1.  What makes a good Narrative Story?  Is "Shooting an Elephant" a good story?

2.  Grammar Test

3.  Words Test

4.  TS practice-  having an opinion and describing things.  SSB-

5.  HW-  Narrative Draft due on TUESDAY.  Narrative PLAN due Thurs.  No reading.

Journal-  Tell a story about a time something horrifying happened.

Test Vocab

Test Grammar

Notes?

TAP

Topic-    What it's about.
Audience-  Who it's for.
Purpose-   Why you're writing it.

Writing Process-

 
Invent-    Create ideas-
Organize-Plan my work, work my plan
Draft-  Practice Version....Go fast
Revise- SF, V, IC, ORG, WC
Edit-   Grammar/ Conventions.
Publish-  Perfect-

6- Traits-

Voice- Personality-  interesting.
Ideas-  Topic-  What it's about-  interesting.
Organization-  Plan-  Shape-  Interesting.
Sentence Fluency-  Flow- mix of short and long sent.  Interesting.
Word Choice- best words-- interesting.
Conventions- Grammar-

Narrative Essay-

True Story-  About you, 1st person.  Images and concrete words...., a one minute event, start in the middle.

Blood,
Describe
Bus
Pony Tails
Incident
Lesson

















Orgam Description Practice SSB
Idea for narrative HW-
HW-  Reading-  THIS!








 













HW-  First Essay-  Narrative.... MLA FORMAT.

1.  Journal-  What do you remember about 9/11?


2. Hink Pink.


3.  Reading-  Salvation.

4.  Reading-  "The (other) Lottery"

5.  Notes, notes, notes.  

7 Common Errors-

Comma Splice:   I like dogs, I like foxes.
 Run on:       I like dogs I like Fennic Foxes.
Parallelism: I like to run, swim, and biking.
Tense Shift: I am cool because I was nice.
Pronoun antecedent agreement:  He is a person that is nice.
Fragment:    He is a person who.
Verb Tense agreement:  I goes to the store.















 

6.  Grammar test.

1.  Test

2.  Journal-   What was the strangest thing that ever happened to you?

3.  Reading Test (?)

4.  Inference Skills

5.   HW-  Reading-

http://centerforfiction.org/forwriters/the-model-short-story/quotsalvationquot-by-langston-hughes/

 http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/shane.lake/engl1301/readings/the-lottery-by-chris-abani/view