Please get together in the following pairs (PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME GROUPS HAVE BEEN CHANGED DUE TO ABSENCES):
If you are done with your commentary and have turned in your writing, please select one of the pictures in the front of the room and use the picture to inspire a story. You may decide either to use the picture as an opening for a story or incorporate the picture as the ending or climax of your story. After deciding where the picture would happen in your story, write your story. This draft will count as extra credit and will be placed in your portfolio.
HOMEWORK: None, unless you'd like to write (or continue your extra credit story).
- Tyshay & Mitchell
- Aleah & Jacob
- Saisha & Izzy
- Austin & Jamee
- Karla Marie & Radezia
- Josh & Tyshon
- Grace & Yasmine
- Justice (please complete your fantasy story, then see me for this project)
- Share your story with your partner. Each partner should read the draft.
- Acting as an expert (you can create a fictional name and title for yourself as an expert analyst or literary critic) you are to write a short commentary about your partner's story. Use J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard as an example or model (the Dumbedore sections).
- In your commentary discuss:
- The significance of the story. Why is this story an important one? For example why is your partner's fictional story an important one for future readers to read? You can make up any details you think make for a good reason. You can also refer to the story directly.
- Important characters, settings, or actions that occur in the story, and what their meaning or significance is. If an element of the story is unclear or mysterious, try to explain what the author meant. Don't ask the author, make up any details you think is necessary to sound like an expert on the subject.
- Explain the moral or message of the story. Again, don't ask the author, but explain what you think is the message or moral of the story.
- When you have completed your commentary, proofread and print out your commentary, then attach it to the original story draft and turn in.
If you are done with your commentary and have turned in your writing, please select one of the pictures in the front of the room and use the picture to inspire a story. You may decide either to use the picture as an opening for a story or incorporate the picture as the ending or climax of your story. After deciding where the picture would happen in your story, write your story. This draft will count as extra credit and will be placed in your portfolio.
HOMEWORK: None, unless you'd like to write (or continue your extra credit story).
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