Review Everyday Use & Narrative Writing

Skills

Making Inferences: Making Educated guesses based on clues in the text

Inferring: Making Inferences (Educated guesses)

Inference: The educated guess

Characterization: Ways that an author develops realistic characters, using realistic thoughts, dialogue and action.

Vocabulary

Furtive: Sneaky

Recompose: Recover, put yourself together

Heritage: Cultural Background

Doctrine: Rules and beliefs

New Notes

Point-of-View: Perspective from which the story is told.

Narrative Essay(Due by  Friday 9/26/14

Directions: Choose one of the prompts below and write a short narrative essay 200-300 words, with dialogue, characters, and conflict. If you upload your response to this padlet link I will give you 10 points extra credit. Your essay will still be written in first person it will just have a different character telling the story.

Prompt #1

Everyday Use begins with Mama's long inward look at the past as she anticipates the arrival of her older daughter Dee. What if the story had begun with Maggie instead? Write the exposition of the story over again, from Maggie's perspective. What does Maggie turn over in her mind? What hopes, fears, regrets, and resentments does she feel? Rewrite the beginning of the story with Maggie as the narrator.

Prompt #2

Everyday Use begins with Mama's long inward look at the past as she anticipates the arrival of her older daughter Dee. What if the story had begun with Dee instead? Write the exposition of the story over again, from Dee's perspective. What does Dee turn over in her mind? What hopes, fears, regrets, and resentments does she feel? Rewrite the beginning of the story with Dee as the narrator.

 

100%-Excellent	85%-Good	70%-Average	55% Poor	Grade
*200-300 words * No spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes * Shows understanding of POV * Shows understanding of the characters * Creative	200-300 words * One or two spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes * Shows understanding of POV * Shows someunderstanding of the characters * Creative	Less than 200-300 words * Several spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes * Shows limited understanding of POV * Shows limited understanding of the characters * Creative	Less than 200-300 words * Many spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes * Shows no understanding of POV * Shows no understanding of the characters	`