Monday, October 28, 2013

Learning Objectives
I can…

• understand the key components of an effective narrative
• apply narrative elements to storytelling
• draft ideas about personal incidents involving choices

Opening:

1. Review 1st Nine Weeks' grades

2. Hand-in/Hand-out Independent Reading

3. Review expectations

• Reader's Notebooks (Find October Entries)
• Label the beginning of the 2nd Nine Weeks
• You should have 6-9 October Entries
• Mark the Beginning of the 2nd Nine Weeks*
• 2-3 entries using stems EVERY WEEK
• Independent Reading Log: Should contain a SAMPLE..
• Take one entry and extend your thinking.  Be reflective and responsive.
• Class Notebook/Journal (Find Last Entry From 1st Nine Weeks)
• Label the beginning of the 2nd Nine Weeks
• Immediate Grade for having TWO notebooks marked and ready to go for 2nd Nine Weeks.
• Grades for 2nd Nine Weeks: Averaging the Semester Grade
• SLANT

Work Period:

4. Discuss and Take Notes on the top of page 15: "Writing about an Event from Your Choices Chart"

• Incident
• Response
• Reflection - lesson learned
• Reflection - utility of lesson in the future

5. In a small group, orally review excerpt from "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes" on pages 11-12.  How does each element apply to the personal narrative?

6. Define "personal narrative"

Closing:

7. Choose a topic from your brainstormed list of Choices on page 14.

8. Tonight: Prepare to orally tell about the incident by writing notes at the bottom of page 15 in the "Oral Story Telling" section.