Narration

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Narration Description Day 1

• Modes of Discourse
• Patterns of Development
• Organizational Strategies

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When you come in

• What is your story?
• Write down several important events that have
  occurred in your life.
• How have those events shaped the person you are
  today?

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Narration DescriptionBackground

• Narration telling a story to make a point
• Description evoking the senses to create a
  picture
• BEST when used together for writing a detailed
  account of some memorable experience
• First trip alone
• Last-minute political victory
• Picnic in some special place

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Narration DescriptionPurpose

• Introduce or illustrate a complicated subject
• Often used to support some other strategy such as
  causal analysis or argument
• Analyze an issue or theme
• Example new awareness of patriotism because of
  travel in a foreign country
• Narrative purpose (what happened) and descriptive
  purpose (what it felt like) linked to other
  purposes
• Could explain what caused new awareness (why it
  happened) or to argue that everyone needs such
  awareness (why everyone should reach the same
  conclusions)
• Report actions and describe feelings
• Autobiography, history, fiction (most common)

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Narration DescriptionAudience

• Consider
• How much do I tell my audience? (narration)
• Personal experience few people will know it
  before you tell it
• Add or delete material to fit occasion
• How much do I show my audience? (description)
• Unusual subject include a lot of info,
  especially if its technical
• New images insights that create a fresh vision
  of the subject

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Narration DescriptionStrategies

• Beginning
• Experiences and an essay about the experience are
  NOT the same
• Memory will be disorganized and poorly defined
• Experience to essay
• Locate the central conflict
• Between writer himself
• Between writer others
• Between writer environment

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Narration DescriptionStrategies (contd)

• After identifying the conflict
• Arrange action so readers know
• How conflict started
• How it developed, and
• How it was resolved.
• Types of arrangement (choose pattern according to
  purpose)
• Simple chronological order (1, 2, 3, 4, )
• Angelous My Name is Margaret describes an
  evolution of events leading up to the broken
  china
• Think of a movie that is told in chronological
  order
• Start in the middle or near the end (4, 1, 2,
  3)
• Williams The Village Watchman describes
  impact of social stigma
• What about Seven Pounds starring Will Smith
  begins at the end then winds its way back

PLOT
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Narration DescriptionStrategies (contd)

• After identifying the conflict deciding the
  plot sequence
• Establish pace the speed at which the writer
  recounts events
• Quick omit details, compress time, summarize
  experience
• Slow careful include every detail, expand on
  time, present the situation as a fully realized
  scene
• Select details make scenes and summaries
  effective
• Special details that satisfy the needs of readers
  and further your purpose
• Objective or technical to help reader understand
• Subjective or impressionistic to appeal to
  readers senses
• Present details so they form a figurative image
  or create dominant impression

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Narration DescriptionStrategies (contd)

• In order to identify the conflict, decide the
  plot sequence, vary the pace, and select details
• Determine point of view
• I OR he or she
• Choose position how close do you want to be to
  the action in time and space
• Involved in action
• View it as an observer
• Tell as events are happening or many years after
  theyve taken place

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Narration DescriptionPoints to Remember

1. Focus your narrative on the story in your story
   that is, focus on the conflict that defines the
   plot.
2. Vary the pace of your narrative so that you can
   summarize some events quickly and render others
   as fully realized scenes.
3. Supply evocative details to help your readers
   experience the dramatic development of your
   narrative.
4. Establish a consistent point of view so that your
   readers know how you have positioned yourself in
   your story.
5. Represent the events in your narrative so that
   your story makes its point.

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In this excerpt from her graphic novel
Persepolis The Story of a Childhood (2003),
Marjane Satrapi recounts the reaction of young
schoolgirls to the law requiring them to wear
the veil.
Some argue that the veil debases and even erases
female identity. Others argue that it provides
women with safety and secret power. How do the
characters in Satrapis narrative feel about this
regulation?
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Defend my claim

• It is the responsibility of parents to
  indoctrinate their children into the beliefs and
  views of their culture.
• One paragraph, 8.2 format (may use a concrete
  example instead of a quote).
• Topic Sentence/Thesis
• Concrete Detail
• Commentary x 2
• Concrete Detail
• Commentary x 2
• Transition/Conclusion

• BRING YOUR BOOK TOMORROW!

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Narration Description Day 2

• Modes of Discourse
• Patterns of Development
• Organizational Strategies

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Narration DescriptionPoints to Remember

1. Focus your narrative on the story in your story
   that is, focus on the conflict that defines the
   plot.
2. Vary the pace of your narrative so that you can
   summarize some events quickly and render others
   as fully realized scenes.
3. Supply evocative details to help your readers
   experience the dramatic development of your
   narrative.
4. Establish a consistent point of view so that your
   readers know how you have positioned yourself in
   your story.
5. Represent the events in your narrative so that
   your story makes its point.

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Maria from West Side Story

• Movie Summary West Side Story is the award
  winning adaptation of the classic romantic
  tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. The feuding families
  become two warring New York City gangs- the white
  Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led
  by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point
  where neither can coexist with any form of
  understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and
  former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister
  Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to
  stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in
  secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and
  Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever
  wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends
  Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence.
  It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers
  know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't
  stop until the climatic and heartbreaking ending.
  
• Scene Set-up Tony and Maria have just met at a
  dance. Bernardo, Marias brother, orders Maria
  to go home and tells Tony to stay away from his
  sister. Tony leaves in a happy daze.
• Watch scene from movie.

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Read Judith Ortiz Cofers The Myth of the Latin
Woman I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

• Purpose
• Why does Cofer introduce the conflict between
  custom and chromosomes? How does this conflict
  help explain the concept of stereotype?
• How does this narrative help accomplish Cofers
  personal goal in her public life?
• Audience
• In what ways does Cofer use the references to
  Maria and Evita to identify her audience?
• How does she use the example of the piropos to
  educate her audience?
• Strategies
• How does Cofere use the details of Career Day to
  explain how a cultural stereotype is perpetuated?
• How does she manipulate point of view at her
  first public poetry reading to illustrate how
  she intends to change that stereotype?

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Narration Description Day 3

• Modes of Discourse
• Patterns of Development
• Organizational Strategies

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When you come in

• Get out your computer.
• Turn in your answers to the questions about
  Cofers The Myth of the Latin Woman
• Discuss with the people at your table Cofers
  story.
• What (if any) new understanding did you have
  after reading this story?
• What message about a persons identity does she
  convey?

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Discuss Judith Ortiz Cofers The Myth of the
Latin Woman I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

• Purpose
• Why does Cofer introduce the conflict between
  custom and chromosomes? How does this conflict
  help explain the concept of stereotype?
• How does this narrative help accomplish Cofers
  personal goal in her public life?
• Audience
• In what ways does Cofer use the references to
  Maria and Evita to identify her audience?
• How does she use the example of the piropos to
  educate her audience?
• Strategies
• How does Cofer use the details of Career Day to
  explain how a cultural stereotype is perpetuated?
• How does she manipulate point of view at her
  first public poetry reading to illustrate how
  she intends to change that stereotype?

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OERs

• Answer the question.
• Support your answer with direct, textual
  evidence.
• HALT!

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Answer the question and support it with details
from the text.

• What does Judith Ortiz Cofer learn from her
  encounter with the man who sang to her in the
  hotel?
• What is Cofers primary goal in writing The Myth
  of the Latin Woman?
• How did Cofer change throughout the narrative?
  (You must have two quotes from the text.)

ASH
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Narration Description Days 5 6

• Modes of Discourse
• Patterns of Development
• Organizational Strategies

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Final TAKS Push

• Writing Prompt View Range Finders
• Score your own Essay
• Beths survey
• Its Thematically Linked!