Thursday, October 31, 2013

Learning Focus: 

I can…

• invent characters
• determine a setting
• determine internal and external conflicts
• invent a plot structure
• choose a point of view for the story
• draft a short story by Monday

Opening:

1. With your partner, share your "Hook" that you created last night. 

Work Period:
2. Examine Steps 1-4 in SpringBoard on pages 128-131

• Examine your short story ideas:
• Look through 
• your working folder
• your class journal
• SpringBoard

*What ideas have you had that can be transformed into an entertaining short story?

*What ideas relate to the theme of change?

3. Once you have a focus for your story, determine who your main character, or protagonist, is.  Answer #2 and #3 in SpringBoard.

4. Work through the prewriting graphic organizers on page 129, 130, and 131.  This will help you imagine the following:

• Characters
• apprearance
• actions
• details
• Conflict(s)
• external
• internal
• Setting
• sensory details
• what the setting looks like
• the setting's sounds
• texture of things in the surroundings
• scents (or odors!)
• Plot Structure
• work through the entire story, starting with the conflict and the climax.  
• What does the plot all build toward so that the conflict is resolved by the end?

Closing:

5. How is your progress?  What will you accomplish tomorrow so that you can write the draft this weekend?