Warm-Up Write down the lesson name and date. Answer the following question:  Write about a time in your life where you had to make a difficult decision. Describe what happened in complete sentences.

What is a narrative?

The definition of a narrative is different in ELA and social studies. A narrative is a story. It has…  Characters  Plot  Conflict (a problem to be solved, usually)  Details

What is a narrative? It also has  A beginning = introduction  A middle = what happens  An end = what did people learn OR how were people affected

What is a narrative? We are mostly interested in a story when it tells us how it helped or hurt people OR how it changed people.

What is a narrative?

In that narrative…  Characters – the crazy, witch-finding girls  Plot – Girls in Salem go crazy, accuse people of witchcraft, people die, illness caused by fungus in grain.  Conflict – Why were girls accusing people of witchcraft?  Details – weather in summer 1691, name of the grain fungus

What is a narrative? In that narrative…  Beginning – in 1691, girls accused people in Salem, MA of witchcraft.  Middle – Many people died, and it’s thought the girls were hallucinating from a fungus in the grain the town ate.  End – Eventually, the accusations stopped…but we still don’t know for sure what caused it.

BUT REMEMBER… We only care about how what people learned or how the story affected people.  Many people died for no reason (how the story affected people)  People learned that saying that someone did something when they didn’t can be dangerous (what people learned).

Now you will do the same thing. Pick one of the two articles from the front table Fill out the graphic organizer while reading

Interview Questions Partner up Use the questioner sheet to interview your partner Write down his/her responses as you go through the questions Write as much information as possible