Developing Artistic Writing.pdf - Brevard Public Schools
Developing Artistic Writing.pdf - Brevard Public Schools
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Things to Come<br />
Objective: Students will add a paragraph with foreshadowing in an on-going story.<br />
Anticipatory Set:. Explain that foreshadowing is like a clue of something that will happen later<br />
in the story. Read the examples of foreshadowing from the mentor texts. Ask students if they<br />
ever recall a movie that had foreshadowing in it. Tell the students they must be detectives to find<br />
the clues of foreshadowing.<br />
Modeling: Write an introduction to a story demonstrating foreshadowing. For example, “Sally<br />
raced into town with a smile on her face. She thought this would be the greatest day ever, but she<br />
would soon find out differently.”<br />
Guided Practice: Explain that for this foreshadowing example, the character will lose<br />
something that will be integral later to the story. For example, with the help of the students write<br />
something like, “Bobby pulled out his handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He<br />
didn’t see his lucky gold coin drop from his pocket onto the bare dirt floor. The gold coin<br />
sparkled in the midday sun as Bobby got back on his bike and pedaled away from his treasure.<br />
Bobby’s luck had just changed.”<br />
Independent Practice: Challenge the students to write their own introduction to a story with<br />
foreshadowing. Present the mentor text and encourage the students to select one for an example.<br />
Their writing could emulate this example by just changing the words, but keeping the sentence<br />
structure. This could be done as a “quick write” and selected later to finish through the writing<br />
process.<br />
Publishing/Sharing: Students share their quick write foreshadowing piece of writing. At the<br />
conclusion of each student’s sharing the audience responds with a “Da da da dum-m-m!” to<br />
indicate the suspense that will surely follow, IF in fact the author has created foreshadowing<br />
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