Journal Making

August 6, 2014

Starter:

You will be creating writing territories for you journal.  This will be a bank of ideas for you to write about when you find that you are experiencing writers block.  Your topics can range from anything to everything, as long as it is school appropriate.  Listed below are some examples that you may consider adding to your personal territories.

Memories

Dreams

Accomplishments

Relationships

Fantasies

Poems

Worries

 This will go on the first page that you do not personalize so make sure that you are adding this in the proper place.

 

Vocabulary:

  Dialogue: A conversation between characters.  Writers use dialogue to reveal character, to present events, to add variety to narratives, and to arouse their reader’s interest. 

o   When you and your partner are talking about the vocabulary terms, you are having a dialogue.        

Soliloquy: A long speech made by a character who is alone and who reveals his or her private thought and feelings to the audience. 

o   If you are sitting at home and thinking aloud, you are making a soliloquy. 

  Asides:  A speech delivered by an actor in such a way that other characters on the stage are presumed not to hear it. 

o   If you are talking to a group of people, and then you move away and say to yourself, “I don’t really like these people,” you are making an aside. 

     

   Monologues:  A speech delivered entirely by one person or a character

 o   When you get up in front of the class and read a speech, you are delivering a monologue.

You will repeat each word 3 times.

1.  Any Accent

2.  Dramatically

3.   Low Voice

Activity:

1.  Personalize your Notebook

Please decorate your journal in a way that best represents you.

What pictures do you want to include?

What are some of your favorite quotes?

What motivates you?

What do you like?

2.  This is Me Entry

I want to know who you are. 

At minimum, write a 1 page entry introducing yourself.

I know your name, but what don't I know about you that you would like me to know.

Consider your past, present, and future while writing this.  

Where have you come from?

What are you experiencing now?

Where do you want to go?

 

3.  Pre-Assessment

 What do you know about the Salem Witch Trials and other related events?

Please respond in the appropriate boxes in the Google Form. 

 

Closure:

We will be reading the play aloud in class.

On a scale of 1-10 how comfortable do you feel reading in front of class?

Why?