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How do you plan and organize events logically in a narrative response?

In this lesson you will learn how to plan and organize logical events in a narrative reading response by analyzing the way a mentor author establishes a beginning, middle and end.

Let’s Review Write a poem in response to Emily Dickinson’s “The Wind’s Visit”, where the narrator is the wind. Your poem should describe a second visit between the two characters, from the wind’s point of view. The poem should be brief, like Dickinson’s. Your poem should “pick up” where “The Wind’s Visit” left off and your word choice and description should let the reader know how the wind feels or reacts to this visit. Your poem should describe the visit completely, so that the reader has the sense of conclusion by the poem’s end.

Let’s Review

Writing Process

Generate & plan Draft & revise Edit & publish

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Read closely & analyze

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Write a poem in response to “The Wind’s Visit”, where the wind is the narrator.

Let’s Review “The Wind’s Visit” by Emily Dickinson

• Narrator “visited” by the character

the wind

• Poetry has unique structure
• Like a good story, poems need to

have events that are organized or sequenced

• Also like a story, this sequence of

events needs to unfold naturally as well as logically The Wind’s Visit The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, “Come in,” I boldly answered; entered then My residence within A rapid, footless guest, To offer whom a chair Were as impossible as hand A sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him, His speech was like the push Of numerous humming-birds at once From a superior bush.

Core Lesson

Reread the text, paying attention to how the author sequenced the events.

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Ask, “Is there a beginning, middle and end to the series of events?” Jot down the beginning, middle and end.

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Ask, “Do these events occur in a way that makes sense?” List your numbered plan of events.

Core Lesson Reread the text, paying attention to how the author sequenced the events.

The Wind’s Visit The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, “Come in,” I boldly answered; entered then My residence within A rapid, footless guest, To offer whom a chair Were as impossible as hand A sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him, His speech was like the push Of numerous humming-birds at once From a superior bush. How does the author sequence the events?

Core Lesson

Reread the text, paying attention to how the author sequenced the events.

How does the author sequence the events? His countenance a billow, His fingers, if he pass, Let go a music, as of tunes Blown tremulous in glass. He visited, still flitting; Then, like a timid man, Again he tapped — 't was flurriedly— And I became alone. Emily Dickinson

Core Lesson Ask, “Is there a beginning, middle and end to the series of events?” Jot down the beginning, middle and end.

The Wind’s Visit The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, “Come in,” I boldly answered; entered then My residence within A rapid, footless guest, To offer whom a chair Were as impossible as hand A sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him, His speech was like the push Of numerous humming-birds at once From a superior bush.

Beginning: The narrator & character (the wind) meet Middle: The narrator describes the action of the character (the wind)

Core Lesson

Ask, “Is there a beginning, middle and end to the series of events?” Jot down the beginning, middle and end.

His countenance a billow, His fingers, if he pass, Let go a music, as of tunes Blown tremulous in glass. He visited, still flitting; Then, like a timid man, Again he tapped — 't was flurriedly— And I became alone. Emily Dickinson

Middle (cont.): The narrator describes the action of the character (the wind) End: The character (the wind) leaves; narrator left alone

Core Lesson Ask, “Do these events occur in a way that makes sense?” List your numbered plan of events.

Beginning: The narrator & character (the wind) meet Middle: The narrator describes the action of the character (the wind) End: The character (the wind) leaves; narrator left alone

1. The narrator (the wind) is waiting for character (woman); they meet 2. The narrator (the wind) describes the action of the character (the woman) 3. The narrator (the wind) leaves; character (the woman) left alone

My plan

Core Lesson

Writing Process

Generate & plan Draft & revise Edit & publish

1 2 3

Read closely & analyze

4

Core Lesson

Reread the text, paying attention to how the author sequenced the events.

1 2

Ask, “Is there a beginning, middle and end to the series of events?” Jot down the beginning, middle and end.

3

Ask, “Do these events occur in a way that makes sense?” List your numbered plan of events.

In this lesson you have learned how to plan and organize logical events in a narrative reading response by analyzing the way a mentor author established a beginning, middle and end.