SQP3R "Fiction"

"Fiction"

Detail is the lifeblood of fiction

-J. Gardner

Survey

Question

- What is fiction?

- Why does the detail is the lifeblood of fiction?

- What is plot?

- What does the plot chart shows?

- What is a character?

- What is the setting?

- What is the theme?

Predict

- A fiction is an imaginary event or something that is not true.

- Because you need details to imagine the story and understand it better.

- The plot are the events that happend in a story.

- It shows the steps that the writers have to follow, while making the story.

- A character is the people that are in the story.

- The setting is the place where the story happens.

- The theme what the story is about, like the lesson.

Read

Recite

- Fiction is writing that comes from a writer's imagination.

- Usually a work of fiction is created through the use of vivid details that we recognize or that move us in some way.

- The plot is the sequence of events in a story, and it is the writer's plan for what happens, when it happens, and to whom it happens.

- The chart is about the four stages in which most plots develop.

- The charters are the people, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of a story.

- Thes setting is the time and place in which the action of the story happens. The story can be set in a real or an imaginary place.

- The theme is the meaning, moral, or message about life that the writer conveys to the reader.

Raymond's Run

Title: Raymond's Run

Author: Tony Cade Bambara

Character: Squeaky, Raymond, Hazel, Gretchen and George.

Setting: May Day races

A.- Summarize the events. (Write the plot in a cause effect sequence)

*Squeaky had to take care of her older brother, Raymond because he had brain problems. And because of that, peolple at school made fun of him. Squeaky fought with the ones who bothered her brother. She was very fast, and when she was in big troubles, she run away . Squeaky was known because she was very fast. Gretchen, one of her classmates, wanted to beat her, so Gretchen signed into the May Day races. She said that she was going to beat Squeaky, and Squeaky was vey mad. She signed into the race as every year. The day of the race, Squeaky was very mad when she saw Gretchen, but she forgot about it when she saw that Raymond was going to compete with her and Gretchen. At the end, Squeaky was the first one to cross the finish line, and she was very happy, and felt very proud of her brother.

B.- Explain the conflict and the attitute toward disabled people presented in the story.

*In this story, people stare at Raymond as if he was a freak. They make fun of him, and they don't respect him. They take advantage that Raymond can't do anything, and they bother him. The other kids were very rude, and they didn't know how to be nice to him, maybe it was because nobody taught them that they were wrong or that nobody care that they laugh about Raymond, and that was even worst than making fun of him.

Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant

BLOG activities: A.- Describe the characters and each of their motivations

• The girl: When the girl smiled at the boy, her motivation was that she had fell in love of him.



• The boy: He never looked at her when she came into the supermarket or when she left, and his motivation was that he felt embarrassed and like a fool near her.



• The both of them are very shy because both of them felt attracted by each other, but they never expressed what they felt.

B.-Write predictions you thought of, while reading the story and explain which one became true. Make connections to your own life.

I thought, while reading the story, that it was going to be about a girl and a boy that felt in love, and at the end they would stay together, and as I continued reading, I find out that the story was about a girl and a boy that did fell in love, but they didn't stay together because they never expressed what they felt.

I think that this story makes connection to my own life because sometimes I don't express how I feel or what I think to others.

C.- Write a synthesis of the story in your BLOG.

The story is about a girl that was moving to Cincinnati, but she didn't want to move because she had all her friends there. In Cincinnati, she always went to grocery shop because that was her way to relax and to think. One day, she smiled at the bag boy, and he dropped her jar of mayonaise. He felt like a fool, and she fell in love of him. From then on, each time that the girl went to the supermarket, he never looked at her, and she went to another cashier. Time when on, and another boy invited the girl to the movies. The boy began working at a library, where he met a girl, and invited her out. When the girl was in the movies, she saw him, and he saw her, they smiled at each othe, and then they acted as if they were extrangers to one another.