Thursday, September 12, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and Explain Timelines
• Create a narrative structure graphic for a familiar narrative
• Identify and explain key terminology for narratives.

1. Return to Homework...

What words indicate Chronology?

• Review your list in your small group
• Review the Chart I display and add it to your Notes on Reading in a Box called "Signal Words that Show Chronology"

Work Period:
Large Group:
2. Review the sequence of events in "Eleven" and think about these signal words for Chronology.

• What is the first event?

Small Group:

3. Create and Finish the entire timeline for "Eleven" in your Notes on Reading.

Large Group:
4. Identify Plot: The sequence of events in a narrative.

Small Group:
5. Work in your small group to do the following:

• What are the three most important events?  (Circle Them)
• Compare your choices with another pair or group and put STARS next to the events that both pairs chose as particularly important.

Large Group:

6. Which are the most important events?  Add them to your timeline if they aren't already there.

7. Which event gave you your first clue about the CONFLICT in the story? (Circle that event in your timeline)

• Label it "TURNING POINT"

8. Which event toward the end of the story was the most dramatic? (Circle that event in your timeline.)

• Label it "CRISIS POINT"

Closing/Homework:

9. Recall a television show and sketch out the plot on a timeline

• Identify the characters
• Describe the setting
• Label the TURNING POINT in the PLOT
• Label the CRISIS POINT in the PLOT

10. Add the Target Words to your Glossary of Reading Terms:

• Plot
• Turning Point
• Crisis Point