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Quick Write(add to Readers/writers notebook):
1.What do you know about reading and writing?2.What stories do you remember?3.What made them memorable?
SHARE IDEAS!!!
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Is writing that tells a story. The events ina narrative may be real or imagined.
Narratives that deal with real events
include autobiographies and biographies.Fictional narratives include myths, fables,short stories, and novels. A narrative may
also be in the form of a poem.
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What do these features tell us about theNarrative unit?
What do you think the title means?
This is a visual representation of what youwill learn in this unit
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Be an active reader!!!!Place a ? mark next to something you dont
get.
Place an ! Mark next to a good point!LISTENQUICK WRITE: What is this text about?
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Read the text(picture).QUICK WRITE: What is this visual text
about?
SHARE Look at the visual text (picture) on pg. 34 again.
The narrative Eloks Quest reflects theauthors perspective.
There is not one correct interpretation.
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LISTEN while I read.
QUICK WRITE: What is this Narrative about? Who are the characters? What do you know about them? How do you know?
SHARE YOUR ANSWERS
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Look back at this chart in your R/W notebook.Before you reread ELOKS QUEST review theelements of a Narrative that we thought wereimportant.
READ the first paragraph of the story What did you note? What do your notes tell you about
characterization, plot, conflict or imagery? Is there anything we can add to our co-
constructed chart Elements of an EffectiveNarrative?
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Respond to the following prompt:A characters qualities often have an
effect on the story. Describe Eloks
main quality. Provide an example fromthe story that supports that quality.
Describe how the conflict of the story is
resolved and how the characters main
quality helps bring about the resolution.
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1. Reread the text2. Using post-its Note 3 sentences or phrases that
are most significant (to the characters, conflicts,
actions, events. Etc.).R/W Notebook:Record your responses into a T-
chart
Significant Sentence/Phrase
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Explanation
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Take another look at the visual text thatinspired the author to write Eloks
Quest
Using post-its.respond to thefollowing questions:
1. Which images did the writers use to create
details in their narrative?
2. Why do you think this story was written?
3. What tools could the writers have used to helpthem write this narrative from the visual text?
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Draw and fill in a plot diagram for thisstory.
***You will be using this diagramthroughout this unit, to complete your
narratives, beginning with the classnarrative.
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Quick Write: What do you know aboutthe characteristics of a hero?
While I read The Epic of Gilgameshthink about the following questions:1. What is happening?2. How do you know?3. Who are the characters?4. What do you know about them5. How do you know?
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Sentences/Phrases from the text thatshow how Gilgamesh responds tochallenges or conflicts
Explain:What does the sentence/phrasereveal about Gilgameshs character.
1.
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How does Gelgameshs main quality helpbring about the resolution of the story?
SHARE Is Gilgamesh a hero?How do you know?
Is there anything we need to add or takeaway from our CHARACTERISTICS OFA HEROchart?
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Think of a scene from The Epic ofGilgamesh that you may want to depict
(show) in your visual text.
List several details that should beincluded.
TASK: Create a visual text of a scenefrom The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Should be completed on white paper Should be colored Stick figures are okay
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Follow the instructions on your graphicorganizer and complete the essay.
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Culminating Task (S.text- pg. 32)QW: List the times you had aconflict with someone.Circle the 3 or 4 conflicts on the list that
caused the greatest changes in your life.
LISTEN TO THE CULMINATING TASK
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What is the text about?What are you asked to do?
What words or phrases helped youunderstand the most important ideas of
the text
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QW: What parts of my story do I most want the reader
to understand?
What do I want the reader to know about how Ifelt?
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You will use sentence stems to help you indescribing the setting of your narrative.
RW notebook: In the place where the events of my (story) narrative
occurred, I see When I am in this location, I feel If I close my eyes in this space, I hear. When I breathe in deeply, these are the things I
smell
If I use my imagination in this time and space, I cantaste.WRITE AN ANSWER TO THESE STEMS about
your story!
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The following sentence stems address motive, charactertraits, and the effect of the characters actions, which will helpyou describe the main character. Complete these sentencestems in your RW notebooks.
I am
I want to be I want to feel I want to have
I am happy about I am sad because of .
I am afraid of . ________ is stopping me from getting what I want because
The worst thing that could happen now is The best thing that could happen is
I learned
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RW notebook: List the other characterswho were involved in your story or
conflict. Use the following questions
1. What are their character traits?2. What do these characters want?3. What do these characters do in the story?4. What are some reasons these charactersdo what they do?