
Reading Focus: Author's Purpose & Text Structure
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8th Grade
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Aaron Bodey
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20 Slides • 3 Questions
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Text excerpts from "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" by Neil Gaiman
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SWBAT analyze how author's structure stories for specific purposes. (9B)
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How do authors shape stories in ways that add to their effects on the reader?
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It is the way the author constructs or shapes the story.
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It is how they shape the story from the beginning, through the middle, to the end.
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Thanks Pixar and Khan Academy!
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Why does the speaker struggle to tell her joke?
Why do the storytellers of Finding Nemo rearrange the story?
What other elements of building a story stuck out to you ?
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Open Ended
What was one observation you made about how the authors played with the structure (shape) of the story?
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No, this isn't time for math!
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Any story you write or tell has a shape to it.
The pyramid is only one shape a story can take
You don't even have to follow one of these!
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Flashback
Foreshadowing
Suspense
Point of View
Dialogue
Cliff Hangers
"in medias res" (in the middle of things)
Irony
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Open Ended
Which shape do you think our story followed? Cite your evidence from the story. (RACE)
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RANDOM CALLOUT TIME!
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Open Ended
What do you think might happen if the structure of "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" were changed?
How would you change it?
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RANDOM CALLOUT TIME!
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Discover the writer in you!
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Text excerpts from "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" by Neil Gaiman
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