Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• How do I research a Holocaust victim and prepare a narrative that captures his or her story?
• How do I apply an understanding of active and passive voice, by using voice in my narrative?

Opening:

1. Yesterday you researched.  Take about 10 minutes to finalize your research.  If you finished by researching last night, I will come around to stamp your notebook/loose leaf.

Work Period:

2. Mini-lesson on Voice.  Feel free to look at Activity 3.8.  

• Active vs Passive Voice
• Key Questions: 
• Why avoid passive voice?  When should I use passive voice?
• How do I create an "active" narrative voice.
• In your narrative, do you want to hide the perpetrators or reveal them?
• Conditional and Subjunctive
• Key Questions:
• How do I use "if" effectively in each?

3. CN: 4/13: Voice Lesson
Using elements of the Holocaust, create a sample of each:

• Passive
• Active
• Conditional
• Subjunctive

4. Review elements of a narrative and respond to the prompt:

• Class Notebook or Online in SBD 
• 4/13: "Narrative Writing Prompt"

Closing:
4.  You'll have a chance to review the elements of effective oral reading tomorrow.

Come in with your final draft of the narrative.  

• Online or Written (Full Assignment Grade)
• Be sure to incorporate elements of a narrative
• Focus on capturing the voice of the victim
• Read the narrative back to yourself aloud so that it "sounds right".