Color Coding
Topic Sentences are this color.
What is blue?
Name the four places from which Concrete Details come.
What is: what I read, what I saw, what I or someone else did, what I or someone else said?
Name the four typical categories of Narrative writing.
What are: event, person, place, or thing.
This is the literary element that establishes time and place.
What is the setting?
This is the first step in writing a Jane Schaffer paragraph or essay.
What is decoding the prompt?
This type of sentence is colored red.
What is Concrete Detail?
Name where Commentary comes from.
What is my (analytical) mind, my heart and soul, my gut (instincts and intuition)...and a little wiggle?
Give me at least two different synonyms for Concrete Details in Narrative writing.
What are: the 4/5 Ws, descriptions, narrations, dialogue, and internal monologues?
Name one of the six basic plots used by writers of fiction.
What is:
Lost and Found?
Character vs. Nature?
Character with Personal Problem or Goal?
Good Guys vs. Bad Guys?
Crime and Punishment or Mystery and Solution?
or
Boy meets Girl?
When writing a body paragraph and after decoding the prompt, writers must do this (even before writing a Topic Sentence).
What is gather Concrete Details (CDs)
Commentary sentences are this color.
What is green?
One ________ paragraphs are typically five sentences, and two _______ paragraphs are typically eight. (The same word goes in both blanks)
What is a chunk?
In a personal narrative, Commentary can come from not just the writer's point of view but that of...
What is the narrator or other characters?
This literary element is considered a "complication of plot" and creates tension or builds suspense.
What is conflict?
Writes use a ___________ to generate Commentary.
What is a T-Chart?
To conclude your paragraph, write this type of sentence in this color.
What is Concluding Sentence in blue?
This information in a prompt tells the writer how many CD sentences to how CM sentences and is also a math term.
What is the ratio?
When writing a Personal Narrative about an event, it's best to write in essay form to include these three parts of the event.
What are the beginning, middle, and end?
Jane Schaffer advises beginning fiction writers to use one of these two Points of View or perspectives.
What is first person or third person?
To edit, revise, and add transitions to your body paragraph, use this graphic organizer.
What is a Shaping Sheet?
This color has many jobs: transitions; introductions and conclusions; and lead-ins to quotes to name a few.
What is black?
This is the technique of combining Concrete Details and Commentary in the same sentence.
What is weaving?
In narrative writing weaving often happens automatically. Define what weaving means in Jane Schaffer terms.
What is combining or mixing CDs and CM in one sentence?
This graphic organizer helps plan a Fictional Narrative essay.
What is the Quick Fiction Planning Page?
When writing an essay, the body paragraphs should be written before writing these two types of paragraphs.
What are Introductions and Conclusions?