Day 5: Wednesday 3/31/21 --> Thursday 4/1/21

Opening Devotions
Essential Questions
- How can I meet the criteria for different genres of writing?
- How can I adapt my writing style and content to fit what is needed?
- How can I respond to a great work of literature creatively for my peers?
- How can I become more self-directed in my writing practices?
- How does the role of an audience affect my writing?
Goals & Objectives
- Students will identify and defend different genres in assigned example texts based upon two or more traits of a given genre.
- Students will craft original compositions, modeling their writing based upon the traits of each genre and utilizing proper quotation mark and comma usage.
- Students will critique their own writing, and the writing of their peers, relating their experiences based upon the use of the editing and revision process in an author's note.
Zoom
Content
- Mythology Drafting
  - You should have completed Mythology Drafting for today. It was due at the start of the block.
    - I gave some of you Incompletes. You have plenty of class time to work on this. Make sure you are keeping up your end of the work.
- Daily Grammar: Quotation Marks
  - I'm just putting this on Canvas to remind you (and myself) that we need to do this after Easter break.
- Daily Grammar: Parts of Speech, Phrases, and Clauses
  - Please complete E8 DG Practice Quiz 3.0 - Google Doc using your notes.
    - Here is the key: E8 DG Practice Quiz 3.0 Key.pdf
- Genre Study C: Memoir
  - Class today entails the last of our brief exploration in three different genres. So far we have covered realistic fiction and folklore/mythology. These genres, along with memoir, all explore the human experience.
  - Realistic fiction allows the writer and reader to experience something that has not happened to them (but it could).
    - Realistic Fiction Traits
      - A story written about events that did not happen but could have happened. The people, events, and places may be real.
      - A story that could actually happen, in a time and setting that is possible with believable characters.
      - Setting is of the world as we know it. Setting is vivid and accurate.
      - Everyday language is used. The dialogue makes the characters seem genuine.
      - The plot contains conflict as well as a resolution.
      - The literary elements are presented in chronological order.
      - The theme is one that would connect to real people in ordinary life.
  - Mythology and folklore allows the writer and reader to explore a topic that is strange or unknown.
    - Folklore Traits
      - Oral history that is preserved by a culture: music, stories, legends, myths.
      - Passed down from generation to generation
      - Attempts to give meaning to life and the surroundings
      - Use of Stock Characters
    - Stock Characters
      - Nonspecific characters who fill a role in the story
      - Stereotypes more than individuals
      - Based on clichés and prejudices: dumb blonde, angry stepmother, evil boss
    - Mythology Traits
      - Characters - Typically a deity or demigod
      - Setting - Natural world influence by the unnatural
      - Natural Events - Divine character cannot simply adjust the setting on a whim, must work within
      - Problem/Solution - relatable to normal humans
      - Key Twist - Large Quest using natural events
      - Resolution - typically impacts us “mere mortals”
  - Memoir details the personal narrative of the writer himself or herself. The reader then shares in the common experience of life. When writing memoir pieces, consider them an extension of your own life story.
    - Memoir Traits
      - Factual account of someone's life
      - A memory; not a person's entire life
      - Nonfiction, but usually told in 1st person
      - May embellish to entertain
  - First we will cover the traits of memoir using Genre Study Presentation.pdf.
  - Next we will take some time to read example texts:
    - Class Read Aloud: I'm not sure how this will work. There are some questions in the Presentation above, but it might be tough to do this over Zoom. Maybe I will just tell you about them before hand, and let you see it in the reading. Let's figure it out together.
      - The Chase by Annie Dillard.pdf
    - For your own personal reading...
      - The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant by Wetherell.pdf
        
        I really like this one, but we don't' have time in class to read it aloud. I encourage you to give it a read. It leaves you thinking about it long after you have finished reading it.
- 6-Trait Writing
  - Let's begin the drafting process (Ideas & Organization) of a creative piece of memoir. Please see the assignment below.
Homework
- If you did not get it done during class, Memoir Drafting due at beginning of next class.
Song Recommendation of the Day:
- Something fun for today:
  - Disorganized Fun by Ronald Jenkees