Narrative Writing
How do people tell their stories? List 2 ways.
Writing them down.
In songs.
Family/cultural stories.
Poems.
Social media.
Journals/Diaries?
Speeches.
What is a claim?
The argument you are supporting.
There are how many levels of Bloom's Taxonomy?
6
An in-text citation goes where in your writing?
In the body of your text, immediately after a piece of evidence from research.
What do you use to begin a writing piece and draw your reader in?
Lead/ Hook/ Grabber
What are 2 characteristics of a nonfiction narrative?
It is a memory from the past.
Based in truth.
Written in first person.
Reveals the feelings and emotions of the writer.
Has a unique and clear purpose.
Is focused on one key event.
Uses literary techniques to show, not tell the story.
Uses storytelling techniques to move the plot along.
What is a counterclaim?
The what the opposing argument would argue
What is an Abstract?
A summary or reflection on a research project.
What is a Works Cited?
A complete list of all the citations you used to write a research paper.
List 7 examples of different types of nonfiction writing (traditional or nontraditional)
Newspaper Infographic
Diary Email
Cookbook Letter
Narrative story School notes
Auto/biography Article
Textbook Poetry
Name 4 types of leads you can use to begin a personal narrative
Surprising fact
Personal anecdote
Sensory details/Figurative language
Flashback
Question
Quote
Dialogue
True or false . . . you should never use "I think" or "I feel" in an argument.
True
Transition words and phrases are used to help connect ideas in our writing. Name two different types of connections. For example: to add information to an idea.
To compare
To contrast
To conclude
To emphasize
To show result
What citation style do we use?
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Name 3 different types of leads you can use for any writing.
Surprising fact
Quote
Question
What does Show, Don't Tell mean?
Telling writing means you are just telling the reader what happened - much more boring.
How do you prove a counterclaim to be incorrect or invalid?
With a refutation.
What is paraphrasing?
Paraphrasing means to use someone else's idea by writing it in your own words - it needs to be cited!
Name two credible places you can look for research.
What is the difference between editing and revising?
Editing is making small changes - like fixing spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, and general proofreading.
Revising is making "big picture" changes, like taking out or adding in ideas, moving paragraphs, rewriting whole sections of text to make more sense.
Dialogue is used in narrative writing to . . .
Being characters to life.
Move the plot along.
Show connections between characters.
Show time/setting/place/history.
Every argument body paragraph should have . . . (name at least 3 things)
Topic sentence
clear supporting reason
researched evidence
explanation of the evidence
appropriate transitions
concluding statement
What does Bloom's Taxonomy do?
It categorizes ways/levels of thinking about a topic from easiest/lowest (remembering) to most difficult/highest (creating).
How do you create an in-text citation? Be specific.
First you must have a complete citation in Noodletools.
Then you use whatever comes first in the complete citation - usually it is the author's last name or the article title.
Write that in parentheses after the evidence used in your writing.
What are the steps in a Writer's Workshop?
1. Decide roles.
2. Reader reads their writing out loud to the group.
3. Listeners write feedback.
4. Reader facilitates a discussion of the feedback.