1. Unit 2: Narrative Writing

2. UEQ:
How do literary elements create an engaging story, and how can I use these elements to write a personal narrative?

3. LEQ: Tone--- How can author’s choice of words create or determine tone?

4. Key Vocabulary: tone voice word choice –diction
Syntax (sentence construction),
imagery (metaphors, similes, and other types of figurative language).
hyperbole

5. Activating Strategy: Tone Improvisation
Tone is the attitude that the narrator has as s/he tells the story.
The author uses word choice to communicate tone.
Listen to three different tones as the same story is told.

6. Improvisation LInes
You won’t believe what just happened. Someone just hit Mr. Cumming’s car in the parking lot!

7. Discovery Moment…
Pair Share with a partner discuss the three different tones that you heard.
How would you define each tone?

8. Activating Strategy #2 Read “Memories of Dating”
What is your first impression of the tone in this story?

9. Notes on Tone Go to eBackpack…
MP2, Unit 2, lesson 2….find the Strategies for Determining Tone
Notes.
Fill in the answers as we consider the different strategies for discovering “tone.”

10. AP #1: What is tone? (definition)
Tone is the attitude of the narrator or author that is evident in the text.

11. Activity 1: Tone List
List as many different adjectives that you can that describe attitudes and tone.

12. AP #2 What strategies enable a reader to determine tone?
Explore: Wikipedia on “tone”

13. Summary: Tone helps to tell the story
Summary: Tone helps to tell the story! Tone lets the reader know how the narrator feels about the story.

14. AP #3: How do I apply the strategies to a text to determine tone?
Learn to recognize Diction—syntax--imagery

15. Notes on Tone Three strategies for communicating/identifying tone:
diction (choice of words),
syntax (sentence construction),
imagery (metaphors, similes, and other types of figurative language).

16. Notes on Tone What is the Tone? The attitude of the author.
it is tone that extends meaning beyond the literal, and students must learn to convey this
The ability to manage tone is one of the best indicators of a sophisticated writer.

17. Apply strategies of Tone to “Memories of Dating”
diction (choice of words),
----hyperbole
syntax (sentence construction),
imagery (metaphors, similes, and other types of figurative language).

18. Using Hyperbole to create tone
One type of figurative language that an author uses to communicate tone is hyperbole,
which means…

19. Applying “tone” to “Memories of Dating”
Find 3 examples of hyperbole from within the text.
Explain how each example helps to create tone within the text in order to communicate the author’s meaning.

20. Narrative Writing Using Tone and Point of View
From prewriting plan to narrative!
Look at the “outline sketch” of “Memories of Dating.”

21. It all starts with a plan…
Consider the “plan” that shows the “skeleton” of “Memories of Dating.” (on eBackpack, U2,L2)
How is this plan different from the finished story?

22. Compare the Outline with the Finished Narrative
diction (choice of words),
syntax (sentence construction),
imagery (metaphors, similes, and other types of figurative language).

23. Narrative Writing Plan
Sketch out the basic ideas of what you know will happen.
Then, develop each of your basic ideas using diction, syntax, and imagery.
Write from a specific point of view, using tone to help your audience know how your narrator feels about the subject.

24. Point of View and Tone
When you write from a 1st person point of view, you need to consider how your narrator feels about the topic.
Choose words that convey the narrator’s feelings;
Also consider: The age of your narrator, the time period, the social situation, and other factors that affect how your character sees the world around him/her.

25. Point of View and Tone For example:
If you are writing a narrative from the point of view of a pioneer boy who is helping his family move West, and you are about to cross a river, what sorts of things would the boy talk about in the narrative your are writing?
How would you use diction, syntax, and imagery to get his feelings across?

26. Practice Narrative Writing with Tone and Point of View
We will work together in class to use a historical article, and we will write a narrative from the1st person point of view of a specific character using tone.