1. Bell Ringer 12/9  Please get out your Open-Ended Response and a writing utensil.  Please mark the following with the appropriate number:  1 – Topic Sentence that Answers the Question  2 – Examples of Flashbacks that Support Your Topic Sentence (Direct Quotes)  3 – Explanation of How Each Quote Supports the Main Idea

2. English III  EQ: How do Arthur Miller’s choices about structure (particularly Willy’s day dreams of the past) influence how we interpret DoaS as a tragedy?  Agenda  Bell Ringer/Discussion  Agenda/EQ  Death of a Salesman Open-Ended Response  Marking before submitting  DoaS Review  Tragedy Questions  The American Dream

3. Sympathy in Tragedy  Using your Examining Structure activity, please write a response to the following question in the form of 1 paragraph.  How does Arthur Miller’s use of Willy’s flashbacks convince the readers/audience to sympathize with Willy even though he is not a “great” man?  Give a topic sentence that answers the question  Use at least 2 examples of flashbacks from Death of a Salesman (direct quotes)  Fully explain how all of your proof (quotes) supports your answer to the question.

4. Bell Ringer 12/6  Please be able to answer the following questions when class begins:  What is the purpose of dialogue in a story?  What does “good” dialogue do?

5. Creative Writing  How do authors use narrative techniques to convey a vivid picture of experiences, events, settings, and characters?  Agenda  Bell Ringer/Discussion  Agenda/EQ  Good Dialogue Discussion  Dialogue Prompt

6. Good Dialogue  Get a partner  Split the sections (one of you will get 4 – one will get 3)  Read your sections silently to yourself  Be prepared to explain them to your partner.  Explain your sections to your partner  Full Group Discussion  Now you will be explaining the rules of good dialogue to me (so that I can check your understanding)

7. Dialogue Prompt  Using the same situation/characters as our last prompt (Show vs. Tell), create a conversation between two characters.  Follow the guidelines of good dialogue  Don’t weigh it down with exposition  Use it to build towards something  Make it sound like a real conversation (without the boring parts)  Use it to reveal personality  Don’t overuse exclamation  Keep dialogue tags simple  Make your conversations surprising  Try your best to observe the rules you already know for punctuation and spacing.  We will be discussing these ideas tomorrow (so have your conversations ready)  Keep it between 1 page and 1 page front and back

8.  Keep punctuation inside quotation marks  Keep the story moving forward  All dialogue should have a purpose  Use dialogue tags, keep it simple  Break up dialogue with action  Follow capitalization and punctuation rules  Start a new paragraph for each new speaker or idea  Use dialogue for character development  Use dialogue to build tension Do’s and Don’ts