Building the Narrative Arc with Mentor Texts

Students are correlating the narrative arc from their reading to their writing. We are identifying story elements, theme, and plotting stories using the narrative arc. Using three different books, we are seeing the relationship between books that we read and how we are writers.

Books we have used as mentor texts:

                       

We will go back to these texts next week to introduce some reading structures from the text Disrupting Thinking by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst. Using a BHH model where we think about the Book's details, how it impacts our Head, and our Heart is where we are headed next.