Handouts Required:
Citations Guidelines
Top 10 Rubric
"School" by Donald Barthelme
OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to proper MLA citation formatting and to get to know students based on their history with stories.
10 Minutes: Warm-up. "The Greatest Story Ever Told"? Or maybe: "The best stories are for children."
5 Minutes: Sharing/Discussing Warm-up
8-10 Minutes: Ss get out Character Sketch. Have students exchange character sketches. If the writer did NOT state explicitly which AP Focusing Lens they used, see if reader can guess it. Ask READERS to pick a sentence worth sharing with everybody. Discuss writing process, etc.
10 Minutes: Book Talks.
INTRO TOP 10 LIST
6 Minutes: Brainstorm. Quantity, not quality. "Children's Books."
Share/Discuss
5 Minutes: Brainstorm. "Movies."
5 Minutes: "Ancient Stories; Scripture, Folktales, myths, legends"
3 Minutes: Personal stories told to you
Once students have a huge list of stories, we begin to talk about how stories SHAPE and INFLUENCE us. Students will pick their TOP 10 Influential Stories.
We are looking for VARIETY ( not a list of movies, for example ) and we are looking for Influence vs. Favorite stories.
HW: Students will narrow down list to their Top 10. For TWO of the stories, they will write a complete paragraph describing how the story influenced them. They are NOT to tell the plot, just about how it influenced them.
Show sample, discuss what an Annotated Bibliography is. Pass out Citation Guidelines.
If time remains, have "School" by David Barthelme on hand to read.
Citations Guidelines
Top 10 Rubric
"School" by Donald Barthelme
OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to proper MLA citation formatting and to get to know students based on their history with stories.
10 Minutes: Warm-up. "The Greatest Story Ever Told"? Or maybe: "The best stories are for children."
5 Minutes: Sharing/Discussing Warm-up
8-10 Minutes: Ss get out Character Sketch. Have students exchange character sketches. If the writer did NOT state explicitly which AP Focusing Lens they used, see if reader can guess it. Ask READERS to pick a sentence worth sharing with everybody. Discuss writing process, etc.
10 Minutes: Book Talks.
INTRO TOP 10 LIST
6 Minutes: Brainstorm. Quantity, not quality. "Children's Books."
Share/Discuss
5 Minutes: Brainstorm. "Movies."
5 Minutes: "Ancient Stories; Scripture, Folktales, myths, legends"
3 Minutes: Personal stories told to you
Once students have a huge list of stories, we begin to talk about how stories SHAPE and INFLUENCE us. Students will pick their TOP 10 Influential Stories.
We are looking for VARIETY ( not a list of movies, for example ) and we are looking for Influence vs. Favorite stories.
HW: Students will narrow down list to their Top 10. For TWO of the stories, they will write a complete paragraph describing how the story influenced them. They are NOT to tell the plot, just about how it influenced them.
Show sample, discuss what an Annotated Bibliography is. Pass out Citation Guidelines.
If time remains, have "School" by David Barthelme on hand to read.