After our quiz and posting a response to the book Name All the Animals (see below), we will complete and proofread our non-fiction stories. These are due at the end of class.
Name All the Animals Response: Please respond to one or more of the following:
1. examine how the author describes characters or people. How does she make them "real", "approachable", or use CHARACTERIZATION to allow the reader to sympathize or empathize with the character? Pick one character and examine him/her.
2. Choose one episode or event from your reading so far and examine the scene for its dramatic effect. What is the author doing in the passage that you identify as "fine writing." What makes the writing effective in this passage? Examine.
3. Examine dialogue. How does the author provide a narrative story, move a plot along, engage in full characterization of a character through effective use of dialogue? Choose a scene in which dialogue plays an important part in the narrative and examine its effectiveness.
PROOFREADING:
Before you turn in your non-fiction story, please read your work again and add details where you are vague and uninteresting. Add similes/metaphors, anaphora, and other rhetorical devices. Examine your verbs and make them interesting. Always move toward the specific rather than the general. Add dialogue (if you don't have any) and slow down time in sections that you think are important. Give your story a title.
HOMEWORK: Please read through pg. 139 (up to Chapter 23)
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