Story maps, summaries and plots.

We have used story maps with several grades to begin learning how to summarize a story and identify the different parts of a story.

We learnt that story maps help us to identify the:

• WHO = Main characters.
• WHEN = When in time is the story happening. 
• WHERE = Where is the story taking place. 
• WHAT = What is the plot, the main problem, the theme...
• WHY = Why is this happening. 
• HOW = How can it be resolved. 

We also saw how the plot resolves the above questions and how narratives are built.



The Who-Where-When are part of the exposition.

The What-Why are part of the rising action.

The How is part of the falling action and Resolution.

With all this information each grade is developing projects like narratives and summaries based on the guided books they are reading in class.

Homework 6th grade 21 September 2015

Today we have to create a Boomwriter account and ask to join:

• International School Santo Domingo.

Our parents need to approve our request via an email they will receive from Boomwriter.

Also we need to create a shared document in Google Docs with Claudia, which we will use tomorrow in class to write our summary of the book we are reading (Red Kayak).

This document will be blank until we start the exercise tomorrow.

But we can work in a different document this afternoon and practice together with our notes from class about how to write a summary and our notes from the books.

This week you have to read chapters 11-16 by Friday.