How can I bring more life into my story?
Objective: Students will use sensory details, dialogue, action, and detailed descriptions to strategically enhance a story.
1. We completed vocabulary cards for insipid and capricious.
2. Language Lab #27
3. As a class, we practiced identifying sensory details found in various settings and analyzed how those details combined to create a mood.
4. In small groups, we drew a setting and a mood from stacks of cards. In our groups, we wrote descriptive paragraphs showing our chosen setting in the assigned mood. (Here is an example for the setting hospital that shows the mood creepy.)
5. We chose a setting from our own personal narratives and quick-wrote a paragraph trying to imbue that setting with a mood we thought appropriate for our story.
6. We discussed the difference in power between writing that shows an event rather than one that merely tells about it (as exemplified by these paragraphs).
7. We discussed three techniques for showing (rather than just telling) a story and talked about when they would be useful and when they might be distracting. We then wrote quickwrite paragraphs to practice applying these techniques to our personal narratives.
For next time: Read pages 161-188 of My Ántonia and complete reading response assignment #7. Also, bring a copy of the most updated draft of your personal narrative to class with you.
Objective: Students will use sensory details, dialogue, action, and detailed descriptions to strategically enhance a story.
1. We completed vocabulary cards for insipid and capricious.
2. Language Lab #27
3. As a class, we practiced identifying sensory details found in various settings and analyzed how those details combined to create a mood.
4. In small groups, we drew a setting and a mood from stacks of cards. In our groups, we wrote descriptive paragraphs showing our chosen setting in the assigned mood. (Here is an example for the setting hospital that shows the mood creepy.)
5. We chose a setting from our own personal narratives and quick-wrote a paragraph trying to imbue that setting with a mood we thought appropriate for our story.
6. We discussed the difference in power between writing that shows an event rather than one that merely tells about it (as exemplified by these paragraphs).
7. We discussed three techniques for showing (rather than just telling) a story and talked about when they would be useful and when they might be distracting. We then wrote quickwrite paragraphs to practice applying these techniques to our personal narratives.
For next time: Read pages 161-188 of My Ántonia and complete reading response assignment #7. Also, bring a copy of the most updated draft of your personal narrative to class with you.