Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Learning Goals:
I can…

• Revise by adding transitions, dialogue, sensory details, and thoughts and feelings.
• Visualize a personal incident about change
• sequence details in a narrative
• write dialogue and commentary about an incident

Article of the Week Due Friday

Work Check:

• SpringBoard: Activities 1.1-1.3 and 1.5-1.6

Opening:

1. In your small group, review your Revised Personal Narrative by Simba or Nala

2. Discuss how you improved your draft from the first version

• Pick an example of a great change in the narrative
• Highlight the original sentence(s)
• Highlight the revised sentence(s)

3. Volunteers share aloud with Large Group

Work Period:

4. What does the word "incident" mean?

• In your journal, create a word map like the one on page 7 - use the word "incident" as the subject of the exploration

5. Present the concept of a storyboard - show models

• Small Version (3 Events)

6. How you can earn Extra Credit: Large Version (6-7 Events and Posterboard)

7. Revisit Activity 1.2 when you brainstormed incidents that caused change.

• Who has an incident in their life that they know caused a change?
• Share aloud (Busse, too!)

8. Choose one of your incidents from your list, or think of another that didn't make the list.

• Write down the "Working Title" of this incident for #2 on page 16.

Closing:

9.Take notes about the incident on pages 16 and 17

HW: Sketch three "images" that represent the beginning, middle, and end of the incident.