Choose one of these pieces of art and write a narrative
about it.
Make sure you take the time to look closely at the standards so that you can do some pre-writing activities and planning that will ensure you achieve the standards you are suppose to. Some of the pre-writing tools have been provided in class. If you want to create or use your own, please do!
Use the questions on the handout you received (or at the bottom of this post) to determine whether or not you need to keep developing your story or you have it exactly as you want it.
Make sure you take the time to look closely at the standards so that you can do some pre-writing activities and planning that will ensure you achieve the standards you are suppose to. Some of the pre-writing tools have been provided in class. If you want to create or use your own, please do!
Use the questions on the handout you received (or at the bottom of this post) to determine whether or not you need to keep developing your story or you have it exactly as you want it.
Focus Standards:
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or
events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and
well-structured event sequences.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and
description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Images:
Want to Meet these Standards?
If you can honestly answer “yes” to each of these questions you will do great!
1. Are you consistently using juicy sensory descriptive words to describe your characters and setting? If yes, list some.
2. Does your plot build to a climax and have a good resolution?
If yes, what is a one to two sentence summary of the main problem in your story and how it is resolved.
3. Have you considered the tone/mood of your story (i.e. what emotion your reader should be feeling) and written in such a way that your reader feels what you want them to feel?
If yes, what is the mood of your story? __________________. Circle the strategies have you used to create the feeling in your writing. Then give an example.
A. Word choice (positive or negative connotation of words)
Example:
B. Pacing (length of sentences to express fear, excitement, rushed etc.)
Example:
C. The use of sensory word descriptions that cause response.
Example:
4. Do your characters have a “motive” that drives their interactions, decisions, and responses to the things that happen in your story?
Example:
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