Digital Storytelling

James R. Diaz

5E Lesson Plan for Digital Storytelling Project on Short Story (Session II)
 

AUTHORS’ NAMES: James R. Diaz

TITLE OF THE LESSON:  Examining the literary elements of setting, character and plot of a short story

TECHNOLOGY LESSON (circle one):        (Yes)         No

DATES OF LESSON: 11/06/08

LENGTH OF LESSON: 50 minutes

NAME OF COURSE: English II

SOURCE OF THE LESSON:  Elements of Literature: 3^rd Course, Holt Rinehart & Winston 2000.

TEKS ADDRESSED: 

(2)  Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

(A)  compare and contrast differences in similar themes expressed in different time periods;

(B)  analyze archetypes (e.g., journey of a hero, tragic flaw) in mythic, traditional and classical literature; and

(C)  relate the figurative language of a literary work to its historical and cultural setting.

(5)  Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

(A)  analyze isolated scenes and their contribution to the success of the plot as a whole in a variety of works of fiction;

(B)  analyze differences in the characters' moral dilemmas in works of fiction across different countries or cultures;

(C)  evaluate the connection between forms of narration (e.g., unreliable, omniscient) and tone in works of fiction; and

(D)  demonstrate familiarity with works by authors from non-English-speaking literary traditions with emphasis on 20th century world literature.

(7)  Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the function of symbolism, allegory, and allusions in literary works.

(14)  Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are responsible for at least two forms of literary writing. Students are expected to:

(A)  write an engaging story with a well-developed conflict and resolution, interesting and believable characters, a range of literary strategies (e.g., dialogue, suspense) and devices to enhance the plot, and sensory details that define the mood or tone;

(B)  write a poem using a variety of poetic techniques (e.g., structural elements, figurative language) and a variety of poetic forms (e.g., sonnets, ballads); and

(C)  write a script with an explicit or implicit theme and details that contribute to a definite mood or tone.

CONCEPT STATEMENT:  For every form of communication there is a process of construction and reconstruction.  And to comprehend this process, one must know the elements that shape its form.  Both literature and computers have inner mechanisms that function beneath the surface.  Each element of literature performs a specific task but most scholars would agree that cohesively, “In the same way that a painter uses shape, color, perspective, and other aspects of visual art to create a painting, a fiction writer uses character, setting, plot, point of view, theme, and various kinds of symbolism and language to create an artistic effect in fiction.”  What separates literature and art from technological advances is that although some stories can be formulaic, the best and most important are neither manufactured in the form of an assembly line nor contrived in a laboratory; in other words, art is an end in itself.

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/fiction/elements.asp

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:

·         Comprehension:   Identify the literary elements of a short story   

·         Synthesis:  Create the literary elements of a short story

RESOURCES: Teacher will need:

1.      Computer

2.      PowerPoint presentation

3.      25 copies of “The Three Little Pigs”     

                      Students will need:

1.      Notebook for notes and learning log reflections

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS: None

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, HANDOUTS: