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Lesson #3:  Outlining the Narrative/Rising Action Narration Map

 

Instructional Objective:  Students will outline their narrative assignment by creating a rising action narration map for it.

Do Now:  Over the past few days, you have been using brainstorming to help draft your journal entries.  Write a reflection on that process, discussing how brainstorming was helpful to your writing process, what you liked or disliked about it, and when else brainstorming would be helpful.

Materials Needed:  copies of rising action narrative map (pdf file), chart paper, student notebooks.

 

-Have students discuss what they’ve liked and disliked about brainstorming, and how they feel it has helped them to write the memoir.

-Explain that today we’re going to be looking at yet another type of brainstorming—outlining.  This is another way to organize your thoughts and have a clear plan in mind before you begin writing, or to fill in any gaps you may have in your writing. 

 

Mini-Lesson:  Rising Action Narration Map

-Stories follow a certain structure and sequence.  The author starts off with an event, problem or conflict, and brings that action to a climax and then a conclusion.

-By creating this graphic organizer, we can determine what is important in the story and we can see, visually, what happened. 

 -As authors, we can literally “map” out our story before, during, or after the writing process in order to help organize it.

 

Work Period:

-Hand out copies of the rising action narration map and have students fill it out according to the action in their narrative accounts.

-After 20 minutes, have students look over one another’s maps and make sure it is all clear and logical.

 

Homework: 

Finished rising action narration map due tomorrow.

 

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