1. AGENDA Bell Ringer: MUGShot Sentence
Advanced: Turn in Reading Strategies Chart and Book
Reflective Conclusions
General: Read Persepolis pages
Advanced: Read I Am Malala conclusion
Formative Assessment:
Conclusion Analysis
Write your own Reflective Conclusion

2. Reflective Conclusions
W E: I can analyze and produce a conclusion that reflects on the events of a narrative.

3. What is a reflective conclusion?
Demands reflection from the writer.
Requires the writer to be insightful and to reflect deeply and honestly about the main experience, event, or message of the piece.
Looks back over the story and draws a conclusion about the experience.
Shares a lesson learned
Offers thoughts about the experience
Explains how the writer’s life changed

4. Questions to be answered
Your conclusion should address the answer to one or more of the following question(s):
Why was this event significant?
What did you learn?
How did this affect your thinking or views of the world?
How was the conflict resolved?

5. Reflective Prompts
There are many different ways to begin a conclusion that implies a reflection will follow.
Reflection Prompts:
Thinking back over that day, what I value most is…
I am not sure why we …. Now I understand…
Now I think…
I didn’t know it at the time, but now I…
Thinking back on this moment now …
From that moment life became…
I now believe…
In the future I will…

6. Conclusion Strategies
We have hook strategies to help us begin narratives and conclusion strategies to help us end them.
Conclusion Strategies:
Provide a quote that represents your feelings, attitude, or lesson-learned
Summarize the main ideas in your story
Discuss the lasting effect this has had on you
Discuss the progression of your thinking and feelings about the event
Refer back to a detail in your story
Make a call-to-action

7. General Read Persepolis pages 126-153 Read Persepolis reflection
After we finish our reading, complete a reflection analysis on Marajane Satrapi’s thoughts on writing Persepolis.

8. Advanced Read Persepolis reflection Read I Am Malala conclusion
After we finish our reading, complete a reflection analysis for both Marajane Satrapi’s thoughts on writing Persepolis and I Am Malala.

9. Writing Formative Draft your reflective conclusion on your outline.
Underline your reflection prompt.
Identify your conclusion strategy.