Ratiocination – Fictional Story
•You will need highlighters or markers if you are at this
stage (done with drafting).
•Please ratiocinate for several items:
–
(In yellow) Dialogue
•check
punctuation, capitalization
•Look
at dialogue tags (don’t use “said”)
–(In
blue) Sentences using
appositives, adjective clauses, or participle phrases.
•If
you have them, make sure you don’t have too many of one over another
•If
you don’t have them, add some!
–(In
pink/red) Evidence in
support of the “importance of friendship” theme
•Is
your theme clear?
•Did
your characters or conflict address the theme?
–(In
green) First words
of each sentence
•Check
for excessive repetition
•Try
to vary your word choice – use a thesaurus!
•Check
sentence lengths – are they varied? Are some too long/short?
Fictional Story Instructions
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Today you will draft a fictional story in your notebooks.
Use these resources:
¡Your character
planner
¡Your comics
¡Your practice
dialogue (from the comics)
¡Draft must be 2-3
notebook pages long (writing s2)
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ž Your story must follow these criteria:
¡Have the theme of
“the importance of friendship”
¡Display good dialogue
use
¡Incorporate an
appropriate conflict and setting
¡Use correct spelling
and grammar
žBegin working
on this as soon as you finish your benchmark.
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žIf you finish
your draft today, you may either read a book (if you brought one) or work on
the vocabulary review given to you as a warm-up.
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