Week of May 4

SchoolNet Codes

Week of May 4 BA8KU5

Week of May 11 CY7KE2V

You may have your score reset ONCE by completing the following steps:

Email sherry_hughes@pender.k12.nc.us

In the subject line type: SchoolNet Reset Week of ##### for Last Name, First Name Period #

For example: SchoolNet Reset Week of March 23 for Hughes, Tops Period 7

I will only reset the score once DURING the school week. I do not check my email on the weekends or at night.

Every day when you arrive, do the following:

Secure your assigned Chromebook and Log in.

This should be done BEFORE the bell, and you should be actively working when it sounds.

Complete 10+ minutes of Membean. Your Membean accuracy average must be 50% or better for the week.

If you do not have 45 minutes for the week or your accuracy is below 50%, you will be required to take a Quiz on Monday. Your scores will then be averaged. (% minutes, accuracy for week, quiz grade)

Have today's writing prompt displayed on your desk.

Have your reading book displayed on your desk.

If you finish early, you may work on Membean, our current class assignment, any missing assignments you need to submit, or read.

Review Topic – Theme – You will have homework this week that has to do with theme.

Due by Wednesday: Understanding Theme with Fables

Due by Thursday: Understanding Theme with Fables Review

Due by Friday: Identifying Themes

Monday

PICK UP YOUR REVIEW SHEET - Understanding Theme with Fables

Complete writing prompt.

Brainstorm the main focal points of your narrative true crime story.

You need to know the following: crime(s), setting – location, season, time period, plot overview, further murder information (ballistics? entomology? tool markings? etc.)

What do you need to research to make your story authentic and believable?

True Crime Narrative

What do I want?

A story with a plot centered on a crime. The story should be between 500 and 1000 words. I also want an evidence packet you will create concerning the crime in your story. This can contain any of the items we have studied together, and even additional investigative information you create. A person should be able to review the evidence packet and tell about the crime and the circumstances of it in your specific story.

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When is it due?

Here is the timeline:

Research Notes – Due May 5

Prewriting/Organizers/Plot Overview – Due May 6

Rough Draft – Due May 11

Evidence Packet – Due May 15

Final Draft – Due May 18

We will be working on test review items throughout the next few weeks, so take every opportunity you have to work on this.

TODAY

Complete your research and plot overview. We will have writing conferences tomorrow. Be prepared.

Complete tomorrow's writing prompt today or tonight.

Work on your 45 minute goal for Membean.

Read 30 minutes.

Tuesday

Complete writing prompt.

What has been the most difficult Schoolnet problem you have done for THIS class?

True Crime Narrative

Writing Conferences

Continue research.

Questions to Answer

What is the point of view of the story?

Who is your protagonist?

Do you have an antagonist?

What does your protagonist want?

What morally significant choices will your protagonist make during the story?

Characters

Besides appearance, speech, thought, and actions, you should think of other traits about your characters. Here is a starting list: Name, Age, Job, Ethnicity, Appearance, Residence, Pets, Religion, Hobbies, Single or married, Children, Temperament, Favorite color, Friends, Favorite foods, Phobias, Faults, Something hated, Secrets, Strong memories, Any illnesses, Nervous gestures, Sleep patterns (These are suggestions or starting points. You may have others.)

Developing Characters…..Tips and Further Reading….

http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/crafttechnique/tp/createcharacter.htm

http://learn.lexiconic.net/characters.htm

http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/crafttechnique/tp/createcharacter.htm

http://blog.janicehardy.com/2013/06/10-traits-of-great-protagonist.html

http://lmc.gatech.edu/~dpiano/Narrative%20Elements.htm

http://www.slideshare.net/dmmiller78/elements-of-fiction-presentation-584510?related=1

Complete tomorrow's writing prompt today or tonight.

Work on your 45 minute goal for Membean.

Read 30 minutes.

Wednesday

Complete writing prompt.

Identify the plot points so far in your story.

Understanding the elements of your story…especially plot.

Explosion or “Hook.” A thrilling, gripping, stirring event or problem that grabs the reader’s attention right away.
Conflict. A character versus the internal self or an external something or someone.
- Mystery. Explain just enough to tease readers. Never give everything away.
- Empowerment. Give both sides options.
- Progression. Keep intensifying the number and type of obstacles the protagonist faces.
- Causality. Hold fictional characters more accountable than real people. Characters who make mistakes frequently pay, and, at least in fiction, commendable folks often reap rewards.
- Surprise. Provide sufficient complexity to prevent readers predicting events too far in advance.
- Empathy. Encourage reader identification with characters and scenarios that pleasantly or (unpleasantly) resonate with their own sweet dreams (or night sweats).
- Insight. Reveal something about human nature.
- Universality. Present a struggle that most readers find meaningful, even if the details of that struggle reflect a unique place and time.
- High Stakes. Convince readers that the outcome matters because someone they care about could lose something precious. Trivial clashes often produce trivial fiction.
Exposition. Background information required for seeing the characters in context.
Rising Action. Builds interest in the characters, their challenges and the plot itself
Complication. One or more problems that keep a character from their intended goal.
Transition. Image, symbol, dialogue, that joins paragraphs and scenes together.
Flashback. Remembering something that happened before the short story takes place.
Climax. When the rising action of the story reaches the peak.
- The run-up to the climactic moment (last-minute maneuvering to put the pieces in their final positions)
- The main character’s moment of truth (the inner journey point toward which the whole story has been moving)
- The climactic moment itself (in which the hero directly affects the outcome)
- The immediate results of the climactic moment (the villain might be vanquished, but the roof is still collapsing).
- Does it create tension and excitement?
- Does it lead to a point of confrontation and realization?
- Is there a big reveal?
Falling Action. Releasing the action of the story after the climax.
Resolution. When the internal or external conflict is resolve.

· Open. Readers determine the meaning.

Brendan’s eyes looked away from the priest and up to the mountains.· Resolved. Clear-cut outcome.

While John watched in despair, Helen loaded up the car with her belongings and drove away.· Parallel to Beginning. Similar to beginning situation or image.

They were driving their 1964 Chevrolet Impala down the highway while the wind blew through their hair.Her father drove up in a new 1964 Chevrolet Impala, a replacement for the one that burned up.· Monologue. Character comments.

I wish Tom could have known Sister Dalbec’s prickly guidance before the dust devils of Sin City battered his soul.· Dialogue. Characters converse.

· Literal Image. Setting or aspect of setting resolves the plot.