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This week, we'll start writing our Hero's Journey Narrative. Before we do so, we'll tackle a few important writing skills, including using descriptive detail and dialogue. We'll also practice and check our learning on the unit vocabulary. Here's what our schedule will look like: The following assignments are scheduled to be due or assigned this …
Continue reading "ELA Week of 9.24.18: Setting Off on a Heroic Writing Journey"
This week, we'll take an in-depth look at what makes a good story. We'll start with point of view and then think about plot. Along the way, we'll also wrap up our first Gravana lesson and spend some time drilling the vocabulary from Unit 1. Here's what our schedule will look like: The following assignments …
Continue reading "ELA Week of 9.17.18: Putting Together a Story"
This week, we'll spend a lot of time unpacking stories of heroes, and we'll end the week by working to give shape and form to the heroes we'll create for our Hero's Journey Narrative. Here's a look at our blocks for the week. Keep in mind that we'll have shorter class periods on Friday due …
This week, we'll start to unpack what it is that makes a good hero story. We'll think about the ways in which "Hero's Journey" stories tend to follow the same pattern. Then, we'll use our knowledge to find as many examples as we can of this same pattern (Hint: It's repeated over and over again in …
