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Daily Routine
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• Remember to use the desktop version of all Microsoft apps.
Etiquette

Class:
• Practice digital citizenship – be appropriate and make good
choices
• At school – Follow social distancing and wear your mask at all
times
• Follow class norms and adhere to our classroom culture.

We are learning:
• elements of dialogue

So that I can:
• write dialogue in my own narrative. 
• identify good, better, best dialogue in short
stories. 
I’ll know I got it when:
• I can use dialogue in my narrative correctly. 
• I can identify good and bad dialogue. 
 Dig out your copy of “Like the Sun” and
“The Open Window.”

DIALOGU Find examples of what you consider to

be “good” dialogue in each text.  Why do
E you think the ones you chose are good?

Post your example in the Questions

channel under today's discussion
question.  
 THINGS TO LOOK FOR
WHEN ANALYZING OR
WRITING DIALOGUE
Criteria:
-Does it sound realistic?
-Is it clear who is speaking?
-Is the dialogue cluttered? Too much 1.) Go back and look at the
useless information? channel.
-Does it help the conversation flow or
2.) Give a thumbs up to the
move?
quotes that you feel like fit
the criteria.
RULES OF PUNCTUATING
DIALOGUE
Start a new paragraph when a new person speaks or a
large passage of action interrupts the speaking.
Use quotation marks to surround all spoken words on
both sides.
Use speaker tags to show who is talking.
Use the proper end marks.
End marks always go inside the quotes.
 SPEAKER TAGS AND END MARKS
THE MOST DIFFICULT PART OF FORMATTING DIALOGUE.

Use a comma if the When a speaker tag Use a period if no

dialogue is a statement interrupts the speech, speaker tag follows the
and there is a speaker treat it as parenthetical quotation:
tag following. information and use a
comma on either side.

Example: Example: Example:

     “Welcome home,” she      “I can’t believe,” she      “Welcome home.” She
said, stepping forward to said, “that you are finally stepped forward to take
take his hand. his hand.
here.”
     “Thank you.” He
offered his own hand in
return.
WHAT DO YOU DO
WITH A SPEAKER
TAG WHEN A Follow with a lowercase letter if a speaker tag is
QUESTION MARK being used.
OR EXCLAMATION
POINT IS USED... Use a capital if it goes right into action.
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Example:
“It has been so long!” she exclaimed.
“Hasn’t it?” Her hand was warm in his own as he
smiled down at her.
 “Stop!” Buddy cried as they approached another intersection.
At this one, the light had burned out and a tall oak stood off to one
side. “Let me out here.”
“Are you crazy?” Joe asked. “It’s still at least another twenty
miles to Mud Bucket!”
“Just let me out, Joe. I mean it.”
Buddy had become desperate. He could think of nothing else
he wanted more than to become a famous musician, and if it took
selling his soul to the devil to do it, then he would.
Joe pulled the truck over onto the gravel at the side of the road
and rolled to a stop. “Are you sure about this? It’s freakin’ creepy
out there, man.”
“I have my phone. I’ll call if something happens.”
“Well,” said Joe, “don’t think I’m coming back out here for your
sorry butt.” Buddy got out, slammed the door shut, and Joe spun
off onto the highway, his tires screeching on the blacktop.
 NARRATIVE
ELEMENTS
ANALYSIS PROJECT

• Review requirements and rubric

• Look at the short story you will be

using for this project

• Meet your group members

EXAMPLES
OF PROJECTS 

These are
examples from
previous
projects.
Closure: 
Group Contract
Go to your new channel and
start “talking” to your group
members.
Find out what Meyers-Briggs
Personality Type they are and
save Group Contract in
channel files.