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Do Now #12: Share your feedback from last night’s global revision checklist. Be sure to review your responses to questions 1, 2, and 6.
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Aim: How do you effectively organize a narrative? Spatial space description Logical importance illustration Chronological Time order Narration
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Aim: How do you effectively organize a narrative? We, as authors, need to show the passage of time. Let’s look at how one author does this. In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall. Climax Build?
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Aim: How do you effectively organize a narrative? One evening when I was wading in the shallows of the lake to pass a rocky outcrop, I suddenly stopped dead as I saw the sinuous black body of a snake in the water. As I stared at it, an incoming wave gently deposited part of its body on my feet. I remained motionless, not even breathing, until the wave rolled back into the lake, drawing the snake with it. Then I leaped out of the water as fast as I could, my heart hammering.
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Aim: How do you effectively organize a narrative? Effective narration often depends on establishing an accurate sense of the chronology of the events discussed as well as carefully adhering to this chronology even if one chooses to reorder the events. Effective narration often depends on establishing an accurate sense of the chronology of the events discussed as well as carefully adhering to this chronology even if one chooses to reorder the events. Read and annotate Shame by underlining all the chronological references Dick Gregory makes in this essay. If you finish, compare your list with those made by others in your group Read and annotate Shame by underlining all the chronological references Dick Gregory makes in this essay. If you finish, compare your list with those made by others in your group
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Aim: How do you effectively organize a narrative? If we approach Gregory as a model, what does this list tell us are some of the strategies successful writers use in organizing a narrative? If we approach Gregory as a model, what does this list tell us are some of the strategies successful writers use in organizing a narrative?
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Homework Review the feedback from your partner. Review the feedback from your partner. Revise your paper, specifically for organization. Apply the strategies for effective organization as discussed in class. Revise your paper, specifically for organization. Apply the strategies for effective organization as discussed in class.
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