how would you
change it?
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“ . . . the angle of considering
things . . .”
First & Third Person
Point of View
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First Person Narration
Why
do you think the author used
first person narration to write her
memoir? What is the effect on
you as a reader?
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WriteLike bell hooks: Use First
Person Point of View
Write
a two-paragraph
narrative about something
that happened to you using
a first person narrator.
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Share WriteLike in pairs/trios.
Partners
should be listening
for consistent use of first
person point of view
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Reread Again Differently: Analyze
Authors Use of Language
What
did bell hooks do
to make you want to read
this narrative?
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Sensory Language
Sensory
language is the use of
details from the five senses (sight,
sound, taste, touch, and smell) to
add color and depth to writing. It
helps readers visualize the scene
a writer is setting.
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Sight
 Examples
from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings:
 [Mrs. Flowers']
skin was a rich black that would have
peeled like a plum if snagged, but then no one
would have thought of getting close enough to Mrs.
Flowers to ruffle her dress, let alone snag her skin.
I
looked around the room that I had never in my
wildest fantasies imagined I would see. Browned
photographs leered or threatened from the walls
and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against
themselves and against the wind.
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Sound
 From
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings:
 “It
was the best of times and the worst of
times . . .” [Mrs. Flowers'] voice slid in and
curved down through and over the words.
She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at
the pages. Were they the same that I had
read? Or were there notes, music, lined on
the pages, as in a hymn book? Her sounds
began cascading gently.
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Smell
 From
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings:
 The
odors in the house surprised me. Somehow I
had never connected Mrs. Flowers with food or
eating or any other common experience of common
people. [...] The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as
she opened the door.
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Taste
 From
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings:
 The
sweet vanilla flavor was still on my
tongue and [Mrs. Flowers'] reading was a
wonder in my ears. I had to speak.
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Touch
 From
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings:
I
jammed one whole cake in my mouth and
the rough crumbs scratched the insides of
my jaws, and if I hadn’t had to swallow, it
would have been a dream come true.
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The Author’s Use of Sensory
Language
With
a partner go back over “Bone
Black” and mark or highlight all the
places where bell hooks uses sensory
language.
What
is your favorite use of sensory
language in hooks’ text?
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“Crack Open” WriteLike: Revise to
Include Sensory Language
Go back to your narrative and “crack it open” in a few
places that need further description and more sensory
details. Add a wedge to where you want to insert
description, and make your narrative even more
engaging and interesting.
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“Crack Open” WriteLike: Revise to
Include Sensory Language
How
did your narrative change when
you cracked it open?
 What
did you learn about using
sensory language?
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Assignment for Tuesday,
September 9th:
 Please
neatly handwrite or type your short
first person narrative.
 Make
sure to also add your “cracked open”
sensory details to the narrative.
 Your
narrative will be assessed on the
following:
1. Consistent first-person narrative
2. Addition of sensory details