Week 3: Class 12

EWRT 1A

AGENDA

Vocabulary 5-9

Discussion: A Well-Told Story

In-Class Writing

Focus on the climax of your event. Use the strategies we have discussed so far—dialogue, description, metaphors and similes, and sentence length—to make it dramatic and meaningful.

The Game

• Get into your teams• Discuss the words on the next slide for five or so

minutes and prepare to compete• Each team will send one member to the board in

rotation. • I will read a definition• The first team member to write the correct definition

on the board scores a point for their team. • Teams earn participation points for each correct

answer• The team with the highest score at the end of the

game earns not only the glory of winning but also five additional participation points.

Vocabular

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Discussion: Basic Feature

A Well-Told Story

REVIEW: This is what we have all ready written!

Introduction and long quotation

Transition and intro to your event

The thesis

Description of place(s) and people

A dialogue or two

The significance of your event

Your framing plan.

A Well-Told Story

To keep readers’ interest, even the most exciting stories, like Dillard’s story of being chased through city streets and backyards, need to be organized in a way that builds suspense and tension. A common way to represent the dramatic organization of a narrative is with a pyramid:

Exposition: Background information is presented, the scene set, and characters introduced.

Rising Action: The basic conflict is set off by an inciting incident, arousing curiosity and suspense, and possibly leading to other conflicts and complications.

Climax: The emotional high point, often a turning point marking a change for good or ill, is reached.

Falling Action: Tension subsides and conflicts unravel, but may include a final surprise.

Resolution: Conflicts come to an end, but may not be fully resolved.

Use short and long sentences to control the intensity of your narrative.

Use dialogue to convey immediacy and drama

Use description so the reader can see the scene or people in the scene

Use metaphors and similes to explain quickly how someone is acting or feeling.

1. Focus on the climax of your event. Write a paragraph describing the action (the emotional high point of your story)

Strategy Review

HOMEWORK Write: Work on your draft. Post #14: Start integrating the pieces into one coherent essay.

The Beginning Set the frame: Long quotation; explanation; transition; thesis

The Body Exposition: descriptions of places, people, and dialogue worked into a

narrative form. The Rising Action: Events or tension leading to the climax The Climax: The emotional high point! (short and long sentences for

suspense) The Falling Action: Tensions subside

The Ending The Resolution The significance of the event The framed conclusion