Assignment: 9/15: Choice Story

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 10-A (H)
2021-09-12T02:51:01Z

Due: Sep 15, 2021 by 11:59pm

Today:

Choice Story! Choose the story you want to read and evaluate. For each story, I have indicated the qualities of good storytelling it best exemplifies.

"How Food Connects Us to Home” AND ​
“Ways of Knowing the Women in Her Life”​

Imagery and strong details​

Some characterization​

“Working at Wendys”​

Strong character-building for ​
variety of characters​

Dialogue use​

“Gambling with my Grandmother: From the Philippines to America”​

Larger ideas/themes to think about​

Imagery and strong details​

“Shooting an Elephant”​

Larger ideas/themes for readers to think about​

Conflict and resolution​

“The F Word"

Narrative VOICE​- the personality of the author comes through

Larger ideas/themes for readers to think about​

In your logbook, then answer these questions:

1. Which story did you choose? Was this story good? Did you like it? (separate questions…) ​Why??​

2. What elements of it “worked”? Give specific examples (quotes) and explain them.

3. What elements could have been better? Imagine the writer is a classmate. What feedback would you give them?

4. What was the theme of the story? What was the message the author was trying to send? Write down a theme statement and two quotes from the story to support your theme.

Alternate 4: If you don't want to make a theme statement, jot a quick plot map in your logbook instead.​

Today:

Choice Story! Choose the story you want to read and evaluate. For each story, I have indicated the qualities of good storytelling it best exemplifies.

"How Food Connects Us to Home” AND ​
“Ways of Knowing the Women in Her Life”​

Imagery and strong details​

Some characterization​

“Working at Wendys”​

Strong character-building for ​
variety of characters​

Dialogue use​

“Gambling with my Grandmother: From the Philippines to America”​

Larger ideas/themes to think about​

Imagery and strong details​

“Shooting an Elephant”​

Larger ideas/themes for readers to think about​

Conflict and resolution​

“The F Word"

Narrative VOICE​- the personality of the author comes through

Larger ideas/themes for readers to think about​

In your logbook, then answer these questions:

1. Which story did you choose? Was this story good? Did you like it? (separate questions…) ​Why??​

2. What elements of it “worked”? Give specific examples (quotes) and explain them.

3. What elements could have been better? Imagine the writer is a classmate. What feedback would you give them?

4. What was the theme of the story? What was the message the author was trying to send? Write down a theme statement and two quotes from the story to support your theme.

Alternate 4: If you don't want to make a theme statement, jot a quick plot map in your logbook instead.​