TED Tuesday

Go to your bookmarks and open up your TED Tuesday Google Form. You can fill out the title and date while waiting for the TED Talk to begin .

A one man orchestra of the imagination.

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IVF Statements

3/27/2018

-TED Tuesday

-Past or Present Tense

-Show, Don’t Tell

-Narrative Short Story

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Past or Present Tense?

Show, Don’t Tell

1. Complete your plot Diagram.
2. Complete the setting worksheet.
3. Complete the characterization worksheet.
4. Read Perspective Sheet 1 and Sheet 2 and then decide if you’re going to write your narrative in 1st or 3rd person.
5. Read the Six Ways to Start a Narrative Sheet to get ideas of how to start your story.
6. Choose past or present tense.
7. Start writing your narrative in the assignment in Classroom.

Setting

-Orientation of Time and Space: When, Where?

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-How does it fit with the conflict?

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-Do research, look at photos.

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Setting

Where and when a narrative takes place.

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Include sensory imagery of sight, sound, touch, taste and scent.

Characters

Characters

-Real people; not caricatures.

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-Good and Bad qualities.

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-How will they fit into the Man vs. Nature Conflict?

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Narrative

-Assignment

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-Rubric

Elements of Plot

Exposition: Includes Setting, and Main Characters

Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces

Presents additional obstacles for the characters

Rising Action

Climax: The stories most interesting moment, when the conflict is finally resolved

Falling Action

The story begins to draw to a close

Resolution: Reveals the final outcome of the conflict

Flocabulary

Homework

-2.5 hours of independent reading per week

-Make sure you have everything on the portfolio checklist completed and sent the url to your parents.

-Continue to work on your narrative plot diagram.

-Your Stem Word List 7 Assessment will be Thursday, March 29th.

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