1. Do Now: Monday Sit with your partner or independently
Log-on to a computer(1 per pair)
Homework:
Spelling bee Wednesday-11/8
rough draft typed and printed by Thursday
Take out your graphic organizer
Every student must have a rough draft—use Office 365 or a flash drive to ensure you have access (my partner is absent WILL NOT be excusable)

2. About Illustrations: story must be written first
“Draw pictures yourself, or you can locate appropriate images online or in magazines. Be sure that the illustrations capture the key parts of your myth and that they add a visual layer to your story.” You will have to print at home.

3. Illustrations: must finish written story first
“TECHNOLOGY TIP: Be aware of using copyrighted images in ways that violate copyright law. You may download or copy an image for personal use and give the source of the image. You may not broadcast the image or use it in another product without obtaining permission from the owner” (Springboard) *Make the last page of your story the sites

4. Only use word document today
Do NOT use the internet for looking at illustrations or finding other information (technology infraction)
Today is a day for creating and composing a myth!

5. Open word document Use Office 365 or save to flash drive
Use the MLA heading
Then type the elements of plot
Exposition
Inciting incident
Rising action
climax
Falling action
Resolution

6. Writing your rough draft
Below each plot element, type your paragraphs. From “Demeter and Persephone”
Exposition:
“Demeter, goddess of the harvest, spent much of her time on earth, happily tending its fields and plants. She was often accompanied by her beloved daughter Persephone who was as pretty as a rosebud and as gentle as a violet.”

7. Writing your rough draft
Example continued: From “Demeter and Persephone”
Inciting Incident:
One day, while visiting earth with her mother, Persephone wandered off to pick some flowers. As she bent down to pick a blossom that she found particularly beautiful, the ground began to rumble beneath her feet. Suddenly, the earth split open and out flew a chariot pulled by snorting black horses and driven by Hades, god of the underworld and ruler of the dead. Hades snatched the terrified girl and carried her down through the earth to his lonely kingdom.
“Let me go!” cried Persephone angrily. “Return me to my mother!”
“Never,” replied Hades. “You will be my queen and bring cheer to my gloomy palace.”
Up on earth, Demeter had