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Setting the Tone: Journal Writing

Setting the Tone: Journal Writing. Books reveal stories about events or happenings in a person’s life. What are other reasons for writing and reading books? Make text to text, text to self, or text to world connection. Purpose. What are you learning?

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Setting the Tone: Journal Writing

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  1. Setting the Tone:Journal Writing Books reveal stories about events or happenings in a person’s life. What are other reasons for writing and reading books? Make text to text, text to self, or text to world connection.

  2. Purpose • What are you learning? • Elements of drama, fiction, and nonfiction and developing questions. • Why are you learning this? • To understand what makes writings different and how to anticipate questions to find answers, and how to use questions to review the writings.

  3. Crafting the Lesson(Me) REVIEW: • In the Book (literal) • Right There • Think and Search • In My Head (inferential) • Author and Me • On My Own The Elements of Fiction • Fiction is all literature that is made up or fantasized from an author's imagination. It deals with imaginary people and events. • Point of View • Plot: • Setting: • Characterization: • Symbol: • Theme: • Style: • ELEMENTS OF Nonfiction • A written work that gives factual information. • It deals with real life people and events. • Includes thoughtful writings that instruct you, entertain you, and keep you informed about the world. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA1.  PLOT 2.  CHARACTER 3.  THOUGHT 4.  DIALOGUE5.  MUSIC6.  SPECTACLE

  4. Crafting the Lesson(We) Examples of Drama A Raisin in the Sun Hamlet Our Town

  5. Composing Meaning(Two) • You will form triads. • Each one of you will be given a story; either drama, fiction, or nonfiction. • Each one of you will use QAR to create 4 questions; one for each level. • In the Book (literal) • 1. Right There • 2. Think and Search • In My Head (inferential) • 3. Author and Me • 4. On My Own • You will have 6 minutes to read the passage. • You will have 6 minutes to create the questions. • You will rotate your papers in clockwise direction . You will have 2 minutes to label two of the questions on the paper as “Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, or On My Own.” • You will exchange papers again and label the other two questions. (Do not get your own paper) • On the third exchange, you will discuss withyour partners whether or not they correctly labeled the questions on your paper.

  6. Composing Meaning (You) • Differentiate between drama, fiction, and nonfiction. • Use the three different types of writings to answer one “Right There” question, one “Think and Search” question, one Author and Me” question, and one “On My Own” question for each type of writing. You will have a total of 12 responses.

  7. Reflection • How does questioning help you to determine what type of writing is read? • Why would you develop questions? • How does questioning help you to distinguish the difference between drama, nonfiction, and fiction?

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