SOR_Brainstorming

TEKS 4.11.A Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming,
freewriting, and mapping.

Learning Objective:

SWBAT plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic using

a range of strategies such as brainstorming.

Knowledge Objective:

SWBAT analyze the genre of contemporary fiction and its literary

elements.

Demonstration of Learning:

Given a topic, SW correctly plan a first draft using a brainstorming strategy

in at least 2 of 3 questions.

Contemporary Fiction

Investigating Characters

Dialogue

Dialogue - words or
sentences spoken
by a character in a
poem, play or story.

Tag - The part of the
sentence that is not
in quotation marks.

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

Dialogue Practice WB - TPS

She said, “ I’ve never seen anything like it.”

quotation mark

tag

quotation mark

Labeling

Label the tag, and what was said.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

what was said

tag

Scene

A structural unit used to divide a play into parts. A
scene usually introduces new setting and characters. A
scene features action that takes place at a specific time.

Image by delo from Pixabay

Activity Page 3.1

TPS

Dropdown

Who are the characters in the scene that make up the first part of Excerpt 3?



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Select answer

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Select answer

Answers

Who are the characters in the scene that makes up the first part of Excerpt 3?

Celeste and Mami

Rehearsal

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Performance

WB - TPS

Image by Alfred Derks from Pixabay

How did the actors show

the emotions of the

characters?

• Did what they say and

do match the text?

• Look at the actors’ facial
expressions. How do they

change throughout the

scene?

Brainstorming is the initial phase where a writer
generates ideas using a strategy such as freewriting,
mapping, or listing.

Brainstorming

Planning

Drafting
Publishing

Editing
Revising

Personal Narratives

WB - TPS

What are the characteristics of a personal narrative?

True Stories

Have a

beginning,
middle and

end.

Told from

first-person
perspective.

Mapping a Draft

TT

Writing Process RC - TPS

Planning

Drafting

Publishing

Editing

Revising

How does planning help you
write about a particular topic?

Demonstration of Learning

Given a topic, I will plan a first draft

using a brainstorming strategy.

Demonstration of Learning

Demonstration of Learning - Answer Key