Transcript Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers
Prewriting Strategies to help organize
text
Graphic Organizers
• The first step in the writing process is
prewriting.
• There are many ways to arrange your ideas in
the prewriting stage using graphic organizers.
• Let’s look at how you can use graphic
organizers to put your literary essay in order.
Characters
• How has your main character changed in the
book? What are the main events that lead to
this change? How does the author show this
change in writing?
Character: ____________
Evidence from text
Beginning
Event
Quote
Middle
Event
Quote
End
Event
Quote
Characters
• Who is the most important character in your
novel? Explain why this character is so
important to your story through evidence.
Character: ___________________
Reason for importance
Evidence from text
Setting/Mood/Point of View
• Why is setting important in your story? What
would happen if this setting changed?
Current Setting
Changed Setting
(Evidence from text)
Result of change
Setting/Mood/Point of View
• Describe the mood of your novel. How does
the author create this mood through writing
structures and description?
– Mood: _______________
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3
Setting/Mood/Point of View
• Who is telling the story? How can you tell?
Why do you think the author chose to tell the
story through his/her eyes?
Narrator
Evidence from text
Reason why
Theme/Plot
• What is a theme of the story? Give evidence
that supports your assertion. Why do you
think this?
– Theme: _______________
• Example 1 (Evidence from text)
– Reason 1
• Example 2 (Evidence from text)
– Reason 2
• Example 3 (Evidence from text)
– Reason 3
Theme/Plot
• What is the main conflict in the story? Does
the climax and resolution solve this problem?
Are there any alternatives to solving this
conflict?
Theme/Plot
• What is the author saying about life and living
through the book?
Statement about life
Evidence from text
Author’s Style – Language
• Describe how the author uses powerful
images and figurative language to build the
story.
Use of figurative language/imagery
Evidence from text
Author’s Style – Language
• What special words does the author use to
help the reader see, hear, or feel things in the
story? Was the author successful?
Sensory words (imagery)
Evidence from text
Reason why successful/not
Author’s Style – Language
• What is the author’s ‘style of writing?’ Use
examples to reveal this style.
Style
Evidence from text
Making Connections Text to Text
• Compare your novel to another novel. Explain
how they are the same and how they differ.
Give examples to show your thinking.
Another novel
Literature circle
novel
(Night/Maus/The
Diary of Anne
Frank)
Inferences
• Choose a minor character (not protagonist or
antagonist) from the story. Describe him or
her in greater detail by using clues from the
Character: ___________________
novel.
Description
Evidence from text
Purpose
• What are the reasons for writing a novel?
Use evidence from your novel to prove your
answer.
• What are the reasons for the author to write
this novel?
Reasons to write
Evidence from text
Making Connections Text to World
• How does the novel connect to real events
today? What lesson(s) can a reader learn
from this novel?
Connections to real Evidence from text
events
Lesson learned
from the novel
Making Connections Text to World
• Why should people read this book? Give
reasons.
Reasons to read
Evidence from text
Predictions
• What will happen to your main character 20
years from the end of the story? Use evidence
from the novel to prove your assertion.
Prediction
Evidence from text