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Response to Hanging Gardens

Response:

Paragraph 1(Summary):

Summarize Hanging Gardens using the IVF strategy.

Paragraph 2(Structure):

  • What is the point of view? Explain how you know this.(1st or 3rd person)
  • Describe the setting of the story.
  • Describe the main characters in the story,
  • Why was dialogue used in this story?
  • Describe the conflict(problem) in the story.
  • Explain how the conflict was or was not solved.
  • Give an example of a simile or metaphor used in the story and why the author used it.
  • Explain what a word means that you used context clues to determine the meaning.

Paragraph 3(Commentary)

Did you like or dislike the text and why?

Explain why you think the author wrote the text.

How would you change the story to make it better if you were the author?

 

Early Man Narrative

Early Man Narrative Instructions:

Use your graphic organizer to write your 6 paragraph Early Man Narrative. Use 1st person point of view.(I, me, my, we, us)

Write the story from the point of view of your character on your character card.

Paragraph 1: Introduce the setting, characters, and problem. Write about the background of your character. Use all 5 senses in your descriptions. Use dialogue. You can start out your story with describing the setting or another hook(check wall chart)

Paragraph 2-5: Use the middle of the graphic organizer to describe the events and details that lead up to the problem being solved.

  • Make sure that there is some action or suspense.
  • Use the 5 senses in your writing. Include dialogue in each paragraph.

Paragraph 6: What happened at the end of the story?