“This is one story I’ve never told before.” How do authors use narrative techniques to craft fiction writing?
Link: Module 11.4
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary texts, focusing on the authors’ choices in developing and relating textual elements such as character development, point of view, and central ideas while also considering how a text’s structure conveys meaning and creates aesthetic impact. Additionally, students learn and practice narrative writing techniques as they examine the techniques of the authors whose stories students analyze in the module.
Module 11.4 Focus Skills & Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive, evidence-based discussions about texts
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in discussion
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Independently read texts in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
- Examine and analyze fiction texts for effective narrative writing technique
- Practice narrative writing techniques and strategies
- Engage in the process of brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, peer review, revision, and publication of narrative writing
Module 11.4 examines contemporary and canonical American literature, focusing on how authors structure texts, establish point of view, and develop complex characters. Students read, discuss, and analyze two short stories, “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien and “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. These texts continue the conversation around point of view and character development initiated in the first two modules and serve as models for narrative writing instruction. Students develop and strengthen the techniques and skills necessary to craft their own narrative texts that clearly and effectively develop real or imagined experiences.
Texts: (Many Available HERE or HERE)
Unit 1:
“On the Rainy River” from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
“The Red Convertible” from The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
Unit 2:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
“On the Rainy River” from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien;
“The Red Convertible” from The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
Descriptions Adapted From EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 11.4
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary texts, focusing on the authors’ choices in developing and relating textual elements such as character development, point of view, and central ideas while also considering how a text’s structure conveys meaning and creates aesthetic impact. Additionally, students learn and practice narrative writing techniques as they examine the techniques of the authors whose stories students analyze in the module.
Module 11.4 Focus Skills & Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive, evidence-based discussions about texts
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in discussion
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Independently read texts in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
- Examine and analyze fiction texts for effective narrative writing technique
- Practice narrative writing techniques and strategies
- Engage in the process of brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, peer review, revision, and publication of narrative writing
Module 11.4 examines contemporary and canonical American literature, focusing on how authors structure texts, establish point of view, and develop complex characters. Students read, discuss, and analyze two short stories, “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien and “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. These texts continue the conversation around point of view and character development initiated in the first two modules and serve as models for narrative writing instruction. Students develop and strengthen the techniques and skills necessary to craft their own narrative texts that clearly and effectively develop real or imagined experiences.
Texts: (Many Available HERE or HERE)
Unit 1:
“On the Rainy River” from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
“The Red Convertible” from The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
Unit 2:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
“On the Rainy River” from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien;
“The Red Convertible” from The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
Descriptions Adapted From EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)