Grade 9 Short Story Unit

Write AWay

• "She is Brave."
• "He is compassionate."
• Turn one (or both!) of these "telling" sentences into "Showing" sentences.

Week of Oct 4

• Due today: Common Lit story and questions
• Reminder: if you will not have something done by due date: Extension Request
• Vocab Unit 2: finish words this week; quiz on 10/18
• Friday: in-school field trip: Writing Center Grand opening

Describe a time you felt terrified. Bring us into the moment using sensory detail

How does McKnight Malmar use contrasting imagery to create Mood and convey a theme?

Imagery
language used by writers to create images in the mind of the reader. Imagery includes figurative language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses.

Mood
the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.

Theme

• a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.

Theme

• One key characteristic of literary themes is their universality, which is to say that themes are ideas that not only apply to the specific characters and events of a book or story, but also express broader truths about human experience that readers can apply to their own lives.

Theme

• Themes are sometimes divided into thematic concepts and thematic statements. A work's thematic concept is the broader topic it touches upon (love, forgiveness, pain, etc.) while its thematic statement is what the work says about that topic.

Theme

• For example, the thematic concept of a romance novel might be love, and, depending on what happens in the story, its thematic statement might be that "Love is blind," or that "You can't buy love."

Theme

• Themes are almost never stated explicitly. Oftentimes you can identify a work's themes by looking for a repeating symbol, motif, or phrase that appears again and again throughout a story, since it often signals a recurring concept or idea.

Symbol:
a writer uses one thing-—usually aN OBJECT or EVENT-—to represent something more abstract. A strong symbol usually shares a set of key characteristics with whatever it is meant to symbolize.

MOTIF

• When readers recognize a pattern in the work they're reading—specifically, a pattern that connects some or all of the different images or plot developments that help express a particular theme in the work—that overall pattern is the motif. .

Write Away:
Look over "the storm"
3 Passages
2 questions
1 insight/idea

Note-worthy passages

• -I could relate:connection
• -Writer's craft: effect on mood/meaning?
• -Significant detail/clue?
• -Reveals something about character
• -Symbolic, perhaps?
• -Connects to broader idea/theme
• -shift/turning point: significant moment

Open-ended Questions

• -How might ____be significant?
• -Why do you think character did x?
• -Why do you think the author chose to include x?
• -Ask others to predict
• -ASk others to interpret

WRITE AWAY OPTIONS

• What does Janet do after she runs into the storm?
• Write about what Ben did while Janet was away
• Write one of the "white envelope" letters

Writer's craft focus:
Sensory Detail
Indirect Characterization

WRITE AWAY
"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

Think/Pair/Share

• you are janet looking back on the events of the story ten years later....
• What Important Life lesson did you learn on the day the story took place? how did your view of life change?
• Advice to other young women?

Today

• Write Away (of course)
• Characterization Paragraph Intro/info
• IRB Check-in #3
• Finish Vocab 2
• HW: Finish IRB check-in, READ 20 mins, Finish Vocab 2 notes

Here's a visual
(actually... )

Write away

• -Look at the word parts on the list
• -invent a new word using at least 3 of them
• -write a definition that makes sense (reflects each definition)
• -Draw a picture to go with it.

Write Away

• Today is a little bit different:
• Look back Through your Write Aways, organize, and highlight your favorite lines, ideas, and questions. THen, choose something to expand on...

Drafting/Revision Day

• 1. Change the font color of your assertion
• Does it include title and author?
• avoid the first person?
• include an observation about imagery and an interpretation?
• IS the title of the short story in quotes?

Illustrations

• Do they...
• Relate to the Assertion?
• Include page references?
• Do you incorporate them smoothly into your own Sentences?
• Use Ellipses to trim them

Explanations

• Do they explain the illustration by tying each back to the assertion?
• Are at least 2 sentences?
• Do they move from specific (about the passage) to Broader (about the bigger meaning/themes)

Check for...

• Present tense throughout?
• Replace contractions with two words?
• replace "lame" verbs with "lively" "Precise" verbs? (ex: replace "Goes" with "Flees"?)

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychiatrist, Author

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”


-Mary Anne Radmacher

Finally,

• Add a few questions to me as comments. Be specific, so I can give specific feedback.

Today:

• A drafting day
• Assertion: the Foundation
• Goal: by EOW: a clear, analytical paragraph you feel proud of

Resources:

• Mr. Petruzzi, Me
• Your Skillbook: (pages ...)
• Your annotated story
• Your organizer HW

Sticky Note:

• Goal (by EOC)
• Assertion confidence (1-5)
• How many quotes? (0-3)
• How can we help?

What Pages might help?

PUTTING THE "P" in "PIE"

• -Points = IDEAS related to your T.S.
• -provide context for quote (plot-related, not page-related)
• -Lead-in phrasing: blend quote naturally into your own sentence (manipulate the quote to suit your purposes-- use ellipses and brackets.