Stations - working on your narrative

Today we are working on the "anecdote" of our narrative.  There are three stations in class today.

• Station A:  Analyzing an example essay.  Use your rubric (that's on the back of your narrative handout) to figure out why the example essay received the grade that is on the example essay.
• Station B:  Filling out a graphic organizer.  There are three types of graphic organizers to choose from.  
• Sensory details - invent the sensory details that may have occurred during the anecdote
• What is the point? - use the surrounding questions to help you find out what the "thesis" or the main point of your anecdote.
• Outline - only do this one if you have a good idea what to do for your anecdote, and also your intro and conclusion paragraphs - this is an advanced graphic organizer - make sure you read your handout THOROUGHLY.
• Station C:  Jumping right to the rough draft of your anecdote - write at LEAST ONE paragraph concerning your anecdote.  The anecdote concerns the 5-10 most important moments of the event you choose to write about.  It must be chock-full of sensory details - especially the sensory detail of sound...for sound....you MUST include dialog.

Homework: both items are due tomorrow.
1) You must either have completed the paragraph for Station A, or the graphic organizer for Station B.
2) You need to "explode the moment" for the 5-10 most important minutes of your event.  This most important part of your event is called the anecdote.  You explode it by adding as many SPECIFIC sensory details as possible.  You MUST also include some DIALOG (speaking).  Invent those details if you don't remember them!  Your anecdote must be AT LEAST one paragraph of 7-9 sentences...but do more if you want to!