Welcome Back 8th Grade! Here we go!
Before break, we started working with the story, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce. We read the story, looked at the plot, reviewed points of view, and connected points of view to see how they changed within the story.
Today, we are going to take the next step which is looking at different story devices. Take out your notebooks and open to your mini-lesson section. Write down today's statement.
Readers identify and analyze the author's use of story devices within a fiction text as a way to better understand what is happening in the text.
Now, let's take some notes underneath your statement.
Now, we are going to practice using these devices by going to an external link to complete an activity.
Follow the link to get to today's activity:
www.classroomclipboard.com/824734/Test/2C1D664E-4318-48EF-A84E-8C620E96240A
Before break, we started working with the story, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce. We read the story, looked at the plot, reviewed points of view, and connected points of view to see how they changed within the story.
Today, we are going to take the next step which is looking at different story devices. Take out your notebooks and open to your mini-lesson section. Write down today's statement.
Readers identify and analyze the author's use of story devices within a fiction text as a way to better understand what is happening in the text.
Now, let's take some notes underneath your statement.
- Story Devices
- Techniques authors use to make a story more interesting and to enhance the experience for the reader
- Techniques authors use to make a story more interesting and to enhance the experience for the reader
- Foreshadow
- Hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in the story
- Hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in the story
- Flashback
- Interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident from an earlier time
- Interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident from an earlier time
- Cliffhanger
- An ending to a section, chapter, or book that leaves the reader in suspense
- An ending to a section, chapter, or book that leaves the reader in suspense
- Suspense
- The anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story
- The anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story
Now, we are going to practice using these devices by going to an external link to complete an activity.
Follow the link to get to today's activity:
www.classroomclipboard.com/824734/Test/2C1D664E-4318-48EF-A84E-8C620E96240A
- This should take you directly to the 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' Story Device Practice Activity.
- You will be prompted to put your name in and an access code.
- The access code is KY297
- Complete the activity.
- After you finish, follow the prompts to submit.
- I will receive an email that you did the activity, so you do not need to e-mail me.