1a – Writing - SensesEssential QuestionHow can I use stronger words when I write?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Preview – What’s wrong? What are simple words

Success CriteriaI can write a paragraph using sensory details

The new restaurant in the century-old Capital City Hotel is open for business, and it is well worth the trip. While you wait for a table, the colorful fish in the wall-sized aquarium will entertain you. Once you step into the dining room, you will feel as though you have stepped back in time. The gleaming, golden oak tables and chairs, and the red-flocked wallpaper will pull you back to the stately hotel’s earliest days. Once seated, guard against smacking your lips at the perfectly prepared meats, interestingly seasoned potatoes, and crisp-tender fresh vegetables.

List the sensory details from the paragraph in your books

1a – Writing – Fiction StoriesEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Preview – What genre is Gathering Blue? Learn new vocab Find the different parts of an example fiction

story

Success CriteriaI can find the different parts of a fiction story

Preview – Gathering Blue

Looking at our genres, what type of book is Gathering Blue?Why do you think

this? Examples from the story

Vocab

Characters Narrator Setting Plot Dialogue Sensory Details

Note-taking Check!What I will check?

1. Vocab definition?2. Did you take

notes for today?3. Did you answer the

essential question?

Parts of a Fiction Story Characters – made-up people or animals Narrator – tells the story. Can be a person in

the story (1st Person) or not (3rd Person) Setting – where the action takes place Plot – story’s action. Series of events that

includes conflict, which needs to be resolved Dialogue – conversation between the characters Sensory Details – make the characters, setting,

action come alive An interesting Beginning, Middle and End

Questions

Note-taking Check!What I will check?

1. Vocab definition?2. Did you take notes

for today? How do I write a fictional story?

What are the parts of a fictional story?

Did you add 1~2 sentences?

Did you add a vocab word?

If we do not answer

the essential

question in class,

your HW is to add

1~2 sentences after

each class

1b – Writing – Story IdeasEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?

Learning Outcomes - Students will: Preview – Fiction books Finding Ideas

Success CriteriaI can create realistic fiction and fantasy story ideas

Preview

What realistic or historical Fiction books have you read?

What fantasy

books

have you read?

Story Ideas What kind of realistic fiction

story would you like to write? About a regular kid who

does something amazing? A person who drives a taxi? Use examples of stories you

have read to guide you

Realistic Story Idea #1 Characters: Setting:

Plot:

Realistic Story Idea #2 Characters: Setting:

Plot:

Story Ideas What kind of fantasy

story would you like to write? A dangerous quest? Characters can be

human or some other form? Maybe they have special

powers Use examples you have

read to help guide you

Fantasy Story Idea #1 Characters: Setting: Plot:

Fantasy Story Idea #2 Characters: Setting: Plot:

Note-taking Check!What I will check?

1. Vocab definition?2. Did you take notes

for today? How do I write a fictional story?

What is step 1? Did you add 1~2

sentences? Did you add a vocab word?

If we do not answer

the essential

question in class,

your HW is to add

1~2 sentences after

each class

1c – Writing – SettingEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Preview – Details vs. Senses Example Setting Create your own setting details and senses

Success CriteriaI can create a setting using details and senses

Vocab Details Senses

Details Farm

Senses “The sky glowed green” “scuffed to the barn”

Gathering Blue Setting

Details Senses

What is the setting of Gathering Blue? Find examples from Chapter 1~4

Setting of a Story Think of a setting for a scary part of a

story or where something bad is going to happen What might the weather be like? What time of day might it be?

Using either a “light-hearted” or “scary” setting Write a paragraph (4~6) that describes

your setting What to include?

Where and when You can say a character, but you don’t

have to discuss them yet

Prewrite

Draft

1d – Writing – CharactersEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Preview – Favourite characters Example characters Create your own character

Success CriteriaI can create a brief paragraph explaining my character

Preview

What are some of your favourite characters from books you have read? Why are they your

favourite? How did you learn this

info?

Learning About Characters 4 ways

Narrator reveals info The character’s own words reveal info The character’s actions reveal info Other character’s actions reveal info Other character’s words and actions reveal

info

Kler’s Quest What I know about

the character Kler is a hard

worker

How I know it Her actions – “It took a

good 2 hours to stir it, cook it down, and bottle it”

Character of a Story Using your story idea, pick a character

you would like to create Are they human or not? Male or Female? What 2 words best describe your character? What background details or family history

have shaped this character? Write a line the character might say What might other characters say about

Using either a “light-hearted” or “scary” setting Write a paragraph (4~5) that introduces

your character

Prewrite

Draft

1e – Writing – PlotEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Kler’s Quest Conflict Example plot Create your own plot

Success CriteriaI can create a plot for my fiction story

Kler’s Quest What is the

Conflict in this story?

Put the events in order Usually 1 event in each

paragraph1. Kler doesn’t look

forward to milking the tambles

2. ????3. ????

Your Story What is the

Conflict in this story?

Put the events in order Usually 1 event in each

paragraph

1f – Writing – DraftEssential QuestionHow do I write a fictional story?Learning Outcomes - Students will:

Kler’s Quest Conflict Example Setting Create your own setting details and senses

Success CriteriaI can write the draft for my story

Task Write a 3~5 paragraph(maximum)

fictional story 1 paragraph = 5~7 sentences Use your prewrite to guide you Use Kler’s Quest to guide you