ENGLISH 1010 Mother Tongue

Objectives  Identify the subject of each paragraph  Explain how the narrative introduced/concluded the story  After you’ve read the story, describe the way the narrative is structured in no less than three sentences  Describe how the author used exposition in the piece and what the exposition accomplished for you as a reader

Outline  Create an outline for the narrative that follows the structure below  I. Intro  A. What narrative strategy does she use?  II. Major Category (larger idea)  A. Idea or event described  B. Idea or event descibed  C. idea or event described  III. Major Category (larger idea)  A.  B.  C.

Homework  Read “My Dropout Boyfriend Kept Dropping In”— pg  Answer the list of questions for the above story that you answered for “Mother Tongue” on slide two