Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can…

• re-examine sequencing
• analyze the elements of a nonfiction narrative

Spelling Bee Practice during Tutorials today…ask to come to my room

Opening:

1. Share in small groups: Quickwrites on page 23.

Work Period:

2. Shared reading of Paragraphs 1-3

• How does the writer "set-up" his personal narrative?

3. Read through paragraphs 4 and 5 to yourself.

• When does the "incident" actually begin?

4. Read the remainder of the personal narrative to yourself (it isn't a race!)
Highlight and/or underline the following elements in the narrative:

• the setting (time and place)
• the situation (a summary of the kind of problem the narrator encounters) 
• the sequence of events within the actual incident
• the sentence that ends the incident

5. Once everyone is finished in your group, together discuss and mark the text:

• select an adjective to describe the narrator during the incident
• identify the conflicts and how they were resolved
• put a STAR * by a section of the narrative that would benefit from some dialogue

6. Large group review of the elements in #4 and #5.

Closing/Homework:
7. In your journal, write a dialogue between VERNON and the NARRATOR.  Use proper dialogue tags and punctuation.