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ACTIvITy 4.7
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Role: What is your perspective?
Audience:
Who is the target audience for this text?
Format:
What is the best format to capture your ideas?
Topic:
What is the topic?
1. Bess, the landlord’s daughter
2. The highwayman 3. Tim the ostler
4. A red-coat
• Your father, the landlord • The general public
• Yourself
• Your commanding officer
• Monologue
• To describe what you saw, heard, felt, and did as events unfolded, and why you acted as you did
WRITING to SOURCES Creative Writing Prompt: Your teacher will assign you
a role. Use the RAFT strategy to create a monologue from the point of view of
one of the characters from “The Highwayman.” Imagine what he or she might
say about the events of the story as it is. You do not have to write a rhyming poem. Be sure to:
• Review the elements of monologues to decide what to include.
• 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.
• Carefully sequence the narrative you are retelling.
Independent Reading Checkpoint
Complete the Independent Reading Checkpoint activity.
my Notes
Unit 4 • How We Choose to Act 297
Introducing the Strategy: RAFT
RAFT is a strategy that is primarily used to create new texts by manipulating elements of a text during prewriting and drafting. This strategy helps you create or substitute various roles, audiences, formats, and topics as a way to focus your thinking about a new text.
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