Developing Artistic Writing.pdf - Brevard Public Schools

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