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.