100 10045 120 Sophomore Writing Workshop (ACP/SCP/GEN) 121, 122, 123 130 Writing in the Narrative Mode 140 5-6 days 150 10 160 170 4 180 210 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter 211 1.9.1 212 213 214 215 216 220 23.3 Language Arts - Communicating with Others 221 1.9.2 222 1.9.3 223 1.9.4 224 2.9.1 225 2.9.2 226 2.9.3 230 23.4 Language Arts - English Lang Conventions 231 1.9.2 232 2.9.1 233 2.9.2 234 3.9.1 235 3.9.2 236 3.9.3 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 300 300 What makes narrative writing effective? 400 400 What is Narration? 400 400 The practice of telling stories is almost as old as language itself. Ancient peoples told stories to try to explain the world around them and the mysteries of the universe. They told stories to entertain one another, to teach their children how to behave, and to commemorate heroic deeds and important events. At first people told their tales orally, but later they began writing the stories down. Narration is writing that tells a story. Whether real or invented, oral or written, narration typically includes a plot, or series of events, that centers around a conflict, or struggle; one or more characters who participate in the plot; and a setting, or time and place, in which the plot unfolds. The person telling the story is called the narrator, and the story itself is often called a narrative. 400 400 How Narrative Writing Fits Into Your Life 400 400 Most people have some narrative skill without being aware of it. If you tell how you spent your day or describe an unexpected encounter with a famous person, you’re narrating a real-life story. If you concoct a long, silly tale to get a child you baby-sit for to go to sleep, you’re telling a fictional story. 400 400 You also encounter narration all of the time in your everyday life. Narration is the basis of most TV and film entertainment and of the most popular forms of writing – novels, biographies, news stories, even comic strips. Because so many people enjoy narration, it is sometimes combined with instruction, persuasion, or other forms of communication to make them more appealing and memorable. Politicians giving a speech, for example, often illustrate their points with brief personal stories about themselves or others. 400 400 (Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook, Annotated Teacher' s 400 Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997, 31-32) 400 400 Paper Options 400 400 *Childhood Memoir 400 *Family Myth 400 400 Paper Expectations 400 400 *MLA format 400 *Beginning, middle, end and title 400 *Characterization (key image for each character) 400 *Setting (sense of place) 400 *Dialogue 400 *Active verbs 400 *Plot builds to a dramatic moment 400 *Acceptable level of fluency 400 *Grammatical correctness 400 400 500 500 When writing in the narrative mode students will: 500 500 -- Develop and utilize prewriting skills and strategies, 500 -- Develop and incorporate drafting skills, 500 -- Develop and implement editing skills and strategies, 500 -- Recognize and implement effective sequencing of events that build to a dramatic moment, 500 -- Recognize, identify, and incorporate the elements of a story (setting, character, conflict, theme), 500 -- Recognize the different points of view for story telling and utilize the most effective one, 500 -- Understand the different methods characterization, both direct and indirect, and include effective characterization in the story, 500 -- Write dialogue that is realistic, relevant, and in the correct format, 500 -- Recognize active verbs and incorporate them into the narrative, 500 -- Improve diction, 500 -- Produce a final draft that meets standards of acceptability in fluency and grammatical correctness. 500 600 600 All students will: 600 -- Be instructed on the steps of the writing process, 600 -- Be shown models of quality writing in the narrative mode, 600 -- Will conference with their teacher to discuss the quality of their writing, and to determine the steps necessary for improvement, 600 -- Receive written feedback on the quality of their writing. 700 700 Assessment of student writing in the descriptive mode includes student-teacher conferencing to determine successful completion of editing, as well as meeting standards for acceptable quality of the final draft. Each teacher will provide written feedback of the drafts and of the final paper. 700 820 820 Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook. New Jersey: 820 Prentice Hall, 1997. 820 820 Sample Narratives may include: 820 -- "Confess, Early and Often" by Jane Smiley 820 -- An excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright 820 -- "The Grinch Who Saved Christmas" by Jamie Lee Swift 820 -- An excerpt from Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman 820 -- An excerpt from October Sky: A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. 820 -- "The Thief" by John (Yannie) Pergantis 820 -- "An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard 820 -- An excerpt from Uh-oh by Robert Fulgham 820 820 All sample essays can be found on the eschool website in the SWW folder at . 820