Realistic Fiction Day 1 Teaching Point Good readers know the characteristics of realistic f iction It could happen It has a realistic setting Characters are true to life The story has characters setting a problem and a solution ID: 760735
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Realistic FictionReader’s Workshop
Slide2Realistic Fiction Day 1
Teaching Point
: Good readers know the characteristics of realistic
f
iction
.
It could happen
It has a realistic setting
Characters are true to life
The story has characters, setting, a problem and a solution
Small details may not be true
Active Engagement: Read your realistic
f
iction book for the rest of the hour. Keep the characteristics in mind when you are reading.
Homework: read chapters 1-2 for tomorrow.
Slide3Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 2
Teaching Point
: Good Readers ask themselves “Could this really happen?”
Active Engagement – In your journal write at least a half page on the misunderstanding between Miss Caroline, Walter, and Scout. Have you ever been caught in a situation when your help has made matters worse for all involved? (Chapter 2, page 28) Be prepared to discuss this tomorrow in class.
Independent practice: Please read your realistic fiction book for the rest of the hour.
Homework: Complete reading chapters 3-4 for tomorrow’s class.
In your journal record at least three events that could really happen and explain why you think each could have happened. These could be any events that occurred in the first four chapters
.
Slide4Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 3
Teaching Point:
Good readers recognize the “Aha Moment” –a character’s realization of something that shifts his actions or understanding of himself, others, or the world around him/her.
An Aha Moment is a Signpost. It can be recognized when certain phrases are used, usually expressing suddenness, like:
“Suddenly I understood…”
“It came to me in a flash that…”
“The
realization hit me…”
“In
an instant I knew…”
Active Engagement – Read all of page 49 and decide what the “Aha Moment is on this page. Turn and talk to your elbow partner.
Independent Practice: Attach the Signpost Log to your journal. Find at least two Aha Moments in your realistic fiction book and record them.
The Signpost Log is your Exit Slip for today!
Homework: Read Chapters 5-7 for Monday
Slide5Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 4
Teaching Point
:
Readers
of realistic fiction are able to step inside different character’s perspectives.
Active Engagement:
We will look at a passage from TKM and discuss the experience from Scout’s perspective.
Independent Practice:
Now, “
Step Inside” the character you were assigned (look on the sheet under Viewpoint). Fill in the chart completely and then choose your strongest response. On the sticky note jot down the strongest response and place it on the poster in the appropriate box.
Homework: Read Chapter 8-9 for tomorrow.
Slide6Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 5
Teaching Point:
Good readers recognize “Words of the Wiser” – the advice or insight a wiser character, who is usually older, offers about life to the main character.
Words of the Wiser is a signpost. It can be recognized when the main character and another
character are off
by themselves, in a quiet, serious moment. The wiser figure shares his/her wisdom or advice in an effort to help the main character with a problem or a decision.
Active
Engagement: Let’s look at page 39. Can we find an example of Words of the Wiser?
Independent Practice: Attach
the Signpost Log to your journal and find
another example of Words
of the Wiser in your realistic fiction book and record
it.
The Signpost Log is to be put in your journal!
Homework: Read Chapters 10-11 for tomorrow’s class.
Slide7Realistic Fiction Day 6
Teaching Point:
Readers of Realistic Fiction look at the author’s craft and then figure out how these deliberate craft moves advance the author’s purpose.
Active Engagement: Look at the photo “
Dorthea
Lange Migrant Mother”. Think for a moment. What message do you think this photographer is sending? Write about what you notice about this photo. Be ready to discuss this.
Narrative writers use techniques to send their message.
Let’s look at the second chart for today “Narrative Writers Aim Toward Goals…”
Independent Practice
: Make a chart in your notebook that looks like the one on the next slide. Skim through your books and find “Craft Moves” Harper Lee uses to reach her goals. Find three pieces of evidence that focus on a chapter or character. You may work with a partner if you choose
.
Homework: Read Chapters 12-13 for tomorrow’s class
Slide8Slide9Craft Moves
Craft Move
Evidence
Goal
Metaphor
Ch. 5 (pg. 59)
compares women to sin
Introduce characters, provide setting
Personification
Ch. 8: fire siren is screaming, the fire silently
devoured Miss
Maudie’s
house
Build a mood
Slide10Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 7
Teaching Point:
Good readers recognize
“Contrasts and Contradictions”
–
a sharp contrast between what we would expect and what we observe the character doing or behavior that contradicts previous behavior or well-established patterns.
Contrasts and Contradictions are
a signpost.
These can be recognized when a character behaves or thinks in a way we don’t expect, or an element of a setting is something we would not expect.
Active
Engagement: Let’s look at page
102.
Can we find an example of
Contrasts and Contradictions?
Independent Practice: Attach the Signpost Log to your journal and find another example of
Contrasts and Contradictions in
your realistic fiction book and record it.
The
Signpost Log is
to be put in your journal!
Homework: Read Chapters 14-15 for tomorrow’s class.
Slide11Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 8
Teaching Point:
Good readers recognize
“Tough Questions”
– q
uestions a character raises that reveal his or her inner struggles.
Tough Questions
are a signpost. These can be recognized
when phrases expressing serious doubt or confusion are used.
“What could I possibly do to…”
“I couldn’t imagine how I could cope with…”
“How could I ever understand why she…”
“Never had I been so confused about…”
Active
Engagement: Let’s look at page
54.
Can we find an example of
a Tough Question?
Independent Practice: Attach the Signpost Log to your journal and find another example of
a Tough Question in
your realistic fiction book and record it.
The
Signpost Log is
to be put in your journal!
Homework: Read
Chapters 16-25 over break.
Slide12Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 9
Teaching Point:
Readers of narrative
w
riting are able to write about their reading.
Active Engagement: Let’s read the following quotes together:
Pages 52-54
Pages 113-114
Pages 185-187.
Independent Practice:
Identify the signpost or the technique of author’s craft used in the quotes above. Explain fully what this item means in the book or what message Harper Lee was trying to send to her audience. Write at least one page on the passage you chose in your journal.
Homework: Read
Chapters 26-27
for
tomorrow’s class.
Slide13Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 10
Teaching Point:
Readers of realistic
f
iction recognize symbolism.
Active
Engagement
– Watch the video.
N
otice and note any symbols you may recognize in
To Kill a Mockingbird
. Be ready to share with the class.
Independent Practice: Write a paragraph in your journal on how Harper Lee uses symbolism to reach one of her craft goals. Refer to your “Narrative Writers Aim Toward Goals Such As” chart in your journal from Day
6.
Homework: Read
Chapters 28-29
for tomorrow’s class.
Slide14Day 10 Homework
In your journal, write one page on
one
of the following prompts. Use the charts from Day 6 to help you.
Identify
three different techniques
that Harper Lee used to reach
one specific goal
and explain.
Identify
one technique
that Harper Lee used to reach
three different goals
and explain.
Slide15Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 11
Teaching Point
: Narrative writers use one or multiple craft moves to reach a goal in their writing.
Active Engagement: We look through our sticky notes to see if we noticed and noted one particular craft move used by Harper Lee throughout the book or if we noticed and noted multiple craft moves used to reach one goal.
Independent Practice:
Now go to your books and look through your sticky notes and decide if you are going to focus your essay on one craft move throughout the book or multiple craft moves focusing with one purpose or goal. If you don’t have a lot of sticky notes, now is the time to add more.
Homework: Finish the book and add to your sticky notes. We will begin drafting our papers tomorrow.
Slide16Realistic Fiction Reader’s Workshop Day 12
Teaching Point:
Readers of narrative
w
riting are able to write about their reading using all they have learned about writing essays from today and everyday.
Active Engagement:
Yesterday we looked at our sticky notes and decided on either a character to focus on or a particular technique of Author’s Craft. Today we will organize our essays in an outline and begin our rough drafts.
Independent Practice:
Now go to your books and look through your sticky notes
to start to organize your thoughts. Which outline will you use? Complete your chosen outline and start your rough draft to be completed tonight.
Homework:
Tonight use your outline to write a first draft and be prepared to share and revise tomorrow.
Slide17Drafting Day
No Teaching Point today. If you haven’t checked your thesis with me yet, that should be the first thing after I take attendance.
We will be checking rough drafts in as a grade by the end of the hour. If you did it last night as assigned, you will get an A. If not, you need to complete it by the end of the hour for partial credit.