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- 1. Teach Thyself A project based learning activity.
- 2. The Project: What’s in a Story? SMART objective: The class will understand the parts of a narrative in a month by making their own story and dissecting it.
- 3. What to Give Them Before Hand -Rubric -List of words they need to learn for assignment -Narrative assessment sheet
- 4. Rubric
- 5. Story Element Descriptors Setting Climax Plot Falling Action Exposition Resolution Inciting Incident Dénouement Rising Action
- 6. Character Element Descriptors Major (Central) Flat Foil Minor Stock Symbolic Dynamic Protagonist Protagonist Static Antagonist Antagonist Round Anti-Hero
- 7. Archetype Element Descriptors The Hero The Initiation The Mother Figure The Journey The Innocent Youth Good Versus Evil The Mentor The Fall The Villain
- 8. Narrative Assessment 1. Describe the setting of your story. 2. Describe the plot of your story. 3. List the characters of your story and associate them with their character types and archetypes. 4. Describe the plot of your story and describe the the correlating structure components (exposition, rising action, resolution, etc) 5. Any terms don’t apply to your story (e.g. story doesn’t have an antihero)? Think of other stories that do and list them as an example and explain why.
- 9. Why this? My hope: students will enjoy the opportunity to express their creativity. Why I think this will work: students largely have control over what they do to fulfill the assignment. Thy can see how the technical terms apply to their own work. It is a concrete example, and it will help deepen further discussions of literary work.