Assignment 1 of 5
Reread Ch. 13 of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (pp. 83-8) and add to your CATCH notes. Make observations about character (note examples of direct, indirect) and look for ways Angelou connects conflict to little Maya’s characterization.


Assignment 2 of 5
Please fill out the BACK of the Ch. 13 T-Chart you were given in class with THREE examples of direct characterization (showing).  Make sure each example is a quote from the text in quotation marks cited by page number in parentheses afterwards.  Place your examples of indirect characterization in the lefthand side of the organizer.  Your completed T-Chart will be part of your notebook check next week.

 

Assignment 3 of 5 

Use the weekend to brainstorm ideas for your personal narrative and to narrow down your ideas to just the TWO STRONGEST ones.  Look over the quick writes you've been assigned and consider what the authors of the texts we've read have used for their personal narratives).

 

Once you have your TWO ideas, please complete a narrative breakdown for EACH of these ideas.  The narrative breakdown procedure is below if you do not remember it:

 

1.Who is the protagonist and why?  Who/What is the antagonist?

2.When is the story set (time AND place)?

3.What type of conflict fits your story the most?  Explain.

4.What is the climax of your story (Hint: this is the moment when the protagonist makes a final attempt to fix the conflict and either succeeds or fails)?

5.How would you describe the story’s theme (main idea)? (One sentence)

 

Write these narrative breakdowns in the third section of your notebook (or the section you have reserved for essay drafting).  Put each breakdown on a separate page so you have room for peer feedback.  Be prepared to share these breakdowns with someone else in class to get peer feedback.

 

 

 

Reread the sample personal narrative you were given in class.  Have the rubric out when you so that you can do the following:

 

Underline the sensory details used to describe the setting.

Label the sensory details with the sense being used (sight, hearing, smell, etc.)

Draw a line across the page at the end of exposition.

Draw a line across the page at the end of rising action.

Highlight the sentence containing the climax.

 

 

Assignment 5 of 5
Your notebook check is coming up Tuesday the 6th (odd periods)/Wednesday the 7th (even periods). Be sure to bring all five texts we’ve read to class that day so I can see your CATCH notes are complete for each one. Make sure the following assignments are also complete and have them ready to show in your notebook: