Monday, November 3 Writing a Rough Draft

Mr. Zhao is checking for: Odyssey essay rewrites with the original and the “Say/Mean/Matter” chart.

CHANGES The final draft of the STEM research paper is now due on Tuesday, November 11.

Warm-Up: Monday, November 3 PAGE 250 Objective: To map out narrative story arcs and add details to the research paper. Question: What are important elements in a narrative that grab the reader’s attention?

Finish Your In-Class Rough Draft Write your rough draft on this piece of paper Write your scene setting of where your subject is narrating the scene from (From Setting The Scene-Independent Research on 241) Think of this as a flashback, if your scene setting is different from your narration. You do not have to use ALL of the scene settings; pick and choose the ones that you want to use. Put narrations from Five Step Process: Independent Research (Page 237) into chronological order. Add dialogue from Adding Dialogue: Independent Research (Page 242) in between different sections of the narrations. Add more details, dialogue, and/or narrative where needed.

Story Arc/Story Map We will first be constructing a story map for Annie Jump Cannon’s personal journey, then you will do one for your own research suject.

Story Map:

Story Map: Independent Research Instructions: Make sure to put a beginning and ending year for your story map. Identify the five different elements of your own story map. The “Writer’s Themes” box refers to the themes that you are exploring.

Rough Draft The rough draft is due tomorrow: Use the remainder of class to start writing it.

Homework: First Rough draft due Tuesday (Tomorrow) Find a THIRD source for your research paper, and bring it to class

For tomorrow The rough draft is DUE Bring all of your resources for the research paper Bring an electronic device with you