Week 3 Lesson Plans (include project or activity, objective, task, format)

Goals for the week: Students will brainstorm to find topics for their narratives. They will also read examples to see what makes a good narrative, Resources needed: “Chapter 16: Plot” from Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry, “Non Linear Narratives: The Ultimate in Time Travel,” “What I Did in My Christmas Holidays. By Sally Sparrow,” “Blink,” “ paper, pen, blue books Vocabulary students will need: Draft, point-of-view, dialogue, CRAP principles, plot, narrative, flashback, flash forward

Monday and Wednesday, 1/26 & 1/28(Conferences) Objectives for Conferences: Students will be able to complete a guided brainstorming session to come up with topics for their narratives. Tuesday 1/27 (Classroom) Objectives for today: SWBAT argue and explain their ideas about the readings in class discussion. Students will also be able to practice their composition skills. Activities: Large group: Discussion of the chapter on plot. What sort of plot will your narratives have?

How will you handle shifts in time, including flashbacks? Remember the guidelines we discussed before. As usual, I expect two questions from each of you.

Small groups: Worst narratives: You invent a time machine and decide to take it for a spin. Come up with the worst narrative possible. It should have none of the characteristic features from the book!

For Thursday: “What I Did in My Christmas Holidays. By Sally Sparrow” (B) Thursday, 1/29 (Computer Lab) Objectives for today: SWBAT start practicing visual rhetorical analysis with the images in the story. Students will also assess the drawings for CRAP principles. Discussion: How does the plot work in this narrative? How does time travel alter the story? What effect does the addition of images have upon your reading? --Introduce CRAP principles and the use of color in movies. For Friday: “Non Linear Narratives: The Ultimate in Time Travel” (B) Friday, 1/30 (Classroom) Objectives for today: Students will be able to assess how successful the writer and director structure the plot of the story. They will also analyze the way video components and actors alter the way a story is told (scaffolding for their theater reviews & PSA filming). Activities: Framing: Explain what we’re watching. Mention key concepts (storytelling in film vs. on

paper) from the reading. Tell them to pay attention to the decisions the director makes for the shots, color, lighting, even the actors and actresses.

Viewing: “Blink”

Discussion—digest what we saw Blog assignment: What uses of CRAP principles did you recognize? What did you think of

the narrative structure of the piece? Could you follow it? Why or why not? For Tuesday: