1. Narrative Writing
Quarter 3

2. Monday, January 7
What classroom norms (rules/ expectations) should we have in our ELA class?
Write down 2 ideas on the paper provided in the back of the classroom.

3. Daily Agenda: Monday LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Classroom Norms
Story Telling (Narratives)
The Dot
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
- Picture Quick Write

4. “Those who tell the stories rule the world.” – Hopi Indians

6. Daily Agenda: Tuesday LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Vocab QHT
Plot Diagram and Vocabulary Review
Pixar Shorts (plot diagram)
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
- Turn the story (Red Riding Hood)

7. August 5  Look through the vocab and mentally place it in the right category.
Exposition
Protagonist
Antagonist
Setting
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution

9. Vocabulary Words
Exposition: A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Antagonist: a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

10. Vocabulary Words
Setting: the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
Internal Conflict: the occurring conflict within a character’s mind.
External Conflict: conflict with another person, an animal or force of nature, or society

11. Vocabulary Words
Rising Action: a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest.
Climax: the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex
Falling Action: the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end
Resolution: when the conflicts are resolved and the story concludes

13. Flip the Story: Write the exposition of your story from a different perspective. Example: Little Red Riding Hood from the Wolf’s perspective

14. Daily Agenda: Wednesday
LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Finish the Story (Seesaw)
Read and Mark the Text: “The Scholarship Jacket” (p. 14)
Incident, Response, and Reflection Chart (p.19)
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Personal Incident Chart

15. Marking the Text Highlight= any characters Star= the main character
Bracket [ ] and label = the rising action
Circle and label = the climax
Bracket [ ] and label= the falling action
Heart = the resolution

16. Incident, Response, Reflection
What happened?
The narrator’s feelings and actions about the incident
The lessons the narrator learned from this experience

17. Your Turn: Pick an event in your life and complete the chart
Incident
(What happened?)
Response
(What were your feelings and actions?)
Reflection
(What lesson was learned from this experience?)

18. Daily Agenda: Thursday
LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Incident, Response, and Reflection Chart (Scholarship Jacket)
Plot Quiz
The Bad Boy (p. 24)
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Incident Chart (p. 29)

19. The Bad Boy Organization Sequence of Events Character Traits Revealed
Textual Evidence for Character Traits
Incident
Response
Reflection

20. Daily Agenda: Monday 1/14 LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Plot Diagram for Tiki Tiki Tembo
Mini Lesson: Show vs Tell (Sensory Language)
Name Narratives and intro to assignment
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Find out the story of your name

23. Daily Agenda: Tuesday 1/15
LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Mrs. Fahey’s Name Narrative
Mini Lesson: Figurative Language
Name Narratives Samples
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Name Narrative

24. Daily Agenda: Wednesday 1/16
LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Sensory Details Picture Write in SeeSaw
The Name Jar
Mini Lesson: Parts of a Story (Flocabulary)
Name Narratives
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Name Narrative Draft

25. Daily Agenda: Monday 1/28 LQ1: What are we learning today?
- What is narrative writing?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Figurative Language Pretest (Flocab)
Work Session: Categorizing Chart
Flocabulary Activity (from last week)
Panethon Reading and questions (from last week)
MLQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Categorizing Chart

26. Categorizing Checklist
Group the words found in the term bank based on the meanings or functions of the words
Create a category title for each grouping of words
Justify your reasoning for grouping the words the way you did
*One chart per group. Copy and paste it into Office 365. Share it with Mrs. Fahey

28. Justification given for each category
Yes
(10 pts each)
Almost
(8 pts each)
Not Yet
(6 pts each)
Grouped each word
Each group has a label
Justification given for each category

29. Daily Agenda: Wednesday 1/30
LQ1: What are we learning today?
How do authors create their characters?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- Reading of Archane
Work Session: Characterization Activity
Group Question Session
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Each group will answer all the questions given

30. Characterization Activity
You will be grouped in small groups
You will pick which story you want to work with (Phaethon or Arachne)
You will answer your questions as a group
You pick the way you represent the answers

31. Group Questions: Group 1: How does the character look?
What does the character say?
What is the most important thing about the character?
Group 2:
What does the character do in the story?
What are the character’s goals?
What changes did the character go through in the story?
Group 3:
What types of clues does the author give the reader about the main character?
Why does the author give the reader clues about the character?
What does the author want the reader to know about the main character in the story?

32. Sample Ways to Complete Activity

34. The assignment was not completed.
Advanced
Proficient
Developing
Incomplete
All questions were answered in sufficient detail and ideas were presented in a way that fit the assignment. Evidence from the text was cited for each question.
All questions were answered and the ideas were presented. Evidence from the text was cited for at least two of the questions.
All but one question was answered. Text evidence was only present for one question.
The assignment was not completed.
50-45 pts
44-40 pts
39-36 pts
35-25 pts

35. Daily Agenda: Thursday 1/31
LQ1: What are we learning today?
How do authors create their characters?
How does figurative language add to the story?
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Bell Ringer- RACE response in SeeSaw
Work Session: Characterization Activity
Group Question Session
Figurative Language Activity (Around the Room)
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
Each group will answer all the questions given

36. Daily Agenda: Wednesday, 2/6
LQ1: What are we learning today?
Brainstorming for EA#2
LQ2: What am I doing today?
Work Session: Four Square Chart
With your partner, brainstorm for your myth (use pg for help)
LQ3: How will I show what I learned?
- Four Square Chart