Scene, Summary, and the Shape of a Story: Reading Unit 2, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Scene, Summary, and the Shape of a Story is Unit 2 of Craft and Revision: A Creative Writing Workshop (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 77 pages.

• The distinction between scene and summary in short fiction
• Show-vs-tell revision of an emotion-naming sentence into concrete sensory detail
• The effect of narrative reveal order on reader inference
• Application of the self-critique protocol to structural criteria (scene/summary, show/tell) on one’s own draft
• The diagram of reveal order versus chronological event order in a student’s own story
• Authorial withholding of information as a structural choice in an unfamiliar text
• Generation of a structurally alternative version of one’s own story and articulation of the resulting change in meaning
• Definitions of scene, summary, and the three-step self-critique protocol

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.