Speeding Up vs. Slowing Down
Are these key aspects of slowing down a moment or speeding up a moment?
- Using sensory details
- Describing your physical environment
- Including the characters thoughts & feelings.
Slowing down a moment
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are used to describe something.
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Nature
Person vs. Society
Who is the narrator in Fish Cheeks?
Amy Tan
What are sensory details?
Descriptive words and phrases that appeal to the five human senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
What is Dialogue?
Used when there is conversation or someone is talking in a text.
Includes quotation marks and a tag.
In Refugee, Isabel is on a boat in the middle of the ocean. There was a storm and now their boat is taking on water.
What type of conflict is this?
Person vs. ______
External, Person vs. Nature
At the end of Fish Cheeks, what does Amy's mother gift her daughter and why?
Amy's mother gifts her a mini skirt. She does this so she can fit in with other American girls on the outside as long as she is proud of being Chinese on the inside.
Are verbs (actions words) used more when slowing down a moment or speeding up a moment?
Speeding up a moment
What is a personal narrative?
a true, first-person story that zooms in on a single, meaningful experience from the writer's own life.
In My Mother's Garden, Kaitlyn's mother wants to keep her garden, but the people who work at the housing authority want her to get rid of it.
What type of conflict is this?
Person vs. _______
External,
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Society
Give two adjectives to describe Kaitlyn's school in My Mother's Garden.
- Prep school
- Wealthy
- Entitled
- Isolating
Is this excerpt from Going Solo by Roald Dahl an example of speeding up a moment or slowing down a moment?
"I sat there for at least one minute, taking deep gasping breaths. I was quite literally overwhelmed by the feeling that I had been into the very bowels of the fiery furnace and had managed to claw my way out. All around me now the sun was shining and wild flowers were blossoming in the grass of the airfield..."
Slowing down a moment
What does objectivity mean?
In Fish Cheeks, Amy Tan feels ashamed of her Chinese culture.
What type of conflict is this?
Internal, Person vs. Self
What is the narrator's job in Going Solo by Roald Dahl?
He is a fighter pilot during World War II.
Is this excerpt from Going Solo by Roald Dahl an example of speeding up a moment or slowing down a moment?
"They came from above and they came from behind and they came from frontal attacks from dead ahead, and I threw my Hurricane around as best I could and whenever a Hun came into my sights, I pressed the button."
Speeding up a moment
What does the apostrophe in this sentence mean?
"I did not work in my Mother's garden."
The apostrophe shows possession.
The garden belongs to her mother.
What is the term when a conflict is unfixed or unchanged and there is no resolution?
Unresolved Conflict
In My Mother's Garden, what does the garden represent to Kaitlyn's mom?
- Place of joy, peace, tranquility, a safe space
- Holding onto personal control, grounding her identity
- Place of beauty, connection to old lifestyle