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ACTIvITy 4.4
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Creative Writing Prompt: Most people have vivid memories associated with their elementary and middle school experience. Draft a monologue about a dramatic school experience. Be sure to:
• Use diction, syntax, and punctuation to create a persona and a dramatic effect.
• Vary the length and complexity of your sentence structure (syntax) for effect.
• Watch out for dangling and misplaced modifiers.
• Carefully sequence the narrative you are retelling.
Vocabulary: Revisit your monologue word map and add another layer of information and examples relating to successful dramatic monologues.
INdepeNdeNT
reAdING lINk
Read and Connect
Select a passage from your independent reading book and think about
how the passage could
be transformed into a monologue that you
could perform as an oral interpretation. Document your ideas in your Reader/ Writer Notebook.
my Notes
Unit 4
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