Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Learning Focus:
I can...

• examine dialogue
• practice oral fluency
• reinforce the elements of a short story

Opening:

1. Create groups based on which part of "Thank you, M'am" you were assigned yesterday.

2. Use what you know about each character based on yesterday's characterization exercises.

• Create groups of 2 or 3
• Rehearse the lines from your chunk with the other students in your group - gender doesn't matter, so pick a character
• Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones
• Roger
• the narrator
• express each character's feelings/tone
• listen and coach one another so that the character "sounds right"

3. Perform for the group a "scene" from the story

Work Period:

4. Working with the same small group,
complete the Narrative Structure Diagram on page 123 for "Thank you, M'am"

Closing:

5. Return to your Circle Map in your journal for "Short Story".

• include "Characterization" on your thinking map

6. Discuss - why is creating believable and "real" characters so important to a short story?

Homework: Annotated Bibliography