Unit III & the Story Sequence Chart

Hello Essentials families,
Yesterday we set out on  a new journey into Unit III - Summarizing Narrative Stories. (Chugga - Chugga, Choo! Choo!)  I put together a "hefty" packet for their lesson this week.  This is intended to be gift of resources, not to overwhelm:)  In their lesson packet I compiled some tools in the form of handouts to help you and your child to get a clear picture of the elements of the story sequence chart.  Please page protector these handouts to keep throughout the year.  This is the material that I want them to "MASTER" for Unit III.
(1)  Elements of the Story Sequence Chart
(2) The Story Sequence Chart
(3) The 5 W's and the H
(4) Model Key Word Outline Sheet
(5) The Story Map
(6) The Plot Graph
Some of these sheets are not "IEW" (The 5 W's and the H, The Story Map, and The Plot Graph), however we all learn differently and I wanted to provide some VISUAL tools to help the children comprehend how a story is developed.  Use them at home to help your child understand the story sequence.   If you page protector them, you can use the ones that appeal to your child again and again with a dry erase marker.  I did not copy most them front to back so you would have the freedom to arrange them how you want to in the page protectors and in their notebooks.
I would suggest placing them in Section 8 of their notebooks next to the UNIT III Chart.  The Unit III chart currently in their notebook puts all these handouts into one.  I hope these will help your teaching at home:) 

NEW VOCABULARY AND MEMORY WORK RESOURCES ARE IN YOUR CHILD'S NOTEBOOK!!!
(1) In the front of the green IEW vocabulary sheets you now have a master list of all of the IEW vocabulary for the year.  (Please thank Melissa Harrell for compiling this list for everyone.)
(2) In the front of your child's notebook or in the EEL Memory Work section you will find an IEW Memory work page.  I compiled all of the questions from last week's grammar game for you and your child to review and memorize.

Week 6 Lesson - Unit III Narrative Story Sequence - Story of Choice
This week please follow the suggested schedule handed out in class yesterday.  Each child selected a source text (story) to use for this lesson.  Next week we will spend a large portion of the class sharing our stories with one another.  It will be fun! 
USE YOUR HANDOUTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO COMPLETE THE KEY WORD OUTLINE.  They can write their Key Word Outline and rough draft in their purple composition books.  Moms/Tutors, each child brought home an ANSWER KEY with their story.  This is for you to use as you guide them through the Key Word Outlining process.  Model, model, model for them as you go through the questions.  You can not help too much!  This is the first time they have gone through this process and they need  you to guide them through it.   Ask the questions and have them or you write down KEY Words to outline the main elements of the story in their purple composition books.  Remember that we are SUMMARIZING the story and then RETELLING it in their own words.  Their final draft should only be a ONE PARAGRAPH or THREE PARAGRAPH story, even if their source text is two pages and six paragraphs long:)  DO NOT KEY WORD OUTLINE EVERY SENTENCE.  Ask the Story Sequence Chart questions and pull out key words to answer them, just like we did in class yesterday with the 30 second/1 minute TV songs. This assignment is intended them to see a story from the beginning to the end.  
 (A)  There are three main parts to every story:  (3 C's)
                 (1) Characters and Setting
                 (2) Conflict or Problem
                 (3) Climax and Resolution
(B)  Through asking the questions on the story sequence chart they should be able to identify the following: Characters, Setting Conflict, Climax, Resolution, Moral or Theme
(C)  They can combine all of these elements into a one paragraph story summary (Level A checklist), or a three paragraph story summary (Level B Checklist).
(D) Include all of the required dress-ups and sentence openers on the checklist.  New this week - #2 Prepositional Phrase Sentence Opener and Show Emotions!

If your child watches a TV show/video this week turn it into an IEW Review by asking them, "WHO are the characters? WHAT is the setting? WHAT is the Conflict/Problem? WHAT led to the climax? HOW was the conflict resolved (Resolution)? WHAT is the moral or theme learned? 

Memory Work Challenge: Through the use of the Banned Words Song (to the tune of "The Adams Family") or by straight memorization be able to recite the list of banned verb and banned adjectives.  The song sheet is in the very front of Section 9 in their notebooks.  


Math Drills: 11's, 12's and formulas                Grammar Rule: 2a Semicolons

Thank you for hanging on during the rapid ride yesterday through Narrative Stories - Unit III.  I hope they enjoy retelling and rewriting the stories they selected yesterday!  Call me or email if there are any questions you have this week.


Blessings,
Tina