Objectives: Today I will
Homework:
Agenda:
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- identify motifs and themes in my story
- and revise my story
Homework:
- Final draft typed and printed due Friday (if you don't have a printer at home, print your story from the library before you come in to class!)
- Study for the grammar quiz on 11/27 - one week from today!
- Grammar Notes
- Grammar Study Guide (will not be collected, but will help you on the quiz!)
- Grammar Notes
- Missing/make-up work must be turned in no later than 11/27 to get graded before the trimester ends. I will not accept work after 11/27.
Agenda:
- Visual Dictionary: Draw pictures to represent peer review, clause, and fragment
- Day Twelve - Finding the Motifs & Themes
- Motifs are big ideas that appear throughout a text
- What ideas appear throughout your story?
- Examples: friendship, fear, embarrassment, joy, family
- Choose 1-2 motifs from your list that you think are the most important. Write these in the boxes.
- Turn these motifs into themes
- A theme is a message that the author is trying to convey
- What are you trying to say about your motifs?
- Circle your strongest theme statement.
- A theme is a message that the author is trying to convey
- Motifs are big ideas that appear throughout a text
- Revision
- Use the feedback you were given by your peers to continue revising and improving your story.
- Your final story will need to be typed and printed
- Remember to plug in laptops when you're done!
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