AGENDA

All pinnacle grades are UP TO DATE. Fictional Narrative Post-test on Oct 5th.

DGP- Week 7

Writing Workshop: This week you will complete the first draft of your fictional narrative….self-edit by Friday,10-1.

TURN IN your alternative HOOK!!!! 9/29.

By Friday, 10/1, everyone needs to have a COMPLETED and EDITED first draft by Mon. 10/4.

POST-TEST

Review the Fictional Narrative vocabulary.

Test will be similar to the pre-test, applying fictional vocabulary elements to a short story.

There will be also be inferencing questions and a few grammar questions.

SELF-EDIT YOUR NARRATIVE:

Underline your brushstrokes and identify the name of that brushstroke under that line. Add or edit if you must. 5 minimum

Appositive Adjective Out of Order Participle Absolute Action Verb

Sensory Detail: Underline and identify three passages using sensory detail.

SELF-EDIT YOUR PAPER:

Proofread for complete yet varied sentences:

Three compound sentences- labeled Three complex sentences-labeled

Proofread for dialogue with interesting expressions.

Underline five lines of dialogue in your story. Check that you have used varied expressions

and descriptions of the speaker.

COMPLEX VS COMPOUND: COPY THESE SENTENCES –UNDERLINE ALL SUBJECT/VERBS.

Compound has two independent clauses. EX: Bethany walked to the store, so I asked

her to pick up a gallon of milk.

Complex : has one independent clause and one dependent clause.

EX: When Bethany walked to the store, I asked her to buy a gallon of ice cream.

EX: Bethany walked to the store after I asked her to buy a gallon of milk.

SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS: WORDS THAT USUALLY BEGIN A DEPENDENT CLAUSE

after when although before as until unless while Since because that though If whether where

SELF-EDIT CHECKLIST

Underline and label or ADD these elements:

Five brushstrokes: action verb, participle, absolute, adjectives out of order, appositive.

Three SD or Sensory Details Three compound sentences Three complex sentences Five lines of dialogue

Proofread for commas and punctuation. YOU ARE FININSHED!!!!!

EVALUATION OF NARRATIVE: 10/1

You will earn a PROCESS GRADE as follows: Pre-write Alternative Hook First Draft Self-Edit completed Final Copy well proofed

You will earn a quality grade: Strong Meets 100-90, Meets89-80, or Does Not Meet 79-50.

DGP

Capitalization, Punctuation and Conjugation

[we visited seattle washington on our vacation]REGULARPresentPastFuturePERFECTPresent PerfectPast PerfectFuture Perfect

DGP- CONJUGATION

Which tense uses a helping verb??

What are those helping verbs?

What is a linking verb?

Use this DGP sentence to write an example of a separate sentence with an action verb, a helping verb, a linking verb

THREE TYPES OF VERBS

Your friends left their skateboards at my house.

Your friends have left their skateboards at my house.

Your friends are forgetful.

Linking verbs link the subject to a PN or a PA Harold Syntax= predicate nominative predicate adjective Present-Am, is , are Past-Was, were Future-Will be

CLAUSE, TYPE, PURPOSE

we visited seattle washington on our vacation

CREATE A NEW BEGINNING: HOOK 9/29

Read the three examples OUT LOUD.

Write a NEW HOOK for your story, even if you think yours is OK-good.

Dialogue Lead Descriptive Lead Action Lead

When your table has finished, share the new hooks one at a time outloud.

Which one do you like better NOW? You turn in both first draft and NEW HOOK with your process piece.

PRE-WRITE FICTIONAL NARRATIVE

Write three story starter ideas on the back of your rubric.

Complete the characterization of 3 characters.

Protagonist= person the story was written about.

Antagonist= person/element causing conflict in the story.

The third character is author’s choice.

CHARACTERIZATION DIALOGUE THOUGHTS

Adelweiss “Who were these people , and why did Voter act the way he did?” wondered Adelweiss.

Questions popped into my mind.

Scurrying to a safer place.

Black-booted men “Heil-Hitler” shouted the Black-booted men.

One large man remarked, “You must, under orders of the Fruhler…”

Raised his arm up a diagonal line….

Wood-crashing, blood curdling scream…..

CHANGE PASSIVE TO ACTIVE VOICE:

Change expressions(said) and passive “to be” verbs to action words.

Circle all the “to be” verbs on one of your pages. (is, are, am, was, were, will be, has, have, had, get, got, did, said) REPLACE all circled words.

Ex: Hitler was telling people about how all Jews were to be sent to concentration camps.

Hitler informed his crowd of soldiers that the important but difficult job required removal of all Jewish residents, so as to cleanse the future of Germany.

Hitler’s agent, the black-booted guard, screamed, “Never mind your bag, woman; get into that boxcar, now, before I shoot your husband.”

ACTIVE VOICE:

Ex: I didn’t look, but I knew we were surrounded.

Obstructed view, and low light blocked my sight, but I felt the dark, inhuman enemy surrounding Anna, Brett and me.

It was a Tuesday afternoon, and I had just gotten out of school.

On Tuesday, school dismissed at 4:35.

ACTIVE VOICE:

EX: The dark cold night in the city of New York lay quiet. Descriptive action.

As soon as they struggled to see the mysterious creature, they all ran away screaming and crying. Action verbs.

The streets were abandoned and the lights were off at every apartment. Passive voice.

Although we walked on a city street, all windows reflected darkness and every street lay abandoned. Sensory details.

“ She found something,” Rick yelled at the waiting soldiers.

I knew my mother couldn’t take care of us; we were on our own. (We were definitely abandoned.)

EX: It was a cold dark night in London town.

A cold, dark night fell over London town.

CORNELL NOTES: DIALOGUE

How does dialogue help develop my story? How do I punctuate dialogue? What are the two main parts of dialogue?

Now, create a short dialogue, 3-4 lines, then:

Create a Cornell Notes Sheet.

FORMAL VS. INFORMAL LANGUAGE

Formal Informal

CRAFT A DIALOGUE

Work in your table group.

Decide on a dialect/ education level for an informal character. Now select a formal character.

Create a 4-5 line dialogue between one formal and one informal speaker.

Remember to give us a short exposition before the dialogue.

Use all three types of EXPRESSIONS

DGP TABLE TUTORIAL

POS

your friends left their skateboards at my house

Sentence Parts

Write Perfect Tenses on back!!!

DGP TABLE TUTORIAL

Work together as a table group.

Who feels confident about the process? Why?

Choose the least confident to be the recorder.

Write at least three questions about the process/sentence.

GALLERY WALK

Each table group will have a question.

Students will discuss the elements of the question .

Students will write examples, elements, and ideas or further questions on the poster. Use your table group color.

GALLERY WALK QUESTIONS

1. How will I engage the reader with my fictional narrative?

2.What are the steps of the writing process? 3. How can I make my introduction more

interesting? 4. How will I create an organized structure, and

what might it look like? 5. What kinds of figurative language or writing

elements will I apply to my story? 6. What strategies can I use to develop tone?

Give an example or three. 7. What kinds of words or usage would be

considered “DEAD WORDS”?