Ms. Kreycik's Class Pages

12/5 Friday Block​

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1. Narrative Essays:

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2. Narrative essay story arc explanation and fill in:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0HEqI3pJIM

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3. Fill in the narrative arc on paper and hand in to use when typing up your story next week.

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4. Read through the material below to get some tips on various aspects of writing strong narratives

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    Show vs. Tell: https://jerryjenkins.com/show-dont-tell/​

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    Character Development: https://writers.com/character-development-definition​

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    Dialogue writing: https://www.thenovelry.com/blog/writing-dialogue

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5. Study Sync: Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" complete the work and be familiar with the ideas.

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6. Study Sync: Emerson's "Nature"

   

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Homework:

a. be studying for the Romantic Era Exam:

    Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"(agenda date 12/9 for story link, agenda date 12/13 for notes)

    Thoreau's Walden (handout) and study sync

    Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (study sync)

    Emerson's "Nature" (study sync)

    American Literature and History: American Romanticism (study sync)

    Poe's "The Raven" (agenda date 12/2)

    Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" (agenda date 12/4, notes 12/9)

    Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" (agenda date 11/12 and 11/15)

    Romantic Era intro (agenda date 11/15)

    Romantic Era author bios (agenda date 11/15)

b. Be thinking about how to write your personal narrative...how can you include character development,

    dialogue, sensory details, figurative language, setting that creates mood, and how will you show vs. tell.

    You'll have only one class period to write your narrative, so you wont have time to waste planning that

    could have been done earlier.

c. ORB project due before winter break:

    Fictional interview on non-fiction topic. Remember that though you are writing fiction

   (made up interviews) you need   to reveal the facts you learned from the book you read non-fiction

   from the DEI (diversity/equity/inclusion) section of school library.

   You can use direct quotes for your answers if you cite author and page number, but quotes from the

   book are not necessary.

    Start with an MLA citation for the book you chose at top of the page.

   Underneath that, write your interview/s (if your book had multiple subjects, you can choose perhaps

   the most important 3-4 for a group interview)

   Single space individual speakers words, double space between them, and double space your heading

   and the MLA citation for the book.

   Cite the information from book you use in the interviewee's words, whether quoted or paraphrased

   e.g. (Rainford 42).

   Should be approximately 1000 words total, and should cover the important points of your outside reading book

   e.g.:

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Kendi, Ibram and Keisha Blain. Four Hundred Souls: a Community History of African America, 1619-2019.

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        New York, One World, 2021.

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John Doe, interviewer: What did you learn from your research?

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Casey Smith, interviewee: Through reading Roland Fryer, I learned that though blacks aren't killed by police more often than whites, they are subjected to more violence when being arrested (Kendi and Blain 142).

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