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