Bell Ringer- Stephen King Video (Interview)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qItKJ8RiQ
Discuss- Video and Short Story Market Today
Review- Using Dialogue in a Short Story
Writing Dialogue
- indenting each time the speaker switches
- correctly punctuating dialogue
(examples shown on the board)
- using it to reveal characteristics
- using it to create rising action and tone
- using dialogue tags (overuse of "said") see list of dialogue tags/handout
Journal- Write 6-10 lines of dialogue between two of the characters in your Goth story
Write- Used the rest of the period to continue work on Goth story
Reminder- Next time we will go to the library and check out The Great Gatsby
Next time we will be going to the computer lab to type up your song narratives and the first half of your Goth story (first checkpoint)
dialogue_tags.doc |
handout on punctuating dialogue