Week One : The Narrative Arc & Story Structure
Week Two: Applying What We Know Now
Week Three : "Night by Elie Weisel"
Week Four : Writing A Biography
- Reading Grimm's Fairy Tales ("The Juniper Tree", "Rapuzel", etc.)
- Identifying patterns in Fairy Tales : Inciting Incident, Rishing Action (with repeptition), Climax and Denouement
- Parts of a story (here), and Problems & Solutions (here)
Week Two: Applying What We Know Now
- Watching "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind" for English and PEVOM
- Identifying the Inciting Incident and the Climax in the film
- Introduction to Cornell Notes, and note-taking
- Watching short biographies of other Inventors and Innovators (Nikola TEsla, Hedy Lamarr t George Washington Carver)
- Introducing the Biography assignment: Interview someone you know, and that you can speak with face-to-face. You may record them, or take notes, but your objective is simply to record a list of events from the beginning of their lives to now. Remember the questions we brainstormed in class as possible starters:
- What do you do now?
- What did you dream of, or hope to do, when you were my age?
- What inspired you to do what you do, or to become what you are now?
- What did you need to do to get where you are now?
- What obstacles have you had to overcome in your life?
- How did you overcome those obstacles, and did you have help?
- What was the most difficult decision you made?
- Who, or what inspired you along the way?
- What advice would you give someone who wanted to follow your path?
- What is the thing you are most proud of?
Week Three : "Night by Elie Weisel"
- Introduction to the book and author, and beginning of our reading
- Conducting your interviews
Week Four : Writing A Biography
- Organizing your interview; Identifying the Inciting Incident, Rising Action and Climax, for the purpose of our writing
- Presentation on writing a Biographical Profile
- Continuing our Reading of Night
- Rough Draft of your Biographical Profile due April 30th
- Final Draft due May 7th.
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