Goal: Use sequencing, dialogue and sentence choices to develop a chosen perspective.
Prepare: S06–S09 and own available draft, or a new practice moment.
- Choose and begin · 5 min. Write or direct two versions of one moment: reveal the request first or the plan first. Choose which better serves your intended reader; do not need to finish a whole piece.
- Read/model or source access · 8 min. Model how S06’s dialogue unsettles FINAL and S07’s paper models slow the pace. Show one example of direct speech and a grammatical alternative using reported speech; discuss how distance changes. Prepared grammar comparison: source S06 has Mara's direct speech, ‘Calling something finished before anyone has tried it.’ A new reported-speech version is ‘Mara questioned whether an arrangement could be called finished before anyone had tried it.’ The shift changes proximity and sentence structure; neither version reports an actual school event. Compare the narrative pace before selecting an own formulation.
- Explore or independent plan · 12 min. Use a broad three-part strip: opening attention, turning point, ending attention. Try linear order or a purposeful return to an earlier image. Explain a relation between parts; chronological order is a choice, not a compulsory recipe.
- Make a response · 15 min. Develop a passage in the companion using actual student choices: dialogue or silence, paragraph break, repeated image or sentence-length contrast. For a visual/signed mode, describe deliberate sequence and mode features. Compose rather than only name techniques.
- Review · 6 min. Compare the passage before/after only if both actual versions exist. Otherwise explain the current choice without claiming improvement. A willing reader response is optional and remains particular.
- Keep/next move · 4 min. Save one coherent sequence and the student’s reason. A director’s instructions show design choices; adult wording is not automatically student composition.